Science at the Fair

Publications

2024

Andersen, Eva. “‘The Precious Tool and Often also the Weapon That We Know it to Be’: Itinerant Showpeople’s Periodicals as Socio-Economic Platforms (1880s–1920s)”, Journal of European Periodical Studies, vol. 9, no. 2 (2024), https://doi.org/10.21825/jeps.90005.

Andersen, Eva, and Nele Wynants. “Women at the Wheel: Female Management and Workforce at the Nineteenth-Century Funfair”, Early Popular Visual Culture, 2024, pp. 1-19. doi:10.1080/17460654.2023.2298434.

Overkempe, Tim. “Circus, Science and Technology: Dramatising Innovation, London: Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2020. 189 p. Anna-Sophie Jürgens”, Circus: Arts, Life, and Sciences, vol. 3, no. 2 (2024), https://doi.org/10.3998/circus.5776.

Rioult, Thibaut. “In Pursuit of the Marvellous: Surrealism, Tony Shiels’s Bizarre Magick and the Performative Turn”, European Journal of Theatre and Performance, no. 8 (December 2024), pp. 108-59.

Rioult, Thibaut. « Le Prévost dévoilé : Faits et hypothèses concernant l’éditeur, les amis et l’identité de l’illusionniste ‘I. Prevost’ » ["The discovery of Prevost: Facts and hypotheses about the publisher, friends and identity of the illusionist ‘I. Prevost'"], Le Vieux Papier, vol. XLIII, n° 454, October 2024, p. 558-564.

Rioult, Thibaut. « Nouvel An, confiseries et récréations divinatoires : un Petit Etteilla inédit de « papillote de surprise » » ["New Year, sweets and divinatory recreations: an unknown Petit Etteilla of ‘surprise wrapper’"], Le Vieux Papier, vol. XLIII, n° 452, April 2024, pp. 457–460.

Rioult, Thibaut. « Psychomachie : penser l’âme, des dispositifs de pouvoirs aux spiritualités politiques chez Simone Weil et Michel Foucault » ["Psychomachy: thinking the soul, from power apparatus to political spiritualities in Simone Weil and Michel Foucault"], Cahiers Simone Weil, no. XLVII, vol. 2 (2024), 147–174.

2023

Andersen, Eva. "Exotische Dieren in de Schijnwerpers", Faro: Tijdschrift over Cultureel Erfgoed, vol. 16, no. 1 (2023), pp. 40–45.

Andersen, Eva. "Unfairness at the Funfair: The French Syndicate for Travelling Showpeople in the Long Nineteenth Century", Cultural and Social History, 2023, doi:10.1080/14780038.2023.2271197.

Moens, Bart G. "Staging Through Image and Performance: Producing and Projecting Life Model Lantern Slides for Christian evangelisation", in Staging and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century France: Appearing, Revealing, Disappearing, edited by Camilla Murgia. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023, pp. 25-48.

Overkempe, Tim. "Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Theory (2022) and Practice (2023)", TMG Journal for Media History, vol. 26, no. 1 (2023), pp .1 - 6. doi:10.18146/tmg.859.

Rioult, Thibaut. « L’Agentivité chez Guillaume d’Auvergne, entre théologie, philosophie naturelle et magie » ["Agency in William of Auvergne, between theology, natural philosophy and magic"] [article-review of Sannino, Antonella. Reading William of Auvergne, Firenze, SISMEL – Edizioni del Galluzzo, coll. « Micrologus’ Library », n° 113, 2022], in Arcana naturae, vol. 3 (2022), pp. 191-208.  www.torrossa.com/fr/resources/an/5464401.​

Rioult, Thibaut. "Aristotelian Philosophy and Illusionism in Late Medieval Europe", in Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe, edited by Donato Verardi. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023, pp. 15-38, doi:10.5040/9781350357198.0006.

Rioult, Thibaut. « Et si la magie existait ? L’illusionnisme fantastique comme dispositif intermédial (objet chargé — récit fantastique — effet magique) », Intermédialités: Histoire et théorie des arts, des lettres et des techniques, no. 42 (2023), pp. 1‑37. doi:10.7202/1109848ar.

Rioult, Thibaut, and Donato Verardi. "Introduction", Arcana Naturae. Sciences et magies au féminin de la Renaissance au XIXe siècle​, vol. 4 (special issue, 2023), pp. 1-5.

Rioult, Thibaut. « La voix de l’impersonnel : Penser l’harmonie et le chant avec Simone Weil » ["The Voice of the Impersonal: Thinking Harmony and Song with Simone Weil"], Cahiers Simone Weil, vol. 46, no. 3 (sept. 2023), pp. 257-285.

Samoy, Gitte. "Papieren lichamen. De anatomische modellen van dokter Auzoux", Tijd-Schrift, vol. 121, no. 2 (2022), pp. 24-41.

2022
Rioult, Thibaut. "Reginald Scot’s The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584) – Renaissance Magic" in Magic: A Companion, edited by by Katharina Rein. Oxford, New York, Peter Lang, 2022.

Wynants, Nele. "La science au champ de foire. Diffusion de la technologie, du savoir et du spectacle dans les villes de province belge durant la fin-de-siècle", 1895 revue d’histoire du cinéma, vol. 96 (2022), pp. 68-101.

Wynants, Nele. "Larger than Life: Scientific Theatre between Representation and Enactment", TDR: The Drama Review, vol. 66, no. 3 (2022), pp. 96-106, doi:10.1017/S1054204322000326.

2021

Wynants, Nele. "Wetenschap speelde de hoofdrol op de 19e-eeuwse kermis", Volkskunde: tijdschrift over de cultuur van het dagelijks leven, vol. 122, no. 3 (2021), pp. 459-471.

2020

Wynants, Nele. "Invisible hands in the history of the magic lantern: where theatre studies and media archaeology meet", Early Popular Visual Culture, vol. 18, no. 4 (2020, online 2022), pp. 422-447.

Wynants Nele. "Wetenschap op de kermis: de verspreiding van technologie, kennis en spektakel in Belgische provinciesteden tijdens het fin-de-siècle", Volkskunde: tijdschrift over de cultuur van het dagelijkse leven , vol. 121, no.1 (2020), pp. 1-33.

Wynants, Nele. "Spectacular science : technology, experience and pleasure at the nineteenth-century fair", in Overlap : the no man's land between art and science, edited by Bessemans, A., et al. Den Haag, Komma, 2020, pp. 19-31.

2019

Wynants, Nele. "The travelling lantern: the Courtois and Grandsart-Courtois family theatres as transcultural mediators at the nineteenth-century fair", Early Popular Visual Culture, vol. 17, no. 3 (2019), pp. 233-260.