Sunday 1 July
19.30h, venue to be announced
- informal welcome drinks
Monday 2 July 2018
09.00-09.45h, Ruusbroec Institute Library
- Registration
09.45–10.00h, Ruusbroec Institute Library
- Welcome and introduction
- Kees Schepers (Ruusbroec Institute, University of Antwerp)
10.00–12.00h, Ruusbroec Institute Library
- Antwerp as a center of religious book production from 1481 till the end of the seventeenth century
- Hubert Meeus (University of Antwerp)
12.00-13.00h, Agora Café
- Lunch
13.00–16.30h, Ruusbroec Institute Library
- Looking at rare books
- David McKitterick (Trinity College, Cambridge)
Tuesday 3 July 2018
09.00–12.00h, Ruusbroec Institute Library
- What is a manuscript?
- Daniël Ermens (Ruusbroec Institute, University of Antwerp)
12.00–13.00h, Agora Café
- Lunch
13.00–15.00h, Ruusbroec Institute Library
- Sounding heritage. Medieval and Renaissance Music Manuscripts from the Low Countries
- Ann Kelders (Royal Library, Brussels and Alamire Foundation, KULeuven)
15.00-15.15h, Ruusbroec Institute Library
- Coffee break
15.15–17.15h, Ruusbroec Institute Library
- Handwritten or printed ephemera in the early modern period: why does it matter?
- Nina Lamal (University of Antwerp)
17.30–18.30h, University of Antwerp Library (Special Collections)
- Welcome by Trudi Noordermeer (University of Antwerp Library)
- Tom Deneire (University of Antwerp Library)
Wednesday 4 July 2018
09.00–12.00h, Ruusbroec Institute Library
- Technical, economic, and design aspects of books and ephemera produced with the handpress in the early modern period
- Goran Proot (Università di Udine/Milano; Ruusbroec Institute, Unversity of Antwerp, and Plantin Institute for Typography)
12.00–13.15h, Le Pain Quotidien
- Lunch
13.15-13.45h, Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Printing demonstration
13.45-14.30h, Plantin-Moretus Museum
- The Plantin Press and the production of ephemera for religious institutions
- Dirk Imhof (Plantin-Moretus Museum)
14.30–16.30h, Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Early Modern Printers and Universities: the case of Douai
- Alexander Soetaert (KULeuven)
17.30-19.30h, Felix Warehouse
- Antwerp Summer University Reception
Thursday 5 July 2018
09.00–12.00h, Ruusbroec Institute Library
- Printing Ephemera in 16th Century Antwerp: the Shadow of the Image
- Jan Van der Stock (KULeuven)
12.00–13.00h, Agora Café
- Lunch
13.00–15.00h, Ruusbroec Institute Library
- Religious prints from the Netherlands (2nd half of the 16th century) on the strategic chessboard
- Ann Diels and Eva Janssens (VUB Brussels)
15.00-15.15h, Ruusbroec Institute Library
- Coffee break
15.15–17.15h, Ruusbroec Institute Library
- Digital Collections: Library Metadata and How to Use it for Research
- Tom Deneire (University of Antwerp Library)
19.00h, University Club
- Summer School dinner
Friday 6 July 2018
09.00–12.00h, Ruusbroec Institute Library
- On the importance of ephemeral prints in the study of stigmatics, c.1800-1950
- Tine Van Osselaer, Andrea Graus, Leonardo Rossi and Kristof Smeyers (Ruusbroec Institute, University of Antwerp)
12.00–13.15h, venue to be announced
- lunch
13.15–14.45h, Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library
- Liturgical ephemera from the 17th to the 20th century
- Steven Van Impe (Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library)
14.45–16.30h, Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library
- Enlightenment, revolution and romanticism. A bibliographical earthquake and its aftershocks in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- David McKitterick (Trinity College, Cambridge)
16.30-18.00h, Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library
- Farewell with drinks