Sunday 26 June 2022
- 19.00 - Informal welcome drink: Kapitein Zeppos (Vleminckveld 78)
Monday 27 June 2022
Ruusbroec Institute Library (Grote Kauwenberg 32)
- 09.00 - Registration
- 09.45–10.00 - Kees Schepers (Ruusbroec Institute, University of Antwerp), Welcome and Introduction
- 10.00–12.00 - Pierre Delsaerdt (University of Antwerp), A powerful medium in uncertain times: the Antwerp book trade 1481-1550
- 12.00–13.00 - lunch: Agora Caffee (Grote Kauwenberg 2)
Museum Plantin-Moretus (Vrijdagmarkt 22)
- 13.15–16.30 - Theodor Dunkelgrün (University of Cambridge), Jewish traditions in Christian books: Christopher Plantin's Hebrew projects and his Polyglot Bible
City Campus, Building K (Kleine Kauwenberg 14)
- 18.00 - Antwerp Summer University Reception
Tuesday 28 June 2022
Museum Plantin-Moretus
- 09.00–11.15 - Virginie D'haene (Museum Plantin-Moretus), Designs for book-illustrations and title-pages in the collection of Museum Plantin-Moretus
- 11.30–12.00 - Printing demonstration
- 12.00–13.00 - lunch: Le Pain Quotidien (Steenhouwersvest 48)
- 13.00–14.45 - John Lane, The printing history of Martinus Duncanus, Van die warac(h)tighe ghemeynte Christi (privilege for Peter van Keerberghen in Antwerp, 12 May 1567): a case study for the bibliographical application of typographical evidence
- 15.00–16.45 - Kristof Selleslach (Museum Plantin-Moretus), Preparing Manuscripts for Print
Wednesday 29 June 2022
Ruusbroec Institute Library
- 09.00–12.00 - Susanna De Schepper (University of Antwerp), Delving into Books: Understanding the Hand Press Book in Flanders
- 12.00–13.00 - lunch: Agora Caffee
- 13.00–14.45 - Walter Melion (Emory University, Atlanta, GA), Abstracto igitur animo: Eschatological Image-making in the Emblematic Spiritual Exercises of Jan David, S.J.
- 15.00–16.45 - Hubert Meeus (University of Antwerp), Printing in Antwerp after 1585: dead end or new beginning?
University Library (Prinsstraat 13)
- 16.45–17.30 - Maartje De Wilde (University of Antwerp), visit to the University of Antwerp Library (Special Collections)
Thursday 30 June 2022
Museum Plantin-Moretus
- 09.00–12.00 - Walter Melion (Emory University, Atlanta, GA), From Oratorium to Sanctuarium: Mimesis and Sacramental Allegory in Petrus Bivero’s Sacrum oratorium of 1634
- 12.00–13.00 - Plant B (Oude Koornmarkt 64)
- 13.00–14.45 - Zanna Van Loon (Flemish Heritage Libraries), Crossing the North Sea for books. The sixteenth-century English book trade with Christopher Plantin
- 15.00–16.45 - Ad Stijnman (independent scholar), It Can't Be That Austere!: Plantin and Printing Colour
De Broers van Julienne (Kasteelpleinstraat 45-47)
- 18.30 - Summer School dinner
Friday 1 July 2022
Museum Plantin-Moretus
- 09.00–12.00 - Jan Storm van Leeuwen (former keeper bookbindings, Royal Library The Hague), What about the religious bookbinding?
- 12.15–13.15 - lunch: Greenway Antwerpen (Groenplaats 6)
Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library (Hendrik Conscienceplein 4)
- 13.15–15.00 - Guido Marnef (University of Antwerp), Christopher Plantin: a Handy Businessman in a Period of Religious Turmoil
- 15.00–16.30 - Steven Van Impe (Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library), Liturgical Books from the Officina Plantiniana, Three Centuries of Ecclesiastical Practice
Barbouf (Lange Nieuwstraat 7)
- 16.30–18.00 - Farewell drink