Team Presentations
Dr Matthew Champion: Measure and the Material World of Dürer's Melencolia I (illustrated lecture)
Invited lecture to accompany the exhibition Double Vision—Mapping Dürer in a Time of Crisis: Raymond Arnold and Ian Westacott, from 27 July to 27 October 2024.
This talk will consider the astonishing proliferation of measurement devices in Albrecht Dürer's famous print work Melencolia I. What does thinking about the making, meaning, and use of these objects in renaissance Nuremberg reveal about Dürer's landmark engraving?
Albrecht Dürer's Material World
Panel as part of Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Fourteenth Biennial Conference, ‘Legacies and Relevance: Exploring the Medieval & Early Modern World Beyond Europe’. The University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 8–11 February 2024.
‘Worlds on the Margins: Dürer’s Arabesques’
Andrea Bubenik, University of Queensland
‘Listening to Albrecht Dürer’s Material World’
Matthew Champion, University of Melbourne
‘The Funeral Procession of the Virgin Mary: materialised narratives of Jewish violence, Christian hostility and healing in Albrecht Dürer’s Nuremberg’
Charles Zika, University of Melbourne
Anticipating Apocalypse in Renaissance Nuremberg
Jenny Spinks, ‘Anticipating Apocalypse in Renaissance Nuremberg.’ Unsettling Certainties: Fourth Biennial Conference of the Society for the History of Emotions. University of Adelaide, 28 November - 1 December 2023. Keynote lecture.
Devouring the Book in Renaissance Nuremberg
Jenny Spinks, ‘Devouring the Book in Renaissance Nuremberg.’ Pitts Theology Library, Kessler Conversation online series, Emory University, Atlanta, 2 May 2023 (archived at https://pitts.emory.edu/collections/kessler/conversations/).
Making Beds and Stuffing Pillows: Sleep, Materiality and Environment in Early Modern England
Holly Fletcher, ‘Making Beds and Stuffing Pillows: Sleep, Materiality and Environment in Early Modern England’. Seminar, European History 1500-1800 series. Institute for Historical Research, London, 30 January 2023.
Emotions and Materiality in the Work and World of Albrecht Dürer
Panel as part of ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions Symposium: ‘Past and Future Emotions’, 28–29 November 2022. The University of Melbourne, Engineering C-428. Website: https://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/che-farewell-symposium-past-and-future-emotions.
‘Fleeting Feelings: Emotion, Time, and the Premodern Sandglass’
Matthew Champion, The University of Melbourne
‘Materialising signs and shaping emotions: Albrecht Dürer and Katherine of Alexandria’
Jenny Spinks, The University of Melbourne
‘Objects/Words/Emotions: The Case of Early Prints’
Charles Zika, The University of Melbourne
ANZAMEMS Biennial Conference, Perth
Jenny Spinks, ‘Moving objects in a Renaissance city: Albrecht Dürer’s Nemesis.’
Charles Zika, ‘Dürer’s Golden Candlesticks and St John’s Wondrous Vision.’
Australian and New Zealand Medieval and Early Modern Studies biennial conference, University of Western Australia, Perth, June 27-30, 2022.
Soporific Tonics and Early Modern Sleep Recipes
Sasha Handley, ‘Soporific Tonics and Early Modern Sleep Recipes’, The Bright Side of Night: Nocturnal Activities in Medieval and Early Modern Times, University of Geneva, 11 June 2022.
Full event programme: https://www.unige.ch/lettres/istge/actualites/actualitesdept/the-bright-side-of-night/.
The Matter of Birds in Renaissance Nuremberg
Stefan Hanß, ‘The Matter of Birds in Renaissance Nuremberg’, Renaissance Skin, King’s College London, 8-9 June 2022.
Full event programme: https://renaissanceskin.ac.uk/documents/23/Programme.pdf.
A Devotion to Time
Matthew Champion, ‘A Devotion to Time: Towards a Mobile and Material History of the Premodern Sandglass.’ Mobile Matters of Religion: Devotional Objects in the Early Modern Era symposium, Regensburg, 21-23 April 2022.
Renaissance Society of America, Dublin
Dagmar Eichberger, ‘St. Anthony in Meditation. Combining an Urban Landscapes with a Saintly Figures.’
Edward Wouk, ‘Forged from Iron: Dürer’s Landscape with a Cannon’.
As part of the panel ‘On the Eve of Dürer's Voyage to the Netherlands: Reflections on Some Works of 1518–19’ with Andrée Hayum (Fordham) and chaired by Jeffrey Chipps Smith (Texas).
The Visual Transformations of St Anthony Abbot
Charles Zika, ‘The Visual Transformations of St Anthony Abbot: Protector of the Sick and Victor Over Sexual Desire.’ Death, Disease, and Mystical Experience in Early Modern Art symposium, National Art School, Sydney, 12 February 2022.
Imago Viduae – Imago Archiducissae
Dagmar Eichberger, ‘Imago Viduae – Imago Archiducissae: Strategies for Establishing a Public Female Identity in the Early Renaissance.’ Keynote lecture at the symposium On Portraiture: Theory, Practice and Fiction. From Francisco de Holanda to Susan Sontag, 18-20 January 2022.
Soporific Foodstuffs and Environmental Knowledge in Early Modern England
Sasha Handley, ‘Soporific Foodstuffs and Environmental Knowledge in Early Modern England.’ Le Sommeil: Théories, représentations et pratiques symposium, University of Lausanne, 20-22 October 2021.
Object Lessons in the History of Temporalities
Matthew Champion, ‘Object Lessons in the History of Temporalities.’ National School of Arts Research Seminar, Australian Catholic University, 17 August 2021.
Experiencing the material body in early modern Europe
Sasha Handley, keynote lecture. Experiencing the Material Body in Early Modern Europe symposium, University of Stockholm, 16-18 June 2021.
Devotional Machines
Matthew Champion, ‘Devotional Machines.’ Roundtable ‘Describing Devotion,’ International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 15 May 2021.
The 1683 Siege of Vienna, Right Wing Extremism, and European Christian Identity
Charles Zika, ‘The 1683 Siege of Vienna, Right Wing Extremism, and European Christian Identity.’ History Research Seminar, Monash University, 14 May 2021.