Team Presentations


Sept
20

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?

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Aug
14

A/Prof. Jenny Spinks: Dürer on ABC radio national arts show

A/Prof. Jenny Spinks spoke with ABC Radio National’s The Arts Show about the Melbourne exhibition and curatorial approach, discussing highlights in a short conversation covering touch, the Iliad drawings, queerness, Renaissance and sense of place. Interview starts at about 35 minutes into the show:
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/the-art-show/vipoo-srivilasa-natsiaa/104105382

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Feb
8

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

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Nov
28

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

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June
27
to 30 June

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.

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Apr
21
to 23 Apr

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.

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Mar
31
to 2 Apr

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).

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Jan
22

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.

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