Ghent, 26-27 February 2016.
Organized by the Department of Art History, Ghent University, and the Department of History, KULeuven Campus Kortrijk.
In collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, ESNA (European Society of Nineteenth-Century Art) and research platform XIX.
Keynote presentations by Bruno Fornari (MSK, Ghent), Antoinette Le Normand-Romain (INHA, Paris), Sura Levine (Hampshire College, Amherst, USA) and Alison Yarrington (Loughborough University, UK).
Organizing committee: Marjan Sterckx (Ghent University), Linda Van Santvoort (Ghent University), Cathérine Verleysen (Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent), Tom Verschaffel (University of Leuven), and Jana Wijnsouw (Ghent University).
Scientific committee: Saskia de Bodt (University of Utrecht and University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Bruno Fornari (Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium), Mayken Jonkman (Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD)), Sura Levine (Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA), Inga Rossi-Schrimpf (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels), Marjan Sterckx (Ghent University, Belgium), Francisca Vandepitte (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels), Linda Van Santvoort (Ghent University, Belgium), Cathérine Verleysen (Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium), Tom Verschaffel (University of Leuven, Belgium), and Alison Yarrington (Loughborough University, UK).
This symposium originates from the research project ‘In search of a national (s)cul(p)ture. Belgian sculptors abroad and foreign sculptors in Belgium’, funded by BOF, Ghent University.
