Engaging margins is a two-day international conference that takes place in the Palais des Académies, Brussels, Belgium, on Thursday 8 and Friday 9 October 2020. It is organised by Ghent University and Université catholique de Louvain, Group for Early Modern Cultural Analysis (GEMCA). The conference aims to assess to what extent images placed in the margins of a main literary or visual work could reflect, encourage or interact with cognitive processes. In doing so, it seeks to combine to fields of inquiry: the history of ideas and visual media in early modern Europe.
Confirmed guest speakers are Marisa Bass (Yale University), Victor Stoichita (Université de Fribourg) and Volker Remmert (Bergische Universität Wuppertal).
Please find our Call for Papers at https://www.engagingmargins.ugent.be/call-for-papers/
The submission deadline is Friday, 10 January 2020. We look forward to receiving your proposals!