Program

Wednesday, 8 October

08:00-08:45 Registration (Atrium, 5th floor) / Networking Coffee (Leisure area, 5th floor)
08:45-09:00 Opening of the Conference (Conference Room, 5th floor)

SESSION 1

09:00-09:30
Matas Grubliauskas (Vilnius University Library, Lithuania)
Shaping Words and Images: Poesis Artificiosa in the Polish-Lithuanian Baroque

09:30-10:00
Beata Paškevica (National Library of Latvia, Latvia)
Johann Fischer’s Publishing Activities in Riga as a Pietistic Programme at the End of the 17th Century

10:00-10:30
Agnieszka Franczyk-Cegła (The Ossolineum National Library, Poland)
Baroque Elements in Cracow 17th-Century Typography

10:30-11:00
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė (National Museum of Lithuania, Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Lithuania)
No Pity Shown: Lithuanian Protestant Suffering in the Martyrological Imagination

11:00-11:30 Networking Coffee (Leisure area, 5th floor)

SESSION 2

11:30-12:00
Oleksandr Okhrimenko (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom)
Livonica in Daniel Salthenius’s Book Collection: Taxonomy, Circulation and Ideological Frameworks in the Baltic Region Print Culture

12:00-12:30
Sophie Turner  (Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia)
Framing Ideas: French Rococo, Typography, and the Enlightenment in the Baltic Context

12:30-13:00
Stefano Gulizia (Ca’ Foscari University, Italy)
Book Collecting in the Baltic Region: Luther’s Enchiridion in Swedish (Vilnius 1591) and its German Reception

13:00-14:30 Lunch Break

SESSION 3

14:30-15:00
Richard Šípek (National Museum Library, Czech Republic)
“Natus sum Vratislaviae … Veni Regiomontem”: Diary Notes of Andreas Aurifaber, Physician to Duke Albert of Hohenzollern

 15:00-15:30
Chloe Akers-Brewer (University of St Andrews, United Kingdom)
Wit, Wordplay and Wine: Printing for Name Day Celebrations in Early Modern Europe

15:30-16:00
Diogo Lemos (University of Coimbra, Centre for the History of Society and Culture, Portugal)
Visual Networks in Motion: Print, Patronage and Power under the Reign of John V of Portugal (1707–1750)

16:00-16:30
Androniki Dialeti (University of Thessaly, Greece)
«Committing our Lives to the Service of Humanity»: Aldus Manutius and the Self-fashioning of the Publisher as a Humanist in Renaissance Venice

17:15-18:00 Guided Tour in the exhibition for conference speakers “On Two Baroque Stars, or Sarbievius and the Artistic Poetry” (Vilnius University Library, Universiteto street 3, Vilnius)

18:15 Dinner for conference speakers

Thursday, 9 October

 08:30-09:00 Registration (Atrium, 5th floor) / Networking Coffee (Leisure area, 5th floor)

SESSION 4

09:00-09:30
Karine Durin (University of Nantes, France)
From argutia to agudeza. In Search of the Spanish Readers of De acuto et arguto

09:30-10:00
Cloé Boucon (University Lumière, Lyon, Centre Gabriel Naudé (ENSSIB), France)
The Phalsbourg genizah, a reserve of germanic Hebrew books?

10:00-10:30
Simona Inserra (University of Catania, Italy)
The library destiny of some Secreti’s imprints between 16th and 17th century Italy

10:30-11:00
Jolanda Lila (Albanian University, Albania)
A Vernacular Voice in Exile: Jul Variboba and the Arbëresh Print Culture of the 18th Century

11:00-11:30 Networking Coffee(Leisure area, 5th floor)

SESSION 5

11:30-12:00
Theodora Rontzova; Zoë Vandenhende (KU Leuven, Belgium)
ACUTUS VIRTUALIS: Printed Bodies, Virtual Worlds. Revisiting  De Humani Corporis Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius in VR.

12:00-12:30
Marie-Luce Demonet (University of Tours, France)
How to Trace Missing Slips: Paper and Glue in the Bordeaux Copy of Montaigne’s Essais (1588-1592)

12:30-13:00
Tímea N. Kis (University of Tokaj, Hungary)
Rethinking of a Book: Martin Boregk‘s Behmische Chronica and Its Unprecedented Engravings

13:00-13:30
Taisiya Leber (Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany)
Making Byzantine Orthodox Canon Law Great Again in Early Modern South-Eastern and Eastern Europe

13:30-15:00 Lunch Break

SESSION 6

15:00-15:30
Hermina G.B. Anghelescu (School of Information Sciences, Wayne State University Detroit, United States of America)
Early Printing in the Three Romanian Principalities

15:30-16:00
Silvia-Adriana Tomescu (The National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania)
The Grammar of Memory: Cultural Ontologies for Romanian Printings from the 16th-17th Centuries

16:00-16:30
Rafał Wójcik (Adam Mickiewicz University, University Library, Poland)
The Jesuit Printing House in Poznań (1677-1773): Typographic Equipment and Aesthetic Strategies

16:30-17:00
Miroslava Soláriková (Slovak National Library, Slovakia)
Parva Schola – Slovak Literary Baroque Based on Educational Texts

17:15-18:00
Guided tour in the exhibition for conference speakers “YIVO Centennial: Origins, Journey, Legacy” (Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Gedimino Avenue 51, Exhibition hall, 3rd floor)

Friday, 10 October

08:30-09:00 Registration / Networking Coffee (Old Arsenal, Arsenalo street 3, Vilnius, Event Hall, 2nd floor)

SESSION 7

09:00-09:30
Stanislava Knapčoková (Slovak National Library, Slovakia)
Research in the Field of Historical Library Documents at the Slovak National Library

09:30-10:00
Brigita Zorkienė (Vilnius University Library, Lithuania)
The Art of Persuasion: Jesuit Print and Image (from the Collections of Vilnius University Library)

10:00-10:30
Nailya Shamgunova (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom)
English and Scottish Travellers at the Global Library, c. 1600-1700

10:30-11:00
Rita Urbaitytė (Kaunas County Public Ąžuolynas Library, Lithuania)
Sharp and accurate look at books from the Baroque age in Kaunas libraries and museums

11:00-11:30 Networking Coffee

SESSION 8

11:30-12:00
Adam Perzyński (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Why Did Radziwiłł “the Orphan” Need an Engraver? Strategies of Acquiring Engravings Around 1600 in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

12:00-12:30
Dorota Sidorowicz-Mulak (Ossolineum National Institute, Ossolineum National Library, Poland  )
Early Printed Book from Nyasvizh/Nieśwież – De sanctis angelis libellus by Tomasz Makowski (1609) in the collection of the Ossoliński National Institute

12:30-13:00
Povilas Mikalauskas (Vytautas Magnus university, Lithuania)
Lithuania in the First German Newspapers of Saxony in the 17th Century

13:00-13:30
Paweł Pietrowcew (University of St Andrews, United Kingdom)
Dissemination of Official Publications in the Kingdom of Poland, Late 16th and Early 17th Centuries

13:30-15:00 Lunch Break

15:00-16:00 Guided tour with curator in the international exhibition for conference speakers “Queens, Realms, and Emotions” (House of Histories, T. Kosciuškos Street 3, Vilnius)
15:00-16:00 Guided tour in the exposition for conference speakers “Understanding Lithuania (Castellan’s House, Arsenalo Street 1, Vilnius)