Wednesday 18 March 2026
University of Antwerp, City Campus (location will be communicated)

This workshop is part of the annual Raymond Van Uytven Chair in Urban History. In 2026, Prof. Dr. Miri Rubin is the chairholder. This Chair is coordinated by the Centre for Urban History at the University of Antwerp.

Programme :

Session 1: Feeling Time

9:30 Melancholic Merchants. Future Thinking and Emotions in Late Medieval Italy – Nicolò Zennaro, University of Antwerp

10:10 Feeling the Strain? Emotions of Time in the Diary of David Beck – Gerrit Verhoeven, University of Antwerp

10:50 Coffee break

Session 2: Images of Emotional Time

11:00 The Virgin’s Foresight, Visualised – Miri Rubin, Queen Mary University of London

11:40 The Passions of the Sandglass – Matthew Champion, University of Melbourne

12:20 Lunch (for speakers only)

Session 3: Objects of Emotional Time

13:10 Moving in and out of time. Processional ornaments in the confraternity of the Holy Blood in Bruges (15th and 16th centuries) – Anne-Laure Van Bruaene, Ghent University

13:50 « Eating Saints and “translating” relics. Nunneries and Medicinal Cannibalism in the Spanish Netherlands in the 1630s. » – Marc Jacobs, University of Antwerp

14:30 Expression of Emotions and Feelings in Timekeeping. Instruments Preserved at the Royal Museums of Art and History (Brussels): A Few Singular Cases – Sophie Balace, Royal Museums of Art and History Brussels

15:10 Coffee break

Session 4: Rhythms and Regimes of Time

15:30 Is the Night Time the Right Time? Urban society, craft guilds and the night in the late medieval Low Countries – Peter Stabel, University of Antwerp

16:10 To Move or Be Moved? Early Modern Rhythms of Mobility and Emotions – Sanne Hermans, University of Antwerp

17:00 End