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Book History @ KBR
An afternoon of book history lectures
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7 experts, 7 lectures, 1 shared passion
What happens behind the walls of the national library? What have our researchers been working on and which historical treasures are kept in the closed stacks?
7 passionate experts—both from KBR and other institutions—will present their research. They have one thing in common: they conduct research on books from the KBR collections.
During this book history event you will find out all about i10th-century bookbindings, medieval manuscripts, incunabula, schoolbooks, comics and 21st-century translations, as well as the challenges faced by book historians. The lectures are in Dutch, French and English.
Programme
| 13:00 | Carolingian and Romanesque-Type Bindings Preserved in KBR | July Van Malderen (KBR) |
| 13:30 | Tracing the medieval books of the Herne charterhouse near Brussels: readers, authors, translators and scribes | Godfried Croenen (UAntwerpen) |
| 14:00 | De Disticha Catonis, een populair schoolboek tussen handschrift en druk | Michiel Verweij (KBR / KUL) |
| 14:30 | Pauze | |
| 15:00 | Boekenbedrog! Papier en perkament als promotioneel materiaal voor kwakzalvers, in tekst en beeld | Bram Caers (ULeiden) |
| 15:30 | La création d’une première collection « nationale » de livres scolaires (1777-1785) : une utopie éducative ? | Michel Berré (UMons) |
| 16:00 | Pauze | |
| 16:30 | Les fanzines, patrimoine méconnu de la bande dessinée belge : Ran Tan Plan (Le bulletin du Club des amis des bandes dessinées) & Mycose (le zine sorti du slip) | Erwin Dejasse (ULB / KBR) |
| 17:00 | Intra-Belgian translation flows: Belgian literatures in French and Dutch translation (1970-2020) | Sven Lieber (UGent / KBR) |
Practical information
Free event, but registration is required: zeo@xoe.or
