Special CREOR Lecture: Secularizing Medieval Devotional Space and Modernity
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CREOR SPECIAL LECTURE
Jan Van Eyck (before 1395-1441) & Georges Rodenbach (1855-1898)
Secularizing Medieval Devotional Space and Modernity
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Birks Senior Common Room (Rm 100)
3520 University Street, Montreal
Thursdays April 2nd听from 14:30-16:00
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DOMINIQUE BAUER
(PhD History 2000, Leuven, MA Philosophy, MA Canon Law) has a background in intellectual/cultural history, philosophy and philosophy of law. On the latter subject she published with among others with Peeters Leuven, Cambridge University Press, Brill Leiden and Eleven International Publishing. She is a member of A2I and of PADP at the Department of Architecture and a member of GEMCA at UCL. She was a visiting scholar at the CES Minda de Gunzburg at Harvard in 2009. At present, she mainly works in the fields of comparative literature (French, German, Spanish, Italian) and French Studies.
In the past years, her research has focused on the imagery of interior spaces in literature, scholarly and visual sources. In her听Beyond the Frame Case Studies听(Brussels: ASP) and the edited volume听The Imagery of Interior Spaces听(New York: Punctum Books, due 2017) she deals with the interior and (anemic) subjectivity in a听longue听dur茅e perspective. She currently studies notions of absence, presence and historicity听in nineteenth century spatial imageries, as well as early modern aspects of this evolution and its current outcome in the contemporary liminal interior. On the latter she published a book chapter in the听Biblioth猫que Philosophique de Louvain (UCL),听about the work of Alessandro Baricco (contemporary) and Leopoldo听Alas and an article on Balzac.听Forthcoming publications include: her听book听Spaces/Traces: the Contingency of the Spatial Image,听on space/place and historicity,听due in the fall (Leuven: Peeters: 2017)听and a听book chapter on Jules Romains听(Bloomsbury: 2018).