The second workshop within the framework of the EOS-funded project B-magic: The Magic Lantern and its Cultural Impact as Visual Mass Medium in Belgium (1830-1940) will take place on 13 November, 2018 at the Mundaneum in Mons, organized by members of ORM (L’Observatoire de Recherche sur les Médias et le journalisme) and GIRCAM (Groupe Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur les Cultures et les Arts en Mouvement) at the University of Louvain.
This workshop will feature keynote lectures by renowned scholars in late 19th and early 20th century screen studies: André Gaudreault (University of Montréal, Canada), Giusy Pisano (ENS Louis-Lumière, France) and, Marc-Emmanuel Mélon (University of Liège, Belgium). The workshop will also feature an exclusive screening of the film Merci Monsieur Robertson (1986) a film on the famous Belgian lanternist and phantasmagorian Étienne-Gaspard Robert, also known as “Robertson”, and producer Françoise Levie (Memento Production, Belgium), the biographer of Robertson.
Lanternist Gwen Sebus will join us with a pre-workshop performance and a discussion on 12 November, 2018, 16:20-18:00 in Mons. The performance will take place in the framework of the monthly B-magic PhD seminar and is open to anyone interested, but please confirm your presence with an email to b-magic@uantwerpen.be by 5 November.
Find out more about B-magic and see the programme of the workshop here.