8th International Conference: Watermarks in Digital Collections,
June 19 - 21, 2025, Reykjavik, Iceland
Local organizer: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies (Silvia Hufnagel)
Program
program folder (pdf) abstracts (pdf) -->| Thursday June 19, 2025 | |
| 9.00-9.10 | Welcome |
| 9.10-10.30 | Session 1 |
| Emanuel Wenger (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna) | |
| 20 years of Memory of Paper: 2006-2025 | |
| Silvia Hufnagel, Beeke Stegmann (Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, Reykjavik) | |
| "Life of Paper" Project Report: Quire Structures and Watermarks in 17th-Century Icelandic Manuscripts (abstract) | |
| Luisa Martínez Leal (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexiko) | |
| The Latin American database of underground watermarks (abstract) | |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00-12.30 | Session 2 |
| Maria Stieglecker(Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna) | |
| Paper mixes and manuscripts (abstract) | |
| Alberto Campagnolo (University of Tours / KU Leuven), Elena Pierazzo, Robert G. Erdmann (University of Amsterdam) | |
| Watermarks and Paper Features in Modern Italian Manuscripts: A Digital and Archival Approach (abstract) | |
| Stefaniia Demchuk (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv,Ukraine) | |
| Paper, Prestige, and Recipes: Cataloguing Watermarks in Early Modern Cookbooks (abstract) | |
| 12.30-13.30 | Lunch break |
| 13.30-14.30 | Session 3 |
| Marie Benešová (Moravský Zemský Archiv v Brne, Czech Republic) | |
| Printed versus digital databases of watermarks (abstract) | |
| Linus Hartmann-Enke (German Museum of Books and Writing, Leipzig, Germany) | |
| German Museum of Books and Writing (abstract) | |
| 14.30-15.00 | Coffee break |
| 15.00-16.00 | Tour through the manuscript exhibition in Edda, Arngrímsgata 5 |
| 19.00 | Dinner |
| Friday June 20, 2025 | |
| 9.00-10.30 | Session 4 |
| Thomas Klinke (Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud / Technische Hochschule Köln, Cologne, Germany) | |
| Cranach on Paper - An exploration of the graphic oeuvre (abstract) | |
| Chiara Palandri, Elisa Albano (Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, Italy) | |
| Watermarks and Artistic Practices: Drawings by the Neoclassical Artists Andrea Appiani and Giuseppe Bossi in the Brera Academy of Fine Arts Collection (abstract) | |
| Gloria Boero (Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, Italy) | |
| Late 19th-early 20th century paper types and uses at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts (abstract) | |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00-12.30 | Session 5 |
| Rachel Hapoienu (The Courtauld Gallery, London, UK) | |
| The VSC: a new tool for watermark research at The Courtauld Gallery, London (abstract) | |
| Aurora Belli (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands) | |
| The Watermarks Project: documenting watermarks from the 17th century Dutch drawings collection at the Rijksmuseum with low-energy X-ray radiography (abstract) | |
| Kimia Taghavy, Sytske Weidema, Sabine Craft-Giepmans (RKD - Netherlands Institute for Art History, TheHague, Netherlands) | |
| Innovative watermark research in Dutch drawings: a pilot project at the RKD (abstract) | |
| 12.30-13.30 | Lunch break |
| 14.00-15.30 | Session 6 |
| Ibrahim Jabbie(Fambul Tik Heritage Company,Sierra Leone) | |
| Exploring Watermarks in Historical Sierra Leonean Documents (abstract) | |
| Stephanie Gowler, Nicole Finzer ((Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA)) | |
| Using multispectral imaging to augment digitized West African manuscripts (abstract) | |
| 15.30-16.00 | Coffee break |
| 16.00-17.00 | Tour to the National and University Library of Iceland, Angrímsgata 3, 107 Reykjavík |
| 17.00 | Conference closing with a reception |
| Saturday June 21, 2025 | |
| Excursion to Ţingvellir and Skálholt (own expense) | |
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Registrated participants in Reykjavik
- Elisa Albano (Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, Italy)
- Marin Árnadóttir
- Aurora Belli (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Marie Benešová (State District Archive, Jihlava, Czech Republic)
- Gloria Boero (Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, Italy)
- Alberto Campagnolo (University of Tours / KU Leuven)
- Sabine Craft- Giepmans (RKD - Netherlands Institute for Art History, TheHague, Netherlands)
- Stefaniia Demchuk (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)
- Robert Erdmann (University of Amsterdam,The Netherlands)
- Nicole Finzer (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA)
- Stephanie Gowler (Northwestern University Libraries, Evanston, Illinois, USA)
- Guđrún Laufey Guđmundsdóttir (Landsbókasafn Íslands- Háskólabókasafn, Iceland)
- Rannver H. Hannesson
- Rachel Hapoienu (The Courtauld Gallery, London, UK)
- Silvia Hufnagel (Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, Reykjavik, Iceland)
- Ibrahim Jabbie (Fambul Tik Heritage Company, Sierra Leone)
- Thomas Klinke (Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud / Technische Hochschule Köln, Cologne, Germany)
- Nicoletta Leonardi (Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, Italy)
- Luisa Martinez Leal (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City)
- Ingelise Nielsen (Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation, Denmark)
- Eduardo Osuna
- Regina Osuna
- Ana Osuna
- Maria Chiara Palandri (National Library of Norway, Oslo; Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, Italy)
- Manfred Schreiner (Academy of Fine Arts,Vienna, Austria)
- Beeke Stegmann (Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, Reykjavik, Iceland)
- Maria Stieglecker (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria)
- Kimia Taghavy (RKD - Netherlands Institute for Art History, TheHague, Netherlands)
- Arthur Tennře (National Library of Norway, Oslo, Norway)
- Hildur Ploder Vigfúsdóttir (National and University Library of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland)
- Emanuel Wenger (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria)
Registrated online participants
- Nana Badenberg(SPH, Switzerland)
- Claire Bustarret (CNRS, France)
- Lara Daniels (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK)
- Soledad Díaz de los Reyes
- Marian Dirda (National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA)
- Martin Eybl (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna - MDW, Austria)
- Alessandra Fucini (Istituto Centrale per la Patologia degli Archivi e del Libro, Rome, Italy)
- Marina Furtado Gonçalves (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil)
- Pawel Gancarczyk (Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland)
- Steve Gantke
- Ana Paula Garcia Flores (Archivo General del Estado de Oaxaca, Mexico)
- Mónica Garrido (Nordic Conservator Association - regional group of IIC, Oslo, Norway)
- Roxana Govea Martinez
- Alexandra Greathead
- Paul Gulewycz (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria)
- Linus Hartmann-Enke (German Museum of Books and Writing, Leipzig, Germany)
- Lisa Jordan (Ludwig-Maximiklians-Universität München, Germany)
- Vasiliki Liakou
- Daniela Melo
- Gudula Metze (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Germany)
- Mariana Moreno
- Maryse Pierrard
- Vasco Miguel Santos
- Frieder Schmidt (Germany)
- Sanja Šetic (State Archives in Pazin, Croatia)
- Jéssica Silveira
- Beth Twinn (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK)
- Elena Ukhanova (State Historical Museum, Moscow, Russia)
- Karen Urmoneit
-- Emanuel Wenger - 15 June 2025
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