Paper Presentation: Frank Kessler: Documenter l’invisible autour de 1900. On August 24, 2024, Frank Kessler gave a presentation “Documenter l’invisible autour de 1900” at a conference on “The Invisible at the Crossroads of Literature, Performace Arts and Cinema (1850-1930)” held at the Centre Culturel International in Cerisy-la-Salle (Normandy, France). He talked about projections of photomicrographs…

Paper Presentation: Nico de Klerk: A Tradition Runs Through It: Film- and Slide-illustrated Lectures in the Netherlands, 1890s–1990s Nico de Klerk discussed lectures with slide and/or film projections in the Netherlands between the final decades of the 19th century and the 1990s. Paper Presentation: Frank Kessler: Exploring the Invisible: Photomicrography and Microcinematography Frank Kessler looked at…

Paper Presentation: Dulce da Rocha Gonçalves: TedTalks of the early twentieth century: Public lantern lectures and the Dutch colonial strategy Conference organized by the African Studies Centre and Oxford Centre for Global History, University of Oxford, the Department of Communication Studies, University of Ghana, and the Department of Communication and Media Studies, University of Johannesburg….

Paper Presentation: Dulce da Rocha Gonçalves: Public knowledge transmission in the Netherlands: the cultural phenomenon of the lantern lecture. Conference organized by CITCEM (Transdisciplinary Research Centre “Culture, Space and Memory), based at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto, Portugal. The full program can be accessed here. Abstract: Public lantern lectures, that is…

The article Science between the fairground and the academy: The case of Dutch science popularizer L. K. Maju (1823–1886), by Dulce da Rocha Gonçalves and published in the journal Public Understanding of Science, has been included in the section 19th Century > Science and Society, General Works of the Isis Current Bibliography 2022, published for…

Presentation of Working Paper: Dulce da Rocha Gonçalves: The lantern and the audience: instruction and attraction. In this paper I examine the changing role of the lantern in illustrated public lectures in the Netherlands, from its emergence in the late nineteenth century through its institutionalization as a common, accepted and expected practice in the late…

On Wednesday, 30 november 2022, Frank Kessler gives a lecture entitled « L’Art des projections: les conférences de science illustrée au 19e siècle » at the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris. The lecture is part of the seminar series “Culture spectaculakire et premier cinéma” organised by the research group “Théorie et histoire des arts…

Interview (in Dutch) with Frank Kessler, by Michiel Bakker and published in Science Guide. It discusses how science communication is not a recent practice and how lantern slide projection was used in academic and public lectures, namely by Ernst Cohen (1869-1944), chemistry professor at Utrecht University. Wetenschapscommunicatie, niets nieuws onder de zon.      

Paper Presentation: Jamilla Notebaard & Dulce da Rocha Gonçalves: Projecting knowledge: the role of the lantern slide in academic and public lectures in the Netherlands 1900-1940. Conference organized by Europa-Universität Flensburg. The full program can be accessed here. Abstract: At the turn of the nineteenth century, the optical lantern was becoming more and more an…

Paper Presentation: Frank Kessler: Prospects for a History of Media Dispositifs How can we make the concept of “dispositif” productive for media historiographies? What perspectives does such an approach open up, compared to traditional media histories? How do we need to conceive of media dispositifs to be able to study their multiple histories? These are…