Conference organized by SALON
Singer Laren, Laren
12 June, 2026
Tickets: €40,00 / €15,00 (Students) on the Singer Laren website
PROGRAMME
9.30-10.00 Registration, Coffee & Tea
10.00-10.10 Doede Hardeman, Singer Museum Laren: Welcome
10.10-10.25 Charles Kang: Introduction to the Conference Theme
10.25-11.15 Keynote lecture Julie Codell, Arizona State University: “Indispensable Obstacle: Unraveling Biographical Genres”
11.15-11.30 Break
Session 1 – Sense and Absence of Source Material
Session chair: Ulrike Müller, University of Antwerp and Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
11.30-11.50 Claire Dupin de Beyssat, Musée d’Orsay: “Lost in the Crowd? Reconstructing the Biographies of Salons Exhibitors in Nineteenth-Century France through Large-Scale Data and Seriality”
11.50-12.10 Heather Nickels, independent curator and Columbia University: “Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller's Paris Years (1899-1902) & The Value of the ‘Intimate Archive’”
12.10-12.25 Session 1: Questions and Discussion
12.25-12.35 Suzanne Veldink, Singer Museum Laren: Introduction to the exhibition Masterpieces from Le Havre: Renoir, Monet, Dufy, Matisse & others and to the focus presentation on Etha Fles and Medardo Rosso.
Lunch & Exhibition
12.35-14.15 Lunch and visit to the exhibition
Session 2 – Old Masters, New Uses
Session chair: Charles Kang, Rijksmuseum
14.15-14.35 Laura Prins, Utrecht University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: “‘Identify with another person's soul’: Delacroix & the artist’s biography”
14.35-14.55 Michela D’Agostino, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata: “Properzia de’ Rossi Between Mythmaking and Institutional Judgment”
14.55-15.15 Séverine Sofio, Center for Research on Arts and Language, Paris: “Forgotten and Reborn: Fluctuating Memory, Biographical Gaps, and the Re-Semantisation of Artistic Lives”
15.15-15.30 Session 2: Questions and Discussion
Coffe & Tea
15.30-15.50 Coffee & Tea break
Session 3 – Challenging Legacies
Session chair: Nina Reid, Van Gogh Museum and Radboud University
15.50-16.10 Oriane Poret, Université Lyon 2 / LARHRA: “Loving, Using, Killing: Rosa Bonheur and the Biographical Ambivalence of the Animalier”
16.10-16.30 Julia Griffin, independent scholar: “Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Victorian Stigmas of Madness and Adultery, and Suppressed Commemoration by the Rossetti Family (1882–1919)”
16.30-16.45 Session 3: Questions and Discussion
16.45-17.00 Wrap up
17.00-18.00 Drinks and bite
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