Tine Van Osselaer, Kristof Smeyers, Leonardo Rossi, “Religious heritage with cultural meaning: setting a research agenda”, COMECE, Brussels, 17 May 2023.
Tine Van Osselaer, “The Catholic cult and commerce of martyrs, c.1840s-1930s“, ULB, seminar of Aspects du Martyre PoLitique (Europe méridionale, 1800-1939), 6 June 2023.
Kristof Smeyers, “Missionaries after death: how the martyrs of Shanxi came home”, History of Women Religious in Britain and Ireland conference, Roehampton University, 7-9 June 2023.
Leonardo Rossi, “The second golden age of the Company of St Ursula: the refoundation in the nineteenth century between historical continuity and innovation”, History of Women Religious in Britain and Ireland conference, Roehampton University, 7-9 June 2023.
Leonardo Rossi, “Storie di donne e storie di sante”, La santità femminile: tra storia e teologia, Bergamo, 16 November 2023.
PAST PRESENTATIONS
2023
Leonardo Rossi, Presentation of the interdiocesan project “Donne sante & sante donne. Il prendersi cura di una società che cambia“, Brescia, 11 May 2023.
Leonardo Rossi, “Capitanio & Gerosa. Il prendersi cura di una società che cambia”, Scoperti tra le carte. Inseguire profili di vita di donne e uomini tra i documenti, Brescia, 29 April 2023.
Tine Van Osselaer, “After the corpse: the tumultuous history and use of the coffin of Mary Margaret of the Angels”, Charged Objects. Performing the Soul of Things, Ghent, 20-21 April 2023.
Kristof Smeyers, “Missionaries after death: how the martyrs of Shanxi and Patong came home”, European Social Sciences History Conference, University of Gothenburg, 11-15 April 2023.
Leonardo Rossi, “’Do you have any doubts? Well, keep it to yourself.’ Ecclesiastical debate, historical revisionism, and popular devotions to the early Christian martyrs in the 19th and 20th century”, European Social Sciences History Conference, University of Gothenburg, 11-15 April 2023.
Tine Van Osselaer, “Catacomb romanticism. On the intersection between devotion and consumerism in the nineteenth and twentieth century”, ESSHC, University of Gothenburg, 11-15 April 2023.
Tine Van Osselaer, “Chasing coffins: The tumultuous story of the remains and coffin of Mary Margaret of the Angels”, Conflict and Continuity, Religious Biographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Universität Bern, 16-18 March 2023.
Leonardo Rossi, “Culti e corpi-reliquie tra religione e politica nell’Italia contemporanea. Pratiche, simboli e devozioni”, AISSCA 2023 (Cantieri dell’Agiografia, 6th edition), Rome, 25-27 January 2023.
2022
Kristof Smeyers, “Moving bodies: Catholic affect of seeing (and not seeing) death”, After life: interdisciplinary approaches to death and dying, University of Newcastle (online), 2 December 2022.
Tine Van Osselaer, “Exceptional Corpses? Photographing the Exhumation of four Belgian Stigmatics, 1972-1980”, Photographic Practices and the Making of Religion, Universität Leipzig, 25-26 November 2022.
Tine Van Osselaer, “Lies, exaggeration and impostors in historiography”, SciFair reading seminar, 21 November 2022.
Tine Van Osselaer, “Various Virgins, diverse devotions: exploring Marian apparitions in 1930s Belgium”, Dynamics of devotion: About Signposts, Thresholds and Stumbling Blocks in the History of Christian Religious Life, 27-28 October 2022, Leuven.
Tine Van Osselaer, “A visit, an exhumation and a pilgrimage. A history of emotions and religious bodies in three acts”, Dag van de Emotiegeschiedenis, Nijmegen: Radboud University, 7 October 2022.
Kristof Smeyers, “Bodies out of place: (dis)locating the corporeal supernatural in the nineteenth-century edgelands”, Fantastische Geographien, University of Dortmund, 22-24 September 2022.
Kristof Smeyers, “Wishful thinking for historians: truth, lies, and mythology in autohistorical narratives”, Telling stories: history, narrative and fiction (Centre for Public History Conference), Queen’s University Belfast, 14-17 September 2022.
Leonardo Rossi, “Life and Afterlife of Religious Bodies: from Organic Matters to Devotional Objects. Corpses on Display in Late Modern Italy (c.1750-1950)”, Travelling Matters. Rereading, Reshaping, Reusing Objects Across the Mediterranean, Haifa University, HCMH, 8 September 2022.
Leonardo Rossi, “Between Promotion and Rejection: The Different Responses of (ex-)Jesuits to Stigmatics in 19th and 20th-Century Italy”, Jesuit Heritage Summer School: Sanctity, Hagiography, Iconography (5-9 September 2022), Antwerp, 8 September 2022.
Kristof Smeyers, “Limits of knowledge and belief: extraordinary bodies in the edgelands”, Santé des corps, Soins et religion en milieu rural, Europe occidentale, XVE-XIXe siècle, Université de Lausanne, 1-3 September 2022.
Tine Van Osselaer, “Salutary suffering and miraculous cures. The Catholic patient in the nineteenth and early twentieth century”, Santé des corps, Soins et religion en milieu rural, Europe occidentale, XVE-XIXe siècle, 1-3 September 2022, Université de Lausanne.
Tine Van Osselaer, “Painful love, hope and resignation. The emotional highs and lows of stigmatics of the early twentieth century”, Religion, Women, and History of Emotions in Germany and Beyond, Berlin, 24-26 June 2022.
Kristof Smeyers, “Mortuary cultures and posthumous itineraries: religious afterlives in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries”, History of Women Religious in Britain and Ireland, University College Dublin, 2-4 June 2022.
Tine Van Osselaer, “Embodying the pain of others. The shared-pain model in modern Catholicism”, Pain and (Com)passion, University of Innsbruck, 1-2 June 2022.
Kristof Smeyers, “Time heals no wounds: historicism and the retroactive diagnosis of stigmata”, The Supernatural: Sites of Suffering, University of Warwick, 14 May 2022.
Kristof Smeyers, “Moving bodies: Catholic affect of seeing and not seeing death, 1850-1920”, Gazing at death and the dead: international workshop, University of Antwerp, 6 May 2022.
Tine Van Osselaer, “Martyrs ‘à l’Italienne’. On the response to relic-sculptures of paleochristians in the early nineteenth century”, Gazing at death and dead, Antwerp, 6 May 2022.
Leonardo Rossi, “‘She is always with us.’ Exhumations, examinations, and exhibitions of the body of religious founders in 19th- and 20th-century Italy”, Gazing at death and the dead, Antwerp, 5-6 May 2022.
Kristof Smeyers, “Cloth, cotton, social fabric: weaving together material and sensory experiences of supernatural phenomena”, University of Lund, 31 March – 1 April 2022.
Leonardo Rossi, “The materiality of incorruption. Practices, techniques, and strategies of exposing bodies in Late Modern Italy (c.1750-1950)”, Beyond the textual realms of faith: lived religion and materiality in the modern and contemporary Christian West, Lund, 30 March – 1 April 2022.
Tine Van Osselaer and Elwin Hofman, “Confessing the Deaf and Mute: A Visual and Material Approach to Religion and Disability in Belgium, c. 1750-1850” op Beyond the textual realms of faith. Lived religion and materiality in the modern and contemporary Christian West, Lund, 30 March-1 April 2022
Leonardo Rossi, “Bellezza celestiale. Il corpo femminile come ‘fonte’ materiale nell’Italia tardo moderna (c.1750-1950)”, Seminar Immagini dell’Altra. Storia e storie del femminile nelle culture del Mediterraneo, Bologna, Alma Master Studiorum, 24 March 2022.
Leonardo Rossi, “Santità popolare e santità ufficiale nel territorio bresciano”, Archivissima, Brescia, 19 March 2022.
Leonardo Rossi, “Il culto del corpo. Religiosità materiale, devozione popolare e modello cultuale: una lettura diacronica di Santa Etheldreda di Ely (679-1953)“, AISSCA Cantieri dell’Agiografia, 5th edition,Rome, 26-28 January 2022.
2021
Tine Van Osselaer, Leonardo Rossi, Kristof Smeyers & Linde Tuybens, “Mystical (epi)phenomena as symptoms of social disease”, Pazze di Lui – Mad for Him, Venice, 10-11 November 2021. Programme
Tine Van Osselaer and Leonardo Rossi, “The local clergy as guardians of orthodoxy?“, Tagung Katholische Esoterik/Conference Catholic Esotericism, Fribourg, 29 October 2021.
Tine Van Osselaer, “De fascinatie voor het lijdende lichaam in de negentiende eeuw”, Spectrumlezing, UAntwerpen, 21 October 2021
Tine Van Osselaer, “Pain, passion and compassion. Writing on stigmatic women in modern Europe”, Cultures in Conflict – Religion, History and Gender in Northern Europe c. 1800– 2000, Lund, 24 September 2021.
Tine Van Osselaer, “Het geval Welberg in context. Gestigmatiseerden in Europa, ca. 1800-1950”, Stigmata en verschijningen, Amsterdam, Spui 25, 20 September 2021.
Tine Van Osselaer, “Between hope and resignation: the ‘patient’ in Catholic devotional culture, 19th and 20th centuries”, EAHMH, 9 September 2021 (Leuven, online).
Leonardo Rossi, “Undiagnosed disease or supernatural signs? Inedia, stigmata, and medical reports in the Early Nineteenth-century South Tyrol. The cases of Maria Von Mörl and Maria Domenica Lazzeri“, EAHMH, 9 September 2021 (Leuven, online).
Kristof Smeyers, “Bodies besieged: towards an ethics of the possessed in interbellum Europe”, European Association for the History of Medicine and Health, Leuven, 8 September 2021.
Tine Van Osselaer, “On the intersection of media and mysticism: stigmatics in Europe, c.1800-1950”, EUARE, panel Multiple modernities. Men’s and women’s Catholicism in XIX and XX century Europe, Münster, 1 September 2021.
Leonardo Rossi, “Heavenly beauty. The absence of suffering in “exposed bodies” in modern Italy (c.1750-1950)“, Pain. Cultivation, Contemplation, and Relief, 30 June 2021 (Antwerp, online).
Tine Van Osselaer, “Strings and trouser buckles. Catholic pain narratives and their material culture in Belgium, c.1900-1930”, 30 June 2021 (Antwerp, online)
Leonardo Rossi, “De/Recomposing a holy body. The corporeal cult of St Etheldreda“, HWRBI, 25 June 2021 (online).
Tine Van Osselaer, “Rest in peace? The Antwerp commotions about the remains of an English Carmelite nun”, History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland, Research Showcase (online), 25 June 2021.
Leonardo Rossi, ““Fama sanctitatis” or “affettata santità”? Italian stigmatics under the ecclesiastical investigation in the 19th and early 20th centuries,” Perceptions of the sacred in the suffering body: stigmata and stigmatics in the 19th and 20th centuries, CRS “E. Peterson”, 25 May 2021 (Turin, online).
Tine Van Osselaer, “Four exhumations and a rumor. Anna Katharina Emmerick’s body, sensory experiences and proof of the divine.” Perceptions of the sacred in the suffering body: stigmata and stigmatics in the 19th and 20th centuries, CSR “E. Peterson”, online, 25 May 2021.
Kristof Smeyers, “The disappointing body of a dead messiah”, The Remains of the Body | Legacy and Cultural Memory of Bodies in World Culture, University of Warwick, 22 May 2021.
Tine Van Osselaer, Leonardo Rossi, Kristof Smeyers and Linde Tuybens, Behind the scenes of Passion. Histories of the Heart, webinar organized by UCSIA, 29 April 2021 (online)
Kristof Smeyers, “‘Mysticking, magicking’: een creatieve geschiedenis van het bovennatuurlijke“, Ruusbroec Spring Lecture, 23 April 2021.
Leonardo Rossi, “Performing the Passion. Unexpected sources of forbidden religious practices in 19th-20th centuries Italy”, ESSHC 2021 (online), 25 March 2021
Tine Van Osselaer, “Four exhumations and a rumor. Anna Katharina Emmerick’s body, sensory experiences and proof of the divine.” ESSHC 2021 (online), 25 March 2021.
Kristof Smeyers, “Experiencing the extraordinary: constructing sensory experiences around Christian supernatural phenomena”, ESSHC, 25 March 2021.
Leonardo Rossi, “Io porto le stigmate di Gesù sul mio corpo”: dalla speculazione teologica alla devozione popolare. Stigmate, santi viventi e Sant’Uffizio nell’Italia contemporanea (c. 1800-1950),” Centro Culturale “Il Caffè”, 22 January 2021 (Ghent, online).
2020
Kristof Smeyers, “Religious disenchantment in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: qualifying the supernatural”, The Decline of Magic? 23 July 2020.
Kristof Smeyers, “Wishful thinking for historians: truth, lies, and mythology in auto-historical narratives”, Historical Fictions Research Network, Universität Salzburg, 22 February 2020.
2019
Tine Van Osselaer, “Between saints and celebrities. The devotion and promotion of stigmatics in Europe, c.1800-1950”, research seminar, University of Lund, Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, 19 December 2019.
Kristof Smeyers, “Moderne magie: over stigmatici, visioenen en betoverde tijden”, Erfgoedcafé, Erfgoed Zuidwest, Deerlijk, 14 November 2019.
Kristof Smeyers, “Seraphs over Belgium. Local legacies of a living saint”, The Franciscan Legacy from the 13th Century to the 21st, Ushaw College, Durham, 5-7 November 2019.
Leonardo Rossi, “Celebrating the founder, hunting stigmatics. Franciscan strategies in the early twentieth century”, The Franciscan Legacy from the 13th Century to the 21st, Ushaw College, Durham, 5-7 November 2019.
Tine Van Osselaer, “‘To save a nation…’: Catholic patriotism in the letters of the Franciscan tertiary Berthe Petit”, The Franciscan Legacy from the 13th Century to the 21st, Ushaw College, Durham, 5-7 November 2019.
Tine Van Osselaer, “Between saints and celebrities. The devotion and promotion of Stigmatics in Europe, c.1800-1950”, Kadoc Seminar, Leuven, 19 September 2019.
Kristof Smeyers, “Contagious raptures and irrational ecstasies”, Religion as Emotion Knowledge, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, 21 June 2019.
Kristof Smeyers, “Blood under the tracks. Stigmata and the supernatural of London”, Magical Cities, University of Portsmouth, 15 June 2019.
Leonardo Rossi, “Embodied, feigned, canonized holiness. Stigmatics in late modern Italy (c. 1800-1950)”, Ruusbroec Lecture, 14 June 2019.
Kristof Smeyers, “Blood ties. Marginalising the mystic in modern Britain”, Social History Society annual conference, University of Lincoln, 12 June 2019.
Kristof Smeyers, “Contagious beliefs. Colonial attitudes toward supernatural religion in nineteenth-century Southern India”, Ailing Empires, University of Edinburgh, 31 May 2019.
Kristof Smeyers, “Vessels: Victorian mystics and their bodies”, Breaking Bounds, University of Portsmouth, 11 May 2019.
Kristof Smeyers, “Supernatural blood, popish plot”, Representing Popery in Britain and Ireland, 1520-1900, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 10-11 April 2019.
Leonardo Rossi, “Sangue profetico. Vaticini, visioni apocalittiche e profezie politiche di mistiche stigmatizzate nell’Italia contemporanea (XIX-prima metà del XX secolo)”, Bologna, European Academy of Religion, 4-7 March 2019.
Merlijn Gabel and Kristof Smeyers, “Patients and passions; Blood ties”, poster at Faculty Research Day, University of Antwerp, 29 January 2019.
Leonardo Rossi, “Santità vivente, autorità carismatica, censura. Donne stigmatizzate nell’Italia contemporanea“, AISSCA, I cantieri dell’agiografia, Rome, 17-18 January 2019.
2018
Tine Van Osselaer and Kristof Smeyers, “Divine hysteria: early-nineteenth-century Christian conceptions of the ‘sacred disease’”, Gutachten/Begutachtete, 18 December 2018, Universität Innsbruck (via Skype).
Kristof Smeyers, “Blood ties. Stigmata and society in Britain and Ireland, c.1829-1945″, Modern religious history seminar, Institute for Historical Research, London, 5 December 2018.
Andrea Graus, “Visita a les místiques estigmatitzades de la Tercera República Francesa,” 6enes Jornades GREMHER: La realitat esquerdada. Experiències més enllà del “normal,” Universitat de Barcelona, 3 December 2018.
Tine Van Osselaer, “Het kussen van Anne Catherine Emmerick. Materiële cultuur en de geschiedenis van emoties: een verkenning”, Gender & emoties: historische perspectieven, UGent, 9 November 2018.
Kristof Smeyers, “Stigmatised: supernatural wounds in the nineteenth century”, Living in a magical world: inner lives, University of Oxford, 17 September 2018.
Kristof Smeyers, “Supernatural blood: fearing, fighting, fantasising about stigmata in Victorian Britain”, Anxious forms: blood, sweat, and tears, Aston University, Birmingham, 27 July 2018.
Tine Van Osselaer, “Spectacular suffering and powerful blood”, Anxious forms: blood, sweat, and tears, Aston University, Birmingham, 27 July 2018.
Kristof Smeyers, “Miraculous Magdalenes. Stigmata and ecstasy in a Magdalene Asylum, 1841-1847”, Catholic Record Society Annual Conference, 24 July 2018.
Kristof Smeyers, “Stigmata: fearing women, blood and Rome”, Victorian Fears, Newman University, Birmingham, 18 June 2018.
Kristof Smeyers, “Misc 2.0. Building on the stigmatic’s archive”, History of Women Religious in Britain and Ireland Annual Conference, University of Galway, 7-8 June 2018.
Leonardo Rossi and Kristof Smeyers, “Into the land of the living saints: travelling to see stigmata in Tyrol, 1830s-40s“, Walking with saints: protection devotion and civic identity, Ronse, 24-26 May 2018.
Tine Van Osselaer, “From Bethlehem to Golgotha. Visiting the Hometown of a nineteenth-century Stigmatic“, Walking with saints: protection devotion and civic identity, Ronse, 24-26 May 2018.
Andrea Graus, “Turning the village’s ‘saint’ into the village’s history“, Walking with saints: protection devotion and civic identity, Ronse, 24-26 May 2018.
Tine Van Osselaer, “On coughing and other rebellious acts: the faithful, the Church and deviant devotions in the 19th and early 20th centuries“, Beyond the norm: religious deviance in 19th- and 20th-century Europe, International Workshop, University of Antwerp, 13 April 2018.
Leonardo Rossi, “‘Fama sancitatis’ or ‘affettata santità’? Italian stigmatics under inquisition in the 19-20th centuries”, Beyond the norm: religious deviance in 19th- and 20th-century Europe, International Workshop, University of Antwerp, 13 April 2018.
Andrea Graus, “Parish priests, stigmatics and religious deviance in the French Third Republic“, Beyond the norm: religious deviance in 19th- and 20th-century Europe, International Workshop, University of Antwerp, 13 April 2018.
Kristof Smeyers, “Defiant devotions. Cults versus modernity in 19th-century England”, Beyond the norm: religious deviance in 19th- and 20th-century Europe, International Workshop, University of Antwerp, 13 April 2018.
Tine Van Osselaer “On coughing and other rebellious acts: the faithful, the Church and deviant devotions in the 19thand early 20thcenturies“, European Social Science History Conferece, Belfast, 4-7 April 2018.
Kristof Smeyers “Christ in curls. Devotion, ridicule and Mary Ann Girling.“, European Social Science History Conferece, Belfast, 4-7 April 2018.
Andrea Graus “On deviance and religious cults in fin-de-siècle France“, European Social Science History Conferece, Belfast, 4-7 April 2018.
Tine Van Osselaer, Kristof Smeyers & Leonardo Rossi, “Fates and faiths intertwined. Clergymen and women mystics in 19th- and 20th-century Europe”, Masculinités sacerdotales, Louvain-la-Neuve, 14 March 2018.
2017
Andrea Graus “Le mysticisme devant la justice civile au XIXe siècle”, Séminaire Histoire des sciences humaines et sociales, EHESS-Centre Koyré, Paris, 1 December 2017.
Tine Van Osselaer, “Geen sant in eigen land. De Lummense gestigmatiseerde Rosalie Put (1868-1919)”, 52ste Algemeen-Kempisch Congres, 18 November 2017.
Kristof Smeyers, “‘Sweep away the corporations.’ The programme of a Victorian Messiah”, UCSIA Summer School, Antwerp, 31 August 2017.
Kristof Smeyers, “Stigmatised. The complicated life of Mary Ann Girling (1827-1886)”, British Association of Victorian Studies, Lincoln, 24 August 2017.
Kristof Smeyers and Leonardo Rossi, “Tyrolean stigmatics in Britain and Ireland, 1841-1843”, Catholic Record Society Annual Conference, Cambridge, 24 July 2017.
Andrea Graus, “Mystic trials in nineteenth-century Europe”, European Society of the History of the Human Sciences, Bari, 12-14 July 2017.
Tine Van Osselaer, “On suffering and compassion: visiting stigmatic women in Europe, 19th and 20th centuries”, ISCH conference, Umeå University, Sweden, 27 June 2017.
Andrea Graus, “Mysticism in the courtroom during modernity”, Ruusbroec Institute Spring Lectures, University of Antwerp, 23 June 2017.
Tine Van Osselaer, “On suffering and compassion: visiting stigmatic women in Europe, 19th and 20th centuries”, The Experience of Suffering. Philosophical, Cultural and Social Dimensions, International Conference Institute of Philosophy, University of Innsbruck, Austria, 22 June 2017.
Andrea Graus,”‘My little flock.’ Mystic lay women as community builders“, Charismatic Women in Religion. Power, media and social change, 19th-20th century, International Workshop, Antwerp, 14 June 2017.
Kristof Smeyers, “Christ in curls. The contested charisma of Mary Ann Girling“, Charismatic Women in Religion. Power, media and social change, 19th-20th century, International Workshop, Antwerp, 14 June 2017.
Leonardo Rossi, “Charismatic stigmatized women: models of femininity at the beginning of the 19th century”, Charismatic Women in Religion. Power, media and social change, 19th-20th century, International Workshop, Antwerp, 14 June 2017.
Tine Van Osselaer, “The many lives of Bertha, Georges and Jean. Stories on a 20th-century ‘hermaphrodite apostle’‘”, Charismatic Women in Religion. Power, media and social change, 19th-20th century, International Workshop, Antwerp, 14 June 2017.
Kristof Smeyers, “Misc. Building the stigmatic’s archive”, Sources and the history of women religious, medieval to modern: archival | oral | visual | material | digital, H-WRBI Annual Conference, University College Dublin, Ireland, 9 June 2017.
Leonardo Rossi, “Beyond the domestic life. Charismatic women in the public space“, Annual Conference on Women of the Mediterranean (2017), St Anna Institute-College of Holy Cross-International Center for Mediterranean Studies, Sorrento, 26-27 May 2017.
Tine Van Osselaer, “Between saints and celebrities. The devotion and promotion of stigmatics in Europe, c.1800-1950”, Research day, Faculty of Arts, University of Antwerp, Belgium, 31 January 2017.
2016
Leonardo Rossi, “Sainteté approuvée, sainteté vivante, sainteté simulée. Les Stigmatisés entre la devotion populaire et l’Eglise, env.1800-1950“, Université de Savoie, Chambéry, France, 18 November 2016.
Tine Van Osselaer and Leonardo Rossi, “Power in the blood. The material culture of non-approved cults (19th and 20th century),” International workshop “Relics at the lab,” Brussels, Belgium, 27-28 October 2016.
Tine Van Osselaer, “‘Auf das höchste geschätzt und auf das sorgfälltigste bewahrt:’ the houses of European stigmatics,” University of Bern, Historisches Institut, Switzerland, 25 October 2016.
Andrea Graus, “Entre santos y celebridades. La devoción de los estigmatizados en Europa, 1800-1950″, Instituto de Historia (CCHS-CSIC), Madrid, Spain, 19 September 2016.
Andrea Graus, “Stigmata and celebrity at the turn of the twentieth century in France and Spain,” Joint Conference CHEIRON/European Society of the History of the Human Sciences, Barcelona, Spain, 27 June-1 July 2016.
Leonardo Rossi, “The debate about stigmata on the pages of «La Civiltà Cattolica», ca. 1850-1950,” On commotions and commodities. Catholic celebrities in 19th- and 20th- century Europe, Antwerp, Belgium, 22 June 2016.
Tine Van Osselaer, “Louise’s body. Or how to become a Catholic celebrity during the German and Belgian culture wars,”On commotions and commodities. Catholic celebrities in 19th- and 20th- century Europe, Antwerp, Belgium, 22 June 2016.
Andrea Graus, “Wonder nuns. Sor Patrocinio, the politics of the supernatural and religious cartoons,”On commotions and commodities. Catholic celebrities in 19th- and 20th- century Europe, Antwerp, Belgium, 22 June 2016.
Tine Van Osselaer, “Virgin mothers and alteri Christi: stigmatic women and the cult of motherhood in Europe,” La Sainte Famille. Sexualité, filiation et parentalité dans l’Église catholique, Rome, Italy, 20 May 2016.
Leonardo Rossi, “Between saints and celebrities. The devotion and promotion of stigmatics in Europe, c.1800-1950“, Colloque BABEL des doctorants, Liège, Belgium, 15 April 2016.
Tine Van Osselaer, “The affair of the photographs. Controlling the public image of a nineteenth-century stigmatic,” European Social Science History Conference, Valencia, Spain, 2 April 2016.
2015
Tine Van Osselaer, “Louise’s body. Studying corporeality, femininity and mysticism in the modern era,” Unruly bodies. Gender/Norms/Resistance, Brussels, Belgium, 30 October 2015.
Tine Van Osselaer, “Pain, passion and compassion. Writing on stigmatic women in modern Europe,” Género e interioridade na vida religiosa: conceitos, contextos e práticas, Lisbon, Portugal, 3-4 July 2015.
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