Between April 29 and October 28, the organization of the 12th International Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies is promoting a cycle of videoconferences. The four online sessions promote and anticipate the 12th International Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies, which, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, has been postponed until 2022.

Videoconference Cycle Program “Road to SES Conference Coimbra”:

1st Session | April 29, 2021, 6:00pm

Chair: David Graham
Rubem Amaral Jr. (Independent Researcher): Applied emblems in the early papermoney and other old value papers in Portugal
Francesco Del Sole (University of Salento): Architectural archetypes in emblematic culture between the 16th and 18th centuries
Para participar nesta primeira sessão, basta que, à hora do encontro, siga as seguintes credenciais Zoom (link: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/84674860049; ID da sessão: 846 7486 0049; palavra-passe:337385)

2nd session | May 27, 2021, 6:00pm

Chair: Manuel Ferro
Takao Kawanishi (University of Tokyo): The Study of the symbol of Holy Grail from Coimbra in Portugal to Japan
Tamar Abramson (Tel Aviv University): The Donatello Code: Attis-Amorino as a Proto-Emblematic Riddle

3rd session | June 24, 2021, 6 PM

Chair: Elizabeth Black
Liana Cheney (University of Massachusetts Lowell): “The Shepeard Buss”: Embroidery of Love and Sorrow
Isabel Lloret (University Jaume I, Castellón): La educación militar de Don Fernando de Austria, a través de los emblemas

4th Session | October 28, 2021, 6:00pm

Chair: Simon McKeown
Cezara Bobeica (University of Strasbourg): Visual and verbal strategies of occultation in Henry Peacham’s emblem book Minerva Britanna (1612)
Giuditta Cirnigliaro (University Roma 3): Leonardo’s Emblems and Word and Image Devices: A Digital Initiative

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