April 2nd | Location: Museu da Ciência da Universidade de Coimbra 

08:45    Reception

09:10    Opening remarks by Paulo Trincão, Márcia Vilarigues & Luísa Cymbron

09:30    KEYNOTE SPEAKER 1 chair Márcia Vilarigues

Kurt Vanhoutte, Beyond Illumination: The Magic Lantern Between Knowledge and the Unseen 

10:30    Coffee break

10:50    PANEL 1 - COLLECTIONS chair Gabriela Cruz

Ana David Mendes, The magic lantern today: Mimetism or (re)creation?          

Raffaella Isoardi & Valentina Malvicino, Magic Lantern Collection of National Cinema Museum in  Turin

Luísa Cymbron, Sounds of the armies and of the theatres in the magic lantern slide collection at the  Museu da Ciência of the Universidade de Coimbra

12:15    Lunch break

13:45    PANEL 2 - DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND CATALOGUES chair Marta Soares

F. Javier Frutos-Esteban & Carmen López-San Segundo, LINTERNAUTA and the dissemination/diffusion of knowledge on magic lantern slides

Manuela Carmona, A view of magic lantern slides from the CCPB

14:45    Short break

14:55    PANEL 3 - MATERIALS chair Carmen López-San Segundo

Márcia Vilarigues, Vanessa Otero & Ângela Santos, MAGICA: Studying materiality of magic lantern glass slides in Portugal

15:50     Coffee break

16:05    PANEL 4 - ANIMATION chair Vanessa Otero

Marta Soares, Animation and the Magic Lantern: Tropes and mechanisms

Special presentation:

Abi Feijó, Magic Lanterns — Pictures in Motion: A Taste of the Magic Lantern Show

17:10     Visit to the MAGICA exhibition set-up and the magic lantern slides on display at MCUC

April 3rd | Location: Museu da Ciência da Universidade de Coimbra

09:15    KEYNOTE SPEAKER 2 chair Luísa Cymbron

Tommaso Sabbatini, The Art and Business of Féerie

10:15    Coffee break

10:35    PANEL 5 - THEATRE chair Ana Isabel Vasconcelos

Nele Wynants, Lantern Ladies: Reframing Women's Roles in Magic Lantern Historiography

Paula Magalhães, Magic lantern's at Lisbon's fairground theatre performances

Licínia Ferreira, Mágicas and phantasmagoria at the crossroads of theatre, politics and the imagination in the first decades of the 19th century in Lisbon

12:00    Lunch break

13:30    PANEL 6 - THE MAGIC LANTERN, THE MÁGICA GENRE AND THE PRESS chair Paula Magalhães

Joana Peliz, The audiovisual device or the "phantasmagoria" of As Três Cidras do Amor

Luzia Rocha, Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro and the Magic Lantern: The Music iconographic and semiotic impact of this artefact in the journal of the same name (May-July 1875)

Maria Sempiterno, The magic lantern and the devil: From illustrated criticism to theatrical staging 

14:55     Short break

15:05    PANEL 7 - PHILOSOPHERS AND THE MAGIC LANTERN chair Ana David Mendes

Maria Tortajada, Henri Bergson: The Magic Lantern with the Cinematograph

Rod Bantjes, Smoke and Mirrors: Reimagining 18th-century Devices of Spacial Projection

16:00     Coffee break

16:15    KEYNOTE SPEAKER 3 chair Luísa Cymbron

Gabriela Cruz, Poor sense, or the carnival of seeing (and hearing) at the cosmorama and the opera

17:15     Technical break

17:20     A demonstration by Rod Bantjes

19:30     CONFERENCE DINNER

April 4th | Location: From Coimbra to Lisbon

10:00     Departure from Coimbra by BUS

12:00     Lunch in Bucelas, Loures

14:00     Visit to the ANIM, Loures

(Arquivo Nacional das Imagens em Movimento da Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museu do Cinema / National Archive of Moving Images of the Portuguese Cinematheque - Museum of Cinema)

17:00     Visit to the MAGICA exhibition at MUHNAC, Lisbon

(Museu Nacional da História Natural e da Ciência / National Museum of Natural History and Science)

18:00    Magic Lantern Show (90 min) by Abi Feijó, Elsa Cerqueira & Samuel Martins Coelho 

at MUHNAC, Lisbon

19:45     Brainstorming & Closure (MUHNAC, Lisbon)