Past Events:

Oral Presentation
Colour Matters 2023

"Exploring the Winsor & Newton 19th Centruy Archive Database to support cultural heritage material studies". Otero, Vanessa; Raquel Marques; Mark Clarke; Leslie Carlyle; Márcia Vilarigues; Maria J. Melo. Chromotope International Conference, Colour Matters: Exploring Colour and Chromatic Materialities in the Long Nineteenth Century (1798-1914). Trinity College, Oxford, 6-8 December 2023.

Oral Presentation
II ENHQ

"Shedding light into the earliest Portuguese collection of magic lantern slides". Santos, Ângela; Alexandra Rodrigues; Carla Machado; Gilberto Pereira; Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues. II Encontro Nacional de História da Químic (ENHQ), Portuguese Society of Chemistry. Online, 8-9 September 2023.

Oral Presentation
TOSC@lisboa.2023

"A “true féerie”: Antunes/Machado’s Venus and some transnational dimensions of Luso-Brazilian musical theatre in the long 19th century". Peliz, Joana. 2023. TOSC@lisboa.2023 - 5th Transnational Opera Studies Conference. Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, 6-8 July 2023.

Oral Presentation
XVIII ECerS Conference & Exhibition

"Tangible Facets of the Art of Painting Glass Slides for Projection by Magic Lanterns". Vilarigues, Márcia; Andreia Ruivo; Carla Machado; Vanessa Otero. 2023. XVIII ECerS -  Conference & Exhibition of the European Ceramic Society. Lyon Convention Centre, Lyon, France, 2-6 July 2023.

Oral Presentation
TECHNART 2023

"Improving the identification of red lake pigments on historical hand-painted magic lantern glass slides". Veiga, Tiago; Paula Nabais; Andreia Ruivo; João Carlos Lima; Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues. 2023. TECHNART 2023 - International conference on analytical techniques in art and cultural heritage. Lisbon, Portugal, 7-12 May 2023.

Oral Presentation
Materials 2023

"The Carpenter & Westley's art of painting magic lantern glass slides: the contribution of material characterisation studies". Santos, Ângela; Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues. 2023. "MATERIAIS 2023 - Sustainability for a Future", XXI Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais, and the XII International Materials Symposium. Centro Cultural Vila Flor. Guimarães, Portugal, 3-6 April 2023.

Oral Presentation
American Chemical Society Meeting

"Winsor & Newton's 19th-century manufacturing processes: How science unveils the artists' colorman choices". Otero, Vanessa; Tiago Veiga, Márcia Vilarigues, Maria João Melo. 2023. Crossroads of Chemistry - Science in Support of Technical Art History, American Chemical Society Spring 2023 Metting. Indiana Convention Center. Indianapolis, IN & Hybrid, 26-30 March 2023.

Oral Presentation
American Chemical Society Meeting

"Hand-painted magic lantern glass slides: the influence of the light source and materials on the projected images". Vilarigues, Márcia; Ângela Santos; Carla Machado; Vanessa Otero. 2023. Crossroads of Chemistry - Science in Support of Technical Art History, American Chemical Society Spring 2023 Metting. Indiana Convention Center. Indianapolis, IN & Hybrid, 26-30 March 2023.

2022-11_Otero_Poster-ATSR_MadderReds.pdf

Poster Presentation
ICOM-CC ATSR Meeting

"The W&N 19th century manufacture of madder reds: application to magic lantern slides". Otero, Vanessa; Tiago Veiga; Ângela Santos; Márcia Vilarigues. 2022. The 9th Interim Meeting of the Art Technological Source Research Working Group, "Work in Progress: The artists’ gestures and skills explored through art technological source research". Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Paris, 24–25 November 2022.

Oral Presentation
ICOM-CC Glass & Ceramics Meeting

"Challenges in the interventive conservation of hand-painted magic lantern glass slides: An overview of cleaning practices for paint layers". Santos, Ângela; Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues. 2022. Recent Advances in Glass and Ceramics Conservation 2022: the 6th Interim Meeting of the Glass and Ceramics Working Group. Department of Conservation and Restoration & VICARTE, FCT NOVA. Lisbon, 9-11 November 2022.

Oral Presentation
Dyes in History and Archaeology 2022

"Finding madder reds in 19th-early 20th century oil paintings". Veiga, Tiago; Artur Moro; Paula Nabais; Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues; Maria João Melo. 2022. Conference – Dyes in History and Archaeology 2022. Swedish National Heritage Board. Visby, 11–13 October 2022.

Talk/Debate
Seminários de Cultura Material da Ciência by MUHNAC-ULisboa

"Fabulosas Pinturas Projetadas com Lanternas Mágicas: Onde Estão e Como se Preservam?". Vilarigues, Márcia; Ângela Santos; Vanessa Otero. 2022. Seminários de Cultura Material da Ciência, moderação de Marta Lourenço, National Museum of Natural History and Science (MUHNAC) of the University of Lisbon (ULisboa). Youtube, 26 September 2022.

2022-05_Santos_Poster-Ciencia22_Conservation.pdf

Poster Presentation
Encontro Ciência'22

"Preventive Conservation of Painted Magic Lantern Slides". Santos, Ângela; Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues. 2022. Encontro Ciência'22, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia. Lisbon, 16-18 May 2022.

Oral Presentation
B-Magic Final Conference

"Preventive conservation challenges of hand-painted magic lantern glass slides". Santos, Ângela; Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues. 2022. B-Magic Final Conference, University of Antwerp, FOMU - Fotomuseum Antwerpen. Antwerp, 5–7 May 2022.

Invited Oral Presentation
Colour and Poetry: A Symposium IV

"Recovering the art of hand-painting magic lantern glass slides". Otero, Vanessa; Ângela Santos; Márcia Vilarigues. 2022. Colour & Poetry: A Symposium IV, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. London, 20–22 March 2022.