The time schedule is given in CET (Brussels). Morning sessions will be live and pre-recorded; afternoon sessions will be live and streamed, allowing interaction between tutors and students at Fordham, Ghent and at home.

Monday 18 October 2021
Theme 1: The Liber Floridus: historical context, material aspects and issues of scale
Introduction by Elizabeth Tyler (York) and Wim Verbaal (Ghent) followed by hands-on sessions with the original Liber Floridus and other manuscripts

Tuesday 19 October 2021
Morning
Hands-on session with the original Liber Floridus and other manuscripts
Afternoon
Theme 2: Encountering cultures
Lectures by Osman Latiff (Royal Holloway, London) and Nicholas Morton (Nottingham)
Discussion

Conference dinner

Wednesday 20 October 2021
Encountering cultures
Morning
Lecture by Julian Yolles (Odense) followed by hands-on session
Theme 3: Cosmology and cosmography
Afternoon
Lectures by Divna Manolova (York) and Elina Gertsman (Case Western Reserve)
Discussion

Thursday 21 October 2021
Cosmology and cosmosgraphy
Lecture by Barbara Obrist (Paris) followed by hands-on session
Afternoon
Theme 4: The book as space
Lecture by Javier de Barco del Barco (Madrid)
Discussion

Evening event with keynote by Hanna Vorholt (York)

Friday 22 October 2021
Morning
The book as space
Lecture by Klazina Staat (Ghent) followed by hands-on session
Afternoon
The book as space
Lecture by Jeroen Deploige (Ghent) and Wim Verbaal (Ghent)
Discussion
Conclusions by Rosa Maria Rodríguez Porto (Santiago de Compostela)

Saturday 23 October 2021

Optional excursion to Leuven with visit to the exhibition Imagining the Universe (with the Liber Floridus on display)