De Moderne Tijd - Volume 6, Issue 2/3, 2022

Abstract Indulging in emotions. Belgian anti-alcohol propaganda in the light of the projection lantern (1897-1914) The use of the projection lantern for anti-alcohol propaganda in Britain, France, and the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has already been comprehensively researched and discussed. Several international studies concluded that temperance campaigns notably contributed to Read More

Abstract Between politics and self-promotion. The pro-Boer lantern lectures of Johannes Adam Wormser (1899-1900) The projection lantern played a prominent role in the Second Boer War (1899-1900) as a ‘media war’. In the Netherlands, this technology was widely used to fuel pro-Boer sentiment. Politician and publisher Johan Adam Wormser jr. (1845-1916) can be considered a pioneer in this development. This article po Read More

Abstract Brave Russians, cruel Chinese and pious missionaries. Yulij Lukyanovich Yelets and the phenomenon of illustrated lectures in the Belgian belle époque This contribution sheds light on the rhetorical use of the projection lantern in the Belgian public lecture circuit at the turn of the twentieth century by means of a microstoria. By analysing a lantern lecture delivered by the Russian writer and lieutenant colonel Yulij L Read More

Abstract With an oxyhydrogen lantern in a billiard room. The illustrated lectures of Ernst Cohen The Utrecht University professor of Chemistry, Ernst Cohen (1869-1944) gave lectures illustrated with an optical lantern between at least 1899 and 1938. His presentations addressed different audiences, from colleagues at chemical conventions to members of societal and professional associations and audiences at adult educa Read More

Abstract: The traveller, a congenial candidate for the 1912 elections. Political propaganda in Arthur Buysse’s travelogue on Constantinople In the winter of 1910-1911, liberal politician Arthur Buysse held at least 10 lantern lectures about his journey to Constantinople in liberal associations and social circles in Ghent, Belgium. The lectures were closely intertwined with other media such as newspaper reports and travel photograp Read More

Abstract By children’s train to Belgium. Socially engaged lantern lectures by Floris Prims on the Belgian-Hungarian Children’s Campaign (1924-1927) From 1923 onwards, children’s trains travelled from Hungary to Belgium (and back). Upon arrival, the children were placed in Catholic foster homes. There, they could recuperate from the hardships they had endured during the First World War and the subsequent revolutions in Read More

Abstract Fin-de-siècle vibration-mania. Synesthetic light projection in the wake of Jean Delville’s art Jean Delville (1867-1953), a Belgian symbolist artist and a pivotal figure in fin-de-siècle occultism in Brussels, was inspired by numerous synaesthetic performances: shadow plays, serpentine dance, and colour organs. These performances were perceived as musical paintings or experiments with colour-hearing, audition-coloré Read More