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Last update: 29.10.2025

lectures

Plenary Lectures

Mythology on Early German Medals
Martin Hirsch (Munich, Germany)

 

The Second Glance – German Medal Art in the 21st Century: Diversity and Tradition
Maya Graber (Geschinen, Switzerland)

 

Wolfgang Lazius and the Transformation of Numismatics: Illustrated Collection Catalogue and Iconographic Research in the Renaissance
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Pfisterer (Munich, Germany)

 

Lectures

The Berliner Medailleurkreis, 2019–2025
Johannes Eberhardt (Berlin, Germany)

 

Homo Politicus? The Medals of Andreas A. Jähnig
Bernhard Weisser (Berlin, Germany)

The Contemporary Hungarian Medal Art 2025. A Presentation of the Exhibition of XXV Hungarian National Medal Art Biennial
Virag Szabo (Budapest, Hungary)

Victor Rousseau’s Medal Œuvre Revisited
Stefan de Lombaert (Asse, Belgium)

Chris van der Hoef – From Art Nouveau to Art Déco
Herman Gerritsen (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

Czech Mythological Themes in Medallic Art
Kateřina Nora Nováková (Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic)

 

Building on Roots and Creating a Myth: Self-fashioning on Early Modern Swedish Medals
Ylva Haidenthaller (Lund, Sweden)

Swedish Royalty and Roman Virtues and Mythological Figures
Ulrika Bornestaf (Stockholm, Sweden)

 

Évocation du mythe et pouvoir de l’image: Manolo Prieto revisité
Javier Gimeno (Spain)

 

Medal Makers Then and Now: Shared Traditions, Different Paths
Natasha Burbridge and Louise Dentice (London, UK)

 

The Grandparents’ House and the Legacy of Cardboard Die-Cutting
Tatiana Siopa (Montengrão, Portugal)

History of Lithuania in the Art of Medals of Juozas Kalinauskas and Lina Kalinauskaitė
Lina Kalinauskaitė (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Searching for Sloane’s Medals
Tom Hockenhull (London, UK)


 

From Chris van der Hoef to Chris van der Hoef. The Centenary of the Dutch Art Medal Association (1925–2025)
Jan Pelsdonk (Haarlem, The Netherlands) - prerecorded

Our Myths, Our Roots: Analyzed with Medals from the Goldsmiths’ Company Collection
Tanya Szrajber (London, UK)

Creating Art Medals with Low-Melting Alloys, Using Aluminum Dishes as Molds
Mark A. Benvenuto (Detroit, USA)

Using Kinetic Sand to Create Art Medals From Low-Melting Alloys
Mark A. Benvenuto (Detroit, USA)

A Study on the Application of AI Technology in Sculptural Expression
Sam Yang (Guangzhou, China)

Medallic Medical Mythologies
Ira Rezak (New York, USA)

 

Ouroboros – A Perfect Medallic Motif. The Changes of Meaning
Agnieszka Smołucha-Sładkowska (Krakow, Poland)

The Myth of Palemon and Other Legends: The Search for Identity in Lithuanian Medal Art
Monika Sudintaitė (Samogitia, Lithuania)

 

100 Years of Slovak Sculptor and Medalist Erna Masarovičová
Ľuba Belohradská (Bratislava, Slovakia)

We Love Nature. Do We?
Elly Baltus (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - prerecorded

I Am Now Here. Two Times and Places
Tetsuji Seta (Kasugai-shi, Japan)

Current Medal Culture in Halle
Ulf Dräger (Halle an der Saale, Germany)

Between Myth and Identity: Folk Themes in Croatian Secessionist Medallic Art
Anja Kindl (Osijek, Croatia)

 

Le traitement des mythes à Genève et en Suisse
Gilles Perret (Geneve, Switzerland)

Transmettre et innover : un pas pour aider à la renaissance de la médaille française, de l’atelier scolaire à l’exposition internationale FIDEM de Munich
Nicolas Salagnac (Lyon, France)

The Making of a Portuguese-Style Fabricated Medal
João Bernardo dos Santos (Rio de Mouro, Portugal)

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James Malone Beach

Amaterasu to the Universe: A Mythological Journey of Creation
Keiko Kubota-Miura (New York, USA)

 

Roots – Inspiration and Continuation as a Subject and Object Inside Two Medals
Geer Steyn (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Athena / Demeter: The Burden of War / The Power of Love. One Design, Two Approaches
Susan Taylor (Ottawa, Canada)

 

Damnatio Memoriae - The Medalhistic Work of the Sculptor Alípio Pinto
José S. Teixeira (Lisbon, Portugal)

Reading the Male Body: The Work of Ian Rank-Broadley
Marcy Leavitt Bourne (London, United Kingdom)

Matko Mijić, Artist of the Transformation of Matter into Myth
Tatijana Gareljić (Zagreb, Croatia)

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