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Objects From Abroad: The Life of Exotic Goods
in France and the United States (18th-20th Centuries)
New York University, 25 April 2013

Register by 19 April 2013

9:15  Noémie Etienne, Introduction

9:30  O B J E T S  S A U V A G E S
• Manuel Charpy (CNRS), Exchanges of Times: Curio Hunting and Market of Archaic Goodsbetween France and United States in the 19th Century
• Yaëlle Biro (Metropolitan Museum), Crossing Boundaries: The Trade in African Art and Commercial Practices at the Turn of the 20th Century
• Monique Jeudy-Ballini (CNRS) and Brigitte Derlon (EHESS), Domesticating While Keeping Wild: On French Collectors of ‘Primitive Art’

11:00  Break

11:20  F R O M  P L A C E  T O  D I S P L A Y
• Fred Myers (Anthropology, NYU), Paintings, Publics, and Protocols: A Problem of Aboriginal Art
• Hannah S. Fullgraf (Dallas Museum of Art), The Journey of a Kwakwaka’wakw House Post from British Columbia to Paris
• Jean-François Staszak (University of Geneva) and Jean Estebanez (University Paris Diderot), Western Zoological Gardens and the Objectification / Exoticization of Human and Non-Human Animals

12:50  Lunch break

14:20  T R A V E L L I N G  A P P E A R A N C E S
• Madeleine Dobie (French Studies, Columbia University), Furniture, Culture, and Commerce in 18th-Century France
• Rustem Ertug Altinay (Department of Performance Studies, NYU), The Daughters of the Republic on the Catwalk: Turkey’s Diplomatic Fashion Shows in France and the United States
• Mei Mei Rado (Bard Graduate Center, New York), The Hybrid Orient: Japonisme and Nationalism in the Takashimaya Mandarin Robes
• Lauren Benetua (Marist-Lorenzo de’Medici, Florence), Imperial Collecting and Pacific Adaptations: On Textiles, Cloth, and Clothing

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NYU Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 4 Washington Square North, New York, 10003 – Phone: +1-212-992-7488. Please register by April 19 at valerie.dubois@nyu.edu.