Call for Papers | ASECS 2017, Minneapolis
Just a reminder that that the due date for ASECS 2017 proposals is next Thursday (15 September). Send them in!
2017 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference
Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, 30 March — 2 April 2017
Proposals due by 15 September 2016
Proposals for papers at the at the 48th annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, are now being accepted. Proposals should be sent directly to the session chairs no later than 15 September 2016. Along with our annual luncheon and business meeting, HECAA will be represented with the Anne Schroder New Scholars’ Session, chaired by Jessica Fripp. A selection of other sessions that might be relevant for HECAA members is also included here»
Conference | French Royal Furniture by Jean-Henri Riesener
In connection with the exhibition now on view, Waddeson Manor is hosting this conference:
A Closer Look: Spotlight on French Royal Furniture by Jean-Henri Riesener
The National Trust and Waddesdon Manor (Rothschild Collections) Annual Conference
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, 20 September 2016
To book a place, please call 01296 653226 between 10am and 4pm. The fee for the day is £25, which includes all catering; the fee can be paid with a debit or credit card. Please let us know if you have any dietary requirements. The nearest railway station is Aylesbury Vale Parkway (5–10 minutes from Waddesdon), and it is advisable to pre-book a taxi from the station to Waddesdon Manor. Another option is Aylesbury Station (10–15 minutes from Waddesdon); as a rule, there are taxis outside the station.
P R O G R A M M E
10:00 Registration and coffee
10:30 Welcome and introduction, Christopher Rowell (Furniture Curator, National Trust) and Pippa Shirley (Head of Collection, National Trust / Waddesdon Manor)
10:40 Riesener at Waddesdon Manor
• Emily Roy (Curator) and Ulrich Leben (Associate Curator), Introduction to the Exhibition and Research Project
• Lindsay Macnaughton (Oxford University Intern), Grammar and the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne: Chests of Drawers by Jean-Henri Riesener, 1774–84
• Juliet Carey (Senoir Curator), A Newly Discovered Portrait of Riesener
11:30 Riesener at the Wallace Collection
• Helen Jacobsen (Head of Curatorial Team, Wallace Collection): The 4th Marquess of Hertford’s Taste for Riesener, 1840–70
• Jürgen Huber (Senior Conservator, Wallace Collection): Riesener Revealed: Documentation and Observation…The Journey So Far
12:00 Rufus Bird (Deputy Surveyor of The Queen’s Works of Art, Royal Collections Trust), George IV and Riesener
12:15 Yannick Chastang (Independent Conservator), Riesener’s Floral Marquetry
12:30 Questions and discussion
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Bertrand Rondot (Chief Curator, Château de Versailles), Versailles, Riesener’s Palace
14.50 Wolf Burchardt (Furniture Research Curator, National Trust), Continental Furniture in National Trust Houses
15:10 Matthew Hirst (Curator, Woburn Abbey), French and Francophile Furniture in the Woburn Abbey Collection
15:30 Miriam Schefzyk (PhD Candidate, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster & École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris), Furniture with Porcelain Plaques at Waddesdon Manor
15:45 Carolyn Sargentson (Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Sussex), A Business Model for Refinement? Riesener’s 1773 Commission for Pierre de Fontanieu
16:05 Questions and discussion
16:30 Tea
16:45 Entry to see the Riesener exhibition and collections
17:30 Wine reception
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