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Very warm wishes to everyone attending this week’s conference! –CH

113th Annual Conference of the College Art Association
New York Hilton Midtown, 12–15 February 2025

The CAA 113th Annual Conference will take place at the New York Hilton Midtown, New York City, 12–15 February 2025. Noted below is just a small selection of this year’s offerings, with a full schedule available here.

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Women Artists and the Politics of Neoclassicism
Wednesday, 12 February, 2.30–4.00, Hilton Midtown, 2nd floor, Nassau East
Chairs: Andrea Morgan (The Art Institute of Chicago) and Megan True (The Art Institute of Chicago)
• Marie-Thérèse Reboul Vien and the Emergence of Neoclassicism — Tori Champion (University of St Andrews)
• Marie-Guillemine Benoist (1768–1826): A Neoclassicism of Her Own — Jennifer Germann (Independent Scholar)
• La Créatrice in Flux: Women’s Artmaking and Ambition in Revolutionary France — Maura Gleeson (Valencia College)
• The Genre Anecdotique and Feminine Historical Consciousness in Early 19th-Century France — Marina Kliger (Harvard Art Museums)

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Gender, Class, and Empire: Women and the Representation of Animals in 18th- and 19th-C. Art
Thursday, 13 February 13, 11.00–12.30, Hilton Midtown, 3rd floor, Mercury Ballroom
• The Shepherdess in the Colonies: Young Women in the Pastoral Mode — Patricia Johnston (College of The Holy Cross)
• Bridging Relationships: Pet Animals as Connectors in Eighteenth-Century British Portraiture — Luba Stephania Kozak (University of Regina)
• Vincent van Gogh, Jules Michelet, and Working-Class Women — Christa Rose DiMarco (New College of Florida)

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The Art of Collaboration in the Long 18th Century (HECAA)
Friday, 14 February, 2.30–4.00, Hilton Midtown, 2nd floor, Nassau East
Chairs: Yasemin Diba Altun and Tori Champion
• Layers of Collaboration: The Making of Toiles de Jouy, — Melissa Percival (University of Exeter)
• Beyond the Inner Chamber?: The Making of Female ‘Elegant Gathering’ Paintings in Late 18th-Century China — Michelle Tian (Princeton University)
• Materials as Collaboration in 18th- and 19th-Century Philadelphia — Cambra Sklarz (Harvard Art Museums)

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Unboxing the Long 18th Century (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies)
Friday, 14 February, 4.30–6.00, Hilton Midtown, 2nd floor, Nassau East
Chairs: Dani Ezor and Jennifer Germann
• Machines for Naturalization: The Cajones of the Spanish Botanical Expeditions — Rebecca Yuste (Columbia University)
• Unveiling the Trans-regional Journey of Red Ginseng: Joseon Korea’s Commercial Expansion in the 18th Century — Jeffrey C. Youn (College of Charleston)
• ’Wat men veerst haelt, dat smaeket soetst’: The Pomander as a Miniature Cabinet of Curiosities — Jasper Martens (University of California Santa Barbara)

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HECAA@CAA Lunch
Friday, 14 February, 12.45
Join HECAA members for lunch on Friday, before the “Art of Collaboration” panel. Catch up with other HECAA members over a buy-your-own lunch at a nearby food hall. The group will meet at the lobby of the conference Hilton hotel between 12.45 and 1.00 and then head to Urban Hawker; please be in touch with Tori Champion (tc217@st-andrews.ac.uk) so we can know how many people to expect!

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On Prints: From Fragonard to the Legacy of the Harlem Renaissance
Hauser & Wirth, Thursday, 13 February, 6.30–8pm
Registration Required
HECAA members attending CAA are invited to attend an off-site gathering On Prints: From Fragonard to the Legacy of the Harlem Renaissance at Hauser & Wirth (443 W 18th Street). The event is organized by Michelle Foa, Tulane University, for the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA), who have generously extended the invitation to HECAA members to join. Speakers will include Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Rachael DeLue, Ashley Dunn, Michelle Foa, Rena Hoisington, Meredith Martin, and Britany Salsbury. HECAA members can register and find more information here.