Symposium | The Pleasures of the Historical Imagination
Attributed to Johann Zoffany, The Antique Room of the Royal Academy at New Somerset House, 1780–83
(London: Royal Academy of Arts)
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From the symposium schedule (which includes abstracts of the papers). . .
The Pleasures of the Historical Imagination: A Dialogue with John Brewer
European University Institute, Villa Salviati, Florence, 22–23 June 2017
Organized by Silvia Sebastiani, Matthew Hunter, and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
John Brewer’s work has cut a wide swathe through political, cultural, and economic history. To mark his retirement from teaching, this symposium gathers his former students, interlocutors, and friends for an exchange of conversation, discussion, and convivial disagreement, along with an update from John on his current research. These twenty-one papers are not retrospective tributes in the manner of a traditional Festschrift but rather an occasion to report on exciting new findings in the many different fields touched by John’s scholarship.
T H U R S D A Y , 2 2 J U N E 2 0 1 7
9.30 Welcome and Introduction
9.45 1. Politics and the State
Chair: Eckhart Hellmuth (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, München)
• Joanna Innes (University of Oxford), Britain and the Liberation of Europe: Napoleon and After
• Paul Monod (Middlebury College), Eighteenth-Century European Politics: Ideology or Culture?
• Holly Brewer (University of Maryland), Creating a Fashion for Slavery in the Stuart Court(s)
• Kathleen Wilson (Stony Brook University), Provincializing Britain: English Theatre in an Imperial Public Sphere, or, Modernity at the Margins
11.15 General Discussion
12.15 Lunch
14.00 2. Cultural History
Chair: Arthur Legger (University of Amsterdam)
• Xenia von Tippelskirch (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Imagining the Italian Renaissance around 1900
• Sophie Maisonneuve (Université Paris Descartes/IIAC), Collecting Recorded Music, 1877–2017: From Document to Experience
• Alexis Schwarzenbach (Lucerne University), The Great Wave: Katagami, Mangas and Other Japanese Artefacts Exported to the West around 1900
• Michèle Cohen (UCL Institute of Education, University of London), The Grand Tour: Fashioning ‘Citizens of the World’ or ‘Worthy Citizens of England’?
15.00 General Discussion
16.00 Coffee Break
16.30 3. Art History and Visual Culture
Chair: Malcolm Baker (University of California Riverside)
• Davide Lombardo (NYU in Florence), Repressed? Daumier and the Massacres of June 1848: Drawings, Paintings, and Lithographs
• Flaminia Gennari Santori (Gallerie Nazionali d’Arte Antica di Palazzo Barberini e Palazzo Corsini), ‘Your Reader Is a Martian Who Understands Everything’: Readers, Viewers, and Visitors, Past and Present
• Mark Hallett (Paul Mellon Centre), The War of the Portraitists: Artistic Competition and the Dynamics of Exhibition Culture in Georgian London
• Matthew C. Hunter (McGill University), Thick Slicing: Frederic Edwin Church’s Actuarial Imagination
17.30 General Discussion
F R I D A Y , 2 3 J U N E 2 0 1 7
10.00 4. Intellectual History and History of Science
Chair: Lawrence Klein (Unversity of Cambridge)
• Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS, Paris), At Tea with Madame Chimpanzee: A ‘société de spectacle’ in 1730s London
• Jan Albers (Independent Writer and Museum Consultant), ‘I Don’t Like History, But Do You Know What Happened Here?’ Writing a Cultural History of the Landscape
• Alexander Geppert (NYU), The Pleasures of the Imagination in Space, or: the Alien Contact Phenomenon
• Nick Wilding (Georgia State University), Forging the Moon
11.30 General Discussion
12.30 Lunch
14.00 5. Consumption and Economic History
Chair: Laurence Fontaine (CNRS)
• Fredrik Albritton Jonsson (The University of Chicago), Anthropocene History
• John Styles (University of Hertfordshire), Industrial Revolution: From Production to Consumption, and Back Again
• Dawn Lyon (University of Kent), What is a Fish Worth? Sensory Knowledge, Labour, and the Production of Value at Billingsgate Fish Market
• Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck, University of London), Material Histories: Scales, Objects, and Networks
15.00 General Discussion
16.00 Coffee Break
16.30 John Brewer, Remarks and new projects
17.00 Concluding Discussion
Workshop | Landscapes of the Long 18th Century in South Asia
From H-ArtHist:
Landscapes of the Long 18th Century
Mediating Places, Powers, and Pasts in South Asia and Beyond
Forum Transregionale Studien and the Museum for Asian Art, Berlin, 21–23 June 2017
Organized by Dipti Khera and Hannah Baader
This workshop seeks to explore how painters, poets, historians, and intellectuals have imagined landscapes and urbanisms in and of early modern South Asia, particularly over the course of the long eighteenth century. The mediation of memory and place in pictorial and literary practices in this time period was shaped by aesthetic and philosophical ideas and an epistemic situation that had deeper genealogies in the subcontinent and the broader Asian and Islamic world. Nonetheless, images, moods and ideologies encapsulated in British landscape painting and colonial photography have constructed the dominant lens that has shaped historical inquiries into spatial imaginings in the South Asian context. The focus on the long eighteenth century enables us to establish conversations between the intersections, connections, and comparisons that emerged in visual practices commissioned by diverse patrons from regional kings, Mughal emperors, trans-regional merchants, and British officers.
W E D N E S D A Y , 2 1 J U N E 2 0 1 7
18.00 Evening Lecture
• Tim Barringer (Yale University), The Panorama as Global Landscape
T H U R S D A Y , 2 2 J U N E 2 0 1 7
10.00 Welcome and Introduction from Hannah Baader (Arthistories/ Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut) and Dipti Khera (NYU/ Arthistories Fellow 2015–16)
10.30 Morning Session
Chair: Lamia Balafrej (ArtHistories Fellow 2016–17/Wellesley College)
• Sunil Sharma (Boston University), The Pastoral Landscape in Early Modern Persian Poetry and Painting
• Chanchal Dadlani (Wake Forest University), History Without Words: Mughal Architecture in the ‘Amal-i Salih.
• Hannah Baader (Forum Transregional Studies/Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut), Seascape and Landscape, Florence 1604
14.30 Afternoon Session, Part I
Chair: Monica Juneja (Universität Heidelberg)
• Yuthika Sharma (Edinburgh College of Art), Picturing Place: Topography as Mughal Identity in Late 18th-Century Delhi
• Dipti Khera (NYU, Arthistories Fellow 2015-16), The Art of Feeling Place: Udaipur’s Affective Assertions
16.40 Afternoon Session, Part II
Chair: Ning Yao (CAHIM Fellow 2016-17)
• Nobuko Toyosawa (Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences), Mediating the Sense of Place from Tokugawa to Meiji Japan
• Lihong Liu (Rochester University), Long Day and Sleepless Night: Temporal Sensitivity in Chinese Landscape Painting
F R I D A Y , 2 3 J U N E 2 0 1 7
9.45 Study Session in the Museum for Asian Art with Raffael Gadebusch, New ‘Perspectives’: Landscape and Architecture as Subject Matter in Late 18th-Century Indo-Islamic Painting (speakers and invited guests only)
14.00 Afternoon Session
Chair: Venugopal Madipatti (Art Histories Fellow 2016–17/Ambedkar University Delhi)
• Francesca Orsini (SOAS University of London), The Work of Description: Shifting Modes of Poetic Description of Places in 19th-Century Urdu Narratives
• Tim Barringer (Yale University), The Proleptic Picturesque of Joseph Bartholomew Kidd
Symposium | Movement and Circulation in North American Art
From H-ArtHist and the Freie Universität Berlin:
At Home and Abroad: Movement, Influence, and Circulation in North American Art
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, 28–29 June 2017
This international symposium will explore transcultural exchanges of North American artists and art objects from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. Papers will address the movement and displacement of North American artists and the circulation of physical art objects in North America and Europe, such as paintings and prints, during a broad time frame. Issues of audience and viewership across North America and Europe will also be considered, along with the varied forms of influence and knowledge from sources such as newspapers, letters, and copies of graphic material.
Seeking to stimulate an interdisciplinary exchange, this symposium brings together invited scholars and curators working in universities and museums in the United States, Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
The symposium is organized by Dr. Allison Stagg, Terra Foundation for American Art Visiting Professor at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.
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W E D N E S D A Y , 2 8 J U N E 2 0 1 7
18:15 Allison Stagg (John F. Kennedy Institute for North America Studies), Transatlantic Visual Humor and the Political Caricature Portrait
T H U R S D A Y , 2 9 J U N E 2 0 1 7
13:30 Welcome and Introduction from Winfried Fluck (Professor, Department of Culture, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies) and Allison Stagg (Terra Visiting Professor of America Art, John F. Kennedy Institute)
14:00 Nancy Siegel (Professor, Art History, Towson University, Maryland), The Bitter Draught and a Bloody Massacre: Political Satire by Paul Revere
14:45 Martin Myrone (Curator, Tate Britain, London), The American School in London: Privilege and Preference at the Royal Academy Schools, 1769–1830
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Dominic Hardy (Professor, Art History, Université du Québec à Montréal), Cross-readings: Colonial Canadian Identities and Transatlantic Graphic Satire in the 1840s
16:45 Larne Abse Gogarty (Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Humboldt Universität, Berlin), Entertainment for Moralists: The Politics of Figuration in 1950s Chicago
17:30 Closing remarks
Workshop | Watteau, Gersaint, et le Pont Notre-Dame, 1720
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From the programme (which includes additional information on participants). . .
Watteau, Gersaint, et le Pont Notre-Dame en 1720: Exploration
virtuelle du pont habité le plus monumental de l’histoire de Paris
Pôle Sciences et Cultures du Visuel, Tourcoing, 30 June 2017
Journée-atelier organisée dans le cadre de la restitution du projet PEPS – CNRS Réseau National des MSH
À l’intersection de l’histoire urbaine, de l’histoire de l’art, de la culture matérielle et visuelle, de la musicologie et de l’informatique, la restitution numérique du pont Notre-Dame offre une exploration visuelle, spatiale et sonore inédite du pont habité le plus monumental de l’histoire de Paris. Mené par une équipe pluridisciplinaire de chercheurs en informatique, en sciences historiques et de professionnels spécialisés en infographie 3D et en traitement sonore, il s’attache à restituer non seulement le sens des espaces, des matériaux et des volumes de cette architecture disparue, mais aussi à rendre sensible l’ambiance lumineuse et sonore de son environnement. Ces relectures du passé (tant du point de vue de l’éclairage que du son) offrent l’intérêt de recontextualiser finement la maquette du pont Notre-Dame et de révéler la distance qui existe entre passé et présent par le prisme du sensible. Une attention particulière sera portée à la restitution de la boutique du plus célèbre marchand du pont, Edme-François Gersaint, pour qui Jean-Antoine Watteau peignit, en 1720, la fameuse Enseigne de Gersaint, (Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg). Le choix de la date retenue se justifie donc par un évènement artistique majeur dans l’histoire du pont Notre-Dame et plus généralement dans l’histoire de l’art : la présentation éphémère, en façade de la boutique de Gersaint, de ce tableau singulier, unique en son genre. L’apport de la restitution en 3D permettra d’avancer de nouvelles propositions quant au dispositif de présentation de cette peinture qui permettront de mieux en apprécier l’originalité et la portée provocatrice.
Cette journée-atelier offrira l’occasion à des chercheurs partageant un intérêt commun pour le potentiel offert par les outils numériques d’échanger sur les expériences et projets en cours dans les domaines de l’histoire urbaine, de l’histoire de l’art et du patrimoine.
Entrée libre sous réserve des places disponibles. Inscription obligatoire, avant le 22 juin 2017, auprès de Sophie Raux, sophie.raux@univ-lyon2.fr.
Pôle Sciences et Cultures du Visuel
99 Bld Descats, 59200 Tourcoing
Métro ligne 2, arrêt Alsace
P R O G R A M M E
9.30 Accueil des participants
10.00 Table ronde organisée par l’équipe projet
Youri Carbonnier, Frédéric Foveau, Claudio Gallego, Quentin George, Prosper Groux, Laura Louvrier, Mylène Pardoen, Sophie Raux, Sophie Reculin, Christophe Renaud, François Rousselle En présence de Guillaume Glorieux
11.15 Restitutions visuelles et sonores
• Expériences immersives visuelles, sonores, interactives ou non avec casques HTC VIVE
• Découverte de la maquette virtuelle du Pont Notre-Dame sur écran géant 4K
• Présentation par Julien Wylleman et Samuel Degrande du dispositif de réalité virtuelle du pôle SCV
12.30 Déjeuner
14.00 Partage d’expériences autour des enjeux du numérique dans la restitution du patrimoine matériel et sonore
• Nicolas Moucheront, L’histoire du pont Notre-Dame vue au XVIIIe siècle par l’architecte Pierre-Louis Moreau
• Renato Saleri, Le pont au Change, Lyon
• Patrick Callet, Polychromie, dorures et effets merveilleux médiévaux Mylène Pardoen : Entendre l’histoire est-ce possible ?
Workshop | Transplanted Places: Garden Design
From H-ArtHist:
Transplanted Places: Garden Design and Shifting Cultural Geographies, 1650–1800
Museum of Asian Art, Berlin (Dahlem), 22–24 June 2017
Organized by Joachim Rees and Jeong-hee Lee-Kalisch
Please register by 15 June 2017 via email: Arbeitsbereich-Rees@geschkult.fu-berlin.de. Additional information is available here.
T H U R S D A Y , 2 2 J U N E 2 0 1 7
18:00 Welcome from Joachim Rees and Jeong-hee Lee-Kalisch
18:10 Keynote Address
• Hans von Trotha (Berlin), A Garden is a Garden is a Garden: Reestablishing a Discourse on the Art of Gardening in the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century
F R I D A Y , 2 3 J U N E 2 0 1 7
9:30 Travelling, Collecting, Gardening
Chair: Klaas Ruitenbeek (Berlin)
• Marianne Klemun (Vienna), Connecting Spaces: Mobile Meanings of Plants
• Lianming Wang (Heidelberg), Exotic Plants and Transplanted Spaces in Eighteenth-Century Beijing
• Stefan Schweizer (Düsseldorf), Mountains, Rivers, Monuments: Landscape and Territory as Symbolic Features in Early Modern European Gardens
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Gardens and the Geography of Opposition and Dissent
Chair: Sebastian Fitzner (Berlin)
• Jeong-hee Lee-Kalisch (Berlin), Veins and Bones: Garden Landscape as Representation of the Cosmic Organism
• Jongsang Sung (Seoul), Garden as a Secluded Paradise: Seventeenth-Century Joseon Scholar Kosan Yoon Seondo’s Garden
• Franziska Bub (Berlin), The Wörlitz Landscape Garden: A Place of Opposition and Retreat in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
• Joachim Rees (Berlin), Colonies Lost and Regained: Landscape Gardening and Contested ‘Colonial Fantasies’ in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany
S A T U R D A Y , 2 4 J U N E 2 0 1 7
9:00 Gardens and the Aesthetics of Itinerancy
Chair: Gert Gröning (Berlin)
• Wybe Kuitert (Seoul), Raising Children: The Garden and Japan Perceptions of Constantijn Huygens
• Anna Ananieva (London), Curiosity for the East: Imagination and Knowledge of Chinese Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia
• Yoonjung Seo (Berlin), King Chongjo (r. 1776–1800) and His Political Ambition Represented in the Royal Garden: Focusing on the Gatherings at the Jade Stream in Ch’angdok Palace
• Sheng-Ching Chang (Taipei), The Enlightenment of Prussia through the Far East: From the Planning of the Royal Gardens of Potsdam to Nineteenth-Century Urban Greening
13:30 Lunch
S U N D A Y , 2 5 J U N E 2 0 1 7
Excursion to Berlin-Marzahn: Gardens of the World | Gärten der Welt
Symposium | Reportage and Representation
Giovanni Paolo Panini, King Charles III Visiting Pope Benedict XIV at the Coffee House of the Palazzo del Quirinale, 1746, 124 × 174 cm
(Naples: Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte)
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I’m dreadfully sorry to be late with this announcement (the event is just now wrapping up at The Getty), but I imagine the schedule is still useful for those of us not there to appreciate what a good day it must have been. –CH
Reportage and Representation: View Painting as Historical Witness
The Getty Center, Los Angeles, 28 May 2017
On the occasion of the exhibition Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe (on view at the Getty Center May 9–July 30, 2017), this scholarly symposium investigates the artistic framework and historical context of eighteenth-century view paintings recording contemporary events.
P R O G R A M
9:00 Registration and coffee
9:30 Welcome from Richard Rand (J. Paul Getty Museum)
9:45 Session 1: Princes, Popes, and Ambassadors
Moderator: Davide Gasparotto (J. Paul Getty Museum)
• Alberto Craievich (Ca’ Rezzonico, Venice), Regattas in Venice, 1680–1791
• Christopher Johns (Vanderbilt University, Nashville), Papal Diplomacy and Public Spectacle from Clement XII to Pius VI
• Stéphane Loire (Musée du Louvre, Paris), Giovanni Paolo Panini as a Witness of Public Life in Rome for the French Ambassadors
• Susan Tipton (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich), Ambassadors on Stage in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Paintings of Diplomatic Ceremonies and Their Original Settings
12:30 Lunch
2:00 Session 2: Constructing Reality
Moderator: Louis Marchesano (Getty Research Institute)
• Edgar Peters Bowron (formerly The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), Bernardo Bellotto’s Historical Views of Dresden, Vienna, and Warsaw
• David Marshall (University of Melbourne), Staging Rome: Giovanni Paolo Panini as Vedutista and Designer
3:00 Coffee break
3:30 Session 3: Patronage and the Market
Moderator: Jeffrey Collins (Bard Graduate Center, New York City)
• Francis Russell (Christie’s, London), Venetian Vedutisti and English Buyers: Some Connections and Footnotes
• Charles Beddington (London), Meeting Demand in Canaletto’s Venice
• Respondent: Jeffrey Collins (Bard Graduate Center, New York City)
R E L A T E D L E C T U R E
From Public Spectacle to Public Sphere: New Anthropologies of the Enlightenment
The Getty Center, Los Angeles, 27 May 2017
Larry Wolff, professor of history at New York University, considers how the baroque public spectacle—so essential to the rituals of the court and the church—began to give way in the eighteenth century to more informal and participatory forms of sociability and discussion, as reflected in eighteenth-century paintings of public occasion. Saturday, May 27, 5:00pm.
Symposium | Beautiful Sciences: Collecting under Joseph II
From H-ArtHist with additional information available from ÖAW and the programme:
Schöne Wissenschaften: Sammeln, Ordnen und Präsentieren unter Kaiser Joseph II
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW), Vienna, 19–20 June 2017
Registration due by 14 June 2017
Anatomical wax models, Josephinum, Vienna (Photo: Michael Nagl).
Beautiful Sciences focuses on the collections under Emperor Joseph II (1741–1790) and makes them the entry point to a far-reaching analysis of their history and of how they were understood scientifically and by the public in late eighteenth-century Vienna. Historical art and scientific collections will be discussed, as well as their interconnected systems of systematization and organization. This interdisciplinary conference will explore how these various disciplines approach parallel contents, times, and places through their different methodical approaches and in their respective fields. From the perspective of collecting, organizing, and presenting, we will examine the extent to which the Josephine collections concentrate the ideas of the Enlightenment and translate them into practice, spread and popularise them, and thus turn them into places of knowledge and learning. Such a process was exemplary for the paradigm change emerging at that time, one that is still active today.
Konzept und Organisation: Nora Fischer und Anna Mader-Kratky
Anmeldung bis 14. Juni 2017 unter: kunstgeschichte@oeaw.ac.at
Kontakt: anna.mader@oeaw.ac.at, nora.fischer@oeaw.ac.at
M O N T A G , 1 9 J U N I 2 0 1 7
13.30 Werner Telesko (Direktor des Instituts für kunst- und musikhistorische Forschungen der ÖAW), Begrüßung
Nora Fischer (Wien), Einführung
14.00 Die Sammlungen: Konstitutionen von Wirklichkeiten und Wissensformen
Moderation: Gudrun Swoboda (Wien)
• Christa Riedl-Dorn (Wien), „Ordnung muss sein“ – Von der Naturaliensammlung zu den „Vereinigten k.k. Naturalien-Cabineten“
• Anna Maerker (London), „Spielwerk für Kinder“? Die Wachsmodellsammlung des Josephinums im Spiegel der Öffentlichkeit
• Bernhard Woytek (Wien), Systematische Numismatik. Wien und die Ordnung antiker Münzen im 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhundert
• Nora Fischer (Wien), Zwischen „Augenbelustigung“ und einer „dem Auge sichtbaren Geschichte der Kunst“. Zur Ordnung der kaiserlichen Galerie von 1781
18.00 Abendvortrag
Emma Spary (Cambridge), Placing Objects between Art and Nature in the Late Eighteenth-Century French Collection
D I E N S T A G , 2 0 J U N I 2 0 1 7
9:00 Betrachtungsweisen und Denksysteme
Moderation: Anna Mader-Kratky (Wien)
• Hans Christian Hönes (London), Winckelmann im Sammlungsraum. Armut macht Geschichte
• Kristine Patz (Berlin), Unter verkehrten Vorzeichen: Zur Musealisierung kunst- und naturwissenschaftlicher Sammlungen im Wechselspiel von ästhetischer Inszenierung und Wissenschaftlichkeit
• Christian Benedik (Wien), Das Primat der Wirtschaftlichkeit: Die Etablierung länderübergreifender Baunormen im staatlichen Bauwesen in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts
• Markus Krajewski (Basel), Wie ordnet sich Habsburg?
12.30 Mittagspause
14.00 Methoden und Konzepte der Präsentation und Publizität
Moderation: Werner Telesko (Wien)
• Andrea Seidler (Wien), Verwaltetes Wissen: Zum gelehrten Journalismus im Josephinischen Wien
• Thomas Wallnig (Wien), Wissen in Wien um 1780: Kontexte, Netzwerke, Institutionen
• Eva Kernbauer (Wien), Kunst als Wissensform? Martin Ferdinand Quadals Darstellung des Aktsaals der Wiener Akademie
2017 Mount Vernon Symposium
Next month at Mount Vernon:
Under My Vine & Fig Tree: Gardening, Landscape, and Design in the Age of Washington
Mount Vernon, 2–4 June 2017
Morning sunlight highlights colorful beds in George Washington’s upper garden with seed house in the background, 2012. Photo by John Henley.
Join leading gardeners, historians, horticulturalists, archaeologists, and preservationists as they reconsider the importance of gardening, landscapes, and design in early America. Learn how Washington and his contemporaries shaped the natural world to achieve beauty through gardening, profited through agriculture, and conveyed civic values through landscape design—and how these historic methods remain relevant in today’s world. Revisit long-lost gardens, explore contemporary creations inspired by the past, and come face-to-face with the most authentic 18th-century plantation landscape in the United States.
F R I D A Y , 2 J U N E 2 0 1 7
12:30 Registration
1:00 Welcome and Introductions
1:15 William Rieley (Landscape Architect for The Garden Club of Virginia), Proportion without Mathematics in Early Virginia Landscapes
2:00 William C. Welch (Professor and Landscape Horticulturist for Texas A & M University), Exploring our Southern Gardening Heritage
2:45 Break
3:15 Dean Norton (Director of Horticulture at George Washington’s Mount Vernon), George Washington’s Mount Vernon Landscape
4:15 Landscape and Mansion Tours
5:45 Reception
6:30 Dinner
S A T U R D A Y , 3 J U N E 2 0 1 7
8:45 Welcome and Introductions
9:00 Forrest Pritchard (full-time sustainable farmer and New York Times bestselling author), Restoration Agriculture: Building Fertility and Protecting our Watershed through Sustainable Farming
10:00 Break
10:15 Luke Pecoraro (Director of Archaeology at George Washington’s Mount Vernon), ‘We have done very little investigation there; there is a great deal yet to do’: The Changing Historic Landscape of George Washington’s Mount Vernon
11:00 Bruce Ragsdale (recently served as Mount Vernon’s inaugural fellow in the Georgian Papers Programme at the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle), The Landscape of Improvement: Washington, George III, and the Picturesque Farm
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Morrie Heckscher (Curator Emeritus of the American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art), Creating Central Park
2:30 Break
3:00 Joseph P. Gromacki (Chicago-based attorney, collector of American decorative arts, and avid gardener with a keen interest in heirloom plants), Kelton House Farm: Celebrating the History of Gardening in Colonial America
3:45 Gabriele Rausse (Director of Gardens and Grounds at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello), Jefferson and Wine
5:00 Reception and Wine Tasting
6:30 Dinner, Whiskey Tasting, and Tours, George Washington’s Distillery and Gristmill
S U N D A Y , 4 J U N E 2 0 1 7
7:45 Optional Episcopal Service and Tour at Nearby Historic Pohick Church, where George Washington Attended and Served as Vestryman
9:30 Leslie B. Grigsby (Winterthur’s Senior Curator of Ceramics and Glass), Blooms Transported: Ceramic Vases and Floral Ornament
10:15 Thomas Ranier (Thomas Rainer is a landscape architect, teacher, and author living outside of Washington, D.C.), The Garden of the Future: Re-Imagining the American Yard
11:00 Break
11:30 Curator-led Tours of Lives Bound Together: Slavery at George Washington’s Mount Vernon
Conference | Maria Sibylla Merian
From the conference website and programme:
Maria Sibylla Merian Conference
Amsterdam, June 7–9 June 2017
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717) is one of the more intriguing figures of scientific, artistic, and commercial culture of the early modern period. Born in Frankfurt and later based in Nuremberg, Wieuwerd, and Amsterdam, her scientific interest in entomology led her eventually to Surinam, where, as in Europe, she studied the metamorphoses of insects in their natural habitat. She translated her minute observations into powerful artistic representations that still attract the attention of many scholars, such as biologists, art historians, and science historians. Modern artists and novelists also find inspiration in her work and life.
The aim of the conference is to bring together new research and projects relating to Maria Sibylla Merian. With her life and work as a focal point this conference will also explore topics that relate to Merian from a broader perspective, such as the religious context of her work, early modern book production, Merian’s social network, Surinam as a colony, and entomological research.
W E D N E S D A Y , 7 J U N E 2 0 1 7
12.00 Registration and coffee
12.50 Introduction
13.00 Welcome from Karen Maex, Rector Magnificus, University of Amsterdam (TBC)
13.10 Redmond O’Hanlon, Maria, the Jungle and Bird-Eating Spiders
13.40 Kay Etheridge (Gettysburg College, Pennsylvannia), A Biologist to the Bone
14.20 Kate Heard (Royal Collection, London), ‘One of the Most Curious Performances … That Ever Was Published’: Merian in the Royal Collection
15.00 Tea break
15.30 Kurt Wettengl (TU, Dortmund), Merian’s Launch Pad
16.15 Henrietta McBurney (Art curator and author, Cambridge), The Influence of Merian’s Work on the Art and Science of Mark Catesby
T H U R S D A Y , 8 J U N E 2 0 1 7
8.30 Registration and coffee
8.50 Introduction
9.00 Welcome from José van Dijk, President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and Distinguished University Professor, Utrecht University
9.10 George McGavin (Research Associate of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History), Endless Forms Most Beautiful and Most Wonderful
9.50 Katarina Schmidt-Loske (Research Center of Historical Biology – Biohistoricum — at the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Leibniz-Institute for Animal Biodiversity, Bonn), Pupa, Chrysalis, and Cocoon
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Alicia Montoya (Radboud University, Nijmegen), Maria Sibylla Merian’s Eighteenth-Century Readers: The Evidence from Library Auction Catalogues, 1700–1800
11.40 Anja Grebe (Danube University, Krems), Changing the Discourse of Science: New Insights on Maria Sibylla Merian’s Impact on Entomology in Nuremberg and Beyond
12.20 Lunch break
13.50 Parallel Sessions | Biology and Art
• Yulia Dunaeva (Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg), Using Merian’s Books to Determine Zoological Specimens from the Kunstkamera Collection
• Carin Grabowski (Humboldt University, Berlin), Between Faithfulness and Construction: Re-assessing Merian’s Oeuvre
• Berit Møller (Conservator at the Royal Danish Collections), A Close Study of 50 Merian Paintings
• Jaya Remond (Max Planck Institute, Berlin), Seeing Nature Up Close: Composing Exotic Botanical Imagery in Northern Europe ca. 1600–1700
13.50 Parallel Sessions | Network
• Liesbeth Missel (Curator Wageningen University Library), Merian, Alida Withoos, and Agnes Block: An Oral Network of Scientists, Artists, and the Elite
• Christine Sauer (Stadtbibliothek Nürnberg), Painting Flowers with Needles
• Florence Pieters (Former Curator Artis Library, UvA), Maria Sibylla Merian’s Additions to alba amicorum
• Bert van de Roemer (University of Amsterdam), Merian’s Amsterdam Network
15.10 Tea Break
15.40 Parallel Sessions | History of Books and Collections
• Marieke van Delft (Curator Royal Library, The Hague), Surviving Copies of Merian’s 1705 Edition of Metamorphosis
• Leslie Overstreet (Curator Smithsonian Libraries), The Editions of Merian’s Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium
• Peter Kristiansen (Curator at the Royal Danish Collections), The Merian Drawings at Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen
• Hans Mulder (Curator Artis Library, UvA), Who Printed the Texts of Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium and Der rupsen begin, voedzel en wonderbaare verandering?
15.40 Parallel Sessions | Biography and Context
• Joris Bürmann (École normale supérieure, Paris), Maria Sibylla Merian at l’Église du Seigneur: A New Light on the Wieuwerd Context
• Amanda Pipkin (University of North Carolina), God’s Handiwork: Searching for Herbs and Insects on the Moors of Friesland
• Rose Marie Tillisch (University of Copenhagen), Garden of Eden: Depicted by Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179) and Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717)
• Margot Lölhöffel (Nürnberg), Maria Sibylla Gräffin, née Merianin: Starting a Career in Nuremberg?
17.15 Drinks
19.00 Conference Dinner (Allard Pierson Museum)
F R I D A Y , 9 J U N E 2 0 1 7
9.00 Registration and coffee
9.15 Erik de Jong (Artis-chair University of Amsterdam), Biophilia and Beauty in the Work of Maria Sibylla Merian
9.45 Group division and walk
10.00 Rotating Groups
• Artis Butterfly Garden
• Joos van de Plas, How Merian’s Legacy Influenced my Art Work
• Anita Walsmit Sachs, Science Meets Art, Art Meets Science
11.30 Lunch
12.00 Rotating Groups
• Artis Butterfly Garden
• Joos van de Plas, How Merian’s Legacy Influenced my Art Work
• Anita Walsmit Sachs, Science Meets Art, Art Meets Science
The program will also include a tour through Merian’s Amsterdam with Dirk Tang and a visit to the Merian exhibition at the Cromhouthuis (Amsterdam Museum).
SAH 2017, Glasgow
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A selection of offerings at this year’s SAH conference relevant to the eighteenth century:
2017 Society of Architectural Historians Conference
Glasgow, 7–11 June 2017
The Society of Architectural Historians will host its 70th Annual International Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, June 7–11, 2017. This is the first time that SAH has met outside North America in over 40 years. Meeting in Scotland’s largest city, world renowned for its outstanding architectural heritage, reflects the increasingly international scope of the Society and its conference. Architectural historians, art historians, architects, museum professionals and preservationists from around the world will convene to share new research on the history of the built environment. The Glasgow conference will include 36 paper sessions, eight roundtables, an introductory address and plenary talk, architecture tours, the SAH Glasgow Seminar, and more.
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Piranesi at 300
Thursday, 8 June, 8:30–10:40am
Chairs: Heather Hyde Minor (University of Notre Dame) and John Pinto (Princeton University)
1. Dirk De Meyer (Ghent University), Lauding the Republic: Piranesi, Sallust, the Romans and the French
2. Eleonora Pistis (Columbia University), Scipione Maffei, Piranesi, and the Construction of Etruscan Magnificence
3. John Stamper (University of Notre Dame), Piranesi’s Roman Bridges: Engineering to Art
4. Elizabeth Petcu (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität), ‘Nature, the great renewer’: Piranesi Visualizes Architectural Imitation
5. Victor Plahte Tschudi (The Oslo School of Architecture and Design), Rediscovering Piranesi in the Twentieth Century
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Chinese Architecture and Gardens in a Global Context
Thursday, 8 June, 8:30–10:40am
Chair: Tracy Miller (Vanderbilt University)
1. Zhu Xu (The University of Hong Kong), From Monastic Cells to Corridors: Historical Significance of Sixth–Seventh-Century Changes in the Chinese Buddhist Monastery
2. Lizhi Zhang (Tsinghua University), Hindu Features in the Vernacular Architecture of Southeast China
3. Lianming Wang (Heidelberg University), Hybrid Spaces Reconsidered: Knowledge, Identity and Publicity in Eighteenth-Century Jesuit Gardens in Beijing
4. Yiping Dong (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University), Historical Study on Modern Textile Mills in Yangtze Delta
5. Mark Hinchman (University of Nebraska), Modern Chinese Association Buildings: Exit Nation, Enter Ethnicity
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EAHN Roundtable: Architectural History and Open Access in Europe
Thursday, 8 June, 1:15–2:45
Chair: Maarten Delbeke (ETH Zürich)
After the successful roundtable Architectural History Online at the SAH 2016 annual conference, the EAHN plans to discuss the possibilities and challenges of digital publishing and open access policies in the European context. The requirements of national funding agencies, as well as the financial support they offer, play a different role than in the U.S. The panel, consisting of journal editors and others active in the field, also will address questions of how journals deal with the proliferation of online publications, how they negotiate between the academic world and architecture culture writ large, and how they deal with the handling and sustainability of digital data.
1. Caroline Edwards (Open Library of Humanities, UK)
2. Irina Davidovici (ETH Zürich, bauforschungonline
3. Juliette Hueber (InVisu/National Center for Scientific Research France
4. Françoise Gouzi (Université Toulouse)
5. Eduard Fuehr (Brandenburg Technical University at Cottbus)
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Discovering Georgian Glasgow: Allan Dreghorn’s City
Saturday, 10 June, 1:00–4:30
Tour led by Anthony Lewis (Glasgow Museums)
Allan Dreghorn (1706–1764) made his mark on Georgian Glasgow as an architect, builder, developer, and entrepreneur. This tour will include both a walking tour in central Glasgow to understand his influence on the layout and buildings of the Merchant City, including the extant St Andrews in the Square Church, and the Tontine Heads, the sculptural keystones from Dreghorn’s Tontine Hotel (no longer standing), available for viewing in the garden of the Provand’s Lordship Museum. This tour will also visit Pollok House, Glasgow’s grand Georgian seat of the Maxwell and Jardine families, with its associations with both Dreghorn and the Adam family.
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Edinburgh: The New Town and William Playfair
Sunday, 11 June, 11:00–7:30
Tour led by John Lowrey (University of Edinburgh)
This tour will explore Edinburgh’s 18th- and 19th-century development, with a special focus on the planned New Town (part of the World Heritage Site, begun in the 1770s and celebrating its 250th anniversary in 2017) and the work of William Playfair, Edinburgh’s leading 19th-century architect. The day will begin with an exclusive focused session at Edinburgh University Library, where Playfair’s archive is housed. The group will be given special access to Playfair’s drawings and, guided by the tour leader, the University’s archive team, and expert historian colleagues, will consider Playfair’s career in context. After lunch, the tour will walk to the New Town and will see key sites and buildings, including Calton Hill (the epitome of Edinburgh’s tag as ‘Athens of the North’), St. Andrew’s Square, and Charlotte Square. At the end of the day, participants will join those from the other two Edinburgh tours for a drinks reception in the University of Edinburgh’s historic New College.
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