Enfilade

Programme from the Centro de História d’Aquém e d’Além-Mar:

Portugal e os territórios italianos (séculos XVI–XVIII)
The Centre for Overseas History (CHAM), Lisbon, 22 September 2014

Este Workshop tem como objectivo propor- cionar uma visão global das relações políticas, económicas, sociais, artísticas e culturais do relacionamento entre Portugal e a península italiana na Idade Moderna. As linhas de força do encontro são sinteti- zadas pela imagem do coche, escolhida como “símbolo dinâmico” do conjunto de abordagens transnacionais desenvolvidas e apresentadas neste workshop.

P R O G R A M A

9:00  Boas-vindas

9:15  Mario Spedicato (Facoltá di Lettere e Filosofia, Università del Salento), Napoli e la Penisola Iberica nei recenti studi di Storia Sociale e Religiosa

10:00 A Comunidade Portuguesa em Roma
• Antonio J. Díaz Rodríguez, (CIDEHUS-UÉ), Os agentes de Portugal em Roma durante a dinastia filipina
• James Nelson Novoa (CESAB/CLEPUL, UL), A nação na Cidade Eterna: cristãos-novos portugueses em Roma, 1542–1590

10:40  Pausa-café

11:00  A Monarquia Portuguesa e os Estados Italianos: Entre o Comércio e a Política
• Francisco Zamora Rodríguez (CHAM, FCSH/ NOVA-UAc), Pedro de Silva Enriques, a Companhia Geral do Comércio do Brasil e a posição de Portugal em Itália
• David Martín Marcos (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia), Estratégias matrimoniais e diplomacia entre Portugal e os estados italianos: o caso de D. Isabel Luísa Josefa, Princesa da Beira (1669–1690)
• Sara Pereira (ISCTE/IUL), A Partilha de Informação Política e Cultural entre Nápoles e Lisboa na segunda metade de Setecentos: dinâmica diplomática

12:00  Arte e Cultura entre Itália e Portugal
• Pilar Diez del Corral Corredoira (IHA, FCSH/ NOVA), La política artística de João V (1689–1750) en el marco de las relaciones diplomáticas con la Santa Sede
• Paola Nestola (CHSC-UC), Linhas de Erudição ou Itinerários do Olhar? Listas dominicanas barrocas entre Lisboa e Península Itálica

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About the Centro de História d’Aquém e d’Além-Mar:

The Centre for Overseas History (CHAM) is an inter-universitary research unit of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, of the New University of Lisbon and of Azores University, financed by Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. CHAM develops research related to the History of the Discoveries and the Portuguese Expansion, as well as the Portuguese presence around the world, with a special focus in the period between the origins of the Overseas Expansion and the Independence of Brazil (1822), with an interdisciplinary perspective and incorporating comparative history, paying particular attention to the history of the regions with which Portugal maintained contacts.

From the conference programme:

Roma, Nápoles, Paris, Lisboa: artistas, estilos e repertórios em trânsito ao longo do século XVIII
Casa-Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves, Lisbon, 7 October 2014

Grupo de Investigação ESTUDOS HISTÓRICOS E CULTURAIS EM MÚSICA do INET-MD/FCSH-UNL

P R O G R A M A

10:00  ROMA COMO MODELO
(Moderador: Rui Vieira Nery)
• Pilar Diez del Corral: “Para nos ter Roma inveja”: artistas ibéricos e o paradigma romano em confronto
• Cristina Fernandes: Lázaro Leitão Aranha (1678–1767), secretário régio da Embaixada do Marquês de Fontes e Principal da Patriarcal: um agente na circulação de modelos culturais e musicais entre Roma e Lisboa

11:00  Coffee Break

11:30  PERCURSOS ARTÍSTICOS E PROFISSIONAIS
(Moderadora: Cristina Fernandes)
• Vanda de Sá: Irmandade da Gloriosa Virgem e Mártir Santa Cecília dos Professores da Arte da Música da Corte de Lisboa – Implementação local na segunda metade do século XVIII: os casos de Évora e Porto
• Fernando Miguel Jalôto: ‘D. Antonio Tedeschi, Virtuoso della Cappella Reale’: 37 anos ao serviço de Sua Majestade Fidelíssima
• Diana Vinagre: João Baptista André Avondano/Jean-Pierre Duport: a ligação improvável à escola francesa de violoncello

13:00  Almoço

14:30  REPERTÓRIOS E PRÁTICAS MUSICAIS
(Moderadora: Vanda de Sá)
• Rui Vieira Nery: Do “som tremendo” aos “minuetes saltitantes”: o órgão litúrgico português na visão dos viajantes estrangeiros
• Cristiana Spadaro: A realização do baixo contínuo nos Motetes de Giovanni Giorgi destinados à Patriarcal de Lisboa
• Pedro Castro: A problemática de classificação das serenatas no tempo de D. Maria I: exemplos ibéricos e italianos
• Maria João Albuquerque: A circulação de edições de música parisienses em Lisboa nos finais do séc. XVIII

16:30  Coffee Break

17:00  MOMENTO MUSICAL
(precedido de breve apresentação da Linha Temática do INET-MD “Abordagens Históricas à Performance Musical”, a funcionar a partir de 2015)
• Anónimo Português? (século XVIII)
Obras para instrumento melódico e baixo contínuo em Sol menor / Sonata: [Adagio] & [Allegro] – Minuet
Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra, MM63
• José António Carlos de Seixas (1704–1742)
Sonata para cravo nº 19-7 em Lá Maior / Allegretto – Adagio – Allegro
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, MM338
• Jean-Pierre Duport (1741–1818)
Sonata para violoncelo e baixo op.2 n.º1 em Fá Maior / Allegro – Andante – Allegretto
Paris, 1772
•  Juan Bautista Plà (fl. 1747–73) ou José Plà (1728–1762)
Sonata para oboe e baixo contínuo em Dó menor / Allegretto – Andante – Allegro assai
Kungliga Musikaliska Akademiens Bibliotek – Estocolmo

Pedro Castro, oboé barroco; Diana Vinagre, violoncelo barroco; Fernando Miguel Jalôto, cravo

From Vienna’s Institut für Kunstgeschichte:

Scholars’ Monuments: Historical Meaning and Cultural Significance
Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Universität Wien, Vienna, 24–26 September 2014

Registration due by 17 September 2014

Der Arkadenhof der Universität Wien stellt mit seinen über 150 Gelehrtendenkmälern eine der größten und qualitätsvollsten Ehrenhallen Europas dar. Aus welcher Tradition heraus entstand dieser akademische Gedenkort? Welche Repräsentationsformen nutzten die Künstler, um die Wissenschaftler zu charakterisieren? Und welche zeitgemäße Darstellungsform eignet sich zur überfälligen Ehrung von weiblichen Gelehrten?

Im Rahmen dieser internationalen Tagung am Institut für Kunstgeschichte werden aktuelle, kunst- und kulturhistorische Forschungspositionen zu Gelehrtendenkmälern zusammengetragen und im Spiegel des Arkadenhofs der Wiener Universität reflektiert. Die Tagungsbeiträge nähern sich der Gelehrtenmemoria aus unterschiedlichen methodischen Richtungen und Disziplinen (Kunstgeschichte, Zeitgeschichte, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, cultural memory studies, gender studies). In diesem Rahmen wird nicht nur die Tradition universitärer Ehrenhallen als Funktionsgedächtnis sichtbar, sondern anhand der Auswahl (und Ausgrenzung) von WissenschaftlerInnen lassen sich zeit- und wissenschaftshistorische Konflikte aufdecken. Diese zeigen sich besonders markant bei politisch-ideologisch und gender-spezifisch motivierter Ausgrenzung. So beleuchtet die Tagung nicht nur die lange Wissenschaftstradition der Universität Wien, sondern wirkt mit ihrem Interesse für die Zukunft dieses Gedenkorts auch identitätsstiftend für die scientific community des 21. Jahrhunderts.

Um Anmeldung wird gebeten unter scholarsmonuments.kunstgeschichte@univie.ac.at.

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M I T T W O C H ,  2 4  S E P T E M B E R

12:00  Registrierung

13:00  Begrüßung durch Franz Kainberger, Präsident der Gesellschaft der Ärzte in Wien

13:05  Ingeborg Schemper-Sparholz (Wien), Begrüßung und Einführung „… wie dies auch …in der Bologneser Universität, im campo santo zu Pisa usw. geschehen ist.“ Zur italienischen Tradition des universitären Gelehrtendenkmals und seiner Vorbildwirkung für den Arkadenhof der Universität Wien.

13:50  Julia Rüdiger (Wien), Die (zwei) Körper des Arztes. Repräsentationsformen und -funktionen des Medizinerdenkmals

14:30  Kaffeepause

14:45  Bernd Ernsting (Köln), The Portable Scholar’s Monument. Des (Kunst-)Gelehrten Denkmal im Frontispiz seiner Schriften

15:30  Hans Christian Hönes (London), Ein Denkmal für das Vergessen. Gelehrtenmemoria im antiquarischen Diskurs um 1800

16:15  Pause / Möglichkeit zur Besichtigung des Arkadenhofs der Universität Wien

17:30  Eröffnung und Begrüßungsworte des Rektors

18:00  Caroline Mang, Cigdem Özel (Wien), Präsentation des Wikis u:monuments zu den Denkmälern im Arkadenhof

18:30  Festvortrag: Malcolm Baker (Riverside), “A puissant spurre”: Authors, Scholars and the Exemplary Role of the Portrait Bust in the Eighteenth Century

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9:00  Maria Pötzl-Malikova (München), Die Anfänge der Gelehrtenehrung an der Wiener Universität und die Bildnisse des Nicolaus von Jacquin

9:45  Hubert Szemethy (Wien), Das Thun-Exner-Bonitz-Denkmal im Arkadenhof der Wiener Universität

10:30  Kaffeepause

10:45  Andrea Mayr (Wien), Der Medailleur als Bildhauer. Das Porträtmedaillon als Form des Gelehrtendenkmals im Arkadenhof

11:30  Thomas Maisel (Wien), Damnatio memoriae im Arkadenhof der Universität Wien. Die Beschädigung und Entfernung von Denkmälern während der NS-Herrschaft

12:15  Mittagspause

13:30  Martin Engel (Wien), Zeitgemäß – Die Porträtbüsten an der Universität Wien nach 1945

14:15  Silvia Schmitt-Maaß (Leipzig), Unbequemer Gelehrter, eingehegtes Genie? Eine Büste für Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz im Augusteum der Universität Leipzig

15:00  Kaffeepause

15:15, Angelika Keune (Berlin), Von Alexander von Humboldt bis Lise Meitner. Denkmalsetzungen für Wissenschaftler und Wissenschaftlerinnen von 1883 bis 2014 an der Berliner Universität Unter den Linden

16:00  Sigrid Ruby (Gießen), Konventionen, Besonderheiten und das Prinzip der Serie: Gelehrtengedenken in der Universitätsstadt Gießen

16:45  Pause

18:00  Podiumsdiskussion: Formen der Gelehrtenehrung im 21. Jahrhundert — Moderation: Mechtild Widrich (Basel/Chicago), Impulsreferate von der Künstlerin Marianne Maderna (Wien) zu ihrer Installation Radical Busts: 33 Büsten berühmter Frauen – gegenüber den Büsten honorierter Männer (2015) und von Taylor Acosta (Minneapolis) über das Thema When Documents Were Monuments: Thomas Hirschhorn’s Archival Architecture

F R E I T A G ,  2 6  S E P T E M B E R

9:00 Sara Ayres, Annabel Elton (London), The Scholar’s Portrait: Contemporary Commissioning in England’s Old and New Universities

9:45  Grégoire Extermann (Genf), James Pradier und die Hommage an die intellektuelle Genfer Elite

10:30  Kaffeepause

10:45  Géza Galavics, Bálint Ugry (Budapest), Auf der Suche nach Räumen und Formen der Memoria – Erscheinungsformen der Gelehrtendenkmäler in Ungarn

11:30  Jeanette Kohl (Riverside), „Denkmal in des Wortes eigentlichster Bedeutung“: The Salutati Tomb in
Fiesole

12:15  Antonella Mampieri (Bologna), To Fame and Glory: Bologna Municipal Cemetery and Its Pantheon as a Continuation of the Traditional Celebration of Great Men

13:00  Mittagspause

14:15  Elena Catra (Venedig), Il Pantheon dell’Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia

15:00  Pietro Conte (Mailand), Der Körper als Monument. Benthams Auto-Ikone und die Frage nach dem hyperrealistischen Gelehrtenporträt

15:45  Kaffeepause

16:00  Heidrun Rosenberg (Wien), Bilder der Magnifizenz. Zur Rektorengalerie der Wiener Universität

16:45  Astrid Ackermann (Jena), Stefanie Freyer (Osnabrück), Professorenporträts in Bild und Stein – Wandel und Kontinuitäten der Jenaer materiellen Gelehrtenmemoria

17:30  Schlussdiskussion

From the conference programme:

Travel and the Country House: Places, Cultures, and Practices
University of Northampton, 15–16 September 2014

Registration due by 31 August 2014

Keynote speakers: Roey Sweet (University of Leicester) and Margot Finn (University College London)

Travel has long played a vital role in shaping the country house, opening up horizons and exposing both house and owner to a variety of external influences. Travel impacted upon values, tastes, material culture and money, and helped to articulate the flow of ideas, information, goods and capital. The importance of the Grand Tour and Empire to the country house has long been recognised, but domestic tourism and travel for more mundane purposes—to visit family or friends, engage in political life or go to town—were also significant. In this conference, we wish to explore a wide range of travel experiences and consider how these impacted on the country house. How were travel choices made and how were impacts articulated? How did new influences mesh with existing tastes and goods? What impact did its status as a place to visit have upon the country house? And how do we communicate the importance of travel to those visiting country houses today?

This conference addresses these questions and others, drawing together research from Sweden, Hungary, the Netherlands and Ireland as well as all corners of England. It thus offers a comparative perspective on the relationship between travel and the country house, and an opportunity for academics, curators and managers to discuss the ways in which travel continues to shape the ways in which country houses are interpreted, presented and experienced.

For more details and a booking form, contact Professor Jon Stobart at jon.stobart@northampton.ac.uk or visit the Consumption and Country House website.

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10.00  Registration and coffee

10.40  Welcome and introduction

10.45  Keynote: ‘The Italian Grand Tour and the 18th-Century Country House’, Roey Sweet (University of Leicester)

11.45  Session 1: The Practicalities and Pleasures of Travel
• ‘Visiting London for business and pleasure in the years 1599–1623: On the road (and the Thames) with William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Cavendish’, Peter Edwards (University of Roehampton)
• ‘Travelling for Pleasure: Carriages and the country house’, Lizzy Jamieson (Independent Scholar)
• ‘“Wintering in the ‘shires”: Foxhunting and travel’, Mandy de Belin (University of Leicester)

1.00  Lunch

2.00  Session 2: European Travel, Networks, and Influences
• ‘The Grand Tour and Episcopal domesticity: The case of Martin Benson, Bishop of Gloucester (1735–52)’, Michael Ashby (University of Cambridge)
• ‘“Antiquity mad”: The Earl Bishop and the translation of continental style in an Irish context’, Rebecca Campion (National University of Ireland at Maynooth)
• ‘Centre and periphery: The world brought to the ironmasters’ mansions’, Marie Steinrud (Stockholm University)
• ‘The English Rothschild family and their country houses: A distinctive style’, Nicola Pickering

3.45  Tea and coffee

4.15  Session 3: Views of England from Overseas Travellers
• ‘The English country house as (proto) museum: Dutch travel accounts explored, 1677–1750’, Hanneke Ronnes (University of Amsterdam)
• ‘“… enjoying country life to the full—only the English know how to do that!”: Appreciation of the British country house by Hungarian aristocratic travellers’, Kristof Fatsar (Corvinus University of Budapest)
• ‘Stourhead: All roads lead to Rome—and back again’, John Harrison (Open University)
• ‘A Dutch view on the English country house and landscape garden’, Hélène Bremer (University of Leiden)

6.30  Reception

7.30  Dinner

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9.30  Session 4: The Mobile House
• ‘Manors, towns and spas: A household on the move in late 18th-century Sweden’, Göran Ulväng (University of Uppsala)
• ‘The travels of an aristocratic family in the early 19th century: The Braybrookes of Audley End, Essex’, Andrew Hann (English Heritage)
• ‘Moving households: Problems, choices and new possibilities facing the country house family in the 1820s and 1830s’, Pamela Sambrook (Independent Scholar)

10.45  Tea and coffee

11.15  Session 5: Travel, Tourism, and Guides
• ‘Domestic tourism, the country house, and the making of respectability in the travel journals of Caroline Lybbe Powys’, Freya Gowrley (University of Edinburgh)
• ‘Country house visiting and improvement at Herriard House in Hampshire, 1794–1821’, Nicky Pink (Independent Scholar)
• ‘Arthur Young’s Tours: Architecture, painting, sculpture, and the art of adorning grounds’, Jocelyn Anderson (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
• ‘The representation of the country house in individual books and guides, 1720–1845’, Paula Riddy (University of Sussex)

1.00  Lunch

2.00  Keynote: ‘Duleep Singh and the Country House Tradition: Making and Unmaking the Victorian Global Home’, Margot Finn (UCL)

3.00  Session 6: Looking beyond Europe
• ‘Travel to the East- and West-Indies and Groningen country house culture in the 18th Century’, Yme Kuiper (University of Groningen)
• ‘Appuldurcombe House and the ‘Museum Worsleyanum’: Sir Richard Worsley’s forgotten collection’, Abigail Coppins (Independent Scholar)
• ‘Diaries, decoration and design: The Courtaulds’ travels and the effects on Eltham Palace’, Annie Kemkaran-Smith (English Heritage)

4.15  Closing comments and discussion

From the conference webpages:

Fifth Annual Feminist Art History Conference
American University, Washington, D.C., 31 October — 2 November 2014

The Fifth Annual Feminist Art History Conference, sponsored by the Art History Program of American University, offers participants a space in which to engage with the expanding legacy of Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, two pioneering feminist art historians and professors emerita of art history at AU. This year’s conference includes sixty-eight papers in seventeen sessions. The papers have a global focus that spans a broad range of topics and time periods; together they illustrate the diverse ways in which feminist research and interpretation continue to inform art historical analysis and scholarship.

All events this year will take place on the American University campus. Please see the 2014 program posted online. This year’s keynote speaker, Dr. Lisa Gail Collins, is Professor of Art History at Vassar College. Her talk, titled “Here Lies Love: Feminism, Mourning, and a Quilt from Gee’s Bend,” is drawn from her current book project on history, memory, creativity, and community.

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The eighteenth-century offerings are modest, but these two caught my attention. –CH

• Heather Belnap Jensen, “Parures, Pashminas, and Portraiture, or, How the Bonaparte Women Fashioned the Napoleonic Empire”
• Anne Nellis Richter, “The Marchioness of Stafford and the Cleveland House Gallery, 1812”

From the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery:

Political Portraiture in the United States and France, 1776–1814
Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 25–26 September 2014

The Montana State University Foundation and the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery are pleased to invite scholars, students, connoisseurs, and friends of American-French cultural exchange to attend an international conference, Political Portraiture in the United States and France during the Revolutionary and Federal Eras, ca. 1776–1814.

The conference will mark the bicentennial of an important historical event: British capture of Washington, D.C. in 1814 and the burning of the Capitol along with Congress’s state portraits of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. European and North American scholars from universities and museums will discuss aspects of diplomatic strategy, democratic representation, and republican identity as promoted in portraits.

The conference is made possible by generous support from the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and the Henry Luce Foundation. This event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited, so please make a reservation at your earliest convenience.

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9:00  Welcome and Opening Remarks
Kim Sajet, Director of the National Portrait Gallery
Waded Cruzado, President of Montana State University
Brandon Brame Fortune, Chief Curator of the National Portrait Gallery
Todd Larkin, Associate Professor of Montana State University

9:45 Session 1. State Portraits in the United States and France
Chair: Olivier Bonfait, Professeur d’histoire de l’art moderne, Université de Bourgogne
• Cristina Martinez, University of Ottawa, “Allan Ramsay’s Portrait Enterprise: The Propagation and Reception of a Ruler’s Image”
• David O’Brien, University of Illinois, “Republicanism in Portraits of Napoleon Bonaparte”
• Heather McPherson, University of Alabama, “Man + Horse: Repurposing the Equestrian Portrait in the Post-Revolutionary Era”

11:30 Session 2. The Portrait Copy, Painted and Printed
Chair: Xavier Salmon, Conservateur général, Directeur du département des arts graphiques, Musée du Louvre
• Wendy Bellion, University of Delaware, “Romans in New York: British Statuary and Atlantic Revolutions”
• Laurent Hugues, Monuments historiques, Direction régionale des affaires culturelles de Languedoc-Roussillon, “Les dons de portraits du roi sous Louis XVI”
• Stéphane Roy, Carleton University, “Prints, Paintings and National Characters: Washington’s Likeness in a Transnational Perspective”
• Xavier Salmon, Musée du Louvre, “Portraiturer les souverains entre 1800 et 1831: L’exemple de François Gérard”

1:30  Lunch Break

3:00  Session 3. The Portrait as a Diplomatic Gift
Chair: Brandon Brame Fortune, Chief Curator, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
• Ellen Miles, National Portrait Gallery, “Gilbert Stuart’s Lansdowne Portrait of George Washington: From Private Diplomatic Gift to State Portrait”
• Todd Larkin, Montana State University, “What Ever Happened to the U.S. Congress’s State Portraits of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette? The Politics of Pictorial Display, Displacement, and Destruction at the Capitol, 1800–1814”
• Gaye Wilson, Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, “Preparations for Diplomacy: Gilbert Stuart’s Pendant Portraits of President Jefferson and Secretary Madison”
• Cyril Lécosse, Université de Strasbourg, “Rivalries and Dissentions within the Maison de l’Empereur: The Portraitists of Napoleon and the Production of Diplomatic Gifts”

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9:00  Session 4. Republicanism and the Politician’s Portrait
Chair: Philippe Bordes, Professeur d’histoire de l’art moderne, Université de Lyon
• Matthew Fisk, Independent Scholar, “The Semiotic Origin—and Paradox—of the Federalist Ideal in John Trumbull’s Portrait of General George Washington (1780)”
• Guillaume Mazeau, Université de Paris, “The Physionotrace in Europe and North America (1780–1800): A Tool for Visualizing a New Political Culture”
• Gerrit Walczak, Technical University Berlin, “Representative Democracy and Popular Insurgency: Collective Portraiture under the National Convention”
• Kathryn Calley Galitz, Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Signs of Power: Bonaparte and the Concordat of 1801”

11:15  Session 5. Patriotism and the Family Portrait
Chair: Amy Freund, Assistant Professor of the History of Art, Texas Christian University
• Melissa Hyde, University of Florida, “Family Matters in French Royal Portraiture”
• Kevin Murphy, Vanderbilt University, “Family Ties in the Revolutionary Atlantic: The Lafayettes and Washingtons, LaGrange and Mt. Vernon”
• Marlen Schneider, University of Leipzig, “Politicizing Portraiture: Formal Aspects of French Family Portraits between the Ancien Régime and the Republic”
• Todd Porterfield, Université de Montréal, “Against Portraiture: Representative and Planetary Bodies”

1:15  Lunch Break

2:45  Session 6. The Face and Body of Paris, Philadelphia, New York, and Washington: Splendor and Squalor, Leisure and Labor in the Early Modern Metropolis
Chair: Margaretta Lovell, Professor of the History of Art, University of California
• Jeffrey A. Cohen, Bryn Mawr College, “A Tale of Four Cities: Representations, Fabric, and Ambitions”
• Min Kyung Lee, College of the Holy Cross, “From Portrait to Plan: Mapping Capital Cities in the Late Eighteenth Century”
• Laura Turner Igoe, Temple University, “Corruption and Failure in the Body Politic: John Lewis Krimmel’s Images of the Centre Square Waterworks and the Bank of Pennsylvania”
• Dell Upton, University of California, “On the Back of the Engraving: Obverse and Reverse in Philadelphia’s Federal-Era Urban Imagery”

4:45  Closing Remarks

From The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation:

A Head for Fashion: Hair, Wigs, Cosmetics, and Jewelry, 1600–1900
Colonial Williamsburg, 14–16 November 2014 

Colonial Williamsburg is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Kings Arms Barber and Wig Shop by hosting a conference on wigs, hair, makeup, and accessories of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. The program will examine how ‘fashion from the neck up’ changed over time, reflecting changes in taste, the personal images people wished to present, affluence and class, and sheer practicality. Colonial Williamsburg wigmakers and other tradespeople, historians and interpreters, will be joined by noted guest speakers to present talks on wigs, hairstyles, cosmetics, jewelry, and related topics. These presentations will be interspersed with demonstrations and panel discussions.

As we put this program together, we realized that there is little published information specifically about these topics, and it is difficult to find anything that brings them all together. This conference will help to fill that gap, for scholars, curators, museum interpreters, reenactors, theatre costumers, and anyone who is just plain interested. We are looking forward to a diverse and enthusiastic audience who will bring their perspectives to the conversation. And we plan to have fun!

From The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation:

400 Years of Chocolate: Aztec to Artisanal
Colonial Williamsburg, 2–4 November 2014

Come join us on a journey with one of the world’s favorite plants: cacao. We will discover the amazing paths through time and space that this plant and its products have traveled. From early uses as a ceremonial beverage and important crop in Mesoamerica, to its transformation to one of the most popular foodstuffs in the world, chocolate has crossed oceans, been carried up mountains, and even flown into outer space. How did the seeds of this humble plant become so popular?

Join Colonial Williamsburg’s Historic Foodways staff, curators, and distinguished guest scholars as they explore how this plant is grown and processed and how the seeds are transformed into a product that conquers the food world. Learn how people of the past used and altered chocolate from a beverage into a candy and beyond.

Guest speakers will include Dr. Howard-Yana Shapiro, one of the world’s top cacao scientists. He is Global Director of Plant Science and External Research, Mars Incorporated, and Adjunct Professor in the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, The University of California at Davis. Dr. Shapiro also helped map the cacao gene and is one of the foremost scholars in the field of cacao propagation. Dr. Michael Coe, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, Yale University, will present the place of chocolate in early Mesoamerica. Ruby Fougère, Curator of Furnishings, Collections and Conservation Supervisor, Parks Canada, will complement a Foodway’s staff presentation on chocolate in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and North America, with a look at chocolate in French Canada. Dr. Deanna Pucciarelli, Program Director, Hospitality and Food Management Program, Ball State University, will explore how chocolate production methods evolved during the nineteenth century, and John and Tracy Anderson of Woodhouse Chocolate in St. Helena, California, will delve into modern artisanal chocolate making.

And, of course, no program on chocolate would be complete without a chance to eat some! Chef Rhys Lewis and the Colonial Williamsburg Lodge culinary team will present us with delicious chocolate concoctions of the past, present, and future. So, come learn, smell, taste, and follow chocolate on its journey through history.

From the Centre de recherche du château de Versailles:

Conserver et Restaurer les Théâtres Historiques (XVIIIe – XIXe siècles) : Pour qui, pour quoi ?
Institut National du Patrimoine, Paris, 23–24 October 2014

Colloque organisé par l’Institut national du patrimoine et le Centre de recherche du château de Versailles dans le cadre du cycle « Rencontres européennes du patrimoine ».

Vue de la scène de l’Opéra royal de Versailles, après les travaux de 2009. © Château de Versailles / Jean-Marc Manaï

La conservation et la restauration des théâtres anciens dans leur état d’origine est un défi. Ces lieux vivants ne sont pas de simples ensembles architecturaux, l’entretien et l’usage de la scène, des décors, des installations techniques et de la machinerie impliquent des connaissances précises dont la préservation est un enjeu.

Outre l’intérêt historique et artistique de ces témoins de la vie cutlurelle d’une époque, se pose la question de leur usage actuel. Comment maintenir le caractère vivant de ces lieux sans transiger sur les nécessités de la conservation ? Quels projets peuvent être envisagés pour faire vivre ou revivre ces anciens lieux de spectacle ? La réflexion sera conduite à partir d’exemples français et internationaux et portera sur les théâtres de cour et les théâtres de ville.

Le colloque aura lieu à l’Institut national du patrimoine, auditorium de la Galerie Colbert, 2 rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris.