Conference | Desiring Statues
From the University of Exeter:
Desiring Statues: Statuary, Sexuality, History
University of Exeter, 26–27 April 2012
A Wellcome Trust funded conference, hosted by the Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter
This interdisciplinary conference seeks to investigate how statuary intersects with questions of sexuality, and temporality, specifically history. It explores the numerous different ways in which statues – as historical and/or imagined artefacts – allow us to think about the past and its relation to sex, gender and sexuality. The conference brings together contributors from a variety of disciplines, including history, gender and sexuality studies, literary and cultural studies, art history, classics, archaeology and philosophy.
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Thursday, 26th April 2012
9.00 Registration
9.45 Welcome
10.00 Session 1
Panel 1: Gender and the Erotics of the Living Statue
•Beth Brunton (Queen Mary University of London), From Motherhood to Mannequin: Bodily Perfection in Good Morning Midnight
• Lynsey McCulloch (Anglia Ruskin University), ‘Why, did you think you had married a statue?’ The Erotics of Sculptural Motion in English Renaissance Drama
• Will McMorran (Queen Mary University of London), Made of Stone: Reading And Watching Sade’s ‘Eugénie de Franval’
Panel 2: Statues, Censorship and Nudity
• Julie Anne Godin Laverdière (Université du Québec à Montréal), The Arrest of The Family (1949) and the Destruction of The Peace (1951): The Reception of Two Indecent Sculptures in Montréal
• Linda Ann Nolan (John Cabot University and American University of Rome), Deadly Nudity and Xenophobia in St. Peter’s Basilica in Early Modern Rome: the reception of the figure of Justice on the Tomb of Pope Paul III
• Sophie Schoess (University College London), The Naked Truth: Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Face of Christian Censorship
11.30 B R E A K
12.00 Session 2
Panel 1: Statuary, Sexuality and Modernity
• Andrew Eschelbacher (University of Maryland), Gendering Modernity/Modernizing Masculinity
• Charles Miller (University of Manchester), The Sex of an Origin: Picasso, Freud, Glozel
• Bernard Vere (Sotheby’s Institute of Art), ‘A Token of Triumph Cut Down to Size: Jacob Epstein’s Rock Drill as Fetish Object’
Panel 2: The Erotics of the Gaze: Interacting with Statuary Objects
• Sarah Jones (University of Exeter), ‘The Art of Love’: Religion, Sex, and the Tourist Gaze at the Temples of Khajuraho
• Amy Mechowski (Victoria and Albert Museum), ‘Britain’s Most Romantic Museum’ or a ‘Temple of Lust’?: Statuary, Lesbian Spectatorship and the V&A
• Lisa Trentin (Wilfrid Laurier University), The Sleeping Hermaphrodite: Desirous Viewing in Ancient and Eighteenth-Century Rome
13.30 L U N C H
14.30 Session 3
Panel 1: Desiring the Past: Eighteenth-Century Uses of Statuary
• Sarah Betzer (University of Virginia), Dangerous Admiration: Sculpture and Desire on the Grand Tour
• Katharina Boehm (University of Regensburg), Desiring Antiques: Sir William Hamilton, Commercial Antiquarianism and the Cult of Priapus
• Elsje van Kessel (DFK, Paris and Leiden University), Longing for the Past: Eichendorff’s Marmorbild and the Lives and Deaths of Statues
• Katie McAfee (University of Cambridge), The Sexy Statue: Venus’ Body through Eighteenth-Century Eyes
Panel 2: Sculpting Gender and Sexual Norms in Antiquity and Beyond
• Linnea Åshede (University of Gothenburg), Hermaphroditos: Desired Object and Desiring Subject
• Glenys Davies (University of Edinburgh), The Gendered Body Language of Roman Portrait Statues
• Jane Draycott (British School at Rome), Determining Desirability: Aphrodite of Cnidus vs. Baubo of Eleusis
• Fabio Guidetti (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), “I am black, but comely” desire, sensuality and colour in Roman ideal statuary
16:30 B R E A K
17.00 Keynote Lecture by Dr. Ian Jenkins (Senior Curator, Ancient Greece at the British Museum), The Body Beautiful: The Human Body in Greek Art and Society
19.00 C O N F E R E N C E D I N N E R
Friday 27th April 2012
9.00 Registration
9.30 Session 4
Panel 1: Statuary (Im)Possibilities of Desire
• June Dunn (Eastern Connecticut State University), Statuesque Landscape: The Cailleach and the Topolatry of Desire in Colm Tóibín’s “A Long Winter”
• Sarah Parker (University of Birmingham), ‘Which is the god, / which is the stone / the god takes for his use?’: H.D. and Bryher’s Sculptural Exchanges
• Ery Shin (University of Oxford) “She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden”: Nightwood’s Robin Vote, Impossible Object Desire, and the Culture/Nature Binary
Panel 2: Sculptural (In)Decency
• Catriona MacLeod (University of Pennsylvania), Flirting with Sculptural Indecency: The Realist Psyche
• Melissa Percival (University of Exeter), Angelina Jolie as a Breastfeeding Muse: The Nude Female Portrait in Context
• Linda Walsh (The Open University), Houdon’s Winter and the Problematic Sexuality of Youth
11.00 B R E A K
11.30 Session 5
Panel 1: Agalmatophilia
• Jane Fae (Independent Scholar) “Agalmatophilia” as Paraphilia
• Caterina Y. Pierre, (Kingsborough Community College, CUNY), The Pleasure and Piety of Touch in Aimé-Jules Dalou’s Tomb of Victor Noir
• Shawn O’Bryhim (Franklin & Marshall College), In the Footsteps of the Greek Agalmatophiliacs
• Lise Wajeman (Aix‐Marseille Université), The Erotic Power of Sculpture and the Question of Artistic Superiority: Agalmatophilia and the Paragone during the Sixteenth Century
Panel 2: Statuary and Science
• Richard Brown (University of Leeds), “Silent veining…drinking electricity”: The Bodies of Statues in Joyce
• Melissa Haynes (University of Wisconsin, Madison), A Unique Anthropometry: Measuring the Venus de Milo and a Rationality of Desire
• Alice McEwan (University of Hertfordshire), Mythological Sculpture at the Service of Eugenicist Desire in the early
Twentieth Century: the Case of George Bernard Shaw’s ‘Living Statues’
• Guillermo de Eugenio Pérez (Carlos III University of Madrid), Wax Dolls and the Dream of Asepsis
13.30 L U N C H
14.30 Session 6
Panel 1: Statuary, Colonialism and Nation
• Cora Gilroy‐Ware (University of Bristol), “The Fragment of the Negro’s Chest”: Benjamin Robert Haydon and the Black Body
• James Hargrove (Roanoke College), Paris 1900: Bodies of National Identity
• Gráinne O’Connell (University of Sussex), Embodying the Nation; Emancipated Ex-Slave Statues in Jamaica’s Emancipation Park and the Jamaican Afro-Creole Nationalist Project
Panel 2: Metamorphosis, Materiality and Desire
• Vito Adriaensens (School of Arts, University College, Ghent) and Steven Jacobs (University of Ghent), Mysteries of the Wax Museum: Eros, Thanatos and Sculpture in American Cinema
• Katie Faulkner (Courtauld Institute of Art), Metamorphosis in Sexuality and Sculpture in the Nineteenth century: G.F. Watt’s Clytie, 1868-78
• Ashley Hannebrink (University College London), Stone and Flesh in Antoine Watteau’s Fêtes Galantes
16.00 B R E A K
16.30 Keynote Lecture by Dr Stefano Evangelista (Fellow and Tutor in English, Trinity College, University of Oxford), Title TBC
17.30 Closing remarks
Please note that the programme might be subject to minor changes due to unforeseeable circumstances.
Conference | Two Centuries of Mapping Washington, D.C.
From the Library of Congress:
PHILIP LEE PHILLIPS ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Visualizing the Nation’s Capital: Two Centuries of Mapping Washington, D.C.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 18-19 May 2012
“Plan of the City of Washington,” engraving, March 1792 (Wikimedia Commons)
Visualizing the Nation’s Capital: Two Centuries of Mapping Washington, D.C. is the first conference devoted to mapping the nation’s capital, covering the period from Pierre-Charles L’Enfant’s 1791 Plan of the City of Washington to the present. Participants include historians, archaeologists, building and landscape architects, urban planners, cartographers, geographers, land surveyors, Library of Congress specialists and Anthony Williams, the former mayor of Washington, D.C. The conference is presented by the Library and the Philip Lee Phillips Society, which was established in 1995 as an association of collectors, geographers, historians and map enthusiasts, with a shared interest in supporting and promoting the programs and activities of the Library’s Geography and Map Division. The conference is free and open
to the public. Reservations are needed; contact
SpecialEvents@loc.gov or call 202-707-1616.
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Friday, 18 May 2012 (Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building) (more…)
Conference | Carrara Marble and the Low Countries
I’ve included only a selection of the sessions, generally as directly related to the eighteenth century, but the entire conference looks fascinating. For more information, consult the listing at H-ArtHist. -CH
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Carrara Marble and the Low Countries from the Late Middle Ages to Today
Rome and Carrara, 4-8 June 2012
Registration due by 15 May 2012
Marble quarries above Carrara (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Organized by Academia Belgica, Roma; Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome; Université Libre de Bruxelles; Universiteit Gent; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Université de Liège; Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels; Royal Museums of Fine-Arts of Belgium, Brussels; Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut, Firenze; The Low Countries Sculpture Society, Brussels
4-5 June 2012 (Monday and Tuesday morning)
Pre-Conference Study Days in Rome: The sculpted and painted decoration of galleries in Roman palaces and villas c.1500-1830
Please note that during the one-and-a-half days of Pre-Conference Excursions we will be visiting embassies and other official residences that are rarely or never open to the public, but which may be closed at short notice for official functions. If this were the case, we might have to change the order of the individual visits or even attempt to substitute the cancelled visit with another. The provisional programme includes the galleries of : Raphael’s Villa Madama, Palazzo Farnese, Borromini’s Palazzo Pamphilj (Piazza Navona), Algardi’s Villa Doria-Pamphilj (Via Aurelia Antica), Museo Pio Clementino and Casino di Pio IV in the Vatican Gardens and the stone conservation workshops of the Vatican Museums.
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Academia Belgica, Roma via Omero 8
14.30-15.00 Registration
15.00 Welcome by Ambassadors Vincent Mertens de Wilmars and Alphonsus Stoelinga (tbc), Prof Dr Walter Geerts, director of the Academia Belgica and Prof Dr Bernard Stolte, director of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome . . .
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Academia Belgica, Roma via Omero 8
9.00 Registration
Session Three — The trade in Carrara marble to the Low Countries: local and international actors and strategies, and their impact on the design and production of luxury goods
9.30 Dr Cristiano Giometti, Università di Pisa, Marble merchants from the Low Countries in the early 18th century from the documents of the State Archives of Massa
10.00 Muriel Barbier, Institut National du Patrimoine, Paris, Carrara marble for French fireplaces delivered by Flemish marble masons in the 18th century
10.30 Prof Dr Krista De Jonge, Catholic University of Leuven, Luxury Artefacts: The Early Modern Low Countries and the Genoese Trading Network in Carrara Marble
11.00 Dr Francis Tourneur, Association Pierres et Marbres de Wallonie, Namur, Marble gleanings: commerce, design, production and techniques from Boussu to Corroy-le-Château
11.25 Discussion
11.40 Coffee
Session Four — The social prestige of Carrara marble vs. alabaster
12.00 Dr Aleksandra Lipi?ska, University of Wroclaw (PL), « Marbre blanc qu’on dit albastre. » Italian marble vs. Transalpine alabaster in 16th-century Low Countries sculpture
12.30 Géraldine Patigny, Université Libre de Bruxelles/Royal Institute of Cultural Heritage, Brussels, La place du marbre dans la sculpture à Bruxelles à l’époque de Jérôme Du Quesnoy père et fils
12.55 Discussion
13.10 Lunch
Session Five — Carrara marble as a vehicle for classical ideals
14.00 Dr Léon Lock, Catholic University of Leuven, The techniques of Carrara marble carving in Antwerp in the 17th century between tradition and innovation
14.30 Inger Groeneveld, Royal Academy of Arts, Den Haag, Carrara marble for the Dutch Interior 1600-1800
15.00 Dr Sophie Mouquin, Université de Lille III / Ecole du Louvre, Paris, Poetics, symbolism and science: The perception of Carrara marble in Paris and in the Low Countries in the 18th century
15.25 Discussion
15.40 Coffee
16.00 Dr Emile van Binnebeke, Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, The theory and practice of Carrara marble sculpture by Gabriel and Godecharle
16.30 Wim Oers, WENK Sint-Lucas Brussels-Gent / University of Oxford, The use and meaning of Carrara marble sculptures and decorations at Schönenberg (the current royal palace at Laken), near Brussels, 1781-87 . . .
French Porcelain Society Conference Honors Rosalind Savill
From The French Porcelain Society’s website:
A Two-Day Symposium in Honour of Dame Rosalind Savill
The Wallace Collection, London, 13-14 April 2012
Symposium Organisers: John Whitehead, Susan Newell, Patricia Ferguson and Mia Jackson
The French Porcelain Society is delighted to announce a two-day symposium to be held in honour of our President, Dame Rosalind Savill. Ros became a star of French decorative arts with the publication of her ground-breaking 3 volume Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain in the Wallace Collection in 1988. Her career as a museum curator started at the Victoria & Albert Museum and continued at the Wallace where she served for 37 years, the last 19 as Director. The symposium is a tribute to her dedication to Sèvres porcelain research and her enjoyment and enthusiasm for the French decorative arts in general. New research on a wide range of subjects relating to French porcelain and the decorative arts will be presented by around 30 speakers – a veritable ‘Who’s Who’ of those currently involved in these fields including:
Andreina d’Agliano, Antoine d’Albis, Vincent Bastien, Sir Geoffrey de Bellaigue, Anthony du Boulay, Juliet Carey, Yves Carlier, Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, Aileen Dawson, Virginie Desrante, Claire Dumortier, Oliver Fairclough, Alden Gordon, Michael Hall, Ulla Houjkaer, Catrin Jones, Bet McLeod, Errol Manners, Jeffrey Munger, Tamara Préaud, Christophe de Quénétain, Marie-Laure de Rochebrune, Pamela Roditi, Linda Roth, Adrian Sassoon, Dame Rosalind Savill, Timothy Schroder, Christoph Vogtherr and Samuel Witwer.
The first day’s proceedings will be followed by an evening Reception in the upstairs galleries, and on Saturday 14th there is a celebratory Dinner in the Wallace Collection restaurant. For members only, on Sunday 15th, there is an Outing to Boughton. The symposium is open to members and non-members of The French Porcelain Society. Bursaries are available for scholars who wish to attend.
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Graduate Conference | Beyond Borders
From the conference website:
Beyond Borders: The Impact of Cultural Exchange in Art History
Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, 10-11 May 2012
Conference registration due by 1 May 2012
The University of Cambridge History of Art Graduate Conference, Beyond Borders: The Impact of Cultural Exchange in Art History will be held on 10-11 May 2012 at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. The two-day conference will address cross-cultural influences within the various art disciplines over a far-reaching geographical and chronological spectrum. The aim of the conference is to provide, and promote, an interdisciplinary forum for scholars investigating issues from appropriation of styles and motifs, to collecting and patronage. For more information and to register to attend, please visit: www.artconference2012.com. Please note that registration closes 1 May and seats are limited. For any queries, please contact us at: info@artconference2012.com
Keynote Speakers: Professor Partha Mitter (University of Sussex) and Dr. Sarah Turner (University of York)
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Thursday, 10 May 2012
9:30 Registration
10:00 Welcome address
10:05 Professor Partha Mitter, Introduced by Professor Jean Michel Massing
11:00 Panel I: India and Cultural Exchange, Chair: Professor Jean Michel Massing
• Kimia Shahi, ‘Translation and Transformation: Bernard Picart and Mughal Indian Miniatures’
• Rashmi Viswanathan, ‘The Tressider Album: A Case Study of a Private Ethnography’
• Krista Gulbransen, ‘Rao Surjan Singh and the Origins of Painted Portraiture in Bundi’
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Panel II: Architecture and Interiors, Chair: Dr. Frank Salmon
• Ellen Hurst, ‘The Reinvention of Russian Architecture: Italians in the Service of Vasily III, 1505-33’
• Hank Johnson, ‘Palladio Might with Envy View It? Eighteenth-Century British Design, British Self-Perception, and Italian Architecture’
• Josefine Baark, ‘”Small, Fat and Paunchy”: Chinoiserie Figures in Rosenborg Castle, Denmark’
3:00 Coffee
3:15 Panel III: Gift and Commercial Exchange, Chair: Dr. Meredith Hale
• Lejla Bajramovic, ‘A European Artist Collecting Non-European Art: Emil Preetorius’
• Andrew Chen, ‘Simone Martini’s Orsini Polyptych: A Gift from the Avignon Pope Clement VII to Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, and the Politics of the Western Schism c. 1390′
• Antonia Gatward Cevizli, ‘The Marquis and the Sultan: Mantuan-Ottoman Cultural Exchange in the 1490s’
Friday, 11 May 2012
9:30 Registration
10:00 Panel IV: The Ancient World to 1000AD, Chair: Ms. Aurelie Petiot (PhD candidate)
• Samar Faruqi, ‘Orientalist Painting and the Victorian Art Market: Edwin Long’s Babylonian Marriage Market (1875)’
• Einav Zamir, ‘The Empire of Bacchus: Exchange from West to East’
• Theodore Van Loan, ‘From Symbol to Text: The Contingency of Influence in Umayyad Coin Design’
11:30 Coffee
11:45 Dr. Sarah Turner, Introduced by Dr. Polly Blakesley
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Panel V: Identity and Exchange, Chair: Mr. Duncan Robinson
• Liz Renes, ‘Sargent and His Mentors: Carolus Duran, Henry James and the Fostering of a Cosmopolitan Identity’
• Jill Baskin, ‘Picturing Freedom’s Shores: The Visual Culture of African Americans in Liberia, 1821-1865’
• Galina Mardilovich, ‘Rembrandt’s Shadow in Late Nineteenth-Century Russia’
• Loyd Grossman, ‘Benjamin West’s Confused Nationality’
3:30 Closing Address
Colloquium | Chardin at Waddesdon Manor
Colloquium | Taking Time: Chardin’s Boy Building a House of Cards and Other Paintings
Waddesdon Manor, 14 July 2012
On 14 July 2012, Waddesdon Manor will host a colloquium to mark the closing of the exhibition Chardin’s ‘Boy Building a House of Cards’ and Other Paintings. A conference fee of £40 will include coffee, tea, lunch, and drinks reception. For further details and application to attend, please contact Diane Bellis, Collections Department, Waddesdon Manor, Nr. Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP18 0JH: diane.bellis@nationaltrust.org.uk. Places will be limited to 60 persons, and bookings will be taken strictly on a first come- first-served basis.
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Confirmed Speakers
Colin Bailey – Upstairs/Downstairs: Dress, Status, and the Imaginary in Chardin’s Genre Paintings
Emma Barker – Chardin’s Images of Women: Representing Domesticity
John Chu – Chardin, Hayman and Britain
René Démoris – subject to be confirmed
Charlotte Guichard – Des écritures ordinaires? Les signatures de Chardin
Anna Grundberg – The Archival Hunt for the Trail of the Destroyed Rothschild Chardins
Rachel Jacobs – Play and Learning: An Introduction to the 18th-century jeux de société at Waddesdon Manor
Humphrey Wine – Observations on the National Gallery Chardins
Conference | Johan Zoffany and His International Contexts
From The Paul Mellon Centre:
Johan Zoffany and His International Contexts
The Royal Academy of Arts and the Geological Society, Burlington House, London, 14 May 2012
Johan Zoffany, "The Tribuna of the Uffizi," ca.1772-77. Oil on canvas. Royal Collection
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, will be co-hosting a conference on Monday, May 14, 2012, to accompany a major exhibition on the eighteenth-century Anglo-German artist Johan Zoffany (1733–1810). The exhibition, Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed, is curated by Martin Postle (Paul Mellon Centre), with Gillian Forrester (Yale Center for British Art) and MaryAnne Stevens (Royal Academy); it was on view at the Yale Center for British Art from October 27, 2011, to February 12, 2012, and can be seen at the Royal Academy from March 10 to June 10, 2012. The conference aims to address Zoffany’s art in the context of four locations that were central to his practice: Germany, England, Italy, and India.
Born in Frankfurt in 1733, Johan Zoffany trained as an artist in Germany and Italy. In 1760 he moved to London, where he adapted brilliantly to the indigenous art culture and patterns of patronage, creating virtuoso portraits and subject pictures that proved to be highly desirable to a wide range of patrons. Of all the major artists working in eighteenth-century England, none explored more inventively the complexities of Georgian society and British imperial rule than Zoffany. Yet, despite achieving considerable success there, he remained in many ways an outsider, looking dispassionately at British society. Resisting complete integration into his adopted country, Zoffany traveled for extended periods in Europe and spent six years in northern India. His body of work offers unique perspectives on key British and European institutions, including the art academy, the royal court, the theatre, and the families of the aristocracy and bourgeoisie. In India, Zoffany constructed new idioms for portraying the emerging colonial society in both public and private spheres, as well providing a nuanced account of the complex network of power relations, race, and culture at a critical moment in British imperial history.
Tickets for the conference and a conference program (pdf, 109 kb) are now available (also see below). To purchase tickets, and for further details about how to register, please visit the Paul Mellon Centre, London.
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Geological Society of London
9:00 Registration
9:30 Amy Meyers (Yale Center for British Art) Welcome and opening remarks
9:40 Martin Postle (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) “Zoffany and his International Contexts: An Introduction to the Exhibition and Conference”
9:50 Morning session introduced and chaired by Robin Simon (University College, London)
9:55 Craig Hanson (Calvin College, Michigan) “Zoffany‟s Virtuosic Ambitions and the Theatre of Natural History”
10:25 Helen McCormack (University of Glasgow) “Zoffany and William Hunter: ‘Where Art May Join with Nature and with Sense'”
10:55 Questions
11:05 Coffee
11:35 Steffen Egle (Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart) “Johan Zoffany and Germany: Early Training and Later Reception”
12:05 Kate Roach (Virginia Commonwealth University) “Johan Zoffany’s Tribuna of the Uffizi: An International Visual Lineage”
12:35 Questions
12:45 Lunch
14:00 Afternoon session introduced and chaired by Kate Retford (Birkbeck College, University of London)
14:05 Anna Maria Massari (University of Urbino ‘Carlo Bo’, Palazzo Albani) “A Rediscovered Zoffany Madonna for the Grand Duke of Tuscany”
14:35 Kenneth Bendiner (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) “Johan Zoffany in Italy: The Beginning of Visual Dissonance”
15:05 Richard Leppert (University of Minnesota) “Zoffany and the Visual Politics of Private Musical Culture in England and India”
15:35 Questions
15:45 Tea
16:15 William Pressly (University of Maryland) “The Artist’s Role as Social Commentator: Zoffany’s Scathing Condemnation of Gillray as well as Hogarth in Plundering the King’s Wine Cellar”
16:45–17:30 Response, and discussion chaired by MaryAnne Stevens (Royal Academy of Arts)
Royal Academy of Arts
17:45 Drinks reception in the Reynolds Room
18:15–20:00 Private view of Johan Zoffany RA. Society Observed in the Sackler Galleries
Colloquium | Herder and the Arts
As noted at Le Blog d’ApAhAu:
Herder und die Künste: Ästhetik, Kunsttheorie, Kunstgeschichte
Herder et les arts: esthétique, théorie et histoire
Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, 19-20 April 2012
Dans l’histoire de la pensée esthétique, les travaux de J. G. Herder (1744-1803) ont une importance centrale. Herder est en effet un lecteur assidu des théories de l’art produites par les auteurs de l’Antiquité et par les penseurs européens des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Contemporain de Diderot, Lessing et Winckelmann, inspirateur du jeune Goethe, Herder réfléchit tant sur l’histoire des arts que sur les fondements et limites de l’esthétique que Baumgarten, vers 1750, avait cherché à constituer en discipline philosophique à part entière. Le présent colloque cherche à éclairer les principaux textes que Herder a consacrés à l’histoire et à la théorie des arts.
19 April 2012
14h00 – 18h00
Élisabeth Décultot (CNRS/Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin) : Introduction
Gérard Raulet (Sorbonne, Paris) : Die Kunst “an die Seele zu gehen” — Kraft und
energeia in Herders erstem Kritischen Wäldchen
Daniel Dumouchel (Université de Montréal, Canada) : Fictions de pensée : origine de l’expérience esthétique et genèse de l’art dans Plastik de Herder
Wolfgang Adam (Universität Osnabrück) : Herder und die Plastik. Theorie und Autopsie
Léa Barbisan (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin) : Von der taktilen zur haptischen Rezeption: Der Tastsinn in den visuellen Künsten von Johann Gottfried Herder bis Walter Benjamin
20 April 2012
10h00 – 13h00
Mario Marino (Adam Mickiewicz Universität Poznan) : Kunst, Geschichte und Gesellschaft. Zur Verschränkung von Ästhetik und Geschichtsphilosophie bei Herder
Elisabeth Décultot (CNRS et Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin) : “Voll vortrefflicher Grundsätze ; aber …. ”. Herders Auseinandersetzung mit Winckelmann
Ayse Yuva (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin) : Ecriture et histoire : le caractère anti-systématique des Sylves critiques
15h00 – 18h00
Christian Helmreich (Universität Göttingen/Université Paris 8) : Herders Lyrik. Über die Möglichkeit von Poesie im philosophischen Zeitalter der Sprache
Carlotta Santini (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin) : L’enfance des Grecs et l’épos homérique. Poésie et chants imaginés du monde dans la pensée herderienne
Ralph Häfner (Universität Freiburg) : Herders Ästhetik im Spiegel seiner Bibliothek
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Lieu : Centre Marc Bloch, Friedrichstrasse 191, 10117 Berlin (métro : Stadtmitte), 3e étage, Georg-Simmel-Saal
Le colloque est organisé avec le soutien du programme « Aisthesis » de l’ANR et de la DFG
Coordination : Elisabeth Décultot (CNRS, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin) et Gerhard Lauer (Universität Göttingen)
Conference | Desiring Fashion
From the conference website:
Desiring Fashion: The Consumption and Dissemination of Dress 1750-1850
King’s Manor, University of York, 23 June 2012
Convenor: Serena Dyer
This day conference brings together academic and curatorial work on the desire to dress fashionably in the eighteenth century. From faces to feet, the fashionable men and women of the eighteenth century strove to achieve aesthetic perfection. This series of papers explores the process of fashion dissemination, production and consumption which enabled the fulfilment of these desires, and how this related to the concepts of desire, gender and beauty. The papers to be presented cover subjects such as cosmetics and beauty, fashion plates, silk manufacture and the relationship between dressmaker and client. A small exhibition of fashion plates and accessories from the period will accompany the conference.
Aileen Ribeiro (Courtauld) Desiring Beauty: Women and Cosmetics in the Eighteenth Century
Elisabeth Gernerd (Edinburgh) Pulled Tight and Gleaming: The Stocking’s Position within Eighteenth-Century British Masculinity
Lesley Miller (V&A) Material Marketing: How Lyonnais Manufacturers Sold Their Silks in the 18th Century
Hilary Davidson (Museum of London) Recreating Jane Austen’s Pelisse-Coat
Catherine Flood (V&A) Fashion in Print and the Pleasures of Picturing Modern Life: Fashion Plates and Fashion Satires
Serena Dyer (York) A Beautiful Bargain: Lady Sabine Winn’s Relationship with Fashion
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Registration
The registration fee is £12. This includes a simple sandwich lunch, tea and coffee. Registration is now available via our online store. For Members of the University of York, registration is free, but please email cecs1@york.ac.uk to register; the (optional) lunch is £5.
ASECS 2012, San Antonio
2012 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference
San Antonio, 22-24 March 2012
Mission San Francisco de la Espada at San Antonio, ca. 1750s
Photo by Travis Witt, 2010, Wikimedia Commons
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The 2012 ASECS conference takes place in San Antonio, March 22-24, at the Hyatt Regency San Antonio Riverwalk. This year’s annual HECAA luncheon and business meeting will be held on Friday at nearby Boudro’s restaurant. In terms of sessions, HECAA will be represented by two panels, also on Friday, chaired by Melissa Hyde and Heidi Kraus and Heidi Strobel and Amber Ludwig, with Christopher Johns serving as a respondent. In addition to these, a wide selection of sessions are also included below (there are, of course, lots of others that will interest HECAA members). For the full program, see the ASECS website. Elle Decor, incidentally, featured San Antonio in its March 2012 issue.
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HECAA New Scholar’s Open Session
Friday, 23 March 2012, 11:30-1:00, Bowie C
Chair: Melissa HYDE, University of Florida, and Heidi KRAUS, University of Iowa
1. Katherine ARPEN, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Touch, Sensation, Imagination: Étienne-Maurice Falconet’s Bather”
2. Zirwat CHOWDUHRY, Northwestern University, “Incongruously Indian: The Joke behind George Dance the Younger’s Guildhall Façade”
3. Amanda STRASIK, University of Iowa, “Portraying the (Future) Queen: Le Portrait de Marie-Joséphe de Saxe et Le Duc de Bourgogne”
4. Hyejin LEE, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “The Language of Magic in Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin’s Food Still Lifes”
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HECAA Luncheon and Business Meeting
Friday, 23 March 2012, 1:00
Boudros, 205 Presa St. at Charles Court (between Market and Commerce) — ask for the event space at Charles Court; see comments below for directions.
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Exoticisms: Global Commodity Exchange in the Long Eighteenth Century, (HECAA)
Friday, 23 March 2012, 4:15-5:45, Bowie C
Chairs: Heidi STROBEL, University of Evansville, and Amber LUDWIG, Honolulu Academy of Arts
1. Dana LEE, Art Institute of Atlanta, “Between Worlds: Performing Gender and Class through Exoticism in Madame de Pompadour’s Boudoir Turq”
2. Adrienne CHILDS, Independent Scholar, “The Taste for Blackness: Coffee, Race, and Exoticism in Eighteenth Century Luxury Objects”
3. Alden GORDON, Trinity College, “A Golden ‘Chinese’ Interior in Italy made of Imported Rock Crystal and Lacquer: The Commodities and Language of Global Exoticism in the Decorative Arts and in Engraving”
4. Elizabeth WILLIAMS, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, “Familiarizing the Foreign: Chinoiserie and Eighteenth-Century English Silver”
Respondent: Christopher JOHNS, Vanderbilt University
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OTHER SESSIONS RELATED TO THE VISUAL ARTS
T H U R S D A Y , 2 2 M A R C H 2 0 1 2
8:00-9:30
Audiences, Observers, Spies, & Witnesses: Types of Attention in the Eighteenth Century, Bowie A
Chair: Cheryl WANKO, West Chester University
1. Kathleen E. URDA, Bronx Community College, CUNY, “Theatrical Spectatorship and Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park”
2. Fiona RITCHIE, McGill University, “Sentimental Attention: Women Watching Shakespeare in the Mid-Eighteenth Century”
3. David Francis TAYLOR, University of Toronto, “Spectators at the Print Shop Window: Caricature and the Corporate Gaze”
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9:45-11:15
Aesthetic Reception, Sensibility, and Social Engineering: Interrogating the Effects of the Work of Art in the Long Eighteenth Century, Pecos
Chair: Julia SIMON, University of California, Davis
1. Jean MARSDEN, University of Connecticut, “Sentimental Drama as Social Engineering”
2. Philipp SCHWEIGHAUSER, Universität Basel, “Sympathy Control: Sentimental Literature and Early European Aesthetics”
3. Peter ERICKSON, University of Chicago, “Conversion in the Museum: Friedrich Schlegel at the Louvre, 1802-1804”
4. Laurence LEMAIRE, University of California, Davis, “Rousseau, Writing and Aesthetics: a Moral Agent at Work”
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Directing Light and Adjusting Outlooks: Mirrors, Lenses, Windows, Reflections, Refractions, Translucencies, (South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) Frio
Chair: Kevin L. COPE, Louisiana State University
1. Robert CRAIG, Independent Scholar, “Zur Farbenlehre- Goethe’s Theory of Colors: Goethe versus Newton – and the Winner Is . . . ?”
2. Laura MILLER, University of West Georgia, “Light, Space, and Masculinity in Newtonian Optical Experiments”
3. William STARGARD, Pine Manor College, “Scientific and Divine Light in Bernard Vittone’s Architecture for the Poor Clares”
4. Jeremy WEAR, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Lilbertine Philosophy and the Error of the Eyes in Aphra Behn’s The Emperor of the Moon”
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The Aesthetics of Science and the Science of Aesthetics – I, Rio Grande Center
Chair: Peter MESSER, Mississippi State University
1. Bryan HURT, University of Southern California, “Laurence Sterne and the Science of True Feeling”
2. Paula BROWN, Louisiana Tech, “Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful: Ethics and Empiricism ‘Confounded’”
3. Jessica DECKARD, Indiana University, “The Lily Adeline: Botany and Botanical Knowledge in Radliffe’s The Romance of the Forest”
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Home Away from Home: Transient Artists in the Eighteenth Century, Bowie A
Chair: Christina LINDEMAN, Pima Community College
1. Catherine M. SAMA, University of Rhode Island, “‘On the Road’: Rosalba Carriera in Paris, Modena, and Vienna (1720-30)”
2. Wendy Wassyng ROWORTH, University of Rhode Island, Benjamin West’s First Tour of England: Speculations on an Anonymous Sketchbook”
3. Jennifer VAN HORN, Towson University, “‘Straggling Adventurers of the Brush’: Transatlantic Artists and the Making of the British Empire”
4. Elisabeth FRASER, University of South Florida, “Mediterranean Self-Fashioning: Louis-François Cassas, Itinerant Artist in the Ottoman Empire”
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11:30-1:00
The British Grand Tour, Pecos
Chair: Alison O’BYRNE, University of York
1. Alistair DURIE, University of Stirling, “The Home Tour Revisited”
2. Denys VAN RENEN, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, “Salvaging British Identity in Johnson’s Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland”
3. Gordon TURNBULL, Yale University, “Boswell’s Jaunts: A Britain ‘Yet Minutely Diversified’”
4. Susan EGENOLF, Texas A&M University, “‘There’s a View in My Soup’: Wedgwood’s Green Frog Service and the Promotion of the British Picturesque”
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Roundtable: Demystifying the Academic Journal (Professionalization Panel Sponsored by the Graduate Student Caucus) Live Oak
Chair: Nicholas E. MILLER, Washington University in St. Louis
1. Cristobal SILVA, Columbia University, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
2. Marion L. RUST, University of Kentucky, Early American Literature
3. Downing A. THOMAS, University of Iowa, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
4. Hazel GOLD, Emory University, PMLA
5. Julia SIMON, University of California, Davis, Eighteenth-Century Studies
6. Jonathan Beecher FIELD, Clemson University, Common-place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life
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The Aesthetics of Science and the Science of Aesthetics – II, Rio Grande Center
Chair: Peter G. DEGABRIELE, Mississippi State University
1. Tili Boon CUILLÉ, Washington University in St. Louis, “From Scientific Principle to Aesthetic Practice: The Natural Laws of Artistic Composition”
2. Peter MESSER, Mississippi State University, “Jeremy Belknap’s Sublime Science of Natural History”
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Art and Life: Cultural Practices of Animation in the Eighteenth Century (The Role of the Viewer/Reader/Observer) – I, Regency East
Chair: Amelia RAUSER, Franklin and Marshall College
1. Sarah R. COHEN, University at Albany, State University of New York, “Expert Brutes: Animating Artistry in Eighteenth-Century Painting”
2. Keith BRESNAHAN, OCAD University, “Parallax Views: Animating Architecture in Eighteenth-Century France”
3. Hannah Vandegrift ELDRIDGE, University of Chicago, ‘“No time there is, no power, can decompose /The minted form that lives and living grows’: Goethe’s Animated Forms”
4. Sarah BETZER, University of Virginia, “Shadow Play: Ingres, Sculpture, and Spectacle”
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2:30-4:00
Art and Life: Cultural Practices of Animation in the Eighteenth Century (The Life Force as Spark) – II, Bowie C
Chair: Amelia RAUSER, Franklin and Marshall College
1. Wendy BELLION, University of Delaware, “Speaking Statues”
2. Erin M. GOSS, Clemson University, “Animated Dialogue: Bentham’s Corpse Play”
3. Bendta SCHROEDER, Brandeis University, “Erasmus Darwin’s ‘Amorous Ocean’: Organic Sexuality in The Loves of the Plants”
4. Emily Hodgson ANDERSON, University of Southern California, “Animating Perfection: Sarah Siddons’s Hermione”
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The Wit and Wisdom of Eighteenth-Century Thought, (Northwest Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies – NWSECS), Llano
Chair: Ken ERICKSEN, Linfield College
1. Pamela PLIMPTON, Warner Pacifi c College, “Laughing on the Dark Side: Theory of Mind [Reading] in Matthew Lewis’s The Monk”
2. Johann REUSCH, University of Washington. “Wit Lies in Brevity: Christoph Georg Lichtenberg’s Aphorisms as Cosmopolitan Wisdom”
3. Robert MODE, Vanderbilt University, “Juxtapositions and Parodies in Hogarth’s The Enraged Musician”
4. Marvin LANSVERK, Montana State University, “The Comedy in Blake’s Divine Comedy Illustrations”
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The Medical Gothic, (Western Society for Eighteenth Century Studies), Rio Grande East
Chair: Lisa Forman CODY, Claremont McKenna College
1. Sara LULY, Kansas State University, “A Gothic Science: Gothic Motifs in the Medical Texts of Eighteenth-Century German Magnetists”
2. Dana Gliserman KOPANS, State University of New York, Empire State College, “Nymphomania, or the Horrors of Female Desire”
3. Kevin CHUA, Texas Tech University, “Fuseli and Gothic Preformation”
4. Christine CROCKETT, Claremont McKenna College, “Dreadful Portraits: Medical Gothic and the Regulation of Desire”
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4:15-5:45
Innovative Course Design, Pecan
Chair: Paula LOSCOCCO, Lehman College, City University of New York
1. Susan LANSER, Brandeis University AND Jane KAMENSKY, Brandeis University, “London in the Long Eighteenth Century: People, Culture, City”
2. Janie VANPÉE, Smith College, Re-Membering Marie Antoinette”
3. Zach HUTCHINS, Brigham Young University, “American Love Letters”
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F R I D A Y , 2 3 M A R C H 2 0 1 2
8:00-9:30
Life and Luxury: Material Culture and Decorative Arts, Blanco
Chair: Denise Amy BAXTER, University of North Texas
1. Kevin JUSTUS, Independent Scholar/University of Phoenix Humanities, “The Chime of a Clock and the Scratch of a Pen: Louis XV’s Astronomical Clock and Roll Top Desk –A King of Art, Science and Industry Decorative Art as Portrait”
2. Chloe NORTHROP, University of North Texas, “Colonial Exchanges of Material Goods: The Case of Pauline Bonaparte Leclerc and Maria Nugent”
3. Dana LOUGHLIN, University of British Columbia, “Laughing at Gilded Butterfl ies: Essai de Papilloneries Humaines and the Ornamentation of Social Spaces in Eighteenth-Century France”
4. Heidi STROBEL, University of Evansville, “Portraiture and the Art of Mary Linwood”
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9:45-11:15
Pompeii and Herculaneum in the Eighteenth Century, Bowie C
Chair: Julie-Anne PLAX, University of Arizona
1. Bernadette FORT, Northwestern University, “The Discoveries at Herculaneum and the Debate on Ancient Painting”
2. Sandra BARR, Independent Scholar, “A Spot of Bother! Naples and the Grand Tour Penchant for Disaster Imagery”
3. Amelia RAUSER, Franklin and Marshall College, “Performing Antiquity: Emma Hamilton’s ‘Attitudes’ and the Fragments of Pompeii and Herculaneum”
4. Leslie REINHARDT, Independent Scholar, “The Endurance of the Literary: A Cestus of Venus in Anglo-American Art”
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11:30-1:00
New Scholar’s Open Session, (Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture), Bowie C
Chair: Melissa HYDE, University of Florida, AND Heidi KRAUS, University of Iowa
1. Katherine ARPEN, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Touch, Sensation, Imagination: Étienne-Maurice Falconet’s Bather”
2. Zirwat CHOWDUHRY, Northwestern University, “Incongruously Indian: The Joke behind George Dance the Younger’s Guildhall Façade”
3. Amanda STRASIK, University of Iowa, “Portraying the (Future) Queen: Le Portrait de Marie-Joséphe de Saxe et Le Duc de Bourgogne”
4. Hyejin LEE, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “The Language of Magic in Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin’s Food Still Lifes”
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The Cultural Life of Things: Material Culture in the Long Italian Eighteenth-Century, (Italian Studies Caucus), Rio Grande East
Chair: Sabrina FERRI, University of Notre Dame
1. Rebecca MESSBARGER, Washington University in St. Louis, “Anatomy of the Venus de Medici in Peter Leopold’s Science Museum”
2. Paola GIULI, Saint Joseph’s University, “The Rare and the Marvelous: Leone Strozzi’s Cabinets of Natural and Artistic Curiosities”
3. Francesca SAVOIA, University of Pittsburgh, “Window Shopping in Eighteenth-Century London: Giuseppe Baretti and Alessandro Verri”
4. Irene ZANINI-CORDI, Florida State University, “Natural Wonders and Ingenious Inventions in Margherita Sparapani Gentili Boccapadule’s Viaggio d’Italia”
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4:15-5:45
Exoticisms: Global Commodity Exchange in the Long Eighteenth Century, (Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture), Bowie C
Chairs: Heidi STROBEL, University of Evansville, and Amber LUDWIG, Honolulu Academy of Arts
1. Dana LEE, Art Institute of Atlanta, “Between Worlds: Performing Gender and Class through Exoticism in Madame de Pompadour’s Boudoir Turq”
2. Adrienne CHILDS, Independent Scholar, “The Taste for Blackness: Coffee, Race, and Exoticism in Eighteenth Century Luxury Objects”
3. Alden GORDON, Trinity College, “A Golden ‘Chinese’ Interior in Italy made of Imported Rock Crystal and Lacquer: The Commodities and Language of Global Exoticism in the Decorative Arts and in Engraving”
4. Elizabeth WILLIAMS, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, “Familiarizing the Foreign: Chinoiserie and Eighteenth-Century English Silver”
Respondent: Christopher JOHNS, Vanderbilt University
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S A T U R D A Y , 2 4 M A R C H 2 0 1 2
8:00-9:30
Deep in the Art of Texas, Llano
Chair: Amy FREUND, Texas Christian University
1. Heather MACDONALD, Dallas Museum of Art, “Stormy Weather: Joseph Vernet’s A Mountain Landscape with an Approaching Storm at the Dallas Museum of Art”
2. C.D. DICKERSON, Kimbell Art Museum, “Bringing the Eighteenth Century to Texas: Bertram Newhouse and the Kimbells”
3. James CLIFTON, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, “Paolo de Matteis and the Artist’s Profession: On Two Paintings in Houston”
4. Nicole ATZBACH, Meadows Museum, “Richard Worsam Meade: Vicente López’s Portrait of an American Entrepreneur and Collector in Spain”
5. Iraida RODRIGUEZ-NEGRON, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University and Meadows Museum, ‘“Quiere un retrato de S.M. para Sortija:’ Introducing the Portrait Miniatures at the Meadows Museum by Francisca Meléndez, Portraitist at the Court of Charles IV”
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9:45-11:15
Publishing the Past: History and Eighteenth-Century Print Culture – II, Frio
Chair: Hannah DOHERTY, Stanford University
1. Mark TOWSEY, University of Liverpool, “ ‘A Table of the Human Passions’: Learning to Read the Past in Eighteenth-Century Britain”
2. Jeff STRABONE, Connecticut College, “The Middle Scots Poets in the Eighteenth Century: Creating a Usable Past for Scotland”
3. Crystal B. LAKE, Wright State University, “Surrounded by the Congenial Elements of Books and Dirt: Women Antiquaries in the Long Eighteenth Century”
4. Adam BUDD, University of Edinburgh, “History of India in the Scottish Enlightenment: Methods and Vision”
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2:00-3:30
Théâtre et actualité(s) avant la Révolution- I, Blanco
Chair: Yann ROBERT, Stanford University AND Logan J. CONNORS, Bucknell University
1. Pannill CAMP, Washington University in St. Louis, “‘Belle Horreur:’ Hubert Robert’s Architectural Fantasies and the Paris Opera Fire of 1781”
2. Olivier FERRET, Université Lyon 2, “Faire des ‘applications’ au théâtre sous l’Ancien Régime”
3. Jack IVERSON, Whitman College, “Performing Beaumarchais’s Benevolence: Norac et Javolci and the Institut de bienfaisance pour les mères-nourrices”
4. Jennifer TAMAS, Stanford University, “De l’alcôve à la tribune: déclaration des sentiments et déclaration des droits”
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3:45-5:15
Roundtable: Disciplinary Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Material Culture, Frios
Chair: Michael YONAN, University of Missouri
1 Denise Amy BAXTER, University of North Texas
2. Barbara M. BENEDICT, Trinity College
3. Jennifer GERMANN, Ithaca College
4. Karen HILES, Muhlenberg College
5. Chloe WIGSTON SMITH, University of Georgia
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