Enfilade

Installation view of Lynda Benglis at The Hepworth Wakefield, 6 February – 1 July 2015
Courtesy the artist and Cheim & Read, New York

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From the University of Leeds:

(Re-)Forming Sculpture
University of Leeds and The Hepworth Wakefield, 26–27 June 2018

The Association for Art History’s 2-day Summer Symposium organised by the Doctoral and Early Career Research Network.

Keynote Speakers
• Martina Droth, Deputy Director of Research, Exhibitions, and Publications | Curator of Sculpture, Yale Center for British Art
• Rebecca Wade, Assistant Curator (Sculpture), Leeds Museums and Galleries, based at the Henry Moore Institute

The eighteenth-century offerings come on the second day of the conference:

11.35  Session 4: Sculpting Ceramics
Chair: Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth
• Ashley Hannebrink (Harvard University), Reforming the Past: Figures of Antiquity in Eighteenth-Century French Porcelain
• Elizabeth Saari Browne (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Modelling Enlightenment: Clodion’s Bacchic Sculpture and the Materialist Pleasures of Touch
• Catherine Roche (University of Westminster), Crafting Sculpture: Embodied Perspectives of Sculptural Ceramics
• Phoebe Cummings (University of Westminster), Fugitive Objects

The full programme is available here»

From ECSSS:

Networks of Enlightenment
31st Annual Conference of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
University of Glasgow, 17–21 July 2018

ECSSS returns to the city of Glasgow after twenty-eight years to hold its first-ever conference at Glasgow University—one of the central sites of the Scottish Enlightenment. The theme of this conference is Networks of Enlightenment and will look at areas of interdisciplinary interest from philosophical, literary, and scientific networks through to English, Continental, and transatlantic connections.

The conference will commemorate the tercentenary of the births of two major Scottish Enlightenment figures, whose medical, literary, ecclesiastical, antiquarian, and other networks were extensive: the Glasgow-educated anatomist and collector Dr. William Hunter (1718–1783) and Hugh Blair (1718–1800), the eminent preacher and professor of rhetoric and belles lettres at the University of Edinburgh.

The conference will run from the afternoon of Tuesday 17 to lunchtime on Saturday 21 July. Registration opens on the afternoon of 17 July at 2pm, followed by the opening keynote then, in the evening, a civic reception in Glasgow City Chambers. Wednesday 18 July is the first full day of panels. Thursday has panels in the morning followed by the conference trip to Dumfries House and to Alloway in Ayshire. On Friday, we have another full day of panels followed by the conference dinner. The conference closes Saturday with panels in the morning, including special sessions in celebration of the tricentenary of William Hunter, followed by a closing keynote and reception courtesy of the Hunterian Museum.

The preliminary conference programme can be downloaded pdf file here

From the University of Delaware:

Global Impact of Asian Aesthetics on American Art and Material Culture
Winterthur, Wilmington, Delaware, 10–14 October 2018

Utagawa Yoshimori, An American Sailing Ship off Arai, 1872; polychrome woodblock print, ink and color on paper (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007.49.243).

How do design ideas, patterns, and aesthetics travel across the globe, even when objects themselves do not?

The idea behind this project’s question grew out of a string of provocative inquiries that emerged following exhibitions and recent projects that our alumni and faculty members of the University of Delaware have worked on in the past 10 years (Collecting China [UD-Winterthur, DE], Asia in Amsterdam [PEM, MA], Made for the Americas [MFA Boston, MA], among others). While existing scholarship has recognized the global circulation of objects, artistic forms in the American field sometimes have less to do with the mobility of actual objects from Asia than with translations of Asian aesthetic influences that create new forms in new regions. This project therefore explores ideas about transcultural circulation beyond the concept of objects as commodities, by urging researchers to collaboratively study ideas and influences, across time and space, which have inspired, integrated, and re-generated new aesthetics in and beyond America.

‘Asia’ and ‘America’ are taken in this project as pointers to encourage a mapping of global and multi-directional flow of aesthetics and aesthetic translation, not merely an exchange between Asia and North America. Our long-term goal is to generate a multi-level investigation that comprehensively encompasses Asia, Europe, the Americas and other related world regions into the study of American art and material culture.

For details about the symposium, a graduate student workshop and presentation, and a living repository site for research data, please visit the website. All events are free and open to the public, but registration is required. Lodging is also available at discounted price for registered participants.

Roundtable Panelists
J. Ritchie Garrison (University of Delaware, Winterthur Program, Newark)
Michael Leja (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
Partha Mitter (University of Sussex, emeritus, Oxford)
Alexandra Munroe (Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York City)
Nasser Rabbat (MIT, Cambridge)
Moderated by Vimalin Rujivacharakul (University of Delaware, Art History, Newark)

Speakers (by the order of team members’ last names)

Team 1
Glenn Adamson (New York & London)
Ming Tiampo (Carleton University, Ottawa)

Team 2
Jens Baumgarten (Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Dennis Carr (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Team 3
Ned Cooke (Yale, New Haven)
Dorothy Ko (Barnard/Columbia, New York City)

Team 4
Karina Corrigan (Peabody Essex Museum, Salem)
Femke Diercks (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)

Team 5
Linda Eaton (Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library)
Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick, England)

Team 6
Lee Glazer (Freer|Sackler Galleries, Washington DC)
Stacey Pierson (School of Oriental and African Studies, England)

Team 7
Medill Harvey (American Wing, Metropolitan Museum, New York City)
Forrest McGill (Asian Art Museum, San Francisco)

Team 8
Liu Chang (Tsinghua University & Palace Museum, Beijing)
Greg Landrey (Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, Winterthur)

Team 9
Darielle Mason (Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia)
Asma Naeem (National Portrail Gallery, Washington DC)

Team 10
Marco Musillo (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Florence)
Catharine Dann Roeber (Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, Winterthur)

Francisca Efigenia Meléndez y Durazzo, Portrait of a Girl, ca. 1795, tempera on ivory, 5 × 5 cm (Dallas: Meadows Museum, SMU, Museum Purchase with funds from The Meadows Foundation, MM.08.01.20).

From SMU:

Art and Architecture in the Long Eighteenth Century
HECAA at 25, Conference Program and Registration
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1–4 November 2018

The Art History Department, its graduate program in the Rhetorics of Art, Space, and Culture (RASC/a), and the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University are proud to announce the program for Art and Architecture in the Long Eighteenth Century: HECAA at 25, a conference to be held 1–4 November 2018 in celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture.

HECAA at 25 will present recent research on eighteenth-century visual culture, consider questions of historiography and pedagogy, and chart paths for the future of the field. The program also includes visits to the Meadows Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Kimbell Art Museum.

Come to Texas, y’all!

For the program and conference information, visit: smu.edu/HECAA25

Registration information is available here»

Questions? Contact us at hecaa25@gmail.com.