{"id":3383,"date":"2023-07-18T20:19:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T20:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/emsi\/?page_id=3383"},"modified":"2025-12-16T22:45:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T22:45:28","slug":"visual-material-culture-past-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/seminar-series\/visual-material-culture\/visual-material-culture-past-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual & Material Culture Past Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Seminar Leaders:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Susanna Berger<\/a>, USC
\nDaniela Bleichmar<\/a>, USC
\nVittoria DiPalma<\/a>, USC
\nLisa Pon<\/a>, USC
\nAmy Powell<\/a>, USC<\/p>\n

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2024-2025
\n<\/strong><\/span>Seminar Leaders: Susanna Berger, USC, and Lisa Pon, USC<\/p>\n

October 16, 2024<\/strong>
\nIttai Weinryb, Bard College, Bard Graduate Center
\n“The Body of the Merchant: Art and Experience in the Commercial Revolution”
\nUSC
\nCo-sponsored by the USC Visual Studies Research Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n

April 16, 2025<\/strong>
\nEvonne Levy, University of Toronto
\n“Remediation American Style: Towards a Media Theory of Colonial Latin American Art”
\nUSC
\nCo-sponsored by the USC Visual Studies Research Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n

April 23, 2025<\/strong>
\nJ\u00e9r\u00e9mie Koering, University of Fribourg
\n“A Feast of Images”
\nOnline event
\nCo-sponsored by the USC Visual Studies Research Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2022-2023<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, April 14, 2023\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>
\n“Women in the Making of Early Modern Art and Science”
\n<\/strong>
\nOrganizers
\nDaniela Bleichmar, USC
\nNicole LaBouff, Minneapolis Institute of Art<\/p>\n

Nina Gelbart, Occidental College
\n“Minerva’s French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France”<\/p>\n

Paula Findlen, Stanford University
\n“Artisans of Nature: Gender, Knowledge, and Representation since the Renaissance”<\/p>\n

Jessica Rosenberg, University of Miami
\n“The feminine arts of redistribution: herbs, poems, and slips in Elizabethan England”<\/p>\n

Anne Secord, University of Cambridge
\n“‘my trembling hand’: Ellen Hutchins’s self-education in botanical art”<\/p>\n

Claudia Swan, Washington University in St. Louis
\n“Threading the Needle: Women and Natural History in the Dutch Republic”
\nUniversity of Southern California<\/p>\n

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2021-2022<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, May 6, 2022<\/b>
\n<\/b>“Currency, Capital, Coin”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Organizers
\nVittoria di Palma, USC
\nAmy Powell, USC
\n<\/span>
\nParticipants
\nKarwan Fatah-Black, Universiteit Leiden<\/span>
\n<\/span>Lauren Jacobi, MIT<\/span>
\n<\/span>Jennifer Morgan, NYU<\/span>
\n<\/span>Rebecca Spang, Indiana University, Bloomington<\/span>
\n<\/span>Allison Stielau, University College London<\/span>
\n<\/span>Online<\/span><\/p>\n

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2020-2021<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, October 2, 2020<\/b>
\n<\/span>Reimagining the Museum: “Difficult” Objects<\/strong>
\n<\/span>
\nOrganizers
\n<\/span>Daniela Bleichmar, University of Southern California, Departments of Art History and History<\/span>
\n<\/span>Nancy Lutkehaus, University of Southern California, Department of Anthropology<\/span><\/p>\n

Participants
\n<\/span>Dennis Carr, Huntington Art Museum<\/span>
\n<\/span>Joshua Garrett-Davis, The Autry Museum of the American West<\/span>
\n<\/span>Rebecca Hall, USC Pacific Asia Museum<\/span>
\n<\/span>Laurel Kendall, American Museum of Natural History<\/span>
\n<\/span>Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, NYU \/ Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews<\/span>
\n<\/span>Kailani Polzak, University of California, Santa Cruz<\/span>
\n<\/span>Matthew Robb, Fowler Museum at UCLA<\/span>
\n<\/span>Nancy Um, SUNY Binghamton<\/span>
\n<\/span>Winnie Wong, University of California, Berkeley<\/span>
\n<\/span>Online\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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2019-2020<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Wednesday, September 25, 2019<\/b>
\n<\/span>Joseph Monteyne, University of British Columbia<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Making and Unmaking the Paper World: Dark Media and Graphic Performance in Late Georgian Britain”<\/span>
\n<\/span>University of Southern California<\/span><\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 20, 2019<\/b>
\n<\/span>Carolyn Yerkes, Princeton University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Piranesi Works”<\/span>
\n<\/span>University of Southern California<\/span><\/p>\n

Friday & Saturday, April 17 & 18, 2020<\/b>
\n<\/b>Big Paper: Large Designs in the Renaissance<\/span>
\n<\/span>Cancelled due to Covid<\/span><\/p>\n

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2018-2019<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday, September 20, 2018<\/b>
\n<\/span>Bronwen Wilson, University of California, Los Angeles<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Perspective, the Horizon, and the Human Compass: On the Phenomenology of Conversion and some Early Modern Mediterranean Travel Images”<\/span>
\n<\/span>University of Southern California<\/span><\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 7, 2018<\/b>
\n<\/span>Walter Melion, Emory College<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Jesus, Mary, and Joseph as Artisans of the Heart and Soul in Manuscript MPM R 35 Vita S. Iosephi beatissimae Virginis sponsi of ca. 1600”<\/span>
\n<\/span>University of Southern California<\/span><\/p>\n

Wednesday, January 30, 2019<\/b>
\n<\/span>Elizabeth Honig, University of California, Berkeley<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Lodging Dwelling Painting: Place and the Placeless in Early Modern England”<\/span>
\n<\/span>University of Southern California<\/span><\/p>\n

Monday, April 22, 2019<\/b>
\n<\/span>Surekha Davies, John Carter Brown Library<\/span>
\n<\/span>“<\/span>Curiosity Cabinets in Early Modern Europe: Spaces of Disruption”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

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2017-2018<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Monday, February 26, 2018<\/b>
\n<\/span>Robert Wellington, Australian National University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Onontio’s Reward: When Louis XIV’s Head Hung from Native American Necks”<\/span>
\n<\/span>University of Southern California<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

2016-2017<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Monday, February 6, 2017<\/b>
\n<\/span>“Visual History: The Past in Pictures: The 16th and 17th Centuries”<\/strong>
\n<\/span>
\nEvonne Levy, University of Toronto<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Council of Trent in Images: Subjects, Audiences, and Intermediality”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nPeter Miller, Bard Graduate Center<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Antiquarianism and Its Images”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nChristopher Wood, New York University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Referential Image”<\/span>
\n<\/span>University of Southern California<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

2015-2016<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Wednesday, September 30, 2015<\/b>
\n<\/span>William H. Sherman, Victoria and Albert Museum<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Decoding the Renaissance: 500 Years of Codes and Ciphers”<\/span>
\n<\/span>University of Southern California<\/span><\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 14, 2015<\/b>
\n<\/span>Susan Dackerman, Harvard Art Museums and Getty Research Institute<\/span>
\n<\/span>“D\u00fcrer’s Prints and the Mobility of Knowledge”<\/span>
\n<\/span>University of Southern California<\/span><\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 18, 2015<\/b>
\n<\/span>C\u00e9cile Fromont, University of Chicago<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Envisioning Cross-Cultural Knowledge: Capuchin Images of Early Modern Kongo and Angola”<\/span>
\n<\/span>University of Southern California<\/span><\/p>\n

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2014-2015<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday, September 18, 2014<\/b>
\n<\/span>Depicting Spanish American Nature<\/strong>
\n<\/span>
\nAlejandra Rojas-Silva, Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cA New Nature: Colonial Subjectivity in Sixteenth Century Botanical Illustrations\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nValeria A. Lopez Fadul, Ph.D. Candidate, Princeton University<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cFrancisco Hern\u00e1ndez and the Project of a Universal Natural History (1560-1587)\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nAlicia Lubowski-Jahn, Independent Curator<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cAlexander von Humboldt and The Tropical American Landscape: The Intertwining of Pictorial
\nRepresentation and Humboldt’s Science\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>University of Southern California
\nCo-sponsored with the USC Visual Studies Research Institute.<\/em>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, March 27, 2015<\/b>
\n<\/span>Sandra Rebok, The Huntington Library\/ Spanish National Research Council<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Between art and sciences: Alexander von Humboldt and the visual representation of American nature”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

2013-2014<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday, October 24, 2013<\/b>
\n<\/b>Clara Bargellini, Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cEngraving and Empire in Spanish America”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Getty Center<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

2012-2013<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 31, 2012<\/b>
\n<\/span>Model Lives: Saintly Anatomy, Moving Automata, and Ideal Societies in Early Modern Europe<\/strong>
\n<\/span>
\nBradford Bouley, Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar, USC History<\/span>
\n<\/span>“You Gotta Have Guts: Anatomy as Proof of Sanctity in Early Modern Europe”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nJessica Keating, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Early Modern Visual Culture, USC Art History<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Empire on the Move: Early Modern German Automata”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nJulianne Werlin, Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar, USC English<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Francis Bacon and the Misinterpretation of Reality”<\/span>
\n<\/span>USC<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, February 2, 2013<\/b>
\n<\/span>Proving the Supernatural: Belief and Nature in Early Modern Europe<\/strong>
\n<\/span>
\nOrganizer: Bradford Bouley, University of Southern California<\/span><\/p>\n

Bradford Bouley, USC
\n“The Most Difficult Diagnosis: Debating the Supernatural in the Republic of Letters”
\n
\n<\/span>A. Katie Harris, UC Davis
\n<\/span>“Proving Sanctity: Experimentation and Authentication of Relics in the Early Modern Mediterranean”<\/span><\/p>\n

Jonathan Seitz, Drexel University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Exorcist as Expert”<\/span><\/p>\n

Lydia Barnett, University of Michigan
\n“Putting the Natural in Natural History”
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, February 8, 2013<\/b>
\nAnimals and Anthropocentrism in the Early Modern World<\/strong>
\n<\/b>
\nOrganizer: Jessica Keating, University of Southern California
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>Katie Chenoweth, Washington and Lee University
\n“The Beast, the Sovereign, and the Letter: The Posthumanist French of Fran\u00e7ois Ier”
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>Holly Dugan, George Washington University
\n“To Bark with Judgment: Playing Baboon in Early Modern London”
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>Christina Normore, Northwestern University
\n“Aping Courtiers in Valois Burgundy”
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>Zeb Tortorici, New York University
\n“Archival Animals: Species and Colonialism in New Spain”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

2010-2011<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, October 30. 2010<\/b>
\n<\/b>Global Visions: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern World<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sven Dupre, University of Ghent
\n“The Collection of the Portuguese Merchant-Banker Emmanuel Ximenes: Global Trade, Local Exchanges, and Knowledge in Early 17th-Century Antwerp”<\/p>\n

Mary C. Fuller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
\n“Bringing Roanoke Home: England’s First Colony and the Media of Early Modern Geography”<\/p>\n

Stephanie Leitche, Florida International University
\n“Flatland: Maps, Marvels & the Edge of the World”<\/p>\n

Todd P. Olson, University of California, Berkeley
\n“Printed Matter: The Graphic Translation of the Codex Mendoza”<\/p>\n

Sofia Sanabrais, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
\n“‘The Spaniards of Asia’: The Encounter between Japan and New Spain and the Impact of Material Culture”<\/p>\n

Friday, February, 18, 2011<\/b>
\n<\/b>Visual and Material Culture in Pre- and Post-Conquest Mexico and Peru
\n<\/strong>
\nCecilia Klein, University of California, Los Angeles
\n“Blindfolds and the Eternal Return in Postclassic Mexican Art”<\/p>\n

Stella Nair, University of California, Riverside
\n“Reflections on Architecture, Space, and Colonialism in the Andes”<\/p>\n

Friday and Saturday, March 5, 2011<\/b>
\n<\/b>Richard Kagan, Johns Hopkins University
\n“Policia and the Plaza: Utopia and Dystopia in the Colonial City”<\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday, March 31, 2011<\/b>
\n<\/b>Jennifer Hughes, University of California, Riverside
\n“Material Culture and Religion in Latin America: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches”<\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, April 15, 2011<\/b>
\n<\/b>Dana Leibsohn, Smith College<\/span><\/p>\n

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2003-2004<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

December 1, 2003<\/strong>
\nKeven Salatino, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
\n“Fuseli’s Phallus: Art, Sex, & Imagination”<\/p>\n

February 7, 2004<\/strong>
\nJohn Ghazvinian, Christ Church College, Oxford
\n“‘A certain tickling humour’: English Travellers Abroad, 1550-1650”<\/p>\n

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