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2025: Big Paper: Large Design in the Renaissance<\/strong>
\nJanuary 24 & 25, 2025<\/p>\n

Conference organizer: Lisa Pon, USC<\/p>\n

Session chairs:
\nFrederic Clark, USC
\nClaire Farago, University of Colorado, Boulder
\nLisa Pon, USC<\/p>\n

Juliana Barone, The Warburg Institute
\n“The many ‘faces’ of Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus<\/em>: Archaeology and Reconstruction of Selected Sheets”<\/p>\n

Shira Brisman, University of Pennsylvania
\n“The Medium of Myth”<\/p>\n

Tracy Cosgriff, College of Wooster
\n“Raphael on Page, Parchment, and Plaster”<\/p>\n

Mari Yoko Hara, University of Notre Dame
\n“A Paper-Based Practice: Experiential Drawing in Baldassare Peruzzi’s Architectural Drawing Process”<\/p>\n

Heather MacDonald, Getty Foundation
\n“The Getty Paper Project”<\/p>\n

Maurizio Michelozzi, Uffizi Gallery
\n“The Conservation of Raphael’s ben finito cartone<\/em> for The School of Athens<\/em>”<\/p>\n

Morgan Ng, Yale University
\n“Architectural Drawing Beyond Paper”<\/p>\n

Michael Waters, Columbia University
\n“Print and the Architectural Experience of Big Paper in the Renaissance”<\/p>\n

Organized in cultural partnership with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Los Angeles.
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

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2023: Women in Art and Science in the Early Modern World
\n<\/strong><\/span>November 10 & 11, 2023
\n
\n<\/em>Conference organizers:
\nDaniela Bleichmar, University of Southern California
\nNicole LaBouff, LACMA<\/p>\n

Elaine M. Ayers, New York University
\n\u201cWomen, Plants, and Colonial Legacies: Botanical Study, Credit, and Violence in the 19th Century\u201d<\/p>\n

Janet Browne, Harvard University
\n\u201cStrategy on the Sidelines: Four Victorian Women Try to Contribute to Art and Science\u201d<\/p>\n

Margaret Carlyle, The University of British Columbia, Okanagan
\n\u201cRevealing and Concealing Women\u2019s Secrets: Wax Sculptors in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World\u201d<\/p>\n

Nicole LaBouff, LACMA
\n\u201cJane Barrington\u2019s Painted Garden: Artistry and Horticultural Expertise in Georgian England\u201d<\/p>\n

Jessica C. Linker, Northeastern University
\n\u201cInvisible Hands: Women and the Art of Early American Scientific Books, 1800\u20131850\u201d<\/p>\n

Laura Mitchell, University of California, Irvine
\n\u201cGhosts and Informants: Looking for African Women in Eighteenth-Century Natural History\u201d<\/p>\n

Carole Nataf, Courtauld Institute of Art
\n\u201cTasteful Science in the\u00a0Jardin du roi<\/em>: Madeleine Fran\u00e7oise Basseporte\u2019s Shell Paintings on Vellum (1747\u20131768)\u201d<\/p>\n

Sarah Waheed, University of South Carolina
\n\u201cMuslim Women\u2019s Patronage of Art and Science in Early Modern India\u201d<\/p>\n

Winnie Wong, University of California, Berkeley
\n\u201cWives and Flowers: Naming Substitutes in 18th-Century Guangzhou\u201d<\/p>\n

2022: After 1800: Rethinking Revolution and Counter-Revolution<\/strong><\/span>
\nJune 10 & 11, 2022<\/p>\n

Conference organizers:
\nNathan Perl-Rosenthal, University of Southern California
\nCl\u00e9ment Thibaud, EHESS-Mondes Am\u00e9ricains<\/p>\n

Practices Panel
\nBrian DeLay, University of California, Berkeley
\nDavid A. Bell, Princeton University
\nGenevi\u00e8ve Verdo, EHESS<\/p>\n

Institutions Panel
\nAndr\u00e9a Slemian, Universidade Federale de S\u00e3o Paulo
\nJos\u00e9 Maria Portillo Valdes, Universidad del Pa\u00eds Vasco
\nCl\u00e9ment Thibaud, EHESS-Mondes Am\u00e9ricains-CERMA<\/p>\n

Actors Panel
\nChuck Walker, University of California, Davis
\nNathalie Pierre, Howard University
\nNathan Perl-Rosenthal, University of Southern California<\/p>\n

Mathieu Ferradou, Universit\u00e9 Paris-Nanterre
\n“After 1800 from an Irish Perspective: the 1797-1798 Counter-Revolutionary Turn”<\/p>\n

Silvia Escanilla Huerta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
\n“”The Fate was to Banish or Kill the Chaperones”: The Revolutionary Experiment in Hu\u00e1naco”<\/p>\n

Glauco Schettini, Fordham University
\n“Nations under God, 1808-48”<\/p>\n

Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Spillemaeker, EHESS
\n“The Royalist Military Reaction: Complex Logics of Power”<\/p>\n

Miriam Liebman, Adams Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society
\n“The Republican Revolutionary: Ruth Baldwin Barlow in Europe, 1789-1815”<\/p>\n

Matthijs Tieleman, Arizona State University
\n“A Constitutional Revolution”<\/p>\n

Ana Joanna Vergara Sierra, University of Minnesota
\n“The Escribano of Babe: Power, Exile, and Enslavement in the Venezuelan Plains during the War of Independence (1806-1835)”<\/p>\n

Carrie Glenn, Niagara University
\n“After Haitian Independence: The “Quadroon” in Exile”<\/p>\n

2019: Virginia 1619: A California Conversation
\n<\/strong><\/span>September 20, 2019
\n
\n<\/em>Conference organizer: Peter Mancall, University of Southern California<\/p>\n

Emily Berquist Soule, California State University, Long Beach
\n\u201cFrom Africa to the Ocean Sea: Slavery in the Origins of the Spanish Empire\u201d<\/p>\n

Alex Borucki, University of California, Irvine
\n\u201cThe White Lion and the Intra-American Slave Trade Database at www.slavevoyages.org\u201d<\/p>\n

Alejandra Dubcovsky, University of California, Riverside
\n\u201c1619 from the Spanish Atlantic\u201d<\/p>\n

Jack P. Green, John Hopkins University
\n\u201c1619, Latin America, and Public Memory\u201d<\/p>\n

Steven Hackel, University of California, Riverside
\n\u201c1619\/2019: Where are We?\u201d<\/p>\n

Mark Hanna, University of California, San Diego
\n\u201cJamestown, Nest of Pirates\u201d<\/p>\n

Alexander Haskell, University of California, Riverside
\n\u201cOur Anniversaries, Our Selves\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael Jarvis, University of Rochester
\n\u201cVisualizing the Worlds of 1619\u201d<\/p>\n

Katie Moore, University of California, Santa Barbara
\n\u201cSlavery and the Origins of American Money\u201d<\/p>\n

Melissa Morris, University of Wyoming
\n\u201cVirginia 1619 and Early Modernity\u201d<\/p>\n

Paul Musselwhite, Dartmouth College
\n\u201cContinental Histories of the Jamestown Era\u201d<\/p>\n

Lindsay O\u2019Neill, University of Southern California
\n\u201cEchoes of 1619: Slavery, Conversion & British Expansion 100 Years Later\u201d<\/p>\n

Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, University of Southern California
\n\u201cRevolutionaries Look Back\u201d<\/p>\n

Carla Pestana, University of California, Los Angeles
\n\u201c1619 as synecdoche\u201d<\/p>\n

James Rice, Tufts University
\n\u201cSome Reflections on Politics at the Founding, circa 1619\u201d<\/p>\n

Robert Ritchie, Huntington Library
\n\u201cWhat about paint?\u201d<\/p>\n

Carole Shammas, University of Southern California
\n\u201c1619 \u2013 Questions about the prequel and sequel\u201d<\/p>\n

Brenda Stevenson, University of California, Los Angeles
\n\u201cConsidering 1619: Looking Back from Home\u201d<\/p>\n

Dana Velasco Murillo, University of California, San Diego
\n\u201c1616: Conquest and Indigenous Slavery in Northern New Spain\u201d<\/p>\n

2017: Indigenous Knowledge and the Making of Colonial Latin America<\/strong><\/span>
\nDecember 8 & 9, 2017<\/p>\n

Conference organizers:
\nDaniela Bleichmar, University of Southern California
\nKim Richter, Getty Research Institute<\/p>\n

Amber Brian, University of Iowa
\n\u201cConquest Accounts, Native Knowledge, and the Trope of Authenticity\u201d<\/p>\n

Kelly McDonough, University of Texas at Austin
\n\u201cReframing the Relaciones Geogr\u00e1ficas<\/em> of Colonial Mexico: A Corpus View of Indigenous Knowledge\u201d<\/p>\n

Davide Domenici, Universit\u00e1 di Bologna
\n\u201cColors of Knowledge, Knowledge of Colors\u201d<\/p>\n

Gabriela Siracusano, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero
\n\u201cTo Think about Nothing: Native Creativity between Material Practices and Representations in the Southern Andes\u201d<\/p>\n

Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, University of Florida
\n\u201cIndigenous Knowledge in the Home: Domestic Textiles in Colonial Peru and Mexico\u201d<\/p>\n

Claudia Brosseder, University of Illinois
\n\u201cRecalling Conquest(s): Amazonian Feathers in the Making of Multicultural Colonial Peru\u201d<\/p>\n

Daniela Bleichmar, University of Southern California
\n\u201cThe Legible Image: Translating Pictorial Knowledge in Early Colonial Mexico\u201d<\/p>\n

Mariana De Campos Fran\u00e7ozo, Universiteit Leiden
\n\u201cIndigenous Knowledge in Dutch Brazil: From Territorial Conquest to Natural History in the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Pablo F. G\u00f3mez, University of Wisconsin-Madison
\n\u201cA Caribbean Natural History: Amerindians and the Creation of the New World\u201d<\/p>\n

Martha Few, Pennsylvania State University
\n\u201c\u201dThese Noxious, Evil Little Animals\u201d: Locust Swarms, Insect Extermination Campaigns, and the Politics of
\nIndigenous Knowledge in Colonial Mesoamerica\u201d<\/p>\n

Allison Bigelow, University of Virginia
\n\u201cSeasons of Gold: Rethinking Indigenous Knowledge Production in the Siglo de Oro\u201d<\/p>\n

Kris Lane, Tulane University
\n\u201cBeyond El Dorado: Indigenous Knowledge of Mines and Metals in Early Colombia and Ecuador\u201d<\/p>\n

Co-sponsored by the Seaver Institute and Getty Research Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n

2017: Ideological Origins<\/em> at 50: Power, Rights, and the Rise and Fall of Free States<\/strong><\/span>
\nApril 20, 2017<\/p>\n

Conference organizer: Peter Mancall, University of Southern California<\/p>\n

Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University
\n\u201cConfessional Thoughts on Re-Reading: The Ideological Origins\u201d<\/p>\n

Patrice Higonnet, Harvard University
\n\u201cPragmatic Idealism: Its Causes, Comparative Meaning, and Current Future\u201d<\/p>\n

Jack Rakove, Stanford University
\n\u201cIdeas, Ideology, and the Anomalous Problem of Revolutionary Causes\u201d<\/p>\n

Danielle Allan, Harvard University
\n\u201cThe Invention of \u201cThe People\u201d: The Sussex Declaration\u201d<\/p>\n

Daniel Hulsebosch, New York University, School of Law
\n\u201cThe Ideological Fulfillment: Constitution-making and the Law of Nations\u201d<\/p>\n

Eric Nelson, Harvard University
\n\u201cWhat Kind of Book is the Ideological Origins of the American Revolution<\/em>?\u201d<\/p>\n

Eric Slauter, University of Chicago
\n\u201cThe Literature of Revolution and the Origins of Ideological Origins<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Colin Kidd, University of St. Andrews
\n\u201cGlobal Turns: Other States, Other Civilization\u201d<\/p>\n

Gordon Wood, Brown University
\n\u201cThe Ideological Origins of the American Revolution<\/em>: A Reassessment\u201d<\/p>\n

2016: Global Maritime History<\/strong><\/span>
\nMarch 4 & 5, 2016
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

Conference organizer: Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, University of Southern California<\/p>\n

Lauren Benton, Vanderbilt University<\/p>\n

Naor Ben Yehoyada, University of Cambridge
\n“Conjuring up the Sea: Historical Anthropology of Maritime Region Formation”<\/p>\n

Hannah Farber, Boston College
\n“Lines, Zones, and Basins: The Political Geography of Global Maritime Trade Considered as a Response to Globalization-Speak”<\/p>\n

Maria Fusaro, University of Exeter
\n“The Global Relevance of the European ‘Ocean’: A Historiographical Reassessment of the Early Modern Mediterranean”<\/p>\n

Mark Hanna, UC San Diego
\n“Pirates or Navies? Murky Waters in the Early Modern Maritime World”<\/p>\n

David Igler, UC Irvine
\n“Indigenous Maritime Travelers and Visual Representation: The Case of Kadu and Ludwig Choris in the Pacific Ocean”<\/p>\n

Lisa Norling, University of Minnesota
\n“Working Women Who Got Wet: Reflections on Women’s Involvement in Early Modern Fisheries”<\/p>\n

Carla Rahn Phillips, University of Minnesota
\n“Coercion and the Maritime Tradition, or Why did Anyone go to Sea?”<\/p>\n

Sebastian Prange, University of British Columbia
\n“Fluid Sovereignties: Maritime Claims and Contests in the early-modern Indian Ocean”<\/p>\n

Mark Raffety, University of Redlands
\n“‘The Law is the Lord of the Sea’: Maritime Law as Global Maritime History”<\/p>\n

Margaret Schotte, York University
\n“When Sailing was ‘Big Science’”<\/p>\n

2015: World and Ground: New Early American Histories<\/strong><\/span>
\nMarch 6 & 7, 2015<\/p>\n

Conference organizer: Christopher Grasso, College of William & Mary<\/p>\n

Juliana Barr, University of Florida
\n\u201c\u2019There\u2019s No Such Thing as \u2018Pre-History\u2019: What Chaco, Cahokia, and the Continent\u2019s Longue Dur\u00e9e <\/em>Can Tell Us about Colonial America\u201d<\/p>\n

Karen Halttunen, University of Southern California
\n\u201cWorld History, Native Ground: Travels with Ezra Stiles\u201d<\/p>\n

Eric Hinderaker, University of Utah
\n\u201cArms in the Colonial City: The Military Revolution in the Americas, 1689\u20131775\u201d<\/p>\n

Susan Juster, University of Michigan
\n\u201cFather Andrew White\u2019s \u2018Great Cross\u2019: Rethinking the Protestant-Catholic Encounter in English America\u201d<\/p>\n

Cathy Matson, University of Delaware
\n\u201cAt the Ragged Edge: Philadelphia Counting Houses in a Revolutionary Era\u201d<\/p>\n

Gregory O\u2019Malley, University of California, Santa Cruz
\n\u201cSouls and Barrels: The Slave Market of Colonial Charleston\u201d<\/p>\n

Mark Peterson, University of California, Berkeley
\n\u201cBoston and the Emergence of Capitalism, 1540\u20131815\u201d<\/p>\n

Joshua Piker, Editor of William & Mary Quarterly
\n<\/em>\u201cFrom Ground to World, Or, The Creek Who Went to London with an Eagle and Came Home with a Lion\u201d<\/p>\n

Brett Rushforth, College of William & Mary
\n\u201cThe Merchant and the Englishwoman: Intimate Networks, Colonial Law, and the Personality of Empire\u201d<\/p>\n

Eric Slauter, University of Chicago
\n\u201cA Slave Sold Near the Liberty Tree: Scipio Moorhead and the End of Slavery\u201d<\/p>\n

Sophie White, University of Notre Dame
\n\u201c\u201dNot so denatured as to kill her child\u201d: Slavery, Motherhood and the French Empire\u201d<\/p>\n

2013: Ephemerality and Durability in Early Modern Visual and Material Culture<\/strong><\/span>
\nSeptember 27, 2013<\/p>\n

Conference organizers:
\nJessica Keating, USC
\nSean Roberts, USC
\nAlexander Marr, University of Cambridge<\/p>\n

Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge
\n\u201cStreet Food: Eating Out in Early Modern Europe\u201d<\/p>\n

Dale Kinney, Bryn Mawr
\n\u201cThe Stones of Rome\u201d<\/p>\n

Timothy McCall, Villanova University
\n\u201cEphemeral Phenomena and the Material Culture of Signorial Adornment and Array\u201d<\/p>\n

Lucy Razzall, University of Cambridge
\n\u201c\u2019Hail Holy Image\u2019: Late Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts Pasted into Boxes\u201d<\/p>\n

Sean Roberts, University of Southern California
\n\u201cNature and Artifice in Botticelli\u2019s Pallas and the Centaur<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Mark Rosen, University of Texas, Dallas
\n\u201cFreeing the Captives: Revolutionary Rhetoric and the Remaking of Royal Monuments\u201d<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Upper, University of Cambridge
\n\u201cSaving Waste: Artifacts of the Earliest Color-Printing Techniques\u201d<\/p>\n

J.K Barret, University of Texas, Austin
\n\u201cImminent Futures: Ephemeral Legacy and Durable Form in Late Shakespeare\u201d
\nRespondent: Keith Pluymers, University of Southern California<\/p>\n

Suzanna Ivanic, University of Cambridge
\n\u201cMeanings of Matter: Objects in the Kunstkammer of Rudolf II of Prague (1583\u201316122)\u201d
\nRespondent: Lauren Dodds, University of Southern California<\/p>\n

Roundtable Discussion: Jessica Keating, Sean Roberts, Alexander Marr, Peter Mancall and Dale Kinney<\/p>\n

Lavinia Maddaluno, University of Cambridge
\n\u201cDurable Machines and Ephemeral Powers: Politics and Scientific Practices of a Late Eighteenth-Century Milanese Mathematician\u201d
\nRespondent: Jeremy Glatstein, University of Southern California<\/p>\n

Jose Ramon Marcaida, University of Cambridge
\n\u201cDon Juan de Espina and his Chair: Material Culture and Ephemerality in a 17th<\/sup>-Century Spanish Collection\u201d<\/p>\n

Richard Serjeantson, University of Cambridge
\n\u201cInvestigating the Ephemeral in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy\u201d<\/p>\n

Emily Berquist Soule, Cal State University, Long Beach
\n\u201cPictures without Words, Objects without Bodies: The Confounding \u201cCodex\u201d and Collections of Trujillo, Peru\u201d<\/p>\n

Michelle Wallis, University of Cambridge
\n\u201cPapering Over the Past: Ephemeral Print and the Early Modern History of Medicine, 1660\u20131720\u201d
\nRespondent: Penelope Geng, University of Southern California<\/p>\n

Sophie Waring, University of Cambridge
\n\u201cIn Pursuit of the Ephemeral and Durable: Weights, Measures and the Figure of the Earth\u201d
\nRespondent: Nicholas Gliserman, University of Southern California<\/p>\n

Organized in collaboration with CRASSH, University of Cambridge.<\/em><\/p>\n

2013: <\/strong>Objects in Motion in the Early Modern World<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>
\nMay 10, 2013
\nGetty Center
\n
\n<\/em>Conference organizers:
\nDaniela Bleichmar, USC
\nMeredith Martin, Wellesley College
\nJoanne Pillsbury, Getty Research Institute<\/p>\n

Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Queen\u2019s University, Ontario
\n\u201cFrom the Rue Saint-Jacques to the Paraguayan Outback: The Itinerant lives of Rococo Decorative Prints in Eighteenth-Century South America\u201d<\/p>\n

Daniela Bleichmar, University of Southern California
\n\u201cThe Itinerant Lives of Mexican Codices\u201d<\/p>\n

Zirwat Chowdhury, University of California, Los Angeles
\n\u201cMonumentality in Motion: A Mughal Audience Tent in Late Eighteenth-Century Jodhpur\u201d<\/p>\n

Chanchal Dadlani, Wake Forest University
\n\u201cTranslating, Transporting, and Transforming Mughal History: An Illustrated French Translation of the \u2018Ain-I Akbari<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Jessica Keating, University of Southern California
\n\u201cDiana Transformed: The Case of the Diana Automaton<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Dana Leibsohn, Smith College
\n\u201cCoins for Candles: Asian Commodities and the Visual Culture of Spanish America\u201d<\/p>\n

Meredith Martin, Wellesley College
\n\u201cMirror Reflections: Louis XIV, Phra Narai, and the Material Culture of Kingship\u201d<\/p>\n

Sandy Prita Meier, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
\n\u201cPorcelain Objects and Mercantile Aesthetics: Trading Culture in Coastal East Africa\u201d<\/p>\n

Avinoam Shalem, Institut f\u00fcr Kunstgeschichte, Munich
\n\u201cClassicizing the New: The Publication of the History of the New World<\/em> (Tarih \u00fcl-Hind il garbi el-m\u00fcsemma bi-Hadis-i nev<\/em>)\u201d<\/p>\n

Mary Sheriff, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
\n\u201cTechnology in Paradise\u201d<\/p>\n

Claudia Swan, Northwestern University
\n\u201cTrading in the Senses: Exotica On and Off the Early Modern Dutch Marketplace\u201d<\/p>\n

Nancy Um, State University of New York, Binghamton
\n\u201cChairs, Writing Tables, and Chests: On the Postures of Commercial Documentation in the Early Modern Indian Ocean\u201d<\/p>\n

Co-sponsored by the Getty Research Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n

2012: New World of Projects<\/span>,<\/span> 1550\u20131750<\/span><\/strong>
\nJune 23, 2012
\n<\/em><\/strong>
\nEric Ash, Wayne State University
\n\u201cTransforming the Future of the Fens: Drainage, Improvement, and Projectors in Seventeenth-Century England\u201d<\/p>\n

Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University
\n\u201cProjecting into the Future\u201d<\/p>\n

Mordechai Feingold, California Institute of Technology
\n\u201cProjectors and learned Projects in Early Modern England\u201d<\/p>\n

Jonsson Fredrik, University of Chicago
\n\u201cCornucopian Projects\u201d<\/p>\n

Vera Keller, University of Oregon
\n\u201cProjecting New Worlds in Europe\u201d<\/p>\n

Thomas Leng, University of Sheffield
\n\u201cMastering the market in colonial staples: Benjamin Worsley\u2019 \u2018project\u2019 of the growth of sugar\u201d<\/p>\n

Ted McCormick, Concordia University
\n\u201cPopulation, Wealth, and Government: Three Seventeenth-Century Projects at the Disciplinary Margins\u201d<\/p>\n

Sarah Rivett, Princeton University
\n\u201cSavage Sounds and Missionary Linguistics in Seventeenth-Century North America\u201d<\/p>\n

Abigail Swingen, Texas Tech University
\n\u201cThe 300 Malefactors: Convict Transportation and Unfree Labor in the English Caribbean Colonies\u201d<\/p>\n

Carl Wennerlind, Barnard College
\n\u201cFrom Hartlib to Linnaeus: Science, Spirituality, and Political Economy\u201d<\/p>\n

Koji Yamamoto, University of Edinburgh
\n\u201cMoses Stringer: A Chymical Projector taking an Imperial Turn\u201d<\/p>\n

Anya Zilberstein, Concordia and Rachel Carson Center
\n\u201c\u2019Mostly Temperate\u2019: Projecting the Climate in Northeastern America\u201d<\/p>\n

2011: Ingenious Acts: The Nature of Invention in Early Modern Europe<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>
\nApril 1, 2011
\n<\/em>
\nConference organizer: Alexander Marr, University of Southern California<\/p>\n

Paul Binski, University of Cambridge
\n\u201cGothic Invention\u201d<\/p>\n

Timothy Chesters, Royal Holloway, University of London
\n\u201cMontaigne: The Lure of Invention\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael Cole, Columbia University
\n\u201cWhat did Michelangelo Invent?\u201d<\/p>\n

Frances Gage, Buffalo State University, SUNY
\n\u201c\u2019Fantasia\u2019 and the Habit of Invention in Seicento<\/em> Rome\u201d<\/p>\n

Katherine Graham Isard, Columbia University
\n\u201cVincenzo Scamozzi, Architectural Commonplaces, and Architectural Ingenuity\u201d<\/p>\n

Matthew L. Jones, Columbia University
\n\u201cReinventing the (Stepped) Wheel: Invention and New Science around Enlightenment Calculating Machines\u201d<\/p>\n

Vera Keller, EMSI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Southern California
\n\u201cThe Murder of Invention\u201d<\/p>\n

Rhodri Lewis, University of Oxford
\n\u201cLiterate Experience? Francis Bacon on Reading, Imagination, and Discovery\u201d<\/p>\n

Jessica Ratcliffe, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
\n\u201c\u2019Pretended Good and Profitable\u2019: Vernacular Representations of Projectors and Technological Invention, c. 1630\u201370\u201d<\/p>\n

Sean Roberts, University of Southern California
\n\u201cInventing Engraving in Vasari\u2019s Florence\u201d<\/p>\n

Daniel Rosenberg, University of Oregon
\n\u201cData Before the Fact\u201d<\/p>\n

Bruce Smith, University of Southern California
\n\u201cThe Congeniality of Shakespeare\u2019s Genius\u201d<\/p>\n

Elly Truitt, Bryn Mawr College
\n\u201cHistory and Invention in the Middle Ages\u201d<\/p>\n

2010: Image and Devotion in the Early Modern Spanish World<\/strong><\/span>
\n<\/strong>May 7 & 8, 2010
\n<\/em>
\nClara Bargellini, Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico
\n\u201cThe Permanence of the Religious Image in New Spain\u201d<\/p>\n

Luis Corteguerra, University of Kansas
\n\u201cThe Sacred Object of Desire\u201d<\/p>\n

Thomas Cummins, Harvard University
\n\u201cThe Indulgent Image: Prints in the New York, Production, Circulation, and Innovation\u201d<\/p>\n

Kenneth Mills, University of Toronto
\n\u201cSacred Journeys and Difficult Middles in the Early Modern Spanish World\u201d<\/p>\n

Jeanette Favrot Peterson, University of California, Santa Barbara
\n\u201cOn the Matter of the Sacred\u201d<\/p>\n

Tanya Tiffany, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
\n\u201cDevotion and Desire: Diego Vel\u00e1zquez\u2019s Virgin of the Immaculate Conception <\/em>and Vision of Saint John the Evangelist<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Cordula Van Wyhe, York University<\/p>\n

Sherry Velasco, University of Southern California
\n\u201cScreening Ecstasy: St. Teresa on Film\u201d<\/p>\n

Charlene Villasenor-Black, University of California, Los Angeles
\n\u201cSacred Art and Censorship: The Breasts and Body of the Virgin Mary\u201d<\/p>\n

Alison Weber, University of Virginia
\n\u201cImages, Miracles, and Living Saints in Early Modern Spain\u201d<\/p>\n

Christopher Wilson, Holton-Arms School<\/p>\n

2007: Collecting Across Cultures in the Early Modern World<\/strong><\/span>
\nMay 10, 11, & 12, 2007
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

Lisa Jardine, Queen Mary University of London
\n“The Anomaly of Exchange in Antwerp: Anglo-Dutch Cultural Exchange in the 1640s and 50s”<\/p>\n

Tom Cummins, Harvard University
\n“Cosas Extraordinarias<\/em>: America & the Anticipation of the Royal Desires of Charles V & Phillip II”<\/p>\n

Janice Katz, Art Institute of Chicago
\n“Fools for Art: Two Daimyo as Collectors in 17th-Century Japan”<\/p>\n

Dana Leibsohn, Smith College
\n“From Manila to Mexico, from Parian to Parlor: Interpreting Spanish American Desires for Asian Objects”<\/p>\n

Michael North, University of Griefswald, Germany
\n“Collecting Art in European Colonial Settlements in Asia (17th & 18th Centuries)”<\/p>\n

Juan Pimentel
\n“Dead Natures or Still Lives? Collecting, Art, and Science in Spanish Baroque Culture”<\/p>\n

Anne Goldgar, King’s College, London
\n“The Domestication of the Exotic: Dutch Naturalia, Fashion, and Boredom”<\/p>\n

David J. Roxburgh, Harvard University
\n“‘Doing European and Chinese’ (farangi-saz va khata’i-saz): European and Chinese identities in the Collecting Cultures of Early Modern Iran”<\/p>\n

Alden R. Gordon, Trinity College, Hartford
\n“The French Engravings of the ‘Conquests of the Emperor Quianlong’: The Role of Prints in the Amplification of Collecting Across Cultures”<\/p>\n

Carina Johnson, Pitzer College
\n“Aztec Regalia and the Reformation of Display”<\/p>\n

Sarah Benson, Visiting Fellow, Cornell University
\n“European Wonders at the Court of Siam”<\/p>\n

Robert Batchelor, Georgia Southern University
\n“The Banten Roadshow: Exchange and Collecting Across Cultures in 17th-Century Java”<\/p>\n

Pascal Riviale, Mus\u00e9e d’Orsay & CNRS, Paris
\n“Europe Rediscovers Latin America: Collecting Artifacts & Views in the First Decades of the 19th-Century”<\/p>\n

Stacey Sloboda, Southern Illinois University
\n“Displaying Materials: Porcelain in the Duchess of Portland’s Museum”<\/p>\n

Natasha Eaton, University College, London
\n“Mimetic Rivalries: Networks of Iconophobia, Iconoclasm and Collecting in Europe and South Asia, 1760\u20131840”<\/p>\n

2006: The Sciences of Race in the Long Eighteenth Century<\/strong><\/span>
\nApril 27, 28, & 29, 2006
\nUSC<\/p>\n

Robert Bernasconi, University of Memphis
\n“When Mixed Race was Thought to be Superior to Pure Race: The Scientific Debate in Northern Europe about Human Hybridity before 1850”<\/p>\n

Nicholas Hudson, University of British Columbia
\n“‘Hottentots’ & the Changing Aesthetics of Race, 1600-1850”<\/p>\n

Miriam Claude Meijer, Montgomery College
\n“The Intersection of Race & Aesthetics in 18th-century Anthropology”<\/p>\n

Ilona Katzew, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
\n“White or Black? 18th-century Portraits of Albinism and the Colonial World”<\/p>\n

James Delbourgo, McGill University
\n“Slavery in the Cabinet of Curiosities: Hans Sloane and Africans in the Natural History of Jamaica”<\/p>\n

Paul Turnbull, Griffith University, Austrailia
\n“Scientific Theft of Indigenous Australian Remains and the Construction of the Aboriginal Race, c. 1790-1830”<\/p>\n

Karen Halttunen, USC
\n“Ancient Britons and American Savages: Geology, Race, and the Antiquity of Humankind in Britain and the U.S.”<\/p>\n

Ann Fabian, Rutgers University
\n“Daniel Wilson’s Discoveries”<\/p>\n

Martha Few, University of Arizona
\n“‘Egyptians and Other Nations of the East’: Race, Sexuality, and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala”<\/p>\n

Robert Markley, University of Illinois
\n“Climate, Race, and Civility in Southeast Asia: Alexander Hamilton’s A New Account of the East-Indies”<\/p>\n

Adam Warren, University of Washington
\n“Seattle\u2013A Race out of Place? Colonial Peruvian Medical Debates about Africans, Disease, and the New World”<\/p>\n

Maria Elena Martinez, USC
\n“Le\u00e1n y Gama’s Treatise on Skin Color and the Enlightened Creole “Science” of Race in 18th-century New Spain”<\/p>\n

Andrew Curran, Wesleyan University
\n“Maupertuis’ V\u00e9nus physique: On Race, Races, and the N\u00e8gre blanc”<\/p>\n

2005: Medieval and Early Modern Encounters between Christianity and Islam<\/strong><\/span>
\nMarch 31 & April 1, 2005<\/p>\n

Teofilo Ruiz, UCLA
\n“Reading Violence: Muslim and Christian Relations in Medieval and Early Modern Spain”<\/p>\n

Debra Blumenthal, UC Santa Barbara
\n“Strange Bedfellows: Two Christians and the\u00a0Moro\u00a0<\/em>who Slept on the Edge of the Bed”<\/p>\n

Molly Greene, Princeton University
\n“What Makes a Greek Ship Greek? Trade and Legal Regimes in the Early Modern Mediterranean”<\/p>\n

Carina Johnson, Pitzer College
\n“Captivity Tales: Christian Ethnographies of Muslim Culture in the Fifteenth Century”<\/p>\n

Nabil Matar, Florida Institute of Technology
\n“Two Arabic Views of Western Europe, 1611\u20131618”<\/p>\n

Mary Elizabeth Perry, Occidental College
\n“Madalena’s Bath: Embodied Encounters in Early Modern Spain”<\/p>\n

Megan Reid, University of Southern California
\n“Contact and Contagion in Medieval Muslim Encounters with Foreigners, 1200\u20131400”<\/p>\n

Ramzi Rouighi, University of Southern California
\n“The Merchant, the Pirate, and the Saint, an Essay”<\/p>\n

Roundtable discussion
\nUssama Makdisi, Rice University<\/p>\n

2005: Plants & Insects in the Early Modern World<\/strong><\/span>
\nApril 28 & 30, 2005
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

Conference organizers:
\nDaniela Bleichmar, University of Southern California
\nPeter Mancall, University of Southern California
\nAlison Sandman, University of Southern California<\/p>\n

Londa Schiebinger, Stanford University
\n“Plants and Empire”<\/p>\n

Paula de Vos, San Diego State University
\n“The Science of Spices: Empiricism, Entrepreneurialism and Economic Botany in the Spanish Empire”<\/p>\n

Benjamin Schmidt, University of Washington
\n“Empires and Insects: Exotic Natural History, Visual Culture, and Early Modern ‘Globalism’”<\/p>\n

Luis Millones-Figueroa, Colby College
\n“The Staff of Life: Wheat and ‘Indian Bread’ in the New World”<\/p>\n

Paul White, University of Cambridge
\n“Fallen Fruit: Bounty, Providence, and the Lure of Paradise”<\/p>\n

S. Max Edelson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
\n“From Mulberry to Palmetto: Trees, Culture, and Colonization in South Carolina”<\/p>\n

Rebecca Larouche, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
\n“From Artemesia to Meadowsweet: Queen Elizabeth and the English Herbal, 1568\u20131640”<\/p>\n

Janice Neri, Boise State University
\n“Stitches, Specimens, and Pictures: Maria Sibylla Merian & the Processing of the Natural World”<\/p>\n

Brian Cowan, McGill University
\n“Botany, Curiosity, and Commerce: The Discovery of Coffee in 17th-Century England”<\/p>\n

Marcy Norton, George Washington University
\n“Nicolas Monardes and Tobacco: Indian Knowledge and European Frameworks”<\/p>\n

Peter Mancall, University of Southern California
\n“Plants and Empire”<\/p>\n

Alain Touwaide, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
\n“A New Look at Old Recipes: Renaissance Use of Ancient Drug Lore”<\/p>\n

Carla Nappi, Princeton University
\n“Offspring of the Elements: Insects and Metamorphosis in Early Modern China”<\/p>\n

William R. Newman, Indiana University
\n“Insects, Dyes, and Transmutation: The Tinctures of a Working Alchemist”<\/p>\n

Arianne Faber Kolb, Independent Scholar
\n“Spirituality and the Observation of Natural Minutiae: Jan Brueghel the Elder’s\u00a0Mouse with Rosebuds and Insects<\/em>”<\/p>\n

Mary Terrall, UCLA
\n“Natural Theology and More: Insects and their Admirers in the 18th Century”<\/p>\n

2004: The Early Modern Travel Narrative: Production and Consumption<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>
\nApril 30 & May 1, 2004
\n<\/em>
\nJosiah Blackmore, University of Toronto
\n\u201cThe Nautical Metaphoric: Iberian Travel Writing and the Seafaring Mind\u201d<\/p>\n

Daniela Bleichmar, Princeton University
\n\u201cText and Image in Spanish Scientific Exploration of the Eighteenth Century Americas\u201d<\/p>\n

Nicholas Dew, University of Cambridge
\n\u201cCollecting Travels in Late Seventeenth-Century Paris\u201d<\/p>\n

Jordana Dym, Skidmore College
\n\u201cThe Familiar and the Strange: Western Travelers\u2019 Maps of Europe and Asia ca. 1600\u20131800\u201d<\/p>\n

M.D. Eddy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
\n\u201cTravel as Field Observation: Scottish Naturalists and the Collection of Chemical Data, 1780\u20131800\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael Fisher, Oberlin College
\n\u201cFrom India to England and Back: Early Indian Travel Narratives for Indian Readers\u201d<\/p>\n

Mary C. Fuller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
\n\u201cAssigning Value to Documents, Objects and Cultures in the Early English Travel Collection\u201d<\/p>\n

Anne Good, University of Minnesota
\n\u201cThe Construction of an Authoritative Text: Peter Kolb\u2019s Description of the Khoikhoi at the Cape of Good Hope in the Eighteenth Century\u201d<\/p>\n

Nathalie Hester, University of Oregon
\n\u201cThe Art of Telling the Truth: Women\u2019s Travel Writing in 17th<\/sup>-Century France\u201d<\/p>\n

Ophie Mintz-Manor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
\n\u201cImagined Journeys \u2013 Literature, History and the Production of Travel Narratives in Zacharia Al-Dahri\u2019s Book of Ethics\u201d<\/p>\n

Anthony Parr, University of the Western Cape
\n\u201cJohn Donne: Travel Writer\u201d<\/p>\n

Joan-Pau Rubies, London School of Economics
\n\u201cSixteenth Century Travel Accounts and Humanistic Culture: A \u2018Blunted Impact?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Neil Safier, University of Michigan
\n\u201cBookish Learning and the Natural Historic Practice in the Field Libraries of Two Eighteenth Century Portuguese Naturalists\u201d<\/p>\n

Jonathan D. Sassi, City University of New York
\n\u201cAnthony Benezet\u2019s African Library: African Travel Narratives and Revolutionary-era Antislavery\u201d<\/p>\n

Daniel Vitkus, Florida State University
\n\u201cVenturing Heroes: Narrating Violent Commerce in Seventeenth-Century England\u201d<\/p>\n

John E. Wills, Jr., University of Southern California
\n\u201cJourneys Mostly to the West: Chinese Perspectives on Travel Writing\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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