The Schedule

Panel: Timing Aesthetics and the Aesthetics of Time

Chairs: Megan Baker, University of Delaware and Joseph Litts, Princeton University

Carole Nataf, Courtauld Institute of Art

Shell Grottos and the Aesthetics of Deep Time in Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon’s Theories of the Earth

Elizabeth Bacon Eager, Southern Methodist University

Peter Hill’s Regulator: Considering the Materiality of Time in the Context of American Slavery

Daniella Berman, Independent Scholar

Mismatched and Out of Time: Aesthetics of Contingency in 1800

Lea C. Stephenson, University of Delaware

Reviving the Alabaster Portrait: J.P. Morgan’s Eighteenth-Century Collection and Whiteness

Coffee

Provided for all conference registrants in the Bartos Auditorium foyer

Roundtable Panel: What's Race Got To Do With It? Part I

Chair: Karen Lipsedge, University of Kingston

Respondent: Victoria Barnett-Woods, Washington College

Stephen Hague, Rowan University 

The Long S-Shaped Shadow of the Long Eighteenth Century

Lisa Vandenbossche, University of Michigan

Oceans of (In)stability: Race and Gender from Shore to Sea

Chloe Wigston Smith, University of York

Race, Material Culture, and Women’s Work

Adrienne L. Childs, Independent Scholar

Ornamental Blackness: What, Why, So What?

Laura Keim, Stenton Historic House

A New Place for Dinah: Interpreting Race and Slavery at Stenton across Time

Lunch

Provided for all conference registrants in the Bartos Auditorium foyer

House Tour and Roundtable Session. What's Race Got to Do with It? Part II

Royall House and Slave Quarters (15 George Street, Medford)

Chair: Karen Lipsedge, University of Kingston

Respondent: Kyera Singleton, Royall House and Slave Quarters

Nuno Grancho, Centre for Privacy Studies, Copenhagen

Domestic Space, Race and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century Danish Colonial Home

Laura Engel, Duquesne University

The Paradox of Pearls: Gender, Race, Embodiment, and Domestic Space

Caroline Fowler, Williams College, The Clark Art Institute

Privacy

Sarah Lund, Harvard University

Republican Motherhood and Republican Equality: Female Engravers and the ‘Ideals’  of the French Revolution

Tori Champion, University of St. Andrews

Race, Liminality, and the Floral Garland in Eighteenth-Century French Portraiture

Object Session and Panel. For a Better Future: Networks of Pastel Painting

Art Study Center, Harvard Art Museums (32 Quincy Street, Cambridge)

Chairs: Valérie Kobi, Université de Neuchâtel, and Iris Brahms, Universität Tübingen  

Heather McPherson, University of Alabama at Birmingham

“Pastel Crayons as Paintbrushes”: Chardin’s Portrait of a Man (1773)

Isabelle Masse, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec

Chardin’s Pastel Materials: A Hypothesis

Joachim Homann, Harvard Art Museums

Identity and Interiority: Constituting the Subject in the Chardin Pastel Portrait at the Harvard Art Museums

Object Session. Legacies of the Enlightenment 

Houghton Library (Harvard Yard, near Quincy and Harvard Streets, Cambridge)

Lead by: John Overholt (Houghton Library), Elizabeth Rudy (Harvard Art Museums), and Kristel Smentek (MIT)

Gallery Tour. Time, Life, and Matter: Colonial Science 

Historical Scientific Instruments Collection, Harvard University Science Center 

(1 Oxford Street, Cambridge)

Led by: Sara J. Schechner, Harvard University

Suggestions for Self-Guided Visits:

Harvard Art Museums permanent collection galleries and exhibits including 

"Disrupt the View: Arlene Schechet". Present your HECAA@30 conference badge for free admission to the HAM on Thursday afternoon

“Resetting the Table: Food and Our Changing Tastes,” and "Glass Flowers: The Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants," Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge). $15 general admission.

MIT Special Collections Library, Self-guided viewing of volumes of a first-edition folio of Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie. Digital Instruction Resource Center located in Building 14, Room 132 (open from 1pm-3pm.

Reception and Viewing Session at the Boston Athenaeum

10 ½ Beacon Street, Boston

Wine and cheese reception generously co-sponsored by the Boston Athenaeum for all conference attendees. Eighteenth-century highlights from the Atheneum's rare books and prints collection will be on view in the Study Room, and significant 18th and 19th Century paintings, mostly American, are hung throughout the building.

Rethinking the Material Afterlives of Animals

Chairs: Sarah Grandin, Clark Art Institute, and Catherine Girard, St. Francis Xavier University

Dani Ezor,  Kenyon College

Tortoiseshell: From Sea Turtle to Snuffbox 

Kaitlin Grimes, Auburn University 

The Elephant and the Lathe: The Intimate Materiality of Monarchical Ivory Portraits in Early Modern Denmark-Norway 

Sylvia Houghteling, Bryn Mawr 

The Silk and the Worm: Writing Sericulture into the History of South Asian Textiles 

Cynthia Kok, Yale University 

Thinking into Early Modern Mother-of-Pearl, Materiality and Liveliness 

Coffee

Provided for all conference registrants in the Bartos Auditorium foyer

Workshop: Quilt! Inclusivity in Eighteenth-Century Studies

Chairs: HECAA DEI Committee

Lunch

Provided for all conference registrants in the Bartos Auditorium foyer

MFA Sessions I

Object Session and Panel: Mining for Mica at the MFA

(90 minute session)

Morse Study Room, MFA Prints and Drawings 

Chair: Ruth Ezra, University of St. Andrews

Margaret Masselli, Brown University

A Glittering Ghagra: Women's Clothing, Shisha Embroidery, and Mica Mining in Eighteenth-Century India

Katherine A. P. Iselin, Emporia State University

Materiality and Image on Eighteenth-Century Folding Fans 

Ruth Ezra, University of St Andrews

Brilliant Boxes

Object Session and Panel. Paying Attention: Materials, Materiality, and the Definitions of Technical Art History

(90 minute session)

Voss Seminar Room, MFA Conservation Center

Chair: Daniella Berman, Independent Scholar

Josephina de Fouw, Rijksmuseum

The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of its Parts: Research Into the Rijksmuseum Collection of Dutch Eighteenth-Century Decorative Interior Paintings

Courtney Books & Amy Torbert, St Louis Art Museum

Bridging the Apparent Divide: Thoughts from the Field on “Responsible Art History” and “Technical Art History”

Heidi Strobel, University of North Texas

Picking at Threads: A Material Analysis of an Embroidered Picture

Andy Schulz, University of Arizona

The Collaborative Creation of Meaning in a Hand-Colored Set of Goya’s Caprichos

Object Session and Panel. Ivory: Animal Body and Artistic Material 

(90 minute session)

MFA Center for Netherlandish Art Seminar Room

Chairs: Katherine Fein, Columbia University, and Deepthi Murali, George Mason University

Erika Riccobon, Leiden University

Folding Fans in Translation: Ivory as Painting Medium and Site of Crosscultural Design in the Early Phase of the Canton Trade

Maggie Keenan, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Disembodied Eyes: The Fragility of Flesh and Ivory Appeal

Marina Wells, Boston University

Incisions into the Gendered History of American Marine Ivory

Kristine Korzow Richter, Harvard University

Ivory as a Biomineral: Relationships between Biomechanical Structure, Interspecies Life Histories, and Tool Functionality

Gallery Session: Art of the Americas

MFA Art of the Americas Wing, Meet in Gallery 128

Chair: Ethan Lasser, MFA Boston

Michele Navakas, Miami University of Ohio

Coral, Women, Labor: Joseph Blackburn’s “Isaac Winslow and His Family” (1755)

Wendy Bellion, University of Delaware

Benjamin West’s “King Lear”

Matthew Gin, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Uncanny Encounters in Cindy Sherman’s Madame de Pompadour (née Poisson) Tea Service (1990)

Gallery Session: European Porcelain and Decorative Arts 

MFA Gallery 142

Chair: Michael Yonan, University of California, Davis

Amy Freund, Southern Methodist University 

Sinceny Manufactory, France, Tray with chinoiserie (?) hunting scene, c. 1750 

Maura Gleeson, Independent Scholar 

Meissen Manufactory, Germany, modeled by Johann Joachim Kändler, Macaw, c. 1732 

Thomas Michie, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 

Alcora Manufactory, Spain, Console table, c. 1761–1763

Sarah Williams, Millsaps College 

Nicolas Lancret, Le Déjeuner de jambon, 1735

Michael Yonan, University of California, Davis 

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, A Hypochondriac, c. 1775–1780

Gallery Tour: Jewish Ritual Silver in 18th-Century Europe and America

Meet in Scharf Visitor Center

Led by: Simona Di Nepi, MFA Boston

MFA Sessions II

Gallery Session. New Approaches to Silver

MFA Firestone Gallery, 141A

Chair, Dani Ezor, Kenyon College

Dani Ezor, Kenyon College

Agnieszka A. Ficek, Meadows Museum, SMU

Brittany Luberda, Baltimore Museum of Art

Gallery Session. Tiny Treasures: The Magic of Miniatures 

MFA Gallery 155

Chair: Courtney Harris, MFA Boston

Gerri Strickler, MFA Boston

Nevers Glass

Lauren DiSalvo, Virginia Tech

Miniaturizing the Picturesque Landscape through Micromosaic Souvenirs

Damiet Schneeweisz, Courtauld Institute of Art

Rethinking the Potency of the Early Modern Miniature in the Americas

Gallery Tour. Porcelain, Painting, and Scholar Rocks of the Qing Dynasty

MFA Gallery 178

Led by: Nancy Berliner, MFA Boston, and Dawn Odell, Lewis and Clark College

Roundtable. The Politics of Materiality 

Alfond Auditorium, MFA Boston

Chairs: Jennifer Chuong, Harvard University, and Elizabeth Bacon Eager, Southern Methodist University

Sarah Cohen, University at Albany, SUNY

Edward S. Cooke, Jr., Yale University 

Kathryn Desplanque, UNC Chapel Hill

Kailani Polzak, UC Santa Cruz

Jennifer Van Horn, University of Delaware

Bus departs from the Marriott Cambridge to Providence, RI

Please sign up during registration for a seat on the bus

Introduction

Global Sacred Garden Encounters

Chair: Emily Everhart, Art Academy of Cincinnati

Lalaine Bangilan Little, Misericordia University

Firstfruits of the Land: Vegetal Motifs in Art and Architecture of the Spanish Philippines

Susan Taylor-Leduc, Independent Scholar 

Mesdames at Bellevue: Collecting Plants, Sacralizing the French Picturesque, 1775-1792

Lunch

Provided for all conference registrants, List Art Center, 2nd Floor Terrace (64 College Street, Providence)

Panel: Indigenous Imprints

Chair: Douglas Fordham, University of Virginia

Monica Anke Hahn, Community College of Philadelphia

Reproducing ᎤᏍᏔᎾᏆ (Otacite Ostenaco), 1762-2023

Eleanore Neumann, University of Virginia

Living Proof: Retrospective Agency in Judy Watson’s “experimental beds” (2012)

Laura M. Golobish, Ball State University 

James Lavadour’s Lithographic Geologies and Stewardship of the Land

Kimberly Toney and Pedro Germano Leal, John Carter Brown Library and John Hay Library, Brown University 

The John Carter Brown's Americana Platform: A Digital Tool for Researching the History and Culture of the Early Americas

Object Session. Fashion, Race, and Power in the 18th Century

RISD Musuem, Danforth Hall and Costume and Textiles Study Room (Meet in Chace Lobby, 20 North Main Street, Providence, and proceed to Danforth Hall conference room)

Chairs: Amelia Rauser, Franklin and Marshall College and Laurie Brewer, RISD Museum

Priscilla Sonnier, University College, Dublin

Flax, Fashion, and Free-Trade: Manufacturing Gendered Patriotism in Ascendancy Ireland

Emma Pearce, University of Edinburgh

Plaided Products: Checked Cloth in Caribbean Textile Markets in the Eighteenth Century

Marina Kliger, Harvard Art Museums

“Cut into Pieces”: The Politics of the “Robe de Cachemire” and the Fashions of the Franco-Persian Alliance in Paris, 1808-1815

Gallery Session. Indulging the Self, Stimulating the Globe: Chocolate, Sugar, Empire, Enslavement

RISD Museum, Trading Earth: Ceramics, Commodities, and Commerce exhibition (Meet at the 224 Benefit Street entrance to the museum and proceed to the exhibition)

Chairs: Tara Zanardi, Hunter College and Elizabeth Williams, RISD Museum

Alicia Caticha, Northwestern University

Rethinking a Wedgwood Creamware Basket or, the Secret History of Sugar Sculpture

Nina Dubin, University of Illinois Chicago, and Meredith Martin, New York University

Gods of the Indies

Katherine Calvin, Kenyon College

The Cape Coast Castle Platter: Currency and Consumption across the Atlantic

Gallery Tour. A Selection of Japanese and Iranian Works from the RISD Museum

RISD Museum, Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Classroom (Meet in Chace Lobby, 20 North Main Street, Providence, and proceed to the PDP classroom with the curators) 

Led by:  Wai Yee Chiong, RISD Museum; Mohadeseh Salari Sardari, Brown University 

Object Session. The Visual Culture of War in the Global Eighteenth Century

Hay Library Special Collections (20 Prospect Street, Providence)

Chair:  Dominic Bate, Brown University

Chloe Northrop, Tarrant County College

“Rodney Triumphant”: James Gillray and 1782 Satirical Prints of the American War for Independence

Remi Poindexter, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Cooper Willyams’ “A Scene at St. Pierre” and the French Revolution in Martinique

Rebecca Szantyr, The New York Public Library

Keeping Tabs on the British Empire

Heather Belnap, Brigham Young University

“Les Amours Prussiens” and Other Narratives of Sexual Politics in Allied-Occupied Paris

Enrique Ramirez, Taubman College, University of Michigan

Airs Apparent: Chemistry and Aeronautics on the Brink of War

Object Session. Indigenous Imprints at the John Carter Brown Library 

Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library (94 George St, Providence)

Led by: Kimberly Toney, John Carter Brown Library

House Tour: Mahogany at the John Brown House 

John Brown House (52 Power Street, Providence)

Led by: John Brown House docents 

Architecture Walking Tour. College Hill, Providence

Meeting Place: List Art Center Lobby (64 College Street, Providence)

Afternoon Roundtable at Brown University. The Interstitial Eighteenth Century: Objects, Actors, and Ideas 'In-Between'

List Art Center, Room 120 (64 College Street, Providence)

Chairs: Emily Casey, University of Kansas, and Matthew Gin, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Bart Pushaw, University of Copenhagen
A Queer Qulleq and Inuit Art History between Rhetoric and Reality

Joseph D. Litts, Princeton University
Capsized Aesthetics: Risk Management, Shipwrecks, and Vernet

Caitlin Meehye Beach, Fordham University
Yamqua, In Between

Reception

List Art Center, 2nd Floor Terrace (64 College Street, Providence)

Wine and cheese reception provided for all conference registrants 

Bus Departs from Providence to Cambridge Marriott

Please sign up during registration for a seat on the bus