PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Making Worlds: Art, Materiality, and Early Modern Globalization
Conference 1: Material Flows
Organized by Professors Bronwen Wilson (University of California, Los Angeles)
and Angela Vanhaelen (McGill University)
February 1-2, 2019
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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Friday, February 1, 2019
9:00 a.m. Morning Coffee and Registration
9:30 a.m. Helen Deutsch, University of California, Los Angeles
Welcome
Bronwen Wilson, University of California, Los Angeles
Angela Vanhaelen, McGill University
Opening Remarks
9:45 a.m. Session 1
Chair: Rachel Weiss, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles
Thijs Weststeijn, Utrecht University
“Images and Ideas of China in the Dutch Golden Age"
10:15 a.m. Daniela Bleichmar, University of Southern California
“Interpreting Mexican Objects in Early Modern Collections”
10:45 a.m. Discussion
11:15 a.m. Coffee Break
11:30 a.m. Session 2
Chair: David Bardeen, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles
John M. D. Pohl, University of California, Los Angeles
“Masked Alliances: A Dutch Forced Economy Reflected in the Art and Performance
Rituals of Indigenous Populations”
12:00 p.m. Benjamin Schmidt, University of Washington
“The Flow of Fumi-e: Icons, Objects, and Currents in the Early Modern World”
12:30 p.m. Discussion
1:00 p.m. Lunch
2:15 p.m. Session 3
Chair: James Clifton, Sarah Blaffer Foundation
Allison Stielau, University of College London
“Melt Value"
2:45 p.m. Payton Phillips Quintanilla, Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellow
“Mining the Theater: Metals and Other Matters in the New World and Old”
3:15 p.m. Discussion
3:45 p.m. Break
4:00 p.m. Julian Yates, University of Delaware
“Gold You Can Eat: Oranges and the Gains of Trade"
4:30 p.m. Discussion
4:45 p.m. Reception
Saturday, February 2, 2019
9:00 a.m. Morning Coffee and Registration
9:30 a.m. Session 4
Chair: Braden Scott, Ph.D. Candidate, McGill University
Cécile Fromont, Yale University
"Material Histories of the Early Modern African Atlantic World"
10:00 a.m. Chanchal Dadlani, Wake Forest University
“Ferishta in France: Indo-Persian Histories and Global Circulation in the
Eighteenth Century"
10:30 a.m. Discussion
11:00 a.m. Coffee Break
11:30 a.m. Session 5
Chair: Stephanie Schrader, J. Paul Getty Museum
Ayesha Ramachandran, Yale University
"From Khusrau to Cristoforo: Form as Flow in Early Modern Eurasia"
12:00 p.m. Valerie Traub, University of Michigan
“Mapping Sex Across the Globe"
12:30 p.m. Discussion
1:00 p.m. Program ends