September
Symposium: Beyond Representation: an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Nature of Things
1:30 pm – 6:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Symposia, Academic Programs
October
Joan-Pau Rubiés
Ethnographic Images in the Late Renaissance, East and West
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Cultural History
Melissa Calaresu
Eating Ice-Cream on the Streets of Naples: Materiality and Ephemerality in the History of Food
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
Seminar Room, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Brown Bag Lunch
Symposium: Circus and the City: New York, 1793-2010
1:30 pm – 4:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Symposia, Academic Programs
Christine Göttler
Constructing a Global Interior: The Imagery of Collections and Collecting in Early Seventeenth-Century Antwerp
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Cultural History
Open House for Prospective Students
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Event, Tours
Yves Porter
Potters of Kâshân (Late 12th-Early 14th c.)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Ravi and Seran Trehan Lectures in Islamic Art and Material Culture
Zhao Feng
Silks from West and East: A Study on the Textiles from TAM170, Astana, Turfan, Xinjiang
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Comparative Medieval Material Culture (China, Islam, Europe)
November
Michael Rowlands
The New Chinese Museology: Shifting Geographies of Power, Development, and Heritage
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Indigenous Arts in Transition Seminar
Open House for Prospective Students
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Event, Tours
Steven Pincus
Spanish American Trade, Patriot Politics and the Shaping of the British Empire
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Cultural History
Symposium: Playing with Modernism: Historical Perspectives on Children and Design
2:00 pm – 5:15 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Symposia, Academic Programs
Laura Auricchio
Hero and Villain: Lafayette’s Legacies
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures on 18th- and 19th-Century French Decorative Arts and Culture
Laura Wexler
In Order to Form a More Perfect Likeness: Frederick Douglass, Photography and the Image of the Nation
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation Seminar in New York and American Material Culture
December
Open House for Prospective Students
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Event, Tours
Heather Ecker
Tradition, Innovation, and Tradition Again in Hunting Practices in the Mediterranean Region, 10th-14th Centuries
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Ravi and Seran Trehan Lectures in Islamic Art and Material Culture
Aden Kumler
The Ordeals of Substance: Material Economies of Passion and Probation in the Middle Ages
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Comparative Medieval Material Culture (China, Islam, Europe)
Jeffrey Quilter
Archaeology, Museums, and Tourism in Contemporary Peru
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Museum Conversations
January
Larry Silver
India Ink: Imagery of the Subcontinent in Sixteenth-Century Europe
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Renaissance and Early Modern Material Culture
Daniel Harkett
The Studio and the Salon: Artists, Masculinity, and Sociability in the Early Nineteenth Century.
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures on 18th- and 19th-Century French Decorative Arts and Culture
Daniel Smail
An Anthropology of Goods in Mediterranean Europe, 1330-1450
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Cultural History
February
Jessica Goldberg
Mining Medieval Sources: Documents as Texts, Documents as Objects in the Cairo Geniza
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Cultural History
Tobias Locker
Paris—Potsdam—Paris: Gilt Bronzes ‘à la française’ in Prussia and the Circulation of Knowledge
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures on 18th- and 19th-Century French Decorative Arts and Culture
Christopher Brown
The New Ashmolean
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Museum Conversations
Béla Kapossy
Rousseau’s, and Other Relics: Material Memories in Later Eighteenth-Century Switzerland
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Cultural History
Karin Roffman
The Double Dream of Things: John Ashbery as a Poet and Collector in his Hudson Home
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation Seminar in New York and American Material Culture
March
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Modern Design History Seminar
Catherine Whalen
The Gift of Criticism: Paul Hollister's Writings and the Ascendancy of Studio Glass
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, The Paul and Irene Hollister Lectures on Glass
Janet Berlo
"Prime Objects" of the Gods? Replications and Transformations of Navajo Sandpainting Imagery
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Indigenous Arts in Transition Seminar
April
Opening of Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
11:00 am – 5:00 pm
18 West 86th Street
Event, Community
Opening of Confluences: An American Expedition to Northern Burma, 1935
11:00 am – 5:00 pm
18 West 86th Street
Event, Community
Academic Programs, Symposia, Conference
Rebecca Zorach
Friedman's Pencil and Kant's Tattoo: Graphic Arts, Global Utopias, and the Acheiropoetic Social
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Renaissance and Early Modern Material Culture
Panel Discussion: Archaeology and Material Culture
Ian Hodder, Tim Murray, and Alain Schnapp
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
Event, Academic Programs
Iris Foundation Awards Luncheon for Outstanding Contributions to the Decorative Arts
12:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Colony Club, 564 Park Avenue, New York City
Event, Iris Awards
Alexandra Lange
Founding Mothers: Architecture Criticism from Mariana Van Rensselaer to Esther McCoy, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Jane Jacobs
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Modern Design History Seminar
Keynote Lecture: Hoentschel in Context
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Symposia, Academic Programs
Academic Programs, Symposia, Academic Programs
Symposium: Kitchen and Table in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America
9:30 am – 6:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Symposia, Academic Programs
David Roxburgh
Baysunghur’s Garden Party and Other Tales: Conceptualizing Artistic and Cultural Production in Early Timurid Herat
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Ravi and Seran Trehan Lectures in Islamic Art and Material Culture
May
Gaye Blake-Roberts
Wedgwood Majolica—A Response to Fashion
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, The Joan Stacke Graham Lectures
