1:00 pm Welcoming Remarks and Introduction
Susan Weber, Founder and Director
Peter N. Miller, Dean and Professor
Andrew Morrall, Professor and Chair of Academic Programs
1:15 pm Part I: Moderated by François Louis
Alexandra Beuscher
Portals, Vessels, and Seams: The Seal in Yup’ik Material Culture
Emily Field
The History and Continuing Impact of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
Grace Reff
From Mexico to Black Mountain College: Josef Albers, Clara Porset, and the Butaque
Anna Mikaela Ekstrand
The Presence of the Past: Influence of Porcelain Production on Contemporary Art from Jingdezhen
2:15 pm Part II: Moderated by Deborah L. Krohn
Darienne Turner
Women as Flock, Woman as Shepherd: Croziers and Gender Performance in the Middle Ages
Ana Matisse Donefer- Hickie
Art and Imperial Allegory: The Glass Deckelpokal of Archduke Ferdinand II
Susan Hunter
The Rustiques Figulines of Bernard Palissy
Margaret Frick
Cooking for the Masses: An Examination of Eighteenth-Century Tavern Cookbooks and the Urban Metropolis
3:15 pm - 3:30 pm
Break
3:30 pm Part III: Moderated by Michele Majer
Sheila Moloney
Crystal Palaces, Glass Houses, and Geodesic Domes: The VSI Study House Nr. 1 and Its Antecedents
Catherine Stergar
“The Everlasting Fire of Achievement”: An Examination of the Life and Career of Ceramic Artist Mary Chase Perry (1867-1961)
Irene Jaramillo-Vélez
Prosthetic Bodies in Public Space: The Reception and Perception of the Crinoline in France, 1856-1867
Alyssa Velazquez
The Makings of a Character: Aging, Gender, and Sexuality in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Operetta Patience
Michael Dewberry
The Birth of “Millionaire’s Taste”: Famille Noire in Western Collections
4:30 pm Part IV: Moderated by Freyja Hartzell
Persephone Allen
The Metallic Sphere as Mechanical Eye: Reflected Identities at the Bauhaus
Nadia Westenburg
A New Deal for the Parks: Interpretation and Poster Advertising for the National Park Service, 1938-1941
Michael Parker
Zippos at the Wall: Engraved Lighters in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection
Amanda Hinckle
“Who Tells Your Story?” Online Audiences and Museums of Early American History
5:30 pm Reception
Susan Weber, Founder and Director
Peter N. Miller, Dean and Professor
Andrew Morrall, Professor and Chair of Academic Programs
1:15 pm Part I: Moderated by François Louis
Alexandra Beuscher
Portals, Vessels, and Seams: The Seal in Yup’ik Material Culture
Emily Field
The History and Continuing Impact of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
Grace Reff
From Mexico to Black Mountain College: Josef Albers, Clara Porset, and the Butaque
Anna Mikaela Ekstrand
The Presence of the Past: Influence of Porcelain Production on Contemporary Art from Jingdezhen
2:15 pm Part II: Moderated by Deborah L. Krohn
Darienne Turner
Women as Flock, Woman as Shepherd: Croziers and Gender Performance in the Middle Ages
Ana Matisse Donefer- Hickie
Art and Imperial Allegory: The Glass Deckelpokal of Archduke Ferdinand II
Susan Hunter
The Rustiques Figulines of Bernard Palissy
Margaret Frick
Cooking for the Masses: An Examination of Eighteenth-Century Tavern Cookbooks and the Urban Metropolis
3:15 pm - 3:30 pm
Break
3:30 pm Part III: Moderated by Michele Majer
Sheila Moloney
Crystal Palaces, Glass Houses, and Geodesic Domes: The VSI Study House Nr. 1 and Its Antecedents
Catherine Stergar
“The Everlasting Fire of Achievement”: An Examination of the Life and Career of Ceramic Artist Mary Chase Perry (1867-1961)
Irene Jaramillo-Vélez
Prosthetic Bodies in Public Space: The Reception and Perception of the Crinoline in France, 1856-1867
Alyssa Velazquez
The Makings of a Character: Aging, Gender, and Sexuality in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Operetta Patience
Michael Dewberry
The Birth of “Millionaire’s Taste”: Famille Noire in Western Collections
4:30 pm Part IV: Moderated by Freyja Hartzell
Persephone Allen
The Metallic Sphere as Mechanical Eye: Reflected Identities at the Bauhaus
Nadia Westenburg
A New Deal for the Parks: Interpretation and Poster Advertising for the National Park Service, 1938-1941
Michael Parker
Zippos at the Wall: Engraved Lighters in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection
Amanda Hinckle
“Who Tells Your Story?” Online Audiences and Museums of Early American History
5:30 pm Reception
