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1 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 Caspar Meyer
Joyce Zhou
European Turned Ivories at the Court of the Kangxi Emperor: A Study in Early Modern Cross-Cultural Relations

Drew Jepson
Sensing Sassafras: Materia Medica Exchange in the British Atlantic

L. Bates Jaffe
Morbid Consumption: The Commodification of Mummies in Victorian England

Bailey Tichenor
Conspicuous Cataloging: An Investigation of Collections Management in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Museum

Taryn Clary
Buttons to Banners: The Material Culture of Museum Marketing

2:15-2:30 pm Break

2:30 pm Part II: Moderated by Meredith Linn
Sybil Johnson
Very Much American: The Education, Travels, and Legacy of Thomas Gold Appleton, 1812-1884

Tessa Goldsher
“Grandeur Now Departed”: Race, Nationalism, and the Aesthetic of Nostalgia in the Brooklyn Museum Southern Period Rooms

Jessica Boven
Setting the Modern Table: American Flatware and the Domestication of Stainless Steel

Skylar Smith
Familiar Narratives and Clothing Caricatures: The Realities of Tex Avery’s Imaginary Universe

Colleen Terrell
Rose Slivka and the Crafting of Craft Horizons, 1955-1979

3:30-3:45 pm Break

3:45 pm Part III: Moderated by Freyja Hartzell
Christianne Teague
Voices in Stone: An Exploration of the Use of Pounamu in the Contemporary Jewelry of Aotearoa
New Zealand

Leela Outcalt
Elizabeth Robins Pennell’s Cookery Book: A Symphony in the Gender Politics of Nineteenth-Century Dining

Dylan Brekka
Dressing the Strange Artist: Fashion and Fame in Georges Clairin’s Portrait de Sarah Bernhardt

Clara Puton
Lacing a Nation: Renaissance Lace Revivalism and the Scuola Merletti di Burano in Post-Unification and Fascist Italy

Sophie Swanson
Plush: Wall-to-Wall Liberation

5 pm Reception