Ivan Gaskell will be in Germany through July for the third of five annual two-month residencies as a senior fellow of the Lichtenberg Kolleg (Advanced Study Institute) of the Georg-August University, Göttingen.

Aaron Glass participated in the workshop “Adrian Jacobsen: Collector of People and Things” at the Arctic University of Norway—Tromsø University Museum, June 8–9.

Freyja Hartzell recently gave a lecture at the Germanisches National Museum in Nuremberg, Germany, entitled “Sachlichkeit als Persönlichkeit: Der Designer Richard Riemerschmid,” based on material from her forthcoming book. During this trip she also visited the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin to research a new project on transparency in modern design. An article she is preparing on the topic will appear in the Journal of Modern Craft this fall.

François Louis participated in the first ever Kitan Language Workshop, at Yale University, May 11–19. Now extinct, the language was spoken by the nomadic Kitan people who, between the tenth and twelfth centuries, dominated a large swath of Mongolia and Manchuria and created the Liao Dynasty, a rival to China’s Song Dynasty. After creating their empire, the Kitan, who did not have a writing system, created scripts by borrowing from the Chinese and Uighur languages.

Peter N. Miller presented a paper entitled “Kulturwissenschaft before Warburg” at the Warburg Insititute’s conference celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Aby Warburg, which was held in London, June 13–15. To view the presentation, click here.

Paul Stirton contributed an essay entitled “Moholy Nagy, Design Pioneer” to the website of the current exhibition Moholy Nagy: Future Present, on view at the Guggenheim Museum.

Catherine Whalen participated in the Craft Think Tank focusing on current and future strategies for the study of craft history, held at the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design in Asheville, North Carolina, June 19–21.