In September, Ivan
Gaskell gave a lecture entitled “Joining the Club” at LASER
(Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) in New York City. His paper,
“Cracking Up with Piet Mondrian,” was presented at the symposium, To
Search: Investigations of the Virtual and Material Lives of Objects,
organized by the Rhode Island School of Design Museum and the Haffenreffer
Museum of Anthropology, Brown University. In October, with his co-authors,
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and Sara Schechner, he lectured on “The Power of
Tangible Things” at the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture,
Cambridge, Massachusetts. In November, at the American Society for Aesthetics
annual conference in Savannah, Georgia, Gaskell co-chaired and co-organized the
ASA Feminist Caucus Committee Twenty-Fifth
Anniversary Workshops and chaired and organized the workshop,
“Feminist Pedagogy and Curricula.” In December, he attended the annual meeting
of the Scientific Committee of the Academic Collections of the Georg-August
University, Göttingen, and gave a paper, “Tangible Things,” at the second
meeting of the workshop, The Museum as Method, at the University of Cambridge.
Aaron
Glass presented a paper entitled “Reassembling the Social
Organization: Collaborative Ethnography and Digital Media in the Making and
Remaking of Franz Boas’s 1897 Monograph” at the American Anthropological
Association Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, November 18-22.
Freyja
Hartzell has received the Decorative Arts Society Robert C.
Smith Award for the best article published in 2014 in English on the decorative
arts. Her article, “A Renovated Renaissance: Richard Riemerschmid’s Modern
Interiors for the Thieme House in Munich,” appeared in Interiors (Volume
5, Issue 1: 5–36).
Deborah
Krohn’s book, Food and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy:
Bartolomeo Scappi’s Paper Kitchens, has just been published by Ashgate.
Andrew
Morrall’s essay, “Domestic Decoration and the Bible in the Early
Modern Home,” has appeared in The
Oxford Handbook to the Bible in England, c. 1520-1700, edited by
Kevin Killeen, Helen Smith, and Rachel Willie (Oxford 2015). His article,
“’Siben Farben und Künsten frey’: The Place of Color in Martin Schaffner’s
Universe Tabletop of 1533,” was published in Brill’s online periodical Early
Science and Medicine. A print version under the same title
appears in Early Modern Colour Worlds, edited by Tawrin Baker, Sven
Dupré, Sachiko Kusukawa, and Karin Leonhard (Brill 2015). In October, Morrall
participated as an external reader in a weekend workshop organized by the Art
History Department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor that focused upon
a book manuscript by research fellow, Jennifer Nelson, on Holbein’s Ambassadors.
Elizabeth
Simpson presented the sixth
annual ArtWatch International James Beck Memorial Lecture in London on
November 30. Her talk was entitled “King Midas’s Furniture: A Tale of
Archaeological Conservation.” At the ArtWatch conference, Art, Law and Crises
of Connoisseurship, on December 1, she presented a paper entitled
“Connoisseurship: Its Use, Disuse, and Misuse in the Study of Ancient
Art.”
Stephanie
Su presented a paper, “Reconstructing the Aesthetic Paradigms in a
Global Context: Xu Beihong’s ‘Peinture chinoise’ in the French Art
Journal, 1933,” at the Xu Beihong Symposium, Renmin University of China,
Beijing, December 12-13.
On December 11, Paul
Stirton spoke at the British Studies Center, Rutgers University,
on “E.W. Godwin: Design, Journalism, and the Aesthetic Movement,” as part of a
new series on “New Approaches to Mass Culture in Nineteenth-Century
Britain.”
