Jeffrey
Collins completed a chapter on visual representations of furniture
during the Age of Exploration (1500-1700) for volume 3 of Bloomsbury
Publishing’s 6-volume Cultural History of Furniture (for other
faculty contributions to this project, see Krohn and Simpson, below). He is
currently at work on an article on furniture in the public sphere for volume 4, A
Cultural History of Furniture in The Age of Enlightenment (AD 1700-1800).
Over the summer, Ivan
Gaskell resumed his senior fellowship (two months for five
successive years through 2018) at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg (Advanced Study
Institute in Humanities and Social Sciences), Georg-August University,
Göttingen. He was appointed to the International Scientific Advisory Board of
the Lichtenberg-Kolleg and attended its annual meeting in Göttingen. Gaskell
gave papers at the following symposia and workshops in June and July:
International University Museum Strategic Development and Exchange Workshop,
University of Glasgow; “Thinking with Objects: University Museum Collections in
Teaching and Research,” University of Oxford; “The Museum as Method:
Collaborative Research Network,” University of Cambridge; and “Curatopia:
Histories, Theories, Practices,” Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich. Gaskell
published a chapter entitled “The Life of Things” in The International
Handbook of Museum Studies: Museum Media, ed. Michelle Henning (Oxford:
Wiley), pp. 167-190. He published two reviews, one of the book, The
Curatorial: A Philosophy of Curating, ed. Jean-Paul Martinon, in the Journal
of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 73 (2015), pp. 208-210; the other of
an exhibition, Brandbilder: Kunstwerke als Zeugen des Zweiten Weltkriegs, Niedersächsischen
Landesmuseum Hannover, in West 86th online,
July 2015.
Deborah
Krohn is preparing a chapter on verbal representations of
furniture in the Age of Exploration, for Bloomsbury Publishing.
François
Louis presented a paper, “Gold and Jewelry in Song-Era China: A
Comparative View,” at a symposium of the Asia Society: “Encounters with Early
Asian Gold,” October 3.
In July, at the University of
Brighton, Michele
Majer presented a paper, “The Representation of Fashion and Art in
French Fashion Periodicals, 1900-1920,” at the conference, “Textual Fashion:
The Representation of Fashion and Clothing in Word and Image.”
Andrew
Morrall gave the keynote presentation, “The Power of Nature and
the Agency of Art,” at the international conference on “The Agency of Things:
New Perspectives on European Art of the Fourteenth-Sixteenth Centuries,” hosted
by the University of Warsaw in conjunction with the National Gallery, Warsaw,
June 11-12. He spoke at the workshop “From Iconoclasm to Iconophobia,”
organized by the Centre for Reformation and Early Modern Studies (CREMS),
Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, University of Birmingham, July 2-3,
and he gave the plenary talk entitled “To ‘tapisse sure the chambres of thi
minde and remembraunce’: The Uses of Biblical Decoration in the Early
Modern Protestant Home,” at the conference, “Domestic Devotions in the Early
Modern World,” Cambridge University, July 9 -11. His article on “Domestic
Decoration and the Bible in the Early Modern Home,” in The
Oxford Handbook to the Bible in England, c. 1520-1700, ed. Kevin
Killeen, Helen Smith and Rachel Willie (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015),
was published on August 27.
Shawn
Rowlands presented a paper in Vienna on September 10 at the
Eleventh Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies. Co-authored with
Catriona Fisk, it was entitled, “‘A Dearly Bought Amusement’: Race, Law, and
the Overland Telegraph Route in Colonial Australia.”
Elizabeth
Simpson worked with several colleagues over the summer on the
preparation of articles for the forthcoming A Cultural History of
Furniture, volume 1, entitled A Cultural History of Furniture
in Antiquity (2500 BCE - 500 CE), to be published by Bloomsbury
Publishing, London. The six-volume series covers the history of furniture in
its cultural setting from antiquity through the present.
Stephanie
Su presented a paper, “History Painting in East Asia: Reflections
on a Global Art History,” on September 9 in Paris at the 5th Congress of Asian
and the Pacific Studies, organized by the French Research Consortium for Asian
Studies and the French National Center for Scientific Research. On September
10, she presented a paper, “Body Without Boundaries: Male Nude and the
Historiography of Modern Japanese Art” at the annual conference of the British
Association of Japanese Studies held at SOAS, University of London.
Catherine
Whalen was the Barnet Foundation Visiting Scholar at the Portland
Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, October 16-17. She presented two lectures, “Eve
Peri: Art, Craft and Design,” and “The Maker’s Voice: What Artists,
Craftspeople, and Designers Say About What They Do, and Why It Matters.”
At the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting on April 9, 2016, she
will lead the session “The Material Culture of Leadership: A Workshop with
Objects, Images, and Texts” and co-moderate “When Stuff Matters: How Objects of
Controversy Can Spark a Civic Engagement.”
