Ivan Gaskell will serve as discussant at the international colloquium, Thinking with Objects: University Museum Collections in Teaching and Research, to be held at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, at the University of Oxford on June 5. On June 9, he will serve as respondent at the international workshop, The Museum as Method—Collaborative Research Network at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge. He will present a paper, “Museum Collections: Categorization, Persistence, Expertise” at the research seminar, Exploring Expertise, to be held June 16 at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August University, Göttingen.

Aaron Glass will introduce and join a panel discussion on Edward S. Curtis’s 1914 silent film, In the Land of the Head Hunters, at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto on June 6. It is part of a symposium on the Canadian artist Emily Carr. [no-indent]

Shawn Rowlands will present two papers at the European Society for Oceanists conference in Brussels, June 24-27. They are entitled “Enemy Professors: Australia, Germany, Anthropology, and the Great War,” (with Erin A. Freedman) and “Not by Blood, but some Iron: Otto Finsch‘s Ethnographic Imperialism in Oceania and the Ways of Indigenous Resistance” (with Sergio Jarillo de la Torre).

Ittai Weinryb will speak on “Bronze and Conversion” at the Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on June 16. On June 22, he will present a lecture, “Medieval Astrolabes: Technology, World, Experience,” as part of the colloquium, Zwischen Nahöstlichen und Europäischen Bidkünsten, at the Kunsthistorisches Institut der Freie Universität​,​ Berlin.