Ivan Gaskell gave two lectures in February at
Uppsala University, Sweden, at the invitation of the Office for History of
Science, and the Department of Literature and Rhetoric.
Aaron Glass will
be presenting at the Getty Research Institute’s Scholars Program Symposium on
Art and Anthropology on May 2–3. His presentation is entitled “Drawing on
Museums: Early Visual Fieldnotes by Franz Boas and the Anthropology of Art.” He
has also been invited to give a paper, “Reassembling the Social Organization:
Anthropological Typology meets Indigenous Ontology in the Franz Boas Critical
(Digital) Edition,” at the Politics of Classification conference, sponsored by the
Department of Information Studies, UCLA, on May 5.
Deborah Krohn gave
a lecture entitled “Kitchen and Table in Renaissance Europe” at Gettysburg
College in Pennsylvania on March 2.
Michele Majer participated in the conference, New Perspectives on
Parisian Haute Couture, from 1850 until Today, held in Paris March 24–25, along with Michelle Tolini Finamore (PhD, 2010) and
PhD student William DeGregorio. Maude
Bass-Krueger (PhD, 2016) was a co-convener.
Jessica Walthew
attended two conferences in March: “Illumination of Material Culture: A
Symposium on Computational Photography and Reflectance Transformation Imaging” at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Computer Applications in Archaeology
meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, where she presented on the conservation imaging
work that she is doing as part of her Andrew W. Mellon
“Cultures of Conservation” Fellowship.

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BGC Gallery will resume its exhibition programming this September with the return of Sèvres Extraordinaire! Sculpture from 1740 until Today, originally slated for fall 2024.
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