–Deborah L. Krohn, Associate Professor and Chair of Academic Programs
2021 Qualifying Paper Symposium Schedule
1:30 pm
Welcoming Remarks
Prof. Susan Weber, Founder & Director
Prof. Peter N. Miller, Dean
Prof. Deborah Krohn, Chair of Academic Programs
1:45 pm
Introduction by Prof. Andrew Morrall
Group I: International Trade and Transcultural Interactions
Juliana Fagua Arias
Seafaring Treasures: Latin America and the Transpacific Trade
Weixun Qu
The Afterlife of Lacquer Panels: Transforming Chinese Luxuries into French Furniture
Cynthia Volk
Dehua Porcelain Figures of Budai: Models of Adaptivity in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century China and “Europe”
Constantine Sidamon- Eristoff
The Lives of Berenike: A Port City and Its People
BREAK
2:45 pm
Group II: Material Culture and Gender: Education, Dress, Textile Art
Natalie DeQuarto
“A Little World of Themselves”: Women and the Cultivation of Fern Cases in the Nineteenth Century
Emily Isakson
Imitating the Flower: Nineteenth-Century Artificial Plants and Gendered Botanical Education
Daria Murphy
Tonsorial Transformations: Women’s Sokuhatsu in Nineteenth-Century Meiji Japan
Jessie Mordine Young
On Anne Wilson and Winding the Warp: Embodied and Tacit Knowledge in Contemporary Textile Art
BREAK
3:45 pm
Group III: Objects of Healing from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment
Madison Jane Williams
Science in the Study and Authentication of Catholic Relics
Madison Clyburn
Perfumed Air and Scented Bodies: Materializing the Philosophy of Scent in Sixteenth-Century Padua
Noah Dubay
Comfort and Convalescence: Fauteuils de Malade in Eighteenth-Century France
4:30 pm
Toast to the MA Class of 2021