Material and Visual Culture

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Past Seminars:

March 2-3, 2007 

Material/ Visual Culture Conference: Collecting the Americas

LOCATION: Intellectual Commons Room at Doheny Library, University of Southern California, 8:30-4:30

Confirmed speakers include:

Joanne Pillsbury, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Lisa Trever, Harvard University
Maite Alvarez, Getty Museum
Leonardo López Luján, Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología
Paz Cabello, Ministerio de Cultura (Madrid)
Alessandra Russo

 

September 29, 2006 

Trajectories in Early Modern Collecting: Traffic, Velocity, Assembly, Dispersal, Networks

Claudia Swan, Northwestern University
“Objects at work: Diplomatic Connections and Collection in the Early Dutch Republic”

Michael North, University of Greifswald
“Dealer-Agent Networks and the Recyling of Dutch Eighteenth-Century Collections”

Cynthia Wall, University of Virginia
“The Eighteenth-Century English Auction and the Pleasures of Destruction”

Break for lunch

(1:30-3:00pm:  Two Modern Postcripts)
Flaminia Genori-Santori, Research Fellow, Metropolitan Museum of Art
“The Journey of the JP Morgan Collection to America (1912-1917)”

Sophie Maisonneuve, European University, Florence
“Music as Collection: Some Reflections on Phonography ca. 1890-1949”

LOCATION: SOS Room 250, University of Southern California, 10:00-4:30

 

October 7, 2006

Workshops in CV Preparation and Fellowship Proposal Writing for Graduate Students in Visual Studies and Related Fields: How do you “sell” interdisciplinarity?

Lauren Rabinovitz, University of Iowa
James Herbert, University of California, Irvine

LOCATION:  Overseers' Room, Huntington Library, 9:30-5:00

This event is jointly sponsored by the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Program and the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute