Early Modern Collections Use - Enfilade · PDF fileDaniela Bleichmar (University of Southern...
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2017 8:30 Registration & Coffee 9:30 Welcome: Steve Hindle (e Huntington) Remarks: Elizabeth Eger and Anne Goldgar (King’s College London) Session 1 Conceptualizing Moderator: Anne Goldgar Paula Findlen (Stanford University) “Why Put a Museum in a Book? Ferrante Imperato and Natural History in Sixteenth-Century Naples” Peter Mancall (University of Southern California and e USC- Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute) “Birds of (Early) America” 12:00 Lunch 1:00 Session 2 Displaying Moderator: Elizabeth Eger Vera Keller (University of Oregon) “Johann Daniel Major (1634-1693) and the Experimental Museum” Mark Meadow (University of California, Santa Barbara) “Quiccheberg, Prudence, and the Display of Techne in the Brueghel/Rubens Allegories of the Senses” 2:45 Break 3:00 Session 3 Performing Moderator: Arnold Hunt (University of Cambridge) Dániel Margócsy (University of Cambridge) “Stables as Collections for Breeding: e Production of Knowledge and the Reproduction of Horses” Anne Goldgar “How to Seem a Connoisseur: Learning to Perform in Early Modern Art Collections” 9:00 Registration & Coffee 9:30 Session 4 Hiding Moderator: Peter Mancall Jessica Keating (Carleton College) “Hidden in Plain Sight: e Kunstkammer of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II” Victoria Pickering (e British Museum) “Sealed and Concealed: e Visible and Not-so-Visible Uses of a Botanical Collection” 11:30 Lunch and time to view exhibition, Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin, in Boone Gallery (led by exhibition curator Daniela Bleichmar) 1:00 Session 5 Visiting Moderator: Kim Sloan (e British Museum) Elizabeth Eger “Collecting People” Felicity Roberts (King’s College London) “Sir Hans Sloane’s Museum and Animal Encounters” 2:45 Break 3:00 Session 6 Disseminating Moderator: Miles Ogborn (Queen Mary University of London) Alice Marples (e John Rylands Research Institute, University of Manchester) “‘Raised to High Eminence By the Excitement’: Collections and the Creation of ‘Provincial’ Medical Education” Daniela Bleichmar (University of Southern California) “e Interpretation of Mexican Indigenous Objects in Collections in Early Modern Europe and New Spain” 4:45 Concluding Roundtable Arnold Hunt, Miles Ogborn and Kim Sloan Mary Terrall (University of California, Los Angeles) SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2017 F rom cabinets of curiosities, auction houses, and libraries to stables, menageries, and laboratories, early modern collections played a key role in the creation and transmission of knowledge. But how were these collections used in their own time? Speakers will explore the relationships between space and knowledge through the discussion of a range of themes in the history of collecting: from management to performance, from visitation to dissemination. Cumulatively, the papers will offer a new basis for thinking not only about the origins and content, but also about the functions and dynamics of early modern collections. Location: Rothenberg Hall Steven S. Koblik Education and Visitor Center Imperato, Ferrante. Dell’Historia Naturale. Double plate (detail). 1599. Getty Research Institute. Early Modern in Use Collections A CONFERENCE AT THE HUNTINGTON 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino CA 91108 PHONE: (626) 405-3432 EMAIL: [email protected] Funding provided by e Huntington’s William French Smith Endowment and e USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute Conference registration and optional lunches by reservation only. Conference registration fee ............................................................................. $ 25.00 (Students free) Buffet lunch (September 15 ) ............................................................................ $ 20.00 Buffet lunch (September 16 ) ............................................................................ $ 20.00 Please visit huntington.org/moderncollections for ticket information.
Transcript of Early Modern Collections Use - Enfilade · PDF fileDaniela Bleichmar (University of Southern...
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2017
8:30 Registration & Coffee
9:30 Welcome: Steve Hindle (The Huntington)
Remarks: Elizabeth Eger and Anne Goldgar (King’s College London)
Session 1 Conceptualizing
Moderator: Anne Goldgar
Paula Findlen (Stanford University) “Why Put a Museum in a Book? Ferrante Imperato and Natural History in Sixteenth-Century Naples”
Peter Mancall (University of Southern California and The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute) “Birds of (Early) America”
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Session 2 Displaying
Moderator: Elizabeth Eger
Vera Keller (University of Oregon) “Johann Daniel Major (1634-1693) and the Experimental Museum”
Mark Meadow (University of California, Santa Barbara) “Quiccheberg, Prudence, and the Display of Techne in the Brueghel/Rubens Allegories of the Senses”
2:45 Break
3:00 Session 3 Performing
Moderator: Arnold Hunt (University of Cambridge)
Dániel Margócsy (University of Cambridge) “Stables as Collections for Breeding: The Production of Knowledge and the Reproduction of Horses”
Anne Goldgar “How to Seem a Connoisseur: Learning to Perform in Early Modern Art Collections”
9:00 Registration & Coffee 9:30 Session 4 Hiding Moderator: Peter Mancall Jessica Keating (Carleton College)
“Hidden in Plain Sight: The Kunstkammer of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II”
Victoria Pickering (The British Museum) “Sealed and Concealed: The Visible and Not-so-Visible Uses of a Botanical Collection”
11:30 Lunch and time to view exhibition, Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin, in Boone Gallery (led by exhibition curator Daniela Bleichmar)
1:00 Session 5 Visiting Moderator: Kim Sloan (The British Museum) Elizabeth Eger
“Collecting People”
Felicity Roberts (King’s College London) “Sir Hans Sloane’s Museum and Animal Encounters”
2:45 Break
3:00 Session 6 Disseminating
Moderator: Miles Ogborn (Queen Mary University of London)
Alice Marples (The John Rylands Research Institute, University of Manchester) “‘Raised to High Eminence By the Excitement’: Collections and the Creation of ‘Provincial’ Medical Education”
Daniela Bleichmar (University of Southern California) “The Interpretation of Mexican Indigenous Objects in Collections in Early Modern Europe and New Spain”
4:45 Concluding Roundtable
Arnold Hunt, Miles Ogborn and Kim Sloan Mary Terrall (University of California, Los Angeles)
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2017
From cabinets of curiosities, auction houses, and libraries to stables, menageries, and laboratories,
early modern collections played a key role in the creation and transmission of knowledge. But how were these collections used in their own time? Speakers will explore the relationships between space and knowledge through the discussion of a range of themes in the history of collecting: from management to performance, from visitation to dissemination. Cumulatively, the papers will offer a new basis for thinking not only about the origins and content, but also about the functions and dynamics of early modern collections.Location: Rothenberg Hall Steven S. Koblik Education and Visitor Center
Imperato, Ferrante. Dell ’Historia Naturale. Double plate (detail). 1599. Getty Research Institute.
Early Modernin Use
Collections
A CONFERENCE AT THE HUNTINGTON1151 Oxford Road, San Marino CA 91108
phone: (626) 405-3432 email: [email protected]
Funding provided byThe Huntington’s William French Smith Endowment
andThe USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute
Conference registration and optional lunches by reservation only. Conference registration fee .............................................................................$ 25.00 (Students free) Buffet lunch (September 15) ............................................................................$ 20.00 Buffet lunch (September 16) ............................................................................$ 20.00
Please visit huntington.org/moderncollections for ticket information.
