Welcome
Dr. Rosalind P. Blakesley
Session 1: Material Objects
Chair: Professor Caroline van Eck
Sofia Gans, Columbia University
Models of Collaboration: Brass Casting in Fifteenth-Century Nuremberg
Matthew Gillman, Columbia University
A Tale of Two Ivories: Elephant and Walrus
Tom Young, University of Cambridge
The Delights of Association: Art as Networking in the East India Company's “Familial Proto-State,” 1797–1824
Session 2: Material Surfaces
Chair: Dr. Alexander Marr
Amy Jeffs, University of Cambridge
From Space to Surface: the art historical ramifications of piercing the image to punish traitors in medieval books of secular legend
Siddhartha Shah, Columbia University
Plumage, Paradise, and Power: The Peacock Dress of Lady Mary Curzon
Kamila Kociałkowska, University of Cambridge
Gustav Klucis and the Materiality of Censorship
Session 3: Material Affects
Chair: Dr. Donal Cooper
Lizzie Marx, University of Cambridge
The Materiality of Smelling Salts in Rembrandt's Art
Lorraine de la Verpillière, University of Cambridge
“The Ink of Melancholy”: A New Interpretation of Jean Duvet's Plate of the Despair and Suicide of Judas (c. 1550/60)
Session 4: Material Effects
Chair: Dr. Alyce Mahon
Clare Kobasa, Columbia University
Between Material, Word, and Image: Absent Objects in Print
Kathryn Kremnitzer, Columbia University
Manet's Watercolors: Transition and Translation in the 1860s
Roxanne Smith, Columbia University
Art and Parody in the “Plastic Tableaux” Films of Georges Méliès
Concluding Remarks
Dr. Frank Salmon
