Francisca Efigenia Meléndez y Durazzo, Portrait of a Girl, c. 1795, tempera on ivory, 5 x 5 cm, Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas, Museum Purchase with funds from The Meadows Foundation, MM.08.01.20
Thursday, November 1 | Friday November 2 | Saturday November 3 | Sunday November 4
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Thursday, November 1
Meadows Museum on the SMU Campus
5900 Bishop Blvd. and Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N Harwood St.
8:30
Registration Opens (Pastries and coffee available)
9:00 – 10:00
Welcome and HECAA Business Meeting, Amelia Rauser, Franklin & Marshall College, President
10:00 – 10:15
Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:00
Roundtable: The History of Studying Eighteenth-Century Art, the Belgium of Art History
Michael Yonan, University of Missouri (chair)
Wendy Wassyng Roworth, University of Rhode Island
Malcolm Baker, University of California, Riverside
Heather McPherson, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Meredith Gamer, Columbia University
Kevin Chua, Texas Tech University
Sarah Betzer, University of Virginia
12:00 – 1:15
Lunch on your own
1:15 – 2:45
Research Session: Apprehending the Spatial: Methods and Approaches
Christopher Drew Armstrong, University of Pittsburgh (chair)
Lauren Cannady, Clark Art Institute, The Garden in an Eighteenth-Century Curiosity Cabinet
Laurel O. Peterson, The Morgan Library & Museum, Making Spaces: Immersive Politics and the Murals at Chatsworth
Stacey Sloboda, University of Massachusetts, Boston, St. Martin’s Lane: Neighborhood as Art World in Eighteenth-Century London
2:45 – 3:00
Coffee Break
3:00 – 4:30
Research Session: Carte Blanche
Denise Baxter, University of North Texas (Chair)
Nina Dubin, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Master of the World: Love and Other Inconstancies in Eighteenth-Century French Art
Jessica Priebe, University of Sydney, Assembling Ambition: Leroy de Barde and the Reimagining of the Artist’s Museum in the Long Eighteenth Century
Andrew Graciano, University of South Carolina, An Eighteenth-Century Electrical Machine and the Re-Identification of a Portrait Subject in the National Portrait Gallery, London
4:45
Buses Depart to Dallas Museum of Art
5:30–6:45
Cocktail Hour
Hosted by the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History, University of Texas at Dallas, Mezzanine 2, DMA
Free time in DMA galleries
7:00-8:30
Keynote Address/Michael L. Rosenberg Lecture
Horchow Auditorium, DMA
Sponsored by the Dallas Museum of Art
Knowing Their Place? Women Artists in Eighteenth-Century France
Melissa Hyde, University of Florida
Friday, November 2
Meadows Museum on SMU Campus, 5900 Bishop Blvd.
8:30
Registration Opens (Pastries and coffee available)
9:00 – 10:45
Research Session: People, Places, & Things in the Global Eighteenth Century
Nancy Um, Binghamton University (chair)
Elisabeth Fraser, University of South Florida, The Ottoman Costume Album as Agent of Contact in the Global Eighteenth Century
Irene Choi, University of British Columbia, “The Principle of Things”: Materiality and Morality from Dutch Still Life to Korean Chaekgeori
Dipti Khera, New York University, Connected, yet Dispersed: Pictures, Places and Histories of Art, c. 1700
Dawn Odell, Lewis and Clark College, Chinese Art and a South Carolina Rice Plantation
10:45 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30
Roundtable: Engaging Twenty-First-Century Publics: Innovation in Teaching, Advising, Exhibiting, and Curating
Amelia Rauser, Franklin & Marshall College (chair)
Lilit Sadoyan, J. Paul Getty Museum
Kelsey Brosnan, New Orleans Museum of Art
Wendy Bellion, University of Delaware
David Pullins, Frick Collection
12:30 – 2:00
Lunch on your own
2:00 – 3:15
Research Session: Emerging Scholars 1
Christopher Johns, Vanderbilt University (chair)
Danielle Ezor, Southern Methodist University, A Restaurant at the Salon: Consuming Chardin’s Still Lifes
Ashley Bruckbauer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Dangerous Liaisons: Ambassadors and Embassies in Eighteenth-Century French Art
Delanie Linden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Silver, Flesh, and Holy Water: Colonial Conversions in the French Enlightenment
Thea Goldring, Harvard University, The Imagined Machine of the Encyclopédie Planches
3:15 – 3:30
Coffee break
3:30 – 4:45
Research Session: Emerging Scholars 2
Christopher Johns (chair)
Katherine Calvin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Merchants, Markets, and Cultural Contact in Early Modern Aleppo
Vincent Pham, University of California, San Diego, Self-Made Men: Lord Chesterfield and His Library Portraits
Ji Eun You, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Interpretation of Neoclassical Designs in Decorative Art through Winckelmann
Hyejin Lee, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Perfumed Flights of Imagination: Reverie, Ornaments, and Elite Female Identity in Late Eighteenth-Century Boudoirs
4:45 – 5:15
Meadows Gallery Visit
5:15 – 7:00
Research Session: Things Change,
Wendy Bellion, University of Delaware
and Kristel Smentek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (chairs)
Jeffrey Collins, Bard Graduate Center, Repair or Reinvention? Recreating the Red Faun
Tara Zanardi, Hunter College, Artful Nature and Material Splendor: The Dauphin’s Collection at the Royal Cabinet of Natural History
Susan Wager, University of New Hampshire, Durham, The Sweet Hereafter: The Multiple Lives of Boucher’s Biscuit Porcelain Figures
Jennifer Chuong, Harvard University, Wood in Transition: Veneer Furniture in the Early American Republic
7:15
Busses depart Meadows Museum for HECAA Anniversary Banquet
(for pre-paid ticket holders)
7:30
Banquet (Bolsa, 614 West Davis Street, Dallas, TX 75208)
Saturday, November 3
Owen Fine Arts Center, SMU campus, 6101 Bishop Blvd.
8:30
Registration (Pastries and coffee available)
9:00 – 10:30
Keynote Address
Daniela Bleichmar, University of Southern California, Painting and the Time and Place of History
10:30 – 11:00
Recent Acquisitions in Eighteenth-Century Menswear from the Texas Fashion Collection
Annette Becker, Director, Texas Fashion Collection at University of North Texas
(coffee available)
11:00 – 12:30
Breakout Sessions
Participants will convene in small pre-assigned groups for discussion-look for your group number on the back of your nametag
Chair: Jessica Fripp, Texas Christian University
| Heather Belnap, Brigham Young University | Craig Hanson, Calvin College | Kristin O’Rourke, Dartmouth College | Wendy Wassyng Roworth, University of Rhode Island | Heidi Strobel, University of Evansville |
| Daniella Berman, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU | Susanna Caviglia, Duke University | Zoë Dostal, Columbia University | Tracy Ehrlich, Parsons School of Design | Joanna Gohmann, Walters Art Museum |
| Christina Lindeman, University of South Alabama | Amber Ludwig, Independent Scholar | Hector Reyes, University of Southern California | Amanda Strasik | Alexandra Wellington, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| Franny Brock, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Kathryn Desplanques, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Lindsay Dunn, Texas Christian University | Jennifer Germann, Ithaca College |
12:30 – 2:00
How to Art History: A Workshop for Emerging Scholars
Elizabeth Bacon Eager, Southern Methodist University (chair)
Michael Yonan, University of Missouri
Nicole Myers, Dallas Museum of Art
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, Independent Scholar
Come with questions about job hunting, professional networking, publishing, and balancing life and work. Boxed lunches provided for preregistered guests.
2:00 – 3:45
Research Session: Art and Political Authority in the Long Eighteenth Century
Meredith Martin, New York University
and Aaron Wile, University of Southern California (chairs)
Sarah Grandin, Harvard University, Font Fit for a King: The Romain du Roi, Print, and the Mechanical Arts under Louis XIV
Douglas Fordham, University of Virginia, Free Market Patriotism
Ünver Rüstem, Johns Hopkins University, Ottoman Baroque Architecture and the Aesthetics of Power
Jennifer Van Horn, University of Delaware, Slavery and Portraiture in a New Nation
3:45 – 4:00
Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:45
Roundtable: The Future of Studying Eighteenth-Century Art: HECAA at 50
Amy Freund, Southern Methodist University (chair)
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Harvard University
Cassie Mansfield, Penn State University
Catherine Girard, Eastern Washington University
Paris Spies-Gans, Harvard Society of Fellows
Andrei Pop, University of Chicago
5:45 – 7:45
Closing Cocktail Reception
Dinner on your own