Chonja Lee presenting “A Taste for the Exotic” in Geneva, Nov. 23 2017.
A Taste for the Exotic: Artistic Innovation in the Swiss Indiennes Manufactories, Chonja Lee presenting at the Conference “Produire du nouveau? Arts –…
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Claire Brizon at the Pacific Art Association’s Annual Meeting, Geneva/Lucens, Nov. 24, 2017.
The annual meeting of the Pacific Art Association – which gathers anthropologists, curators, art historians, and historians – took place this year at…
Image-Object-Text. CFP for PhD Candidates. Deadline: Jan. 1, 2018.
Image – Object – Text. Visuality, Materiality, and Knowledge Production since the 18th Century An Interdisciplinary Workshop. Organisation: Noémie Étienne, Claire Brizon, Sara…
Conference in Paris and Los Angeles, Winter 2018.
Circulating Crafts: Art, Agency, and the Making of Identities (1600-2000) January 24th 2018: Workshop at La Colonie, Paris February 21st 2018 : CAA 2-parts…
Journal18 #4, East Southeast (Fall 2017)
Issue Editor: Kristina Kleutghen, Washington University in St. Louis An Architecture of Ephemerality between South and West Asia Holly Shaffer http://www.journal18.org/issue4/an-architecture-of-ephemerality-between-south-and-west-asia/ Mediated Realism…
Claire Brizon and Sara Petrella in Toronto (Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies), Oct. 21st, 2017.
Sara Petrella and Claire Brizon went to Toronto (Canada) for the annual conference of the CSECS / SCEDHS & NEASECS, entitled: “From Cosmopolitans…
Noémie Etienne presenting at the University of Cambridge, UK, Sept. 22, 2017.
“Unfolding the Specimen: Display and Diorama in New York, 1900”: paper in the Conference “Collections, Display, and the Agency of Objects”, University of Cambridge,…
Unpacking the Gymnotus. Visit at the Museum of Natural History, Geneva, Sept. 12, 2017.
This Gymnotus is a specimen collected around 1750 in Surinam, a former Dutch Colony. It was the possession of Ami Butini, a plantation and…
Dioramas, Before and After: New Publication on Journal18, www.journal18.org
Displaying historical works in contemporary art museums is a risky – yet potentially rewarding – business. Case in point: Dioramas, an exhibition curated…