Please join us in celebrating the 2024 MA graduates as they present their qualifying papers at this year’s symposium.
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1 pm Welcome
Susan Weber, Director and Founder
Deborah L. Krohn, Associate Professor and Chair of Academic Programs
Jeffrey Collins, Professor
1:15 pm Group I
Objects in Motion: Transitions and Translation
Introduction by Prof. Aaron Glass
Angela Hermano Crenshaw
“From out the filmy piña draperies around her white and shapely neck”: Philippine Piña Textiles and Discourses of Distinction
Allison Donoghue
“A bead, a thimble or some other pauble”: Thimbles and Self-Identity in Early New York
Luli Zou
Beyond the China Trade—A Biography of a Qing Dressing Case in Kingscote, Newport
Mabel Capability Taylor
Nostalgic Bulldozers and Glass Boxes: Nineteenth-Century Spectacle at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1970s
Q&A—Break
2:15 pm Group II
Objects and Labor: Making and Marketing
Introduction by Prof. Deborah L. Krohn
Katherine Cohen
How to Fix a Broken Pot: Conceptual Normativity in the Archaeology of Craft
Rachel Salem-Wiseman
Ruff Work: Laundresses and their Labor in Early Modern England and the Netherlands
Caroline Montague
Gender, Technology, and Fashion: Knit Stockings in Seventeenth-Century England
Patricia Madsen
The Business of Art: The Union Porcelain Works
Q&A—Break
3:15 pm Group III
Objects and People: Personal Resonances
Introduction by Prof. Andrew Morrall
Sydney Maresca
“Coats Woven of Turkie-feathers”: Indigenous Featherwork Mantles in the Seventeenth-Century American Northeast
Antonia Anagnostopoulos
“Are you French, Greek, Ottoman, Hellene, Or Roman?”: ‘Amalia’ Dress in the New Greek Nation 1832–1865
Irène Berthezène
Recovering the Design of Noémi Pernessin Raymond
Mackensie Griffin
A Seat at the Table: The Dining Table in Black Art & Design, 1850–2022
Q&A—Break
4:15 pm Group IV
Objects and Peoples: Collective Identities
Introduction by Prof. Meredith Linn
Robert Hewis
Drinks and Desire: Coffee Culture in Early Modern Europe
Samantha Kanoelani Santana
Picture Perfect Hula Girls: A Story of Hula in New York City
Raphaël Machiels
Finding Flanders: (Sub)national Identities in the Work of Maarten van Severen
William Dunsmore
“A Winter Temperature in the Summer Time”: Preserving Nineteenth-Century Lagerkellers and German-American Heritage
5:15 pm Closing Remarks
