Catherine Whalen, David Jaffee, and current doctoral candidate Mei-Ling Israel presented papers at the symposium of the Northeastern Public Humanities Consortium held at Yale University, April 10-12.

Andrew Morrall participated in “The Paston Treasure,” a workshop organized by the Yale Center for British Art in collaboration with the Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery. It was held April 13-14 in Norwich, England, in preparation for an exhibition about an extraordinary painted record of a seventeenth-century Norfolk family’s Kunstkammer collection.

Shawn Rowlands presented a lecture, “Intertwined: Material and Cultural Entanglements in the Aboriginal Australian Collection at the Peabody Museum,” on April 16 at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology.

Peter N. Miller’s book, Peiresc’s Mediterranean World, has been published by Harvard University Press.

Hanna Hölling will present a paper, “On the Relative Duration of the Impermanent and the Aesthetics of Change in Museums,” at the Lost Museums symposium on May 7 at Brown University. On May 14, at the opening session of the Annual Meeting of the American Institute for Conservation in Miami, Florida, she will talk on “The Theory of Practice: Practical Philosophy, Cultures of Conservation and the Aesthetics of Change.”

Deborah Krohn will participate in Treasured Possessions: Material Worlds from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, a conference on May 11 at St John’s College, Cambridge, England. The title of her paper is “The Role of the Object in an Age of Digital Reproducibility.”

Aaron Glass will be on the faculty of the Otsego Institute for the Study of Native American Art, a graduate student and young professional training workshop at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York, May 18-21. On June 6, he will introduce and participate in a panel discussion on Edward S. Curtis’s 1914 silent film, In the Land of the Head Hunters, at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, as part of a symposium on the Canadian artist Emily Carr.

Pat Kirkham and Catherine Whalen will present a paper, “Design History in the USA,” at the Design History Conference: Forty Years On, to be held May 22 at the Open University, Milton Keynes, England. On May 27, at the Émigré Design Culture: Histories of the Social in Design symposium in Vienna, Austria, Professor Kirkham is speaking on “Eva Zeisel’s Vienna, Budapest, New York: Wanderlust, Imprisonment, Exile, and Emigration.”