On November 8, Gabrielle Berlinger will participate in the panel “At the Crossroads of Museums and Communities” at the American Folklore Society Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico. On November 11, she will give a talk entitled “Challenging Heritage at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum” as part of the fifth China-US Forum on Intangible Cultural Heritage: Bridging the Tangible and the Intangible in Ethnographic Museum and Heritage Sites also in Santa Fe.

Jeffrey Collins will present a lecture at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, on November 10, entitled “From Italy to England: Furniture Designs by William Kent.”

Aaron Glass is participating in the panel discussion “The Distributed Text: Uniting Museums, Archives, and Indigenous Knowledge around Franz Boas’s 1897 Monograph” at the American Folklore Society Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico, from November 5-8. During the conference, he is also presenting a screening of the restored Edward S. Curtis film In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914). On November 19, he will be giving a lecture entitled, “Cultural Salon: Pacific Northwest Past, Present, Future” at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

At the Network for Conservation of Contemporary Art Research (NeCCAR) conference December 1-2 in Glasgow, Scotland, Hanna Hölling will be giving an opening keynote talk entitled “On the Relative Duration of the Impermanent and Critical Thinking in Conservation” and chairing a panel.

Kimon Keramidas is presenting a paper in Dearborn, Michigan, on November 9, entitled “The Interface Experience.” Focusing on his spring 2015 Focus Gallery exhibition, it is part of the Special Interest Group for Computers, Information, and Society (SIGCIS) workshop at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology. At the Museum Computer Network annual meeting in Dallas, Texas, he will be participating in panels on “Being Small, Thinking Big: Small Museum Innovators and the Little Known Small Museum Digital Revolution” (November 20) and “User Experience: Towards a Grand Unified Theory of Museum Content” (November 22).

Pat Kirkham is speaking, on November 19, at a conference marking the tenth anniversary of the Center for the Study of the Modern Interior at Kingston University in London, England. Her lecture is entitled “Routes of Research Suggested by the Recently Catalogued Part II of the Eames Collection at the Library of Congress.”

François Louis gave the response at “Painting under the Five Dynasties, Liao, and Northern Song Dynasties”—a symposium held on October 24 for the China Project Workshop at the Institute of Fine Arts in New York City.

Andrew Morrall participated in a workshop on “Early Modern Colour Practices” at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, Germany, October 31-November 1. His essay was “The Uses of Colour in Martin Schaffner’s Universe Table.”

On October 18, Shawn Rowlands gave a presentation at the Stickley Museum at Craftsman’s Farm Fourth Annual Emerging Scholars Symposium. His paper was entitled “Broken Glass: Craft, Industry and Material Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Australia.”

Elizabeth Simpson is presenting the ArtWatch International James Beck Memorial Lecture at the Salmagundi Club in New York City on November 6. Her talk is entitled “King Midas’s Furniture: A Tale of Archaeological Conservation.”

Catherine Whalen is co-leading the panel discussion “Twenty Years, Twenty Questions to Ask an Object: A Material Culture Caucus Workshop” at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, California, November 6-9.