Jeffrey Collins presented a paper entitled “Staging Statues: The Challenge of the Group” as part of a symposium on Sculpture Collecting and Display, 1600-2000, sponsored by the Frick’s Center for the History of Collecting on May 11. On May 28, he delivered the concluding remarks at the symposium Reportage and Representation: Viewing History in Eighteenth-Century Europe, held at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles on the occasion of the exhibition Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe.

Ivan Gaskell, in March, presented papers at the symposium Provenienzforschung zu ethnologischen Sammlungen der Kolonialzeit at the Museum Fünf Kontinente in Munich, and at the American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division annual conference in Philadelphia. He attended the Consortium for American Material Culture meeting, May 15-16, at Boston University

Urmila Mohan gave a talk entitled “Armchair Anthropology and Museum Objects” at the Research Library, American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) on May 11. She discussed how she researched Balinese textiles for her postdoctoral fellowship, using objects housed in the AMNH Asian Ethnology Collections as well as archives such as the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the AMNH library, in New York City, the Field Museum in Chicago, and the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam.

Catherine Whalen attended the North Eastern Public Humanities Consortium Conference, held April 28-29, at Rutgers University-Newark and the Consortium for American Material Culture meeting, May 15-16, at Boston University.