Alicia Boswell, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Cultures of Conservation, will be joining the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as an assistant professor in the fall.

Ittai Weinryb, with Benjamin Anderson (Cornell University), organized a two-day colloquium in April at the Clark Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, entitled “Causality and the Work of Art.” Participants included: Yukio Lippitt (Harvard University), Andrew Moisey (Cornell University), Sugata Ray (University of California, Berkeley), Yael Rice (Amherst College), Lihong Liu (Univeristy of Rochester), Beate Fricke (University of Bern), Nathaniel Jones (Washington University in St. Louis), Joseph Koerner (Harvard University), Marisa Bass (Yale University), Ivan Drpić (University of Pennsylvania).

Catherine Whalen and Meredith Linn are representing Bard Graduate Center at the twelfth annual meeting of the Consortium of American Material Culture. This year’s meeting, organized by Fath Davis Ruffins, curator at the National Museum of American History, will take place at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., May 31–June 1, 2018. The Consortium was founded at Bard Graduate Center in 2007. Whalen discussed her research on the American Colonial Revival with artist Jane Irish vis-à-vis her work Antipodes, which is currently on view at Philadelphia’s Lemon Hill mansion in Fairmount Park through June 6. The discussion, entitled “Performative Politics in the Decorative Arts: Jane Irish and Catherine Whalen in Conversation,” took place in March.