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H istorians and art historians will investigate the role and interpretation of visual objects such as drawings, prints, and paintings, as well as collections and theatrical performances in British, Dutch, French, Portuguese, and Spanish American colonies from 1500 to 1800. Name(s): Address: Email/Phone: Affiliation: Conference registration and meals by reservation only. No confirmation will be sent. Conference registration fee ................... $ 25.00 (Students free) Buffet lunch (March 2) ........................... $ 16.50 Buffet lunch (March 3) ........................... $ 16.50 TOTAL .............. $ Vegetarian (check one) ❒ Yes ❒ No Please return form and check payable to “The Huntington” by February 24, 2012. Mail to Juan Gomez, The Huntington, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino CA 91108. Email: [email protected] Phone: 626-405-3432 FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012 SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 2012 This conference is funded by The William French Smith Endowment and The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute 9:00 Registration & Coffee 10:00 Welcome Steve Hindle (The Huntington) Remarks Daniela Bleichmar (University of Southern California) Session 1 Evidence and Trust Moderator: Charlene Villaseñor-Black (University of California, Los Angeles) Thomas Cummins (Harvard University) “‘Many of those who have not been in ... the Indies… are apt to doubt’: Proof by Representation in Early Colonial Latin America” Wendy Bellion (University of Delaware) “‘Here Trust Your Eyes’: Vision and Knowledge at the Philadelphia Theater” 11:45 Lunch 1:15 Session 2 Place Moderator: Barbara Fuchs (University of California, Los Angeles) Peter C. Mancall (University of Southern California) “Thinking with Secota” Michael Gaudio (University of Minnesota) “Frans Post’s Silent Landscapes” 3:00 Session 3 Collecting Moderator: Emily Berquist (California State University, Long Beach) Daniela Bleichmar “The Imperial Visual Archive: Science and Visual Evidence in the Early Modern Hispanic World” Neil Safier (University of British Columbia) “Amazonia on Display: Observing and Collecting in a Luso- Brazilian Philosophical Voyage (1783–1792)” 9:30 Registration & Coffee 10:00 Session 4 Feathered Transformations Moderator: Ilona Katzew (LACMA) Jennifer Roberts (Harvard University) “The Size of Knowledge: Audubon’s Birds of America” Amy Buono (Southern Methodist University) “Turning Chickens into Ibises: The Alchemy of Color in Colonial Brazilian Featherwork” 11:45 Lunch 1:15 Session 5 Visual Arguments Moderator: Nicolás Wey-Gómez (California Institute of Technology) Kevin Terraciano (University of California, Los Angeles) “The Many Faces of Moteuczoma in Colonial Mexico” Michael Wintroub (University of California, Berkeley) “Churching the New World: The Case of Early Modern France and Brazil” 3:00 Session 6 The Politics of Representation Moderator: Adrian Finucane (University of Southern California) K. Dian Kriz (Brown University) “The Military Caricaturist in Jamaica: Abraham James and the Production of Knowledge ‘In-Between’” Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra (University of Texas, Austin) “The Two Swords and the Two Bodies, in Heaven and Earth: Visual Representations of Power in the Spanish Monarchy” Concluding Remarks Northeastern South America, Vallard Atlas (Huntington Library) Visual Knowledge Early Modern Americas in the Visual Knowledge in the Early Modern Americas
