This presentation is part of a broader conference, "Sacrifice and Conversion between Europe and the New World":

From Tupinambá anthropophagi to ‘bloodthirsty Aztecs’ or ‘child-killing Incas’, American (human) sacrifices flooded the European imagination in the sixteenth century. In Europe, these images interacted with a heated debate about salvation, the Eucharist, and the role of sacrifice within Christianity. Far from being restricted to universities, monasteries or courts, this debate penetrated European societies at every level and informed the violent struggles of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

This conference will address the various ways in which images and discourses on American sacrificial practices impacted the religious debates taking place in Europe in the sixteenth century and, conversely, how these debates affected the perception and interpretation of American sacrifice. At the same time, it will examine the extent to which European conceptions of these sacrificial practices influenced projects and processes of Christian conversion.

This conference is open to the public and free of charge. No registration required.

SAAM Fellows’ Lectures
from 2 to 5 p.m.
McEvoy Auditorium

The Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery cordially invite you to attend three afternoons of lectures delivered by our 2017–2018 residential research fellows. The talks will be held in SAAM’s McEvoy Auditorium, located at 8th and G Streets NW, Washington, D.C. This event is free and open to the public, and no reservations are required. The talks will be available through a simultaneous webcast at http://americanart.si.edu/research/fellowslectures. Coffee will be served during intermission, and a wine reception will conclude the series on Friday evening. For further information, please e-mail SAAMFellowships@si.edu.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 2018

2:00 P.M. TO 3:40 P.M.

Moderator: Eleanor Harvey, Senior Curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Christian Cloke, Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cincinnati
“‘AM I NOT A ROMAN?’: Kneeling Barbarians and Enslaved Supplicants from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic”

David Park Curry, Smithsonian Senior Fellow, Independent Scholar
“Soup & Fish: Reconstruction on the President’s Table, 1879–1880”

Alexander Jackson, Terra Foundation Predoctoral Fellow in American Art, University of East Anglia
“The Social Context: Professional and Personal Networks at Century Magazine, ca. 1877–1913”

4:00 P.M. TO 5:00 P.M.

Moderator: Melissa Ho, Curator of Twentieth-Century Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Lauren Richman, Terra Foundation Predoctoral Fellow in American Art, Southern Methodist University
“Coded Histories: The Family of Man’s Legacy in Divided Germany”

Jennifer Noonan, Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in American Art, Caldwell University
“Printmaking in Action: The International Art Program’s Graphic Arts Workshop at the 1970 Venice Biennale and Beyond”

The 2018 Eldredge Prize Lecture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Tracing the role of moiré as a form of interference central to printmaking, the lecture will focus primarily on the work of Robert Rauschenberg and Christiane Baumgartner.

Please join us for the second Gillett G. Griffin Memorial Lecture: "Under the Skin: Tattoos in Japanese Prints."

A reception--sponsored by the Friends of the Princeton University Library--will follow the lecture at the East Asian Library, located on the third floor of Frist Campus Center.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Presentation at upcoming Colloquium: "Provenance and Collection Research" (Munich, 25 April 2018)

Since 2010, the Central Institute for Art History hosts regular colloquia on provenance and collection research. This year's tenth Colloquium focuses on Munich and gives an insight into a variety of projects for Provenance Research in Munich's museums and collections and discusses current work prospects.

The colloquium is public and free of charge, registration is not required. Unless otherwise specified, the speakers work in Munich.

Click on 'External Link' below for complete listing of speakers and schedule.

Born in 1845 in Rouen, Jules Adeline, architect and illustrator, is recognized in the late nineteenth century for its multiple collections of graphic arts and Japanese but also for his home. In January 1874 in Paris etching, Richard Lesclide described the architect as "an exile who lives in Normandy in a workshop carved like a chest of the Renaissance. "Inspired by the discovery of the habitat of Flanders, the Adeline will transform their house at museum attempts and then claim it as home museum echoing the book published in 1881 by Edmond de Goncourt: The House of artist.

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Session at the CONF: Amenagement interieur (Paris, 19 Mar 18)

AMENAGEMENT INTERIEUR ET COHABITATION DES STYLES
AUX EPOQUES MODERNE ET CONTEMPORAINE

Galerie Colbert, Salle Vasari
Lundi 19 mars 2018
9h30-17h - Entrée libre

Journée d'étude organisée par Claire Hendren, Barbara Jouves et Hadrien Viraben

This workshop proposes to question the usual manner and pragmatic fit in a domestic space objects that were originally not intended to meet, despite playing with them or dissimilarity.

If art history often puts us in the presence of decorative interiors where the harmony is designed according to the ideal of a "total work of art" that here is an opposite side that will exéminé. It is indeed to offer several reflections from unexpected and sometimes surprising parallels that can elicit heterogeneous sets of objects from nature and from different eras. This topic joins the history of taste and collections: he places in the heart of the debate practical need for a collector, dealer or particular, to compose an interior from disparate elements by their age, shape or use.

The summoned cases show the range of possibilities, some have chosen to associate their old furniture to modern art, other modern furniture to old works, or to mix different collections more widely typologies in same space, while suggesting the sake of the whole effect. Teeming and eclectic, these inner advocate as it organized disorder. Similarly, their components, and works of art, sometimes seen as sources of pleasure, sometimes considered with a more trivial purpose, are presented in constant mutation. They then become problematic for the historian who interpret consistently, often tempted to categorize and fix a one-way in time and space.

This day and for researchers who study part of receiving the articles and its impact on their perception, their use and history, as well as people interested in the layout of the space itself. This international and sub-national panorama of modern and contemporary is organized in four frames: the object, as part of internal heterogeneous or subject itself to different influences; the part, through the typical case of the library; the house as a whole; Finally, the image and its role in the public dissemination of these developments.

Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies 49th Annual Conference

SESSION: "Cognitive Approaches to Early modern Spanish Literature"

[Julien Jacques Simon, Indiana University East]
"Negative Emotions and the Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea (1502): Anatomy of a Literary Success at the Dawn of the Printing Press"

[Darryl Dedelow Jr., University of Kentucky]
"Engañosas e Ingeniosas: Mujeres empoderadas en Don Quijote"

[Elizabeth Cruz Petersen, Florida Atlantic University]
"The Art of Somatic Expression in the Works of Renaissance Rhetoricians: Lope de Vega, López Pinciano, and Gildon"

Chair/Commentator: Isabel Jaén Portillo, Portland State University

The RCC is pleased to announce and sponsor a series of lectures in collaboration with the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University, to be held during the Spring Semester.

Location: RCC Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St. Cambridge MA

Presentation as part of conference: "Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria (1529–1595) and his Cultural Patronage between Prague and Innsbruck"

International Conference organized by the Institute of Art History (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague) in cooperation with the National Gallery in Prague.

Conference chair: Mgr. Sylva Dobalová, Ph.D., IAH CAS

Prague, Academic Conference Center, Husova 4a, February 21 - 23, 2018


Information & registration at: archduke.ferdinand@post.cz
There is no registration fee to participate in the conference.

New York-based artist Hayal Pozanti returns to Tamarind for her second artist residency this spring. Her seemingly abstract imagery revolves around an invented 'alphabet' of 31 shapes, each composition embedding data relating to the human impact of technological advancements.