APS and print-related panels at RSA 2025
APS is sponsoring a session at the RSA Annual Convention 2025 in Boston from March 20–22, 2025.
Check out our session as well as other print-related papers and panels (edited list forthcoming).
Visit this link for the full conference program.
TWO APS-SPONSORED SESSIONS:
Replicating Value: New Approaches to Print and Money
Thursday 20 March 2025 – 11:00-12:30
Boston Marriott Copley Place – Yarmouth Room – 4th Floor
Organizers: Elizabeth Rice Mattison, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College; Katherine Paige Calvin, Kenyon College.
Chair: Katherine Paige Calvin, Kenyon College.
Presentations:
11:00 – Ancient Coins, Printed Portraits, and the Idea of Authenticity in Konrad Peutinger’s Kaiserbuch Rachel M. Carlisle, University of Alabama in Huntsville
11:20 – Line, Wear, and Value in Cornelis Cort’s Matrices Rachel Young, Johns Hopkins University
11:40 – Authenticity, Copies, and Authority in Prints and Money in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries Elizabeth Rice Mattison, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
The Metabolism of Prints: An Ecological View of Printmaking and Its Materials
Saturday 22 March 2025 – 9:00-10:30
Boston Marriott Copley Place – Salon K – 4th Floor
Organizers: Ulrike Keuper, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; Hui Luan Tran, University of Mainz
Presentations:
9:00 – The Mutability of Wood Susan Dackerman, Art & Archaeology, Princeton University
9:20 – The Embodied Geologic Knowledge of Albrecht Altdorfer Jackie Streker, Temple University
9:40 – “Least It Endanger the House”: Shifting Ecological Concerns in Early Etching Recipes
Genevra R. Higginson, University of Michigan
10:00 – Metabolic Segers Elizabeth J. Petcu, University of Edinburgh
Print-related sessions and papers
* If we missed a session or a paper, please email info@printscholars.org and we will add it to the list.
Other Panels of Interest
Manuscript and Printed Book, Drawing, and Printmaking: Thinking Across Media in Northern European Art
Friday 21 March 2025 – 9:00-10:30
Boston Marriott Copley Place – Yarmouth Room – 4th Floor
Organizer: Walter Simon Melion, Emory University
Chair: James Clifton, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation
Presentations:
9:00 – Exegesis, Antithesis, and Ironical Wit in the Album amicorum of Cornelis à Bleijenburg Walter Simon Melion, Emory University
9:20 – Giovanni Pietro Birago and Giovanni Antonio da Brescia: Untangling the Intertwined and Deviating Careers of Illuminators-Turned-Printmakers Femke Speelberg, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
9:40 – Print, Paint, and the Play of Media in Parisian Prayerbooks the Early Sixteenth Century Elliott D. Wise, Brigham Young University
Beyond a Hermeneutics of Print
Friday 21 March 2025 – 16:30-18:00
Boston Westin Copley Place – Helicon Room – 7th Floor
Organizers: Megan Cook, Colby College; Sonja Drimmer, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Chair: Megan Cook, Colby College
Presentations:
16:30 – Beyond Print, Beyond Chaucer: Rewriting Reception Histories Through Early Modern Manuscript Collection Dr. Mimi Ensley, Flagler College
16:50 – “Very Poor Presswork”: Heraldry, Optics, Print Prof. Sonja Drimmer, University of Massachusetts Amherst
17:10 – The Work of Revolutions: Time-Reckoning Texts in Manuscript and Print Dr. Kathleen Tonry, University of Connecticut
Functions and Meanings of Color in Early Modern European Prints
Saturday 22 March 2025 – 11:00-12:30
Boston Marriott Copley Place – Salon 4 – 4th Floor
Organizers: Jessica Frances Keating, Carleton College; Manon Chaidron, UCLouvainChair: Walter Simon Melion, Emory University
Panel Respondent: Susan Dackerman, Art & Archaeology, Princeton University
Presentations
11:00 – Color in Heraldic Prints in the Sixteenth-Century Polish Kingdom: A Comparative Look Karolina Anna Mroziewicz, University of Warsaw
11:20 – Decoding the Palette: the Role of Color in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century European Parrot Engravings Marie-Anne Dragon, Free University of Brussels
11:40 – The Desecration of the Hosts in Colorized Books During the Seventeenth Century Manon Chaidron, UCLouvain