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Having looked through the programme for the Renaissance Society of America / Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, next year (Thursday 11 April - Saturday 13 April 2002), I though the following papers / sessions might be of interest: Their own "stuf": women making and managing material goods, organized by Goergianna Ziegler: Ann Rosalind Jones, Splendor or Piety? The Queen of Sheba in Women's Embroidery 158-1640 Rachel Doggett, "Coloured or not": prints for gentlewomen's work Lena Cowen Orlin, As she liked it: the material makings of marriage in early modern England Female dynasties: the patronage, collecting and bequeathing of portraits by 16th-century royal women, organzied by Sheila Ffolliott Sheila Ffolliott, Family pictures: portraits in Catherine de' Medici's Parisian hotel Annemarie Jordan, A dynasty of collectors: the patronage and collecting of Hapsburg women in the renaissance Martha A. McCrory, Portraits and the decorative arts: Catherine de' Medici's legacy to Christine de Lorraine Veneziani/stranieri: being Venetian at home and abroad, organized by Holly S. Hurlburt and Sally McKee Holly S. Hurlburt, La serenissima straniera? Foreign Dogaresse and the construction of civic identity Blake de Maria, Home is where the art is: material culture and the Venetian mercantile community in Aleppo Ersie C. Burke, Assimilation and separateness: Greeks at home in Venice Nancy Bisaha, "Worldly goods" or written texts? Reconstructing Western perceptions of the Turks. Conference details available in 'Renaissance News & Notes', via the Renaissance Society of America's website, http://www.r-s-a.org/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rupert Shepherd Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Material Renaissance Project Essex House University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QN, UK Tel. +44 (0)1273 872544 [log in to unmask] http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/arthist/matren/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~