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Global Visions: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern World Saturday October 30, 2010 Huntington Library Overseers' Room organized by Daniela Bleichmar and Alexander Marr at the University of Southern California Funded by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute with the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate (USC). 8.30am: Coffee 9am: Morning session Stephanie Leitch (Department of Art History, Florida State University) Flatland: Maps, Marvels & the Edge of the World Mary Fuller (Literature Department, MIT) Bringing Roanoke Home: England's First Colony and the Media of Early Modern Geography Todd P. Olson (Department of Art History, University of California Berkeley) Printed Matter: The Graphic Translation of the Codex Mendoza 12:30pm: Lunch 2pm: Afternoon session Sven Dupre (Centre for History of Science, University of Ghent) The Collection of the Portuguese Merchant-Banker Emmanuel Ximenes: Global Trade, Local Exchanges, and Knowledge in Early 17th-Century Antwerp Sofia Sanabrais (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) "The Spaniards of Asia": The Encounter Between Japan and New Spain and the Impact on Material Culture Lunch will be provided to participants who RSVP by Friday 22 October to [log in to unmask]