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Dear All, If any of you are based in Southern California, or around at the beginning of June, the following conference might be of interest. Please do forward this announcement to anyone else you can think of. I'm writing to let you know that a Materialities, Texts and Images Workshop that will be taking place at CalTech (in the Treasure Room, Dabney Hall) on June 2nd. The workshop will run all day, and full details of the timetable will be circulated soon. Space will be very limited for this event, so if you would like to attend, please RSVP [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> at your earliest convenience. The workshop, titled 'Knowledge and the Cultivation of Tastes in the Eighteenth Century', will interrogate the interplay between the cultivation of tastes and the making of knowledge in a period when according to many - the key modern disciplines, practices and institutions for forging both came into being. The participants come from a range of disciplines and will consider questions about taste and knowledge from a range of disciplinary perspectives and with a similarly wide range of material, textual and visual resources. There will be five invited speakers from the U.S. and across the world, along with a roundtable panel of leading scholars from Southern California. All the workshop details may be found at this web address: http://knowledgeandtaste.wordpress.com/ I am pleased to be able to announce the program details for the workshop: 9.00-9.30: Coffee and Pastries 9.30-10.00: Welcome and Introduction Alexander Wragge-Morley (MTI Fellow, Caltech and The Huntington Library) 10.00-11.00: Dialogues on Taste: men, women and the matter of luxury Elizabeth Eger (Department of English, King's College London) 11.00-12.00: The Sun Pictures: Making and Disfiguring Enlightenment 'Photography' Matthew Hunter (Department of Art History & Communication Studies, McGill University) 12.00-1.00: Lunch in Dabney Garden 1.00-2.00: An Impossible Category: The Picturesque in Eighteenth-century British Aesthetics Timothy Costelloe (Department of Philosophy, William and Mary College) 2.00-3.00: The Third Age of Description Joanna Stalnaker (Department of French and Romance Philology, Columbia University) 3.00-3.15: Coffee Break 3.15-4.15: Materializing Taste through the Rococo Cartouche Michael Yonan (University of Missouri, Columbia, and Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study) 4.15-5.00: Roundtable Discusion (Participants to be Confirmed) Details of the workshop's scholarly aims can be found here http://knowledgeandtaste.wordpress.com/ As I said, space will be limited, so lease RSVP to let me know of your planned attendance. All good wishes, Alex Wragge-Morley