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Humanities Research Centre Faculty of Arts University of Warwick https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/flt/ Following Living Things and Still Lifes in a Global World One day interdisciplinary conference 12 February 2022 Online via MS Teams. Keynote Speaker: Professor Helen Cowie (University of York) Registration: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/flt/rf/ When we approach the history of trade and exchange, especially when it comes to natural products, there could be a boundary between living or ‘dead’ material, between a living thing and a ‘still life’. One opposition refers to the mobility of materials, the other touches upon living and dead matter. Tackling the definition of ‘living things’ and ‘still life’ from history of art, the purpose of this conference is to challenge the frontiers between natural and artificial objects, including plants and animals, to problematize the particularities of their circulation in a global world. Programme: 10:15 – 10:30 Welcome. 10:30 – 10:40 Introduction. 10:40 – 12:00 Session 1. Following Things. Methodological approaches. Moderator: Professor Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick) -Rachel Getz-Salomon. (Technion Institution of Technology, Haifa, Israel) Eliciting Objects – a Methodology Beyond Conceptualization -Erika de Vivo. (University of Turin). On the Italian Construction of Sámi Peoples as the Ultimate “Other” through Items, Images and Words. -Jaya Yadav. (King’s College London). What Tea is it? Reading Colonial Trade Across Asia through a Mapping of Darjeeling Tea Plantations in (British) India. -Charlotte M. Hoes. (University of Göttingen) Bounded Wilderness - the Global Trade in Living Animals. 12.00 – 13.00 Lunch 13:00 – 14:20 Session 2. Following Plants. Arts, Science and Consumption. Moderator: Professor Rebecca Earle (University of Warwick) Anna Lawrence (University of Cambridge): Scilly Narcissi: the Multiple Lives of Cut-Flower Commodities in nineteenth-century Britain Annabel Dover (Independent artist and writer): Florilegia, Anna Atkins Album Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions (1843) Maura C. Flannery (St. John’s University; A.C. Moore Herbarium, University of South Carolina): Paolo Boccone: Specimens and Nature Prints as Still Lifes 14:20 – 14:30 Break 14:30 – 16:20 Session 3: Following Animals: Arts, Science and Commerce. Moderator: Professor David Lambert (University of Warwick) -Amanda Coate (Stanford University): An Elephant in Dublin: Networks of Animals, Objects, and Knowledge in the Late Seventeenth Century -René Lommez Gomes (Federal University of Minas Gerais): The Tail of a Dead Monkey. Patterns of Brazilian Fauna’s Representation and the Artistic Understanding of Nature by Seventeenth-century Dutch Artists. -V.E. Mandrij (University of Kontanz): Otto Marseus van Schrieck and the Butterfly Imprints: Collecting, Trading, Displaying, and Printing Butterfly Wings in the late 17th-Century Netherlands and its Global Context. -Catherine Sidwell (Kingston University): Representations of Birds in Society, Culture and Decorative Designs for the English Domestic Interior 1851-1914 16:20 – 16:40 Break 16:40 – 18:00 Keynote. -Professor Helen Cowie (University of York) A Tale of Two Anteaters: Madrid 1776 and London 1853. Co-organizers: Camilo Uribe Botta and Cheng He (PhD Candidates. Department of History. University of Warwick) ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the HIST-NAT-HIST list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=HIST-NAT-HIST&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/HIST-NAT-HIST, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/