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
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