For the WMQ-EMSI Workshop “Material Culture Studies and Early American History”
Due to social distancing requirements, attendance will be by invitation only.
Ahmanson Classroom at the Huntington Library
9:00am-9:30am
Coffee
9:30am-10:30am
Session 5
Glenda Goodman, University of Pennsylvania
“Elegant Instruments of Imperial Influence: Joseph Brant’s Barrel Organ at Grand River”
Commentator: Robin Derby, UCLA
Chair: Nicholas Popper, Omohundro Institute and William & Mary
10:30am-11:30am
Session 6
Susan Kern, Independent scholar
“’Of General use to the improvement of natural philosophy’: New Material from an Old Place”
Commentator: Benjamin Schmidt, University of Washington
Chair: Joshua Piker, Omohundro Institute and William & Mary
11:30am-1:00pm
Lunch
1:00pm-2:00pm
Session 7
Pablo Gomez, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Accounting for Armazones: The Arithmetic of Bodies and Commercial Goods in the Early Modern Atlantic
Commentator: Amanda Herbert, Durham University
Chair: Peter Mancall, Early Modern Studies Institute and University of Southern California
2:00pm-3:00pm
Session 8
Whitney Martinko, Villanova University
“Mr. Peale’s Corporation: The Valuation of Museum Objects in the Early United States”
Commentator: Jane Mangan, Davidson
Chair: Nicholas Popper
3:00pm-3:30pm
Afternoon Coffee
3:30pm-4:30pm
Final Discussion
Moderator: Zara Anishanslin, University of Delaware