USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute: "Women in the Making of Early Modern Art and Science"

Friday, April 14, 2023 

10:00 am - 3:30 pm (PST)

University of Southern California, DML 121

Organizers:

Daniela Bleichmar, USC

Nicole LaBouff, Minneapolis Institute of Art

Schedule:

10:00 am: Morning Session, moderated by Daniela Bleichmar

• Paula Findlen, Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of History, Stanford University—“Artisans of Nature: Gender, Knowledge, and Representation since the Renaissance”
• Jessica Rosenberg, Assistant Professor of English, University of Miami—“The Feminine Arts of Redistribution: Herbs, Poems, and Slips in Elizabethan England”
• Nina Gelbart, Professor of History and Anita Johnson Wand Professor of Women's Studies, Occidental College
  —“Minerva’s French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France”

12:30 pm: Lunch

2:00 pm: Afternoon Session, moderated by Nicole LaBouff

• Anne Secord, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University—“‘My Trembling Hand’: Ellen Hutchins’s Self-Education in Botanical Art”
• Claudia Swan, Mark Steinberg Weil Professor of Art History, Washington University in St. Louis—“Threading the Needle: Women and Natural History in the Dutch Republic”

EMSI will provide lunch for seminar guests. Please complete the rsvp form by April 12th to be included in lunch.

Co-sponsored by the USC Levan Institute for the Humanities.

For more information, contact Daniela Bleichmar at [email protected].