*please note affiliations listed were accurate at the time of presentation but may have changed.

Spring 2023 (April 13, 2023)

Beatrice Denis, Ph.D. Candidate, Université de Montréal, “Louis-François Lejeune’s Battle of Marengo (1801): History, Identity and Notoriety at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century”

Feng Schöneweiss, Ph.D. Candidate, Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany, “Provenance and Monumentality: Chinese Porcelain, German Curators, and the Shaping of Museological Art History in Dresden”

Isabella Holland, Curatorial Assistant, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (M.A., XXX, Courtauld Institute of Art), “Vigée Le Brun’s Mistresses”

Katrina Reynolds, Louis F. McNeil Fellow, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, University of Delaware, “The Epergne: Splendor and Self-Service in Eighteenth-Century Anglo-America”

Fall 2022 (November 28, 2022)

Marie Isabell Wetcholowsky, Philipps-Universität Marburg “François Lemoyne and the Reinvention of History Painting Under Louis XV”

Haoyang Zhao, University of Glasgow “Revisiting Huangchao Liqi Tushi, an art and historical analysis of important yet neglected imperial albums commissioned in the 18th century Qianlong court”

Angela Göbel, Université Lyon 3 Jean Moulin “The Role Model of the City of Versailles for European Residential Cities”

Grace Ford-Dirks, University of Delaware/Winterthur Museum “Many Hands, Many Marks, Many Stories: Reconsidering a “Louisiana” Armoire”

Marie Giraud, Queen Mary University of London “Jansenism and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Paris (1709-1764)”

Elisa Cazzato, Ph.D., Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, Università Cà Foscari – Venezia “The Lure of the Foreign Stage: Italian Art and Artistry Serving the French and European Spectacle”

Spring 2022 (April 23, 2022)

Chiara Betti, SAS: Institute of English Studies, “Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755) and his Printing Plates”

Demetra Vogiatzaki, Harvard University, “On Marvels and Stones: Architecture and Virtuality in Late Eighteenth-Century France”

Nandita Punj, Rutgers University, “Jain Artistic Practices and Visual Culture in Eighteenth-Century Bikaner”

Jean Chistensen, Southern Methodist University, ““In the Style of a Sovereign”: The Politics of Beauty and Disability in Queen Anne’s Portraiture”

Aubrey Hobart, Savannah College of Art and Design, “Reading Inhumanity in the Casta Paintings of New Spain”

Felix Martin, RWTH Aachen University, “The Inhabited Monument: Sir William Chambers’ Casino at Marino in Dublin”

Anastasia Michopoulou, University of Crete, Greece, ““Aedes Pembrochianae”: Displaying and Publishing the Collections in Wilton House”

Fall 2021 (November 13, 2021)

Deborah A. Fisher, Ph.D., Independent Scholar, “The Metamorphoses of John Singleton Copley: Mythological Characters in American Colonial Portraiture”

Samantha Happe, University of Melbourne, “Between Isfahan and Versailles: Royal Diplomatic Gift Exchange in the Eighteenth Century”

Philippe Halbert, Yale University, “Letters of a Canadian Woman: Identity and the Self-Fashioning in the Atlantic World of Madame Bégon, 1696-1755”

Cynthia Volk, Bard Graduate Center, “Dehua Porcelain Figures of Budai: Models of Adaptivity in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century China and Europe”

Zoë Dostal, Columbia University, “Rope, Linen, Thread: Gender, Labor, and the Textile Industry in Eighteenth-Century British Art”

Alyse Muller, Columbia University, “Between Land and Sea: French Maritime Imagery in the Long Eighteenth Century”

Andrea Morgan, Ph.D., Independent Scholar, “Frances Reynolds and Mary Nugent-Temple-Grenville, Marchioness of Buckingham: Female Artists in the orbit of Sir Joshua Reynolds”

Winter 2021 (February 6, 2021)

Priscilla Sonnier, University College, Dublin, “‘Ierne’s Ladies of Quality’: Self-Fashioning Elite Female Social Identity in Ascendancy Ireland, 1730-1790”

Jennifer Laffick, Southern Methodist University, “Sentimentalizing Soldiers: Lamentation and Theatricality in Jean Broc's Death of General Desaix”

Emily Peikin, University of Delaware, “Rubens Peale with a Geranium: Botanical Science and Slavery in the Early Republic”

Damiët Schneeweisz, Rijksmuseum, “Coloured Ivory: Portrait Miniatures in the Dutch Atlantic World”

Leo Stefani, Courtauld Institute of Art, “Surface Learning: Tables, Royal Education, and Louis XV’s Pavilion at the Tuileries”

Joseph Litts, Princeton University, “Afterlives and Francis Parsons's 1762 Painting of Cherokee Diplomat Cunne Shote”

Spring 2021 (April 17,2021)

Carla Hermann, Rio de Janeiro State University, “Robert Barker’s Panoramas and Virtual Images of Places”

Chih-En Chen, SOAS, University of London, “The Qing Trompe l’Oeil Porcelain: A Bottom-Up Aesthetics”

Jed Surio, Tulane University, “A Kingdom of Curious Beasts: Charles Le Brun’s Drawings from the Royal Menagerie”

Megan Baker, University of Delaware, “The Material Politics of Pastel Portraits, 1766-1782”

Tori Champion, University of Washington, “D’après nature: Uncovering the Lives and Work of Madeleine Françoise Basseporte and Marie-Thérèse Reboul Vien”

Kaitlin Grimes, University of Missouri-Columbia, “The Material Politics of Ivory in Early Modern Europe”

Aleksander Musiał, Princeton University, “Immersion: Classical Reception and Eastern-European Transformations of Hygiene Architecture, 1680-1830”

Fall 2020 (November 7, 2020)

Aditi Gupta, Jawaharlal Nehru University, “Imperial Collection of J.B Gentil: A Frenchman's Quest for Knowledge Production on India”

Nele Lüttmann, Trinity College Dublin, “German architects in Britain and Ireland 1700–1750”

Agnieszka Anna Ficek, CUNY Graduate Center, “Picturing the Peruvienne: The Exotic and Erotic in Mme de Graffigny's Lettres d'une Peruvienne”

María del Castillo García Romero, University of Seville, “Feminae devotae: Artistic portraits on religious female culture in Baja Andalusia during the 18th century”

Michael Hartman, University of Delaware, “Bodies and Vision in the North American Landscape”

Archie Manister-O’Neill, Courtauld Institute of Art, “In Search of Rebecca Magg: Tracing the history of three hand-crafted dolls (c. 1786) kept in the Bristol Archive”

Ashley Hannebrink, Harvard University, “Shaping the Self: Sculpture and the Interior in Eighteenth-Century France”