Friday, April 4
Session I: 5.00-6:30 pm
Karel Davids, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, "The Lowlands in the scholarly Atlantic in the Early Modern Period."
Mariët Westermann, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, ["Dutch art in the Golden Age."]
Saturday, April 5
Session II: 9-10.30 am
Claudia Swan, Northwestern University, "Lost in Translation. Exoticism in Early Modern Holland."
Dániel Margóscy, Hunter College, "Commercial Visions: Global Trade and Scientific Debate c. 1700."
Session III: 11-12.30 pm
Mark Meuwese, University of Winnipeg, "Intention to exterminate: Massacres in the Making of the Dutch Empire, 1600-1750."
Julie Hochstrasser, University of Iowa, "Whose Baroque? Drawing and Human Experience among the Khoikhoi."
Session IV: 2-4 pm
Benjamin Schmidt, University of Washington, "Oriental Despots on Ornamental Desks: On Dutch Geography, the "Decorative" Arts, and the Production of the Exotic World."
Anne Goldgar, King's College, London ["Dutch Arctic Exploration and Its Representation."]
Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia, “Free Sea, Free Trade, Free-for-All.”
Comment by Lissa Roberts, University of Twente, and General Discussion: 4-5 pm
Closing Reception: 5-6 pm