The Miniature: An International Conference Organized by Carl Knappett and Ethan Matt Kavaler Hosted by the Department of Art History, University of Toronto, and the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto
THURSDAY MARCH 10, 2022 9:00-9:05
Greeting: Ethan Matt Kavaler
9:05-9:20
Introduction: Carl Knappett
9:20-10:00
Achim Timmermann, University of Michigan “‘You will offer a ship of silver’: A Brief History of Medieval Votive Ships
10:00-10:20
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10:20-11:00 Ethan Matt Kavaler, University of Toronto “Netherlandish Carved Altarpieces as Miniatures” 11:00-11:40 Elizabeth Mattison, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College “Miniatures Acting Out: Narratives and Statuettes in Early Modern Germany and the Low Countries”
11:40-12:00
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12:00-12:40 Verity Platt, Cornell University “Light, Medium, and the Miniature in Posidippus’ ‘Poems on Stones’”
12:40-13:20 Oliver Pilz, University of Jordan, Amman “Bronze Age and Greek Miniature Sets and the Construction of Social Meaning” FRIDAY
MARCH 11, 2022
9:00-9:10
Greetings: Carl Knappett and Ethan Matt Kavaler
9:10-9:50
Claudia Swan, Washington University “The Work of the World: Rarities in Miniature”
9:50-10:30
Mark Morris, The Architectural Association “Paracosmic Models”
10:30-10:50
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10:50-11:30 Elizabeth Legge, University of Toronto “Little Hitlers: History Writ Small”
11:30-12:10 Jack Davy, Morley College “The Miniaturist as His Own Audience: The Cyclical Miniaturizations of Felix Solomon”
12:10-12:30
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12:30-13:10 Giles Spence-Morrow, Vanderbilt University “Scaling the Huaca, Telling the Story: Synecdochal Temporalities and the Mimetic Materialization of Late Moche Religious Narratives”
13:10-13:50 Andrew Hamilton, Art Institute, Chicago “Images, Objects, or ‘Miniatures’? The Scale of Nasca Art”
SATURDAY MARCH 12, 2022 10:00-10:10 Greetings: Carl Knappett and Ethan Matt Kavaler
10:10-10:50 Maria Anastasiadou, University of Vienna “Small Worlds: Seals and the Minoan Mind”
10:50-11:30 Rachel Dewan, University of Toronto “Miniatures, Scale, and Grasping the Unknowable in Minoan Material Culture”
11:30-11:50
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11:50-12:50 Discussion and Conclusion
12:50-13:00 End Remarks