Day 1 (May 26)

9:15-9:45am: Registration, coffee
9:45-10:00am: Opening remarks
10:00-10:40am: Ewa Lajer-Bucharth, “Drawing in the World: Madeleine Basseporte at the Jardin du roi”
10:40-11:00am: discussion
11:00-11:10am: break
11:10-11:50am: Michelle Foa, “‘I will descend the slope very quickly and roll down I don’t know where, wrapped in many bad pastel drawings’: Or, Matter and Ground in the Work of Degas”
11:50am-12:10pm: discussion

Lunch Break

1:45-2:25pm: Carol Armstrong, “Medium Matrix Materiality: Mary Cassatt’s Aquatint Suite”
2:25-2:45pm: discussion
2:45-2:55pm: break
2:55-3:35pm: Richard Taws, “River of Words: Paper, Water, Zinc”
3:35-3:55pm: discussion
3:55-4:05pm: break
4:05-4:45pm: Sarah Gould, “ ‘the dirt hung over it like dirt from the smoke of a chimney’: Pollution as Medium in Nineteenth-Century British Art”
4:45-5:05pm: discussion

Day 2 (May 27)

9:30-10am: Coffee
10-10:40am: Ann-Sophie Lehmann, “Most Useful Flax”: The Ecology of a Raw Material for Art
10:40-11am: discussion
11-11:10am: break
11:10-11:50am: Kirsty Sinclair Dootson, “British Oil Paints in the Age of Empire: Charles Roberson’s Media Climates”
11:50am-12:10pm: discussion

Lunch Break

1:50-2:30pm: Prita Meier, “A Transimperial Matter: The Modern Life and Death of Afro-Asian Ivory”
2:30-2:50pm: discussion
2:50-3:00pm: break
3:00-3:40pm: Barbara Jouves-Hann and Maxime Métraux, “Artists and the Preservation of their Paintings in the 19th Century”
3:40-4:00pm: discussion

End of conference