Carol Armstrong, Yale University

Medium Matrix Materiality: Mary Cassatt’s Aquatint Suite

Kirsty Sinclair Dootson, University College London 

British Oil Paints in the Age of Empire: Charles Roberson’s Media Climates

Michelle Foa, Tulane University

“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

Sarah Gould, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne

“the dirt hung over it like dirt from the smoke of a chimney”: Pollution as Medium in Nineteenth-Century British Art

Barbara Jouves-Hann, ENS Paris-Saclay and

Maxime Métraux, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne

Artists and the Preservation of their Paintings in the 19th Century

Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Harvard University

Drawing in the World: Madeleine Basseporte at the Jardin du roi

Ann-Sophie Lehmann, University of Groningen

“Most Useful Flax”: The Ecology of a Raw Material for Art

Prita Meier, Institute of Fine Arts/New York University

A Transimperial Matter: The Modern Life and Death of Afro-Asian Ivory

Richard Taws, University College London

River of Words: Paper, Water, Zinc