Lecture — Making History: The Art and Politics of Clay (Michelle Erickson)

Symposium—Field/Fair/Museum: Franz Boas, George Hunt and the Making of Anthropology

Lecture — Economies of Destruction? Creating Value by Destroying Valuables (David Fontijn)

Lecture — Charles Cordier: A Hero of Polychromy (Laure de Margerie)

Lecture — Recreating the Seventeenth-Century Garden in Holland: Blending Nature and Design

Lecture — Film as Scholarship: My Beautiful Anthropological Dissertation (Noam Osband)

2017 Qualifying Paper Symposium

Glenn Adamson: NYC Making Now

Lecture — Behind the Seams: Women, Fashion, and Work in Nineteenth-Century France (Susan Hiner)

Lecture — Making Faces (Stephanie Sadre-Orafai)

New York on Display: 1853 New York Crystal Palace

From the Wunderkammer to The Museum of Nature: Exhibiting the Anthropocene

Book Launch — In Space We Read Time: On the History of Civilization and Geopolitics

Lecture — Charles and Ray Eames: The Hollywood Connections (Pat Kirkham)

Lecture — Textiles in the Historic Interior (Deborah Lee Trupin)

Lecture — Between Construction and Invention (Jean-François Bédard)

Lecture — A Parisian Residence of the Early Empire (Ulrich Leben)

Lecture — The Protection of Cultural Heritage in Italy (Salvatore Settis)

Lecture — Real and Metaphoric Spaces (Viola König)

Lecture — Netherlands Institute for Conservation Art and Science (Robert van Langh)

Lecture — Using Digital Technologies to Visualize and Explore the Past (Lisa Fischer)

Gender, Sexuality, and Modern Design

Lecture — Weaving Modernism: Postwar Tapestry between Paris and New York (Kay Wells)

Symposium—American Material and Visual Culture of the “Long" Nineteenth Century

Lecture — "Bold Design and Bolder Ornaments": Majolica and The Minton Archive (Miranda Goodby)

Lecture — Rococo for the Spanish Court (Tobias Locker)

Esa-Pekka Salonen in Conversation with Justin Davidson

Lecture — Wine, Women and the Glory of Venice: Masterpieces of Renaissance Glass (Dora Thornton)

Matthew Dennis --Dangerous Relic: ‘The Bloody Shirt’; A Material History of an American Trope

Lecture — Scotch Myths: The Furniture of Charles Rennie Mackintosh Re-appraised (David Jones)

Lecture — Global Things (Giorgio Riello)

Lecture — Rhubarb and the Imagination of China in European Visual Print Culture (Anne T. Gerritsen)

Lecture — Collecting European and Asian Art Objects in 17th- & 18th-Century Batavia (Michale North)

Lecture — The Meaning of Glass (Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk)

Lecture — Climate and Commodities (Sarah M. Guérin)

Conservation Conversations — Gabrielle Berlinger & David Favaloro

Lecture — Paper is Part of the Picture (Margaret Holben Ellis)

Lecture — The Art, Praxis, and Power of Oral History (Mary Marshall Clark & Amy Starecheski)

Lecture — Making Space: Museums and Craft in the Twenty-First Century (Namita Gupta Wiggers)

Lecture — Sun King to Moon King (Robert Wellington)

Lecture — "And his raiment began shining, exceeding white as snow" (David Ganz)

Lecture — The Analysis of Organic Colorants in Art Objects Art (Nobuko Shibayama)

Lecture — Between China, Iran, and Byzantium (Sören Stark)

Lecture — Material Culture, Academic Research, and the University Museum (Nancy Netzer)

Lecture — Going Universal (Nancy Proctor)

Lecture — Parasols and Pagodas (Tian Chun)

Workshop—Fustat and the World in the Year 1000

Cultures of Conservation “Keyword” Panel — Conserving an Alutiiq Kayak

Lecture — Messages Across Time: Inupiaq Drawings from the 1890s (Elizabeth Hutchinson)

Lecture — A Digital Enlightenment (Anne Higonnet)

Lecture — Building Transnational Historical Archaeologies of the Modern World (Timothy Murray)

Lecture — Case Study: Sir Thomas Hanmer's Silver Gilt Sideboard Dish (Susan Hunter)

Symposium—Revisions: Object—Event—Performance since the 1960s

Lecture — Angelica's Book: Material Culture and the Power of Reading (Brendan Dooley)

Reading on Screens: Exploring Interface Design

Mimi Hellman-Striking Poses: Bodies and Objects in 18th-century French Interiors

Kate Irvin & Laurie Anne Brewer-Fabricating a Dream: The Dandy's Silhouette

Howard Besser-Historical Depictions of Information Technology in Popular Culture

Camilla Huey-The Art of Corsetry and Binding

Lecture — (Post)musings from the Edge (Paul Tapsell)