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Daylong Symposium

Thursday, March 22
9:30 am-6:30 pm, Morse Auditorium
Registration includes lectures, lunch, coffee breaks and cocktail reception
Reservations by March 15
Members $85, nonmembers $95, students with ID $20
For more information, call 978-542-1625 or email symposium@pem.org

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Join us for a dynamic symposium that explores how the global movement of objects — luxury goods, traded commodities and diplomatic gifts — created an increasingly interconnected world from the 1500s to the 1800s. How did these works shape people's ideas about the wider world? What can these works continue to tell us about early global networks? Nine international speakers focus on different cross-cultural connections in this daylong program highlighting works of art from PEM's collection. 

Speakers:

Chinese Export Silk and Porcelain in Colonial Mexico
Donna Pierce | Denver Art Museum

Mexican featherwork fan for the Spanish market, early
1600s | Daniel Finamore | Peabody Essex Museum

Foreign Luxuries at the Mughal Court | Susan Stronge
Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Portrait of two English boys in Asian clothing by Tilly
Kettle, 1780s | Giorgio Riello | Warwick University, England

Luso-African Ivories: A New Provenance | Jean Michel
Massing | University of Cambridge, England

Chinese export lacquer and enamel furniture, 1730s
Karina Corrigan | Peabody Essex Museum

Linnaeus and the Origin of Japanese Numismatics
Timon Screech | School for Oriental and African
Studies, London

Alaskan overcoat owned by the King of the Hawaiian
Islands, given to PEM before 1821 | Christina Hellmich
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Things in Global Context: Mr Nobody Comes Home
Anne Gerritsen | Warwick University, England

This daylong program concludes with a cocktail reception.

Registrants will also have the opportunity to attend PEM's mid-winter Evening Party and opening for FreePort [No. 005]: Michael Lin following the reception.
Learn more about FreePort [No. 005]: Michael Lin.

Questions?  Call 978-542-1625 or email symposium@pem.org

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Related lecture

Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World, Wednesday, March 21.

Images  (Top to bottom, all courtesy of PEM): Feather mosaic fan, Mexico, Viceroyalty of New Spain, early 1600s. Gift of Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge, 1947, 127310; Portrait of two English boys in Asian clothing, 1780s, Tilly Kettle (1734-1786). Oil on canvas. 2011.40.1; Augustinian charger, 1590-1620, Jingdezhen, China. Porcelain. Purchased with funds donated in memory of Joseph D. Hinkle, 1998, AE85571; Djilakons mask, ca. 1820, Kaigani Haida artist, Southeastern Alaska. Wood, paint. Gift of Daniel Cross, 1827, E3483; Christ the Savior, 1550-1650, India or Sri Lanka. Rock crystal, gold, rubies, sapphires. Museum purchase, 1996, E85219; Side chair, ca. 1770, Vizagapatam, India. Sandalwood, ivory, black lac. Museum purchase, 1993, E84004.

A Material World: The Art and Culture of Global Connections  is sponsored in part by a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK). The AHRC grant has funded a two-year international academic partnership exploring global commodities and the material culture of early modern connections, 1400-1800. Partner institutions include Warwick University, Coventry, England; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey; and the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, USA.

Click here for more information about this international partnership.