Jeffrey Collins was the keynote speaker at the fifteenth David Nichol Smith Conference in Eighteenth-Century Studies, held at the University of Sydney from December 10 through 12 and devoted to “Ideas and Enlightenment in Long Eighteenth Century.” His address, “From Ditch to Nitch: Making the Hall of the Muses,” was sponsored by the research group devoted to “Undoing the Ancient” and drew on material explored in his fall seminar at BGC.

From January 6 through 10, Aaron Glass is presenting screenings of Edward S. Curtis’s 1914 film, In the Land of the Headhunters at events in Seattle, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the editor, with Brad Evans, of Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka’wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema (University of Washington Press, 2014).

Hanna Hölling presented the keynote address, “The Aesthetics of Change: On the Relative Durations of the Impermanent,” and organized a panel discussion at the conference, “Authenticity in Transition: Changing Practices in Contemporary Art Making and Conservation,” organized by the University of Glasgow and the Glasgow School of Arts, Scotland, on December 2.

Deborah L. Krohn is giving a presentation in Paris on January 8, “From Kitchen to Table in Early Modern Europe: Cookbooks as Mediators.” This is a session of the seminar, Pour une histoire de l’art et de la table, at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art.

Peter N. Miller chaired a roundtable discussion at the 129th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (January 2-6) on “Interdisciplinary Institutes and Humanities Research: Europe and the United States.” The panel consisted of Robert Dijkgraaf, director of the Institute for Advanced Study; Thomas Gaehtgens, director of the Getty Research Institute; Gerhard Wolf, director of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence; and Simon Goldhill, director of the Center for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, Humanities.