9.00- 9.10: Welcome: Dr Rosalind P. Blakesley
9.10-10.30: Session I: Material Objects (Chair: Professor Caroline van Eck)
9.10-9.30: Models of Collaboration: Brass Casting in Fifteenth-Century Nuremberg - Sofia Gans
9.30- 9.50: A Tale of Two Ivories: Elephant and Walrus - Matthew Gillman
9.50-10.10: The Delights of Association: Art as Networking in the East India Company's 'Familial Proto-State', 1797-1824 - Tom Young
10.10-10.30: Q&A
10.30- 10.50: Coffee Break
10.50-12.10: Session II: Material Surfaces (Chair: Dr Alexander Marr)
10.50- 11.10: From Space to Surface: the art historical ramifications of piercing the image to punish traitors in medieval books of secular legend - Amy Jeffs
11.10-11.30: Plumage, Paradise, and Power: The Peacock Dress of Lady Mary Curzon –
Siddhartha Shah
11.30-11.50: Gustav Klucis and the Materiality of Censorship - Kamila Kociałkowska
11.50-12.10: Q&A
12.10-1.30: Lunch
1.30-2.30: Session III: Material Affects (Chair: Dr Donal Cooper)
1.30-1.50: The Materiality of Smelling Salts in Rembrandt's Art - Lizzie Marx
1.50-2.10: The Ink of Melancholy:' A New Interpretation of Jean Duvet's Plate of The Despair and Suicide of Judas (c1550/60) - Lorraine de la Verpillière
2.10-2.30: Q&A
2.30- 2.50: Coffee Break
2.50-4.10: Session IV: Material Effects (Chair: Dr Alyce Mahon)
2.50-3.10: Between Material, Word, and Image: Absent Objects in Print - Clare Kobasa
3.10-3.30: Manet's Watercolors: Transition and Translation in the 1860s - Kathryn Kremnizer
3.30-3.50: Art and Parody in the 'Plastic Tableaux' Films of Georges Méliès - Roxanne Smith
3.50-4.10: Q&A
4.15: Concluding Remarks (Dr Frank Salmon)