Early Modern Collections in Use

Jessica Keating from Carleton College delivers a talk titled “Hidden in Plain Sight: The ‘Kunstkammer’ of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II.” This talk was included in the session titled “Hiding.” Part of “Early Modern Collections in Use,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 15–16, 2017.

Victoria Pickering from The British Museum delivers a talk titled “Sealed and Concealed: The Visible and Not-so-Visible Uses of a Botanical Collection.” This talk was included in the session titled “Hiding.” Part of “Early Modern Collections in Use,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 15–16, 2017.

Elizabeth Eger from King’s College London delivers a talk titled “Collecting People.” This talk was included in the session titled “Visiting.” Part of “Early Modern Collections in Use,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 15–16, 2017.

Felicity Roberts from King’s College Londondelivers a talk titled “Sir Hans Sloane’s Museum and Animal Encounters.” This talk was included in the session titled “Visiting.” Part of “Early Modern Collections in Use,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 15–16, 2017.

Alice Marples from The John Rylands Research Institute, University of Manchester, delivers a talk titled “‘Raised to High Eminence By the Excitement’: Collections and the Creation of ‘Provincial’ Medical Education.” This talk was included in the session titled “Disseminating.” Part of “Early Modern Collections in Use,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 15–16, 2017.

Daniela Bleichmar from University of Southern California delivers a talk titled “The Interpretation of Mexican Indigenous Objects in Collections in Early Modern Europe and New Spain.” This talk was included in the session titled “Disseminating.” Part of “Early Modern Collections in Use,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 15–16, 2017.

Arnold Hunt, Miles Ogborn, Kim Sloan, and Mary Terrall take part in a concluding roundtable discussion. Part of “Early Modern Collections in Use,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 15–16, 2017.

Steve Hindle from The Huntington welcomes participants and attendees to “Early Modern Collections in Use,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 15–16, 2017.

Elizabeth Eger and Anne Goldgar from King’s College London deliver remarks for “Early Modern Collections in Use,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 15–16, 2017.

Paula Findlen from Stanford University delivers a talk titled “Why Put a Museum in a Book? Ferrante Imperato and Natural History in Sixteenth-Century Naples.” This talk was included in the session titled “Conceptualizing.” Part of “Early Modern Collections in Use,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 15–16, 2017.

Peter Mancall from University of Southern California and The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute delivers a talk titled “Birds of (Early) America.” This talk was included in the session titled “Conceptualizing.” Part of “Early Modern Collections in Use,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 15–16, 2017.

Vera Keller from University of Oregon delivers a talk titled “Johann Daniel Major (1634-1693) and the Experimental Museum.” This talk was included in the session titled “Displaying.” Part of “Early Modern Collections in Use,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 15–16, 2017.

Mark Meadow from University of California, Santa Barbara, delivers a talk titled “Quiccheberg, Prudence, and the Display of Techne in the Brueghel/Rubens Allegories of the Senses.” This talk was included in the session titled “Displaying.” Part of “Early Modern Collections in Use,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 15–16, 2017.

Anne Goldgar from King’s College London delivers a talk titled “How to Seem a Connoisseur: Learning to Perform in Early Modern Art Collections.” This talk was included in the session titled “Performing.” Part of “Early Modern Collections in Use,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 15–16, 2017.