See below for the HNA-sponsored session and some other full sessions and individual talks of interest at CAA 2025. Please note that this is not intended to be an exhaustive list. Click here for the full CAA program.
Thurs., Feb. 13
9:00-10:30 a.m.
Session: Gender, Sexuality, and Non-Pristine Nature in Northern European Art and Material Culture, ca. 1350-1750 [*HNA-sponsored session] (Hilton Midtown – 2nd fl. – Gramercy West)
Chairs: Sarah Mallory (The Morgan Library & Museum) & Anna-Claire Stinebring (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
- Sarah Rosenthal (Harvard University), “Bathing Outside: Sex Workers, Cleanliness, and the Extra-Urban World in Sixteenth-Century Germanic Art”
- Sandra Racek (Northwestern University), “Vertumnus as an Old Woman in Hendrick Goltzius’s Vertumnus and Pomona (1613)
- L. Rochard (Université de Poitiers), “Cleanliness, Dirtiness, and the Contamination of Genders in Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Painting”
- Nicole Cook (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), “Darkness, Dirt, and Excess: Picturing Nightwalkers in 17th -Century Dutch Art”
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Session: Divine Senses: Exploring Sensorial Experiences in Religious Contexts throughout the Premodern Iberian World (Hilton Midtown – 2nd fl. – Sutton Center)
Chairs: Hannah Maryan Thomson and Teresa Martínez
- JoAnna Reyes, “Una Confusión Devota: Soundscapes of Late Colonial Mexican Festivals”
- Cristina Aldrich, “Embodied Devotion and Pilgrimage: The Sensorial Experience of the Virgin in Thirteenth-Century Castile and Aragon”
- Laura McCloskey Wolfe, “Sacred Touch: Pilgrimage Tokens and Seals as Apotropaic Conduits for Divine Transformation in Ireland and Spain in the Middle Ages”
- Emi Higashiyama, “The Empire of the Sun: How the Incan Worship of Nature Continued After Catholic Conversion”
4:30-6:00 p.m.
Session: Restitution Beyond Repatriation: Rethinking African Art and the Question of Decolonizing Museums (Hilton Midtown – 3 rd fl. – Grand Ballroom West)
Chair: Clement Akpang Karen Shelby, “From Africa Palace to AfricaMuseums: Decolonializing King Leopold’s Museum of the Congo Free State”
- Nasozi Kakembo, “Ethical Wholesale and Retail Sourcing Framework: A Strategic Approach to Cultural Restitution of African Heritage”
- Nicole Crawford, “Reimagining Ethnographic Objects: Moving Beyond Repatriation in Decolonizing Museums”
- Danielle Becker, “Decolonial Curatorship in African Museums: Repatriation and a Reimagining of the Museum”
Fri., Feb. 14
9:00-10:30 a.m.
Session: Emblematic Encounters: Cross-Cultural Objects and Material Agency in the Early Modern World (Hilton Midtown – 2nd fl. – Gramercy East)
Chairs: Fosca Maddaloni-Yu and Lyla Halsted
- Katherine Calvin, “New Money in the Early Modern Easter Mediterranean”
- Lyla Halsted, “Faceless Figuration: A Safavid Kilim in Munich”
- Fosca Maddaloni-Yu, “Riveting Encounters: Mounted Ceramics in the Oeuvre of John Hoffman (fl. 1577-1600), Stranger Silversmith in Elizabeth London”
- Bart Pushaw, “Warm Hearts: Colonial Inuit Design and the Black Atlantic”
4:30-6:00 p.m.
- Jasper Martens, “‘Wat men veerst haelt, dat smaeket soetst’: The pomander as a miniature cabinet of curiosities” [in the Session: Unboxing the Long Eighteenth Century (Hilton Midtown 2 nd fl. – Nassau East)]
- Or Vallah Gabaev, “Hendrick Goltzius’s Travel, (Dis)ability Identity and Artistic Reinvention in Early Modern Europe” [in the Session: Body as Surface (Landscape) (Hilton Midtown – 2nd fl. Gramercy West)]
5:30-7:00 pm – HNA RECEPTION AT THE SYRACUSE LUBIN HOUSE @ 11 E. 61st St. (btw Fifth Ave. and Madison Ave.). Free food and drink and sociability!
Sat., Feb. 15
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Session: Artists and their Objects: The Material World of the Early Modern Artist (Hilton Midtown – 2nd fl. – Beekman)
Chair: Jesse Locker
- James Harper, “Artist, Relieved of his Objects: The Lessons of a 1633 Roman Burglary”
- Linda Borean, “The Artists as Collector in Venice during the 16 th and 17 th Centuries”
- Raymond Carlson, “Michelangelo’s Memoranda and the Domesticity of Art”
- Laura Stefanescu, “Transmedial Migrations in Neri di Bicci’s Laboratory of Materiality”
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p .m.
Session: The Visual Culture of Festivals in Germany, Scandinavia, and Central Europe (Hilton Midtown – 2nd fl. – Nassau West)
Chair: Michelle Oing
- Kamil Kopania, “The Medieval Origins of the Polish ‘Szopka’”
- Gregory Bryda, “Wood Sculpture, Weather, and Medieval Festivals of the Cross”
- Alexander Bevilacqua, “Games of Chivalry and the Racial Imagination”
- Kristina Joekalda, “Travelling Exhibition or Festival? Baltic Art and German Propaganda during World War I”
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p .m.
Session: The Medieval lives! Technologies and Medieval Afterlives (Hilton Midtown – 2 nd fl. – Gibson Suite)
Chair: Allison Stielau
- Baylee Woodley, “Pixels, Parchment, and Pleasers (Oh My!): Representations and Medieval/Modern Queer Communities
- Lauren Rozenberg, “The Forensic Magdalene: Bones, Technology and the Importance of Representation”
- Millie Horton-Insch, “The Mediation of Early Medeieval Textiles: Repeated Modes of Reproduction and the Nazi Ahnenerbe Project”
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p .m.
Session: Brazilian Landscapes: Representing Nature, Culture, and Otherness in Brazil from Early Modernity to the Present (Hilton Midtown – 2nd fl. – Sutton North)
Chair: Maria Berbara
- Camila Maroja, “Notes on an Overdue Phenomenon: The Rise of Indigenous Art in Brazil”
- Maria Berbara, “Nature and Culture in Cartographic Representations of Extractivist Practices in Brazil”
- Vera Siqueira, “Other Ecology, Ecology of Otherness: Nature and Culture in Roberto Burle Marx’s Work”