You are invited to the HNA Reception at the 2020 College Art Association Conference
Friday, February 14th, 5:30-7:00pm
Hilton Chicago
3rd floor – Private Dining Room 4
720 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605
This event is generously sponsored by the Flanders Government Delegation in the USA. Opening welcome and news by HNA President Paul Crenshaw and remarks by General Delegate of Flanders in the USA Yves Wantens will begin at 6 pm.
It is not necessary to be registered for the conference to attend the HNA reception.
Please also plan to attend the HNA-Sponsored Session at CAA:
Landscape through a Sociopolitical Lens: Representing the Environment in the Early Modern Netherlandish World
Friday, 10:30-12:00
Chairs: Joanna Sheers Seidenstein and Sarah Walsh Mallory
Presentations:
Alejandro Octavio Nodarse, (In)fertile Grounds: Viewing de Bry’s Illustrations of Las Casas’s Brevisima relación as Dutch Landscapes
Rachel Lacy Kase, Uncharted Water: Exploring Ecology, Space and Place in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscape Representations
Shelley Perlove, Jacob van Ruisdael’s Jewish Cemetery, c. 1655/56, and the Forging of Dutch Identity after the Peace of Westphalia
Carrie Anderson, Mediating Displacement in an African Landscape: The Rijksmuseum’s Box of the Dutch West India Company
Other sessions of interest:
Re-Assessing the Northern European Male Nude, chaired by Martha Hollander and Lisa Rosenthal, with papers by Sherry Lindquist, Kendra Grimmett, Erin Travers, and Lisa Pincus. Thursday, 6:00-7:30pm
Customizing Books Around Images in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1700, chaired by Jennifer Nelson with discussant Bret Rothstein, with papers by Walter Melion, Clare Kobasa, Lia Markey, and Suzanne Karr Schmidt. Friday, 6:00-7:30pm
See the full conference program here.