Please join HNA in association with IAS for a reception during the annual Renaissance Society of America conference in San Francisco. The reception will take place on Thursday, Feb. 19, from 6:00-8:00 pm in the Parc 55-A Hilton Hotel–-Market Street Ballroom (across the street and a 3-minute stroll from the conference Hilton San Francisco Union Square).
Below please find information about sessions and papers of interest to HNA members. If we have missed your paper, please let us know so we can add it to the list.
HNA Sponsored Session:
- Crossing Borders: Revisiting the Netherlandish Migrant Artist
- Saturday, February 21, 2026 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Franciscan Room C – Ballroom Level
- Speakers: Talitha M. G. Schepers, Erin Downey, Sophia Quach McCabe; Respondent:Art DiFuria
Sessions
Fabrics and the Art of Fabrication: Textile as Fiction in Early Modern Culture II (The Netherlands and Spain)
- Friday, February 20, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Franciscan Room C – Ballroom Level
- Speakers: Hannah Prescott, Susan Maxwell, Art DiFuria, Aneta Georgievska-Shine
Constructing Otherness: The Image of the Other in the Netherlands (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries)
- Friday, February 20, 2026 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Franciscan Room D – Ballroom Level
- Speakers: Stephanie Leitch, Marie-Anne Dragon, Meggy Chaidron; Respondent: Ashley West
Early Modern Dutch Women, Authorship, and Knowledge Production
- Saturday, February 21, 2026 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Union Square 17 – Tower 3 – 4th Floor
- Speakers: Linde Van den Eede, Aron Lucas Ouwekerk, Amanda Pipkin, Martine van Elk
Interrogating Sovereignty: Catholicism and Female Authority Across Europe II: Habsburg Networks, 1530–1640
- Thursday, February 19, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Union Square 16 – Tower 3 – 4th Floor
- Speakers: Jennifer Welsh, Suzanne Sutherland, Sarah Moran, Helena Chalupová
Papers
Thursday
Dutch Imperialism and Medicine in De indiae utriusque re naturali et medica (1658)
- Thursday, February 19, 2026 , 9:20 AM – 9:40 AM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Continental Ballroom 2 – Ballroom Level
- José Antonio Cancino Alfaro Columbia University
Self-Fashioning on Ice: Climate Change, Transnational Mobility, and Courtly Performance in Jean L’hermite’s El pasatiempos
- Thursday, February 19, 2026 , 11:00 AM – 11:20 AM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Franciscan Room B – Ballroom Level
- Javier Lorenzo East Carolina University
Viewing Dutch Genre Painting Within the Network of Care
- Thursday, February 19, 2026, 12:00 PM – 12:20 PM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Union Square 24 – Tower 3 – 4th Floor
- Hannah Jew Boston University
Drawing in Dialogue: Retouching and Co-Creation in the Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem
- Thursday, February 19, 2026, 2:50 PM – 3:10 PM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Union Square 23 – Tower 3 – 4th Floor
- Vera Hendriks RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History
From Obvious to Oblivion: Marritgen Muller’s Pivotal Role in Publishing House De Vergulden Passer Reassessed
- Thursday, February 19, 2026, 3:10 PM – 3:30 PM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Franciscan Room A – Ballroom Level
- Laurien van der Werff Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Early Women Engravers, Henrietta Koenen, Samuel P. Avery, and First Wave Feminism
- Thursday, February 19, 2026, 3:30 PM – 3:50 PM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Franciscan Room A – Ballroom Level
- Judith K Brodsky Distinguished Professor Emerita, Rutgers University and Founding Director, the Brodsky Center at PAF
Super Natural: Picturing
- Thursday, February 19, 2026, 4:30 PM – 4:50 PM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Franciscan Room C – Ballroom Level
- Sarah Walsh Mallory The Morgan Library and Museum
Witchcraft, Magic, and the Absurd: Satire in Bruegel’s The Story of the Magician Hermogenes
- Thursday, February 19, 2026, 5:10 PM – 5:30 PM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Franciscan Room A – Ballroom Level
- Michelle Oing Pomona College
Mining Potential: Painting the Prospector’s Gaze in the Sixteenth Century
- Thursday, February 19, 2026, 5:30 PM – 5:50 PM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Franciscan Room C – Ballroom Level
- Virginia S Girard Columbia University
Approaching Privacy with Darkness in Siraya Indigenous People’s Houses During Dutch Colonisation
- Thursday, February 19, 2026, 5:30 PM – 5:50 PM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Union Square 19 – Tower 3 – 4th Floor
- Hui-Yi Yang Royal Danish Academy
“Charmes ende belesinge”: The Source of De Gheyn’s Fortune-Tellers and Witches
- Thursday, February 19, 2026, 5:30 PM – 5:50 PM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Franciscan Room A – Ballroom Level
- Susanne Bartels Harvard Art Museums
Friday
Engravings of Miraculous Images and Tactility in the Southern Netherlands
- Friday, February 20, 2026, 9:40 AM – 10:00 AM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Franciscan Room D – Ballroom Level
- Gwendoline de Muelenaere UCLouvain
Forging Virtue: Mineral Matter and Dynastic Image-Making in Maximilian I’s Tomb Monument
- Friday, February 20, 2026 , 9:40 AM – 10:00 AM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Nob Hill 6 – Tower 3 – 6th Floor
- Stella Wisgrill
Crafty Knowledge: Insect Mosaics and Natural History in the Seventeenth-Century Habsburg Court
- Friday, February 20, 2026, 11:00 AM – 11:20 AM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Plaza B – Lobby Level
- Renata R Nagy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Beschryving van een Paas-eij”: A Decorated Egg in an Early Eighteenth-Century Art-Technical Manuscript
- Friday, February 20, 2026, 11:20 AM – 11:40 AM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Plaza B – Lobby Level
- Henrike Scholten Utrecht University
The Early Modern Portrait Historié as Simile or Metaphor
- Friday, February 20, 2026, 12:00 PM – 12:20 PM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Franciscan Room B – Ballroom Level
- Joaneath A. Spicer Walters Art Musuem
Drinking the Cup of Suffering: Visual Metaphor in Cornelis van Haarlem’s Man of Sorrows
- Friday, February 20, 2026, 2:50 PM – 3:10 PM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Franciscan Room A – Ballroom Level
- Sunmin Cha, Columbia University
Who’s Pretty Hand Stretches the Strings: The Lute in the Performance of Gender
- Friday, February 20, 2026, 2:50 PM – 3:10 PM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Union Square 17 – Tower 3 – 4th Floor
- Jessica Sternbach
Did Rubens Paint Enthroned Madonna? Replicability, Consensus Assesment, and Equitable Knowledge Exchange in Attributions
- Friday, February 20, 2026, 3:10 PM – 3:30 PM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Union Square 23 – Tower 3 – 4th Floor
- Charlotte C. S. Rulkens Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
The Paper Print as Collectarium
- Friday, February 20, 2026, 3:10 PM – 3:30 PM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Franciscan Room A – Ballroom Level
- Walter Simon Melion Emory University
Black African Identity in Stained Glass, 1400–1600
- Friday, February 20, 2026, 4:30 PM – 4:50 PM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Franciscan Room C – Ballroom Level
- Paul H.D. Kaplan Purchase College, SUNY
Ivory White: Carving Tusk into Skin in Early Modern Northern Europe
- Friday, February 20, 2026, 5:10 PM – 5:30 PM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Franciscan Room C – Ballroom Level
- John White Princeton University
Desecration, Conversion, and the Jew in Rogier van der Weyden’s Descent from the Cross
- Friday, February 20, 2026, 5:10 PM – 5:30 PM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Franciscan Room D – Ballroom Level
- Elliott D. Wise Brigham Young University
Making the Real Presence Visible: The Monstrance of the Miracle of Brussels
- Friday, February 20, 2026, 5:30 PM – 5:50 PM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Franciscan Room D – Ballroom Level
- Manon Chaidron UCLouvain
Saturday
Imagining Nature’s Abundance: Visualizing Netherlandish Ecologies at Home and Abroad
- Saturday, February 21, 2026, 9:20 AM – 9:40 AM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Nob Hill 6 – Tower 3 – 6th Floor
- Rachel Kase Boston University
The Elefant in the Room. Tracing the Ephemeral and Constructing Truth in Burgundian Court Festivals.
- Saturday, February 21, 2026, 9:20 AM – 9:40 AM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Nob Hill 1 – Tower 3 – 6th Floor
- Anja Schmedler Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Feeding on Images: Anthropophagy and Visual Culture in Modern Europe
- Saturday, February 21, 2026, 9:20 AM – 9:40 AM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Union Square 11 – Tower 3 – 4th Floor
- Anna D’Ambrosio Università degli Studi di Salerno
Dutch Women Playwrights and Authorship as Labor
- Saturday, February 21, 2026, 10:00 AM – 10:20 AM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Union Square 17 – Tower 3 – 4th Floor
- Martine Van Elk California State University, Long Beach
Early Netherlandish Paintings at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
- Saturday, February 21, 2026, 11:00 AM – 11:20 AM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Franciscan Room D – Ballroom Level
- Isabella Lores-Chavez Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Wild Walls of Hans Sebald Beham
- Saturday, February 21, 2026, 11:00 AM – 11:20 AM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Union Square 21 – Tower 3 – 4th Floor
- Jackie Streker Temple University – Tyler School of Art and Architecture
Making the Gendered Body: (Cross)dressing in Seventeenth-Century Miniature Portraits with Mica Overlays
- Saturday, February 21, 2026, 12:00 PM – 12:20 PM
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square – Union Square 16 – Tower 3 – 4th Floor
- Jasper Martens University of California, Santa Barbara