Dear HNA Members:
The Board of HNA wants to take this opportunity to wish you a happy and prosperous New Year.
We have three pieces of news to share with you.
First, in consultation with Jeffrey Cunard of Debevoise and Plimpton LLP, the Bylaws Committee of the Board—Walter S. Melion, Perry H. Chapman, Paul Crenshaw, Marsely Kehoe, David Levine, and Ashley West—is currently revising the organization’s bylaws to ensure that they are fully compliant with the regulations of the state of New York pertaining to non-profit corporations. New York state requires that organizations such as ours send members a ballot listing candidates for board positions whenever such positions open up; as some of you may know, four board members will be completing four-year terms in February 2024, and as a result, their positions will need to be filled. The ballot must include a ‘Proxy for the Annual Meeting’, to be signed by anyone not planning to attend the online meeting and vote in person. This year, the annual meeting will be conducted via Zoom on Friday, February 23rd, 2024, noon-1:30 PM.
Please note that at the meeting ‘the lesser of 100 or 10% of the voting members must be present in person or by proxy’. We currently have about 700 individual members, so, the minimum number that must be present at the meeting either in person or by proxy is 70. Please be sure to cast your ballots or to attend the meeting in person. The Nominating Committee plans to send the ballots no later than mid-January.
Second, registration for the HNA conference to be held in Cambridge, UK and London (July 10-13, 2024) will open in early January. Rooms have been reserved at King’s College, Cambridge, at a favorable rate, and we encourage you to avail yourselves of this opportunity as soon as the registration module opens.
Please consider HNA in your year-end charitable giving plans. We are especially encouraging support for our IDEA initiatives related to defraying costs for travel to the HNA Conference. To support HNA, please follow this link: https://hnanews.org/support/
Third, more of our members are planning to attend RSA in Chicago (March 21-23, 2024) rather than CAA (February 14-17, 2024), also in Chicago. We usually organize a reception in conjunction with CAA, but were planning to shift the reception to RSA. However, since the Cambridge/London conference is scheduled to take place in July, just a few months later, we’ve decided to redirect our funds to that meeting, which will certainly include a reception. The Board is trying to make best use of the limited funds at our disposal.
N.B. HNA will be sponsoring one panel session at CAA and four at the RSA conference, as follows:
CAA
Session Title: Center and Periphery?: Mapping a Future for Research in Netherlandish Art
Organizers: Stephanie Dickey, Suzanne van de Meerendonk
Time: Thursday, February 15, 10:00-11:30am
Session Papers:
1. Elevating Illustrated Books: Dutch Depictions of Indian Culture (Presenter: Maggie Mansfield)
2. Edvardt Abraham Akaboa de Moor, a Master Silversmith from Angola (Presenters: Cynthia Kok, Stephanie Archangel)
3. Metamorphosis in the Museum (Presenter: Elizabeth Nogrady)
RSA
Session Title: Early Netherlandish Painting: New Interpretations and New Discoveries I
Organizer: Diane Wolfthal
Chair: Maryan Ainsworth
Time: Thursday, March 21, 2:30-4:00 pm
Session Papers:
1. Archetypal Marriage in the Ghent Altarpiece (Presenter: Andrea Pearson)
2. Rolin’s Purse (Presenter: Diane Wolfthal)
3. An Innovative Approach to Representing the Human Body in the Netherlandish Art around 1470 (Presenter: Thomas Kren)
Session Title: Early Netherlandish Painting: New Interpretations and New Discoveries II
Organizers: Diane Wolfthal, Anne van Oosterwijk
Chair: Diane Wolfthal
Time: Thursday, March 21, 4:30-6:00spm
Session Papers:
1. Bosch’s Architecture in Hell (Presenter: Lynn Jacobs)
2. Noah as a role model (Presenter: Anne van Oosterwijk)
3. The Fine Line Between Representation of Mortals and Holy Figures in a Painting by Gossart (Presenter: Maryan Ainsworth)
Session Title: Philip the Good, Isabella of Portugal, and the European Networks of Burgundy
Organizer: Till-Holger Borchert
Chair: Till-Holger Borchert
Time: Friday, March 22, 3:30-5:00pm
Session Papers:
1. The Importance of Being an artist at Phillipe the Good’s court (Presenter: Oskar Rojewski)
2. A good relationship serving fruitul artistic exchanges: Philip the Good and Alfonso the Magnanimous (Presenter: Elsa Espin)
3. Courtly Patronage in Savoy (1416-1465): artistic identity at a crossroad between Burgundy, France and Italy (Presenter: Alix Buisseret)
Session Title: Worlding the Early Modern Netherlands: Global Routes of Mobility and Cultural Intersection
Organizers: Adam Sammut, Braden Lee Scott
Chairs: Adam Sammut, Ana Howie
Respondent: Stephanie Porras
Time: Saturday, March 23, 11:00am-12:30pm
Session Papers:
1. Cultural Fluidity or Divide? Seventeenth-Century Dutch Conceptions of Indonesia’s Chinese and Muslim Urban Artefacts (Presenter: Sim Hinman Wan)
2. Encounter Objects (Presenter: Claudia Swan)
3. Trigger Networks: Mother-of-Pearl Inlay and the Hunting Rifles of Cornelis Tromp (Presenter: Caroline LaPorte-Burns)
Kind regards,
Walter S. Melion, President,
Ashley West, Vice-President,
Paul Crenshaw, Past President,
David Levine, Treasurer,
and the Board of HNA
