"Paper, Ivory, Feathers: Viral Materiality in the Early Modern World"

On Friday October 14th Dr. Stephanie Porras will present on the materialilty and mechanics of early modern globalization at the Center for Premodern Studies at the University of Minnesota. The talk will also be streamed live via zoom.  Stephanie Porras is Professor of Art History and Chair of the Newcomb Art Department at Tulane University in New Orleans. She is a scholar of the visual and material culture of early modern Europe, particularly Northern Europe and the Spanish world. She is the author of Pieter Bruegel’s Historical Imagination (2016), The Art of the Northern Renaissance: Courts, Commerce, Devotion (2018) and the forthcoming The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp and the early modern globe.

Stephanie Porras: "Paper, Ivory, Feathers: Viral Materiality in the Early Modern World" 
 
Fri, Oct 14, 2022 | 12:15 - 1:30 pm

1210 Heller Hall, University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Event Registration
Cosponsored by the Department of Art History and the Early Modern Atlantic Workshop.
This is a hybrid event. Click the registration link to sign up for the Zoom webinar.