9:00 (Eastern Standard Time) / 15h (European Time)
Welcome and Introduction: Pierre Saint-Amand and Dominique Brancher (French, Yale University)
9:15-10:30
Elisa Andretta (History, CNRS, LARHRA)
José Pardo-Tomás (History, Spanish National Research Council)
“Art and nature in the library of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza: The herbaria of the Escorial”
10:30-11:15
Lea Dauwalder (Curator, Swiss Federal Office of Topography)
“The Herbarium of Felix Platter”
11:15-11:30: Coffee break
11:30-12:15
Anatole Tchikine (Curator of Rare Books, Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University)
“The individual and the type in early modern botanical illustration: The paradox of herbaria viva”
12:15-1:00
Marisa Anne Bass (History of Art, Yale University)
“Exoskeletons in the Closet: Art and Death in the Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam”
1:00-1:45: Break
Moderator: Abigail Fields
1:45-2:30
Pierre Saint-Amand (French, Yale University)
“Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Remains of Plants”
2:30-3:15
Yota Batsaki (Executive Director, Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University)
“The Apocalyptic Herbarium: Anselm Kiefer’s Secret of the Ferns (2007)”
3:15-3:30
Discussant, Paola Bertucci (History, Yale University)
