Friday, February 7
1.15 pm Welcome (by organizers)
Dickinson Hall 210
1.30 pm Session 1: Transparency
Dickinson Hall 211
Chair: Angela Creager (Princeton University)
Stefania Gerevini (Universita’ Bocconi), “A Matter of Transparency: The Semantics of Rock Crystal in Medieval Europe”
Wenrui Zhao (Columbia University), “Seeing through the Transparency of Artificial Eyes”
Projit Mukharji (University of Pennsylvania), “Transparent Differences, Different Transparencies: Visual Prosthesis and Human Difference in Colonial India”
Comment: Shira Brisman (University of Pennsylvania)
3.30 pm Break
DICKINSON HALL 210
4.15 pm Practica: The Materiality of Glass
Jadwin HALL
Mike Souza (Princeton University): practical demonstration of glass-working
Saturday, February 8
8.45 aM LIGHT BREAKFAST & COFFEE
DICKINSON HALL 210
9.30 am Lecture: The History of Glass
DICKINSON HALL 211
Patrick Degryse (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), “From Precious Stone to Utilitarian Ware: The Materiality of Early Glass”
10.30 am Break
DICKINSON HALL 210
10.45 am Session 2: Opacity
DICKINSON HALL 211
Chair: Jeremy Schneider (Princeton University)
Jennifer M. Rampling (Princeton University), “Through a Glass Darkly: Seeing Inside the Alchemist’s Flask”
Marjolijn Bol (Utrecht University), “Non est perspicax, sed densum in modum marmoris. Knowing Light Through Glass in Premodern Craft Recipes”
Chitra Ramalingam (Yale University), “A Taxonomy of Shadows: The Glass Surface and the Early X-Ray”
Comment: Daniel Jütte (New York University)
12.45 pm Lunch
DICKINSON HALL 210
2.00 pm Session 3: Reflectivity
DICKINSON HALL 211
Chair: D. Graham Burnett (Princeton University)
Ava Shirazi (Princeton University Society of Fellows), “The Second Sun: Reflection and Light in the Greek Imagination.”
Eileen Reeves (Princeton University), “Borrowed Light: Art and Astronomy at the Villa Medici”
Katja Guenther (Princeton University), “Who’s that in the Mirror? The Self-Recognition Test and the Question of Human Specificity”
Comment: Sally Cochrane (Princeton University).