Join us as we mark the culmination of the academic year with the Center for Netherlandish Art’s annual colloquium. Featuring talks with current CNA Research Fellows and emerging scholars from various institutions, this virtual event is a platform for the next generation of specialists to share their research projects with an international community.

The event is split into two sessions of three speakers each: in the first session the CNA research fellows reflect on their work and accomplishments during their time in Boston, where they have each been using their research to center previously marginalized art, artists, subjects, and audiences. In the second session, which is moderated by CNA student organizers, early career experts use the framework of access and accessibility to expand the understanding of early modern Netherlandish art.

This year’s colloquium speakers are among a generation of scholars bringing important stories in Dutch and Flemish art from the sidelines into the foreground and moving the field forward. Attendees are invited to join in the discussion during Q and A periods following each session.

Program

Session One
CNA Fellowship Program: Centering the Decentered

9–10:30 am

The Enigma of the ‘Glorious Stone’

Presented by Victor Tiribás, research fellow, Center for Netherlandish Art

Two Great Women Artists: Technical Studies as a Source for Scholarship on Early Modern Women Painters

Presented by Kirsten Derks, Flanders State of the Art Research Fellow, Center for Netherlandish Art

Multiple Mentalities: Uncovering Mental Illness and Neurodiversity in Netherlandish Art

Presented by Lotte Kokkedee, research fellow, Center for Netherlandish Art

Session Two
Emerging Scholars: Increasing Accessibility

11 am–12:30 pm

Representational Accessibility at the Rijksmuseum

Presented by Marte Sophie Meessen, researcher,  Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; and Art History PhD candidate (RICH), Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

A Dutch Rariteitenkabinet in the Present Day: Rethinking the Accessibility of the Steyl Missionary Museum

Presented by Yang Hu, research master History of Art, Utrecht University

Feeling Fabrics: The Accessibility of Historical Textiles in the Museum De Lakenhal

Presented by Sara Wieman, research master curating Art and Cultures, University of Amsterdam

The Founders of the Center for Netherlandish Art at the MFA are Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo and Susan and Matthew Weatherbie.