Symposium - Alexander von Humboldt and the Order of Nature: Aspects of Culture and Landscape in the Americas

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Welcome Remarks

• Harper Montgomery, Distinguished Lecturer and Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Professor in Latin American Art, Hunter College: morning
• Gabriela Rangel, Director of Visual Arts and Chief Curator, Americas Society: afternoon

11:00am to 1:00pm - PANEL 1: Humboldt and Social Order in the Americas

• Introduction: Wenzel Bilger, Regional Program Director, Goethe- Institute, New York.
• Respondent: Mary Louise Pratt, Silver Professor and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York University. 

Scholars:

• Ottmar Ette, Chair of Romance Literature, University of Potsdam.

Title: Alexander von Humboldt as a World Citizen. Nomadic Knowledge and the Global Landscapes of Theory

• Michael Zeuske, Professor of Caribbean and Latin American History, Universität zu Köln

Title: Humboldt and Slavery

• Laura Dassow Walls, William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English, University of Notre Dame.

Title: The Manifold Nature of Humboldt's Pocket Cosmos.

• Mark Dion, Contemporary Artist.

Title: An Artist Responds to the Collecting Tradition of Naturalists in the Neotropics

1:00 pm to 2:30pm - BREAK

2:30pm to 5:30pm - PANEL 2: Humboldt's Influence on the Art of the Americas

• Video: The Wake, by Dana Levy
• Introduction: Georgia de Havenon, Exhibition Guest Curator
• Respondent: Katherine Manthorne, Professor of Art of the Unites States, Latin America and Their Cross-Currents, 1750-1950, The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Scholars:

• Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, Yale University. 

Title: Humboldt, the Panorama, and Landscape Painting

• Kevin J. Avery, Senior Research Scholar, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Title: The Art of the Order of Nature: Frederic Church and Humboldt's Earthly Model

• Pablo Diener, Professor in the History Department at the Universidad Federal de Mato Grosso, in Brazil

Title: The Creation of a Science Accessible through the Senses: Humboldt and the Travelers' Art

• Alicia Lubowski-Jahn: Exhibition Guest Curator

Title: Nature's Unity: Alexander von Humboldt's Picturesque Vision of Ecology

Learn more about this exhibition.

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