Saturday April 27
Welcome and Introduction: 9:00-9:30 am
Morning Panel : 9:30am-12:30 pm
9:30-10:20) Lynda Nead (Birkbeck), ‘Atmosphere at the Top of a Ladder: “Firefighters!”, Picture Post, 1941
10:20-11:10) Richard Taws (UCL), An Immense Octopus: Charles-Joseph Minard’s Historical Imagination
11:10-11:40) Coffee
11:40-12:30) Emily Doucet (Toronto), Aerial Anticipation: Félix Nadar’s Airy Archives
Lunch break: 12:30-1:30 pm
Afternoon Panel: 1:30-5:20 pm
1:30-2:20) Amy Knight Powell (UC Irvine), If a Picture is Like a Window, Then it is a Means of Ventilation
2:20-3:10) Alison Syme (Toronto), Morisot’s Vaporous Paintings and Airy Touch
3:10-3:40) Coffee
3:40-4:30) Nicholas Robbins (Yale), Luke Howard, John Constable, and Atmospheric Regulation
4:30-5:20) Jessica Horton (Delaware), Air, Wind, Breath, Life: Detoxifying Dinétah
Reception: 5:30pm
Sunday April 28
Morning Panel: 10:00am-12:00 pm
10:10-11:00) Maria Loh (Hunter), Out of Line (or, Titian Prints the Sky)
11:00-11:50) Matthew Hunter (McGill), Sun Pictures: The Aerial View of Solar Images
Lunch break: 12:00-1:30pm
Afternoon Panel 1:30-3:30 pm
1:30-2:20) Chitra Ramalingam (YCBA), Portraits of a Spark: Ether, Matter, and Spirit in Late Victorian Physics
2:30-3:20) Jennifer Tucker (Wesleyan), Voyages of Discovery on Oceans of Air: The Aerial Explorer in Victorian Science