Dutch Albany in History & Art: The 46th New Netherland Institute Conference

Conference Description

Join us for a joint conference with the Albany Institute of History & Art and the New York State Library.  This conference illuminates and expands upon themes explored in two exciting, new exhibitions at the Institute, Delights of the Senses: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Life, Featuring Paintings from The Leiden Collection and People of the Waters that are Never Still: A Celebration of Mohican Art and Culture.

Lunch at the New York State Museum and admission to the Albany Institute of History & Art to see the exhibition are included in the registration price.  Please note that we will start the day at the Huxley Theater in the New York State Museum.  In the afternoon, we will move to the Albany Institute to see the exhibitions and enjoy a reception.

Conference Program - Huxley Theater at the New York State Museum

9:00 – 9:15      Registration 

9:15 – 9:30      Welcome Remarks

9:30 – 11:00    Panel 1

Albany at 400

BJ Lillis, American Antiquarian Society

From Dutch "Colony" to English Manor: Maria van Rensselaer and the Remaking of Rensselaerswijck after 1674

Chelsea Teale, New Netherland Research Center

Last Patroon/First Lord: Insights from Kiliaen van Rensselaer’s Journal

Cheryle Weber, The Dutch Settlers Society

                        The Tercentenary celebration in Albany

11:00 – 11:15  Break

11:15 – 12:45  Panel 2

Art History & Material Culture in New Netherland and Dutch New York

Louisa Ruby, Independent Scholar

                        Dutch Art and the Hudson Valley Patroon Painters

Marge Steurbaut, Rice University

The Glazing of Beverwijck’s First Protestant Church: Colonial Power Visualized

Elizabeth Nogrady, The Leiden Collection

                        Delights of the Senses: Seventeenth-century Dutch Art and Life 

12:45 – 2:15    Lunch at the New York State Museum (included in registration fee)

2:15 – 3:45      Panel 3

Finding Indigenous and Enslaved People in Art and Archives

Sarah Mallory, Morgan Library & Museum

            Looking for Legacies: Images of Enslavement in Dutch 17th-century Art

Pilar Jefferson, University of California Berkeley

There and Gone: Racial Logics of African and Native American Presence in the Archives of Dutch Albany 

Molly Leech, University of Pennsylvania

            Materialities and Global Trajectories of the New Netherland Fur Trade 

3:45 – 4:15      Travel to Albany Institute of History & Art (5 minute drive, 15 minute walk)

4:15 – 5:30      Visit Exhibitions

5:30 – 7:00      Reception

Image: Polychrome Dutch Floral Tiles, The Netherlands, ca. 1625.  Collection of the Albany Institute of History & Art. Accession Number 1949.2.1