Dominic Bate and Sophie Higgerson speak at conferences on April 8-9, 2022

Hussey Study — Giles Hussey, *Study of the proportions of a male head*, graphite on paper, c. 1745–1788. London, British Museum.

Not only do we host the next installment of the On Speculation lecture series, but graduate students Dominic Bate and Sophie Higgerson also present original research at symposiums on April 8 and 9, respectively.

On Friday, April 8 at 6:00 pm, Dominic Bate gives a talk, “Giles Hussey’s ‘Scheen of Triangles’: A New Approach to Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Britain,” at the 2022 Symposium on the History of Art, virtually hosted by the Frick Collection and the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. Dominic contextualizes an early eighteenth-century effort to mathematize portraiture by showing how the British draftsman, Giles Hussey, tried to conform artistic practice to a resurgent idea of cosmic harmony first associated with the Greek philosopher, Pythagoras. He delivered an earlier version of this talk at a Department roundtable on March 24, 2022.

Gashthof Picture — *Hotel Gashthof Gramshammer (Vail, CO). Courtesy of Sophie Higgerson.*

On Saturday, April 9, Sophie Higgerson virtually presents “Race to the Lodge: Alpine Architecture and the Construction of Whiteness at American Ski Resorts” at the 43rd Annual Student Symposium hosted by the New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (NESAH). She delivers this talk during the symposium’s third session of the day, on race and gender, set to begin at 1:30 pm.

We hope you will consider attending Dominic and Sophie’s talks.