Professor Yale Rice will present a lecture titled, “Tactile Histories of the Mughal Album.” As compilations of discrete, fragmentary images and texts in codex format, Mughal albums lend themselves to ocularcentric analysis.
Abigail Rapoport presents a lecture titled, “The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt.” The Book of Esther from the Hebrew Bible was ever-present in the seventeenth-century Netherlands.