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Talks

Past Talks

2019

October 19-20 "Glass of the Mechanics": Developing a new narrative for a most formative period for the American glass industry, ca. 1820-40
  Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque Memorial Lecture and Symposium
Stories in American Glass: New Scholarship, New Perspectives

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

2018

October 19-20
1pm
One Frenchman’s glass cutting machinery and another’s lenses: The Brooklyn Flint Glass Company’s prize-winning products in the 1850s
  57th Annual Seminar on Glass
The Corning Museum of Glass

Corning, New York.

2017

March 14
1pm
New in form and ornament:
How the American machine-press changed glass tableware, 1825-45

  The Westchester Glass Club
Dobbs Ferry, New York.

2016

March 8
1pm
Glass in Early Charleston, South Carolina: Archaeology and Primary Sources
  The Westchester Glass Club
Dobbs Ferry, New York.
January 9
10:30am-12:00pm
Which glass found on American sites was American made?
Archaeological collections as resources for glass research
  SYM-208: Caring For The Past: Connecting To Archaeological Collections
Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA 2016)
Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology

Washington, DC

2015

December 11 Perfected in New York City:
Jean-Pierre Colné and the origins of mechanized glass cutting, 1850-80
  Friday Focus talk
The Bayou Bend Collection
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston, Texas
October 1-2 Before the illustrated trade catalog: American luxury glass made by Dorflinger's predecessors and contemporaries
  Symposium celebrating the 150th anniversary of Dorflinger glassmaking in White Mills, Pennsylvania
Dorflinger Factory Museum
White Mills, Pennsylvania

2014

November 21-22 Matching the glass owned in Early Charleston: Archaeological guidance from the Charleston Museum and Drayton Hall
  Breaking ground and building bridges:
New research on Charleston's material culture

The Charleston Museum, Charleston, South Carolina.
May 10 American mold blown tableware, 1815-35:
A fresh look at "Blown Three Mold"
  The Glass Club Seminar of the National American Glass Club
Orlando, Florida.
March 3 What should an American Glass 2.0 look like?
  The Westchester Glass Club
Dobbs Ferry, New York.
January 22 Perfected in New York City:
Jean-Pierre Colné and the origins of mechanized glass cutting, 1850-80
  The New York Ceramics Fair 2014
The Bohemian National Hall, New York, New York.

2013

July 20 American mold blown tableware, 1815-35:
A fresh look at "Blown Three Mold"
  2013 National Antique Bottle Show
Manchester, New Hampshire.

2012

May 4-6 Midwestern Contributions to American Glass: 1797-1880.
  Midwest Antiques Forum
Cincinnati, Ohio.

2011

October 1-2 Early Steps in the Mechanization of Glass Cutting, 1850-80: Jean-Pierre Colné Rediscovered
  Dorflinger Glass Seminar
Dorflinger Glass Museum
White Mills, PA.
March 16 American Mold Blown Tableware 1815-40:
A New Look at an American Classic
  The Founders' Chapter of the National American Glass Club
Natick, MA.
March 1 Early American Glass:
From the Colonies to the Civil War
  New Castle Historical Society
Chappaqua Library, Chappaqua, NY.

2010

November 1 The Industrialization of Glass Cutting in America, 1850-1880:
Jean-Pierre Colné, Rediscovered
  The Westchester Chapter of the National American Glass Club
White Plains, NY.
April 17 Hiding in Plain Sight? Rediscovering New York City cut glass: 1820-70
  The Glass Club Seminar of the National American Glass Club
Greenwich, CT.

2009

December 1 Cut Glass in America to the Civil War
(with a New York City Bias) 1800-1865

The Cape Cod Chapter of the National American Glass Club
The Sandwich Glass Museum, Sandwich, MA.
April 6 Cut Glass in America to the Civil War
(with a New York City Bias) 1800-1865

The Westchester Chapter of the National American Glass Club
White Plains, NY.

2006

March 7 American "Blown Three Mold" 1815-1840: Decorative Mid-Market Tableware Before the Rise of Pressing
The New York Metropolitan Chapter of the National American Glass Club
New York, NY.

2005

November 7 American "Blown Three Mold" 1815-1840: Decorative Mid-Market Tableware Before the Rise of Pressing
The Westchester Chapter of the National American Glass Club
White Plains, NY.

2004

September 10 American "Blown Three Mold":
A Classic of Early American Glass

North Jersey Bottle Club
New Jersey.

2003

August 12 Finding "Beauty in Function":
Collecting Early American Glass

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Hawthorne, NY.