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Susanna Caviglia

Adjunct Associate Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Office hours By appointment  

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Peinture, histoire, et la gravité du plaisir au siècle des Lumières. · June 4, 2020 - June 7, 2020 Invited Talk Festival de l’Histoire de l’Art, Fontainebleau, France
Seeing through touch, touching with the eyes: the sensorial construction of Rome in the age of the Enlightenment · December 2019 Invited Talk Bard Graduate Center, New York
History, Painting, and the Seriousness of Pleasure in Eighteenth Century France - Visual Representation, Materiality, and Medium · November 2019 Invited Talk Harvard University, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
History, Painting, and Love in the Age of Louis XV - Universities Art Association of Canada · October 2019 International Meeting or Conference Universities Art Association of Canada, Quebec City, QC
Roman Stories: Mapping the Foreigner's Urban Narratives and the Representation of the Early Modern City - Western Society of French History · October 2019 International Meeting or Conference Western Society of French History, Bozeman, MO
Jean-Baptiste Greuze's Genre Paintings and the Constrution of Italian Identities - International Society for Eighteenth Century Studies · July 2019 International Meeting or Conference The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
“History, painting, and the seriousness of pleasure in the age of Louis XV” · March 2019 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Breakout Session "Space, Objects, Audience: the Future of Eighteenth-Century Art" · November 2018 International Meeting or Conference Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art & Architecture, SMU, Dallas
“L’Invention du Bonheur. Peindre l’Histoire au siècle des Lumières” · May 2018 Invited Talk Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France
“Assembling Rome for the Eighteenth-Century Viewer” · March 2018 International Meeting or Conference American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Orlando
“Indolence is a woman. Greuze’s Lazy Italian girl and the debate over Italian cultural collapse” - Bettie Allison Rand Symposium in honor of Mary D. Sheriff · February 2018 Invited Talk University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium · April 2017 Invited Talk Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums
The Invention of Happiness - Painting History in the Enlightenment · October 2016 Invited Talk Iowa University, School of Art and Art History
"Weighty Matters in Delightful Images" - The Delight of the Eye: Eighteenth-Century Painting and/as Decoration · March 2016 Invited Talk American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Pittsburgh
"Painting of Love as Ideology of Harmony" - Eros and Elightenment · February 2016 Invited Talk College Art Association, Washington, D.C.
Dionysos Trublion - Peindre la Fable à l'âge des Lumières · October 2015 Invited Talk Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, Centre Allemand d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris
"Wandering in Rome, the Psycho-Geography of the Solitary Walker" · March 2015 Invited Talk Renaissance Society of America,
The "Action of Repose" in the Theory and Practice of Painting - Workshop · March 2015 Invited Talk University of Chicago,
Resting Beauties - Academic Practice and History Painting in the French Enlightenment · January 2015 Invited Talk De Paul University,
"Wandering around Rome. The Esthetics of the Mobile Gaze in the Eighteenth Century" - The Mobile Spectator: Viewing on the Move · July 2014 Invited Talk University of Nottingham,
"The Eternal Modernity of Rome. The Poetics of the Past in French 18th-century Painting" - Representing the Past · March 2014 Invited Talk American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Berlin
"Drawing New Foundations for History Painting. Life Drawing and the Crisis of Historia at the French Royal Academy" - Drawing Foundations in Early Modern Europe · February 2014 Invited Talk College Art Association, Chicago
"De l'imminent au potentiel. L'action de repos' dans la peinture d'histoire sous Louis XV" - Temporality and Potentiality in the Artworks · December 2013 Invited Talk Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris
De l'imminent au potentiel - L'action de repos' dans la peinture d'histoire sous Louis XV · December 2013 Invited Talk Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris
"Touching Rome: The Emotional Construction of the Eternal City" - Emotional Objects: Touching Emotions in Europe 1600-1900 · October 2013 Invited Talk Institute of Historical Research, London
"La Tapisserie de l'Histoire de Don Quichotte' de Charles-Joseph Natoire. Œuvre de Traduction ou Récit Renouvelé" - De l'Apocalypse d'Angers à Alechinsky · June 2012 Invited Talk Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris
Du Sacré au Profane: Problèmes de Sécularisation de l'Image en France au XVIIIe Siècle" - Le Sacré en Question. Sujets Bibliques, Sujets Mythologiques sur les Scènes du XVIIIe Siècle · June 2012 Invited Talk Université d'Artois, Maison de la Recherche
"L'hybridation des genres dans la peinture d'histoire en France au XVIIIe siècle" - Genres littéraires et peinture · October 2011 Invited Talk Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand
"La sociabilité à L'Académie de France à Rome sous le directorat de Charles-Joseph Natoire (1751-1775)" - Art et sociabilité au XVIIIe siècle (1715-1815) · June 2011 Invited Talk Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris
"Peindre l'histoire de France au XVIIIe siècle" - Ecrire l'histoire de France de la Renaissance au XXIe siècle · March 2011 Invited Talk Université de Poitiers,
Peindre l'histoire de France au XVIIIe siècle - Workshop · March 2011 Invited Talk Université de Poitiers,
"Le Transfert de modèles comme pratique artistique. Le cas de la peinture d'histoire en France au XVIIIe siècle" - Transfert de modèles dans le sillage des Lumières · April 2010 Invited Talk Université de Limoges,
"Charles-Joseph Natoire (1700-1777) ou l'œuvre ultime comme anamnèse" - Le grand âge et ses œuvres ultimes (XVIème-XXIème siècles) · December 2009 Invited Talk Université de Poitiers,

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship


Bass Connections Advisory Board - Project Vox · 2019 Projects & Field Work

Service to the Profession


Reviewer - Pandemic Relief Fund Commitee · 2020 Committee Service Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture (HECAA),
Field Editor for the 18th-Century Art - College Art Association · July 2019 Editorial Activities
Co-organizer - International symposium. "Suspendre le temps, continuer l’espace" · 2019 Event/Organization Administration Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3 , Paris, France
External Reviewer - Journal 18 · 2019 Editorial Activities
Committee Member - Mary Vidal Memorial Award Committee · 2019 Committee Service Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art & Architecture,
External Reviewer · 2017 Editorial Activities Rives méditerranéennes,
Editor-in-Chief - "The Body in Art" · 2017 Editorial Activities Brepols,
Organizer - Internationl symposium. "Body Narratives: Motion and Emotion in the French Enlightenment" · 2015 Event/Organization Administration The University of Chicago,
Committee Member - The France Chicago Center (FCC) Travel Grant Committee · 2014 - 2016 Committee Service University of Chicago,
Hiring Committee - History/Art History Department · 2011 - 2012 Committee Service Université de Limoges,
Organizer - Symposium. "Le prince et les arts en France et en Italie (XIVe-XVIIIe siècles)" · 2011 Event/Organization Administration Universite de Limoges, France,
Library Committee · 2011 - 2012 Committee Service Université de Limoges, Limoges, France
Co-organizer - Symposium. "Transfert de modèles dans le sillage des Lumières" · 2010 Event/Organization Administration Universite de Limoges, France,
Vice-Chair - History Department · 2009 - 2010 Event/Organization Administration Université de Limoges,
Member · 2007 - 2010 Committee Service Ministry of Culture, Paris, France
Hiring Committee - History/Art History Department · 2007 - 2008 Committee Service Université de Limoges,
Co-organizer - Symposium. "L’événement “tragique” aux époques moderne et contemporaine" · 2007 Event/Organization Administration Universite de Limoges, France,
Co-organizer - Visiting speakers series · 2003 - 2005 Event/Organization Administration Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, Quimper, France,

Service to Duke


External Reviewer . Bass Connections · 2019 Editorial Activities
Lilly Library Liaison · 2019 Consulting
Co-organizer . Visiting speakers series · 2019 Event/Organization Administration Department of Art, Art HIstory & Visual Studies,
Library Council (University) · 2019 Committee Service
Candidacy of Prof. C.Gruber (Department) · 2018 Committee Service
Arts &Sciences Council (University) · 2018 - 2019 Committee Service

alternate representative

Language Exams (Italian, French) · 2018 Other
Graduate Committee (Department) · 2018 Committee Service

Academic & Administrative Activities


MEMBERSHIP

College Art Association

American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies in the Enlightenment

Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art & Architecture

International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Universities Art Association of Canada

Western Society for French History