To support the borrowing of Hiram Power’s The Greek Slave (1844) along with a two-day colloquium, to be held in October 2014 at the Yale Center for British Art, in conjunction with the exhibition Sculpture Victorious: Art in an Age of Invention, 1837–1901, co-organized by the center and Tate Britain. The colloquium examines the role of The Greek Slave in both a British and international context, bringing together scholars from both sides of the Atlantic to discuss the statue, its maker, and the broader cultural context they inhabited.

To support “Hybrid Practices in the Arts, Sciences, and Technology from the 1960s to Today,” a conference that examines the factors that influenced collaborative projects uniting the arts, sciences, and technology in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1960s. An international group of 18 scholars are presenting papers at the conference, which takes place at the Spencer Museum in March 2015 with a one-day colloquium to follow in summer 2015.

To support “Fraktur and the Everyday Lives of Germans in Pennsylvania and the Atlantic World, 1683–1850,” a conference organized by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Free Library of Philadelphia. The conference aims to place Pennsylvania Germans in broader contexts and to see their fraktur as a point of entry for a much broader understanding of the significance of their art and culture.

To support the symposium “Asian American Art: Transnational Circulations and Diasporic Framings,” which takes place May 30–31, 2014, at the Archives of American Art. This event brings together scholars, curators, and artists to explore global comparative diasporic framings and current scholarship, and examines the importance of Asian American artistic expressions based in ink painting of transnational and diasporic identities in American art.