Benjamin Saltzman (University of Chicago) will be in conversation with Bronwen Wilson (UCLA, Art History) and David Russell (UCLA, English).

Bronwen Wilson is the Edward W. Carter Chair in European Art and the Director of the Center for 17th– and 18th-Century Studies and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at UCLA. Wilson is the author of numerous books, including the forthcoming book, The Face of Uncertainty. She is also coeditor of Conversion Machines: Apparatus, Artifice, Body and The Erotics of Looking: Early Modern Netherlandish Art.

David Russell is associate professor of English at UCLA and the author of Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Marion Milner: On Creativity.

Location: Kaplan 196 (415 Portola Plaza)

Cosponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, the Department of English, and the Department of Art History.