Americas Society presents Humboldt and the Order of Nature: Aspects of Culture and Landscape in the Americas, an international symposium at Hunter College. The curators of the exhibition Unity of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt and the Americas will be joined by scholars and curators from Europe, Latin America, and the United States to discuss Humboldt's historical, social, and artistic influence. 

Program: 

11:00am to 1:00pm: PANEL 1—Humboldt and Social Order in the Americas 

Introduction: Wenzel Bilger, Regional Program Director, Goethe-Institut, New York and Mary Louise Pratt, Silver Professor and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York University 

Alexander von Humboldt as a World Citizen. Nomadic Knowledge and the Global Landscapes of Theory by Ottmar Ette, Chair of Romance Literature, University of Potsdam 

Humboldt y la arqueología mexicana by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Director, Templo Mayor Excavations, Mexico CityHumboldt and Slavery by Michael Zeuske, Professor of Caribbean and Latin American History, Universität zu Köln

The Manifold Nature of Humboldt's Pocket Cosmos by Laura Dassow Walls, William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English, University of Notre Dame 

1:00 pm to 2:30pm: BREAK 

2:30pm to 5:30pm: PANEL 2—Humboldt's Influence on the Art of the Americas 

Video: The Wake by Dana Levy

Introduction: Georgia de Havenon, Exhibition Guest Curator and Katherine Manthorne, Professor of Art of the Unites States, Latin America and Their Cross-Currents, 1750-1950, The Graduate Center, City University of New York 

The Art of the Order of Nature: Frederic Church and Humboldt's Earthly Model by Kevin J. Avery, Senior Research Scholar, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Humboldt, the Panorama, and Landscape Painting by Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, Yale University

An Artist Responds to the Collecting Tradition of Naturalists in the Neotropics by Mark Dion, Contemporary Artist

Nature's Unity: Alexander von Humboldt's Picturesque Vision of Ecology by Alicia Lubowski-Jahn, Exhibition Guest Curator The Creation of a Science Accessible through the Senses: Humboldt and the Travelers' Art by Pablo Diener, Professor in the History Department at the Universidad Federal de Mato Grosso, in Brazil

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