Join Tyler's Art History graduate students will be holding a symposium called Envisioning a World Without a Center: Navigating Early Modern Geographies of Art. They will present on a range of paper topics and media from the 16th and 17th centuries that illuminate some of the artistic productions and complex dynamics that came out of this very early moment of global encounters.

Topics to be discussed, among many others, include:

• •   Mexican featherwork "mosaics"
• •   Watercolors of insects from Surinam painted by Maria Sibylla Merian
• •   Engraved plates of Algonquian-Powhatan inhabitants of what is now Virginia
• •   Nigerian brass sculpture and equestrian histories mapped onto Kehinde Wiley's Rumors of War
• •   Drawings of Isfahan for a sketchbook owned by a German physician on route to Japan
• •   A painted mural in a Mexican church showing the martyrdom of Portuguese Franciscan friars and
       Japanese Christian converts
• •   A long woodcut frieze showing "manners and customs of the Turks" in Sultan Suleiman's Ottoman
       Empire

Image: The Mass of St. Gregory, 1539; feathers, gold, wood, pigment; 68 by 56 centimeters; Mexico, Mexico City.
Credit: Musée des Jacobins, Auch, France (986.1.1)