Samantha Chang

Presentations, Lectures, and Chairmanships

Conference Presentations

  • Ventura Nieto, L., & S. Chang. (2022, April 2). What’s in a name? The Arpicordo and Painter-Musicians in the Sixteenth Century. The Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Annual Meeting, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Chang, S. (2021, October 30). Gesturing, Painting, and Music-Making in the Sixteenth Century. Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, San Diego, USA.
  • Chang, S. (2021, September 25). Making Music, Making Art: Women Painters and the Sister Arts. The Feminist Art History Conference, American University, Washington, D.C., USA.  
  • Chang, S. (2021, July 7). The Sound of Painting: Intersensoriality in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Soundscapes in the Early Modern Conference, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
  • Ventura Nieto, L., & S. Chang. (2021, July 6). Sixteenth-Century Female Painter-Musicians and the Arpicordo Problem. Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Ventura Nieto, L., & S. Chang. (2021, cancelled due to COVID-19). Sixteenth-Century Female Painter-Musicians and the Arpicordo Problem. Society for Renaissance Studies Biennial Conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom.
  • Chang, S. (2021, April 24). Tuning and Listening to Paintings in the Seventeenth Century . Forum for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Ireland (FMRSI): The Senses in Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Hearing and Auditory Perception, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Chang, S. (2021, April 13). Idleness and Performance: Women’s Self-Portrait in Early Modern Europe . The Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Annual Meeting, Online.
  • Chang, S. (2020, cancelled due to COVID-19). Gesturing, Painting, and Music-Making in the Sixteenth Century . Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Baltimore, USA.
  • Chang, S. (2020, July 4). Variations on a Theme: Flemish and Italian Polygonal Virginals inside the Painter’s Studio . Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  • Chang, S. (2020, cancelled due to COVID-19). The Dialogue between the Sister Arts: Frans van Mieris the Elder in His Studio . The Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA
  • Chang, S. (2020, March 6). Gesturing, Painting, and Music-Making in the Early Modern Period . One or Many? The Sister Arts in the Early Modern World, Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
  • Chang, S. (2019, October 20). Listening to Painting, Seeing Music: The Presence of Absence Inside the Painter’s Studio . Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, St. Louis, USA.
  • Chang, S. (2019, July 4). Listening to Painting: Music Inside the Painter’s Studio . Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Musik-Akademie Basel (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis), Basel, Switzerland.
  • Chang S. (2019, June 14). The Presence of Absence: Music Inside the Painter’s Studio . Music and Visual Culture in Renaissance Italy, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
  • Chang, S. (2019, April 27). The Presence of Absence: Music Inside the Painter’s Studio . Borderlines XXIII: Sounds and Silence in the Medieval and Early Modern World, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.  
  • Chang, S. (2019, April 16). The Presence of Absence: Music Inside the Painter’s Studio . American Musicological Society New York State St. Lawrence Chapter Meeting, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada.
  • Chang, S. (2019, March 19). The Presence of Absence: Music Inside the Painter’s Studio . The Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada.
  • Chang, S. (2019, February 25). Listening to Painting, Seeing Music: Music Inside the Painter’s Studio . Cabinet of Curiosities’ Spring Colloquium, Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of York, York, United Kingdom.
  • Chang, S. (2019, February 21). Painting at the Keyboard: Music and Gender Identity inside the Painter’s Studio . Wimmin, Wxmyn, Wom(b)an … Shifting Boundaries, Changing Roles: Sheffield Gender History Group Symposium, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
  • Chang, S. (2019, January 11). Listening to Painting: Music Inside the Painter’s Studio . British Forum for Ethnomusicology and Royal Musical Association Research Students’ Conference, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
  • Chang, S. (2018, July 4). Bunnies at Play: Music in the Marginalia . International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.
  • Chang, S. (2018, May 26). Framing the Scene in the Seventeenth Century: Doors and Doorways in the Painter’s Studio . Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
  • Chang, S. (2018, April 13). Variations on a Theme: Correggio’s Cloud Putti . South-Central Renaissance Conference, Atlanta, USA.
  • Chang, S. (2018, April 7). Dangerous Domesticity: Portraits of Maidservants in the Dutch Republic . Association for Art History Annual Conference, Courtauld Institute of Art / King’s College London, London, United Kingdom.
  • Chang, S. (2018, March 17). Bunnies at Play: Music in the Marginalia . Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
  • Chang, S. (2018, March 9). Listening to Painting: Intersensoriality and Correspondences between Music and the Visual Arts . New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, New College of Florida, Sarasota, USA.
  • Chang, S. (2017, October 27). Affecting the Musical Body: Aural Devotion in Sixteenth-Century Europe . Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Milwaukee, USA.
  • Chang, S. (2017, April 22). Listening to Painting: Intersensoriality and Correspondences between Music and the Visual Arts . South-Central Renaissance Conference, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA.
  • Chang, S. (2017, April 8). Listening to Painting: Intersensoriality and Correspondences between Music and the Visual Arts . Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, University of Loughborough, Loughborough, United Kingdom.
  • Chang, S. (2017, March 24). Affecting the Musical Body: Aural Devotion in Early Modern Europe . Affective Piety: A Symposium on the Engagement of Pre-Modern Emotions, Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
  • Chang, S. (2017, March 3). Enter Stage Left: Stepping into the Seventeenth-Century Painter’s Studio . At Close Quarters: Experiencing the Domestic c.1400–1600 Conference, University of York, York, United Kingdom.
  • Chang, S. (2016, July 22). Listening to Painting: Music inside the Painter’s Studio . Music and Visual Cultures International Conference, Maynooth University, Kildare, Ireland.
  • Chang, S. (2016, July 1). Performing Painting: Music inside the Painter’s Studio . “All the World’s a Stage”: Performing Identity in Everyday Life Conference, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
  • Chang, S. (2016, March 26). Enter Stage Left: Stepping into the Painter’s Studio . History of Art Graduate Student Conference: Encountering the Interface, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA.

Conference and Event Organization