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From: Lesley MillerDear colleagues,To celebrate the opening of the Europe 1600-1815 Galleries at the V&#38;A, we are holding a conference on 8th April 2016. This event is supported by a generous grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, which has enabled us to bring speakers from both Europe and the USA to offer participate by offering short presentations on significant aspects of European ways of life in the 17th and 18th centuries. Their papers will be complemented by papers from some of the curators who worked on the project and who will explain the thinking behind particular displays.I would be grateful if you would encourage colleagues and students to attend. The programme is attached to this email and the booking link is below.Creating the Europe 1600-1815 GalleriesFriday 8 April 2016This conference celebrates the opening of the V&#38;A’s new Europe 1600-1815 Galleries. It will introduce some of the new patterns of living that laid the foundations for our modern world. The papers will be presented according to the three main themes that create a narrative structure for the displays and interpretation in the galleries: first, that, for the first time ever, Europeans systematically explored, exploited, and collected resources from Africa, Asia and the Americas in their art and design; second, that France took over from Italy as leader of fashion and art in the second half of the 17th century; and third, that ways of living came to resemble those we know today.This Conference is supported by The Heritage Lottery FundDraft Programme10.00 -10.30 Registration10.30 Welcome, Bill Sherman, (Head of Collections and Research, V&#38;A)10.40 Session One: The Europe Galleries 1600-1815 at the V &#38; AWhy does 17th and 18thcentury Europe matter now?John Styles (Professor of History, University of Hertfordshire, Senior Research Fellow, V&#38;A)Creating the Europe 1600-1815 GalleriesLesley Miller (Lead Curator, Europe 1600-1815 Galleries, V&#38;A) and Lucy Trench (Head of Interpretation, Science Museum, formerly Lead Educator, Europe 1600-1815 Galleries, V&#38;A)11.40 Session Two: Explored and ExploitedA Global Context for EuropeBeverly Lemire (Henry Marshall Tory Chair, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta)The Cabinet: collecting art and scienceEric Jorink (Tylers Professor of Enlightenment and Religion, Leiden University and a Research Professor, Department of History of Science and Scholarship, Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, The Hague)Displaying Spain and Spanish America, 1600-1720Kirstin Kennedy (Curator of Metalwork, V &#38; A)13.00 Discussion13.15 Lunch14:00 Session Three: The Rise of FranceThe Invention of comfort in the modern cityJoan DeJean (Trustee Professor of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania)Luxury and Shopping in the long eighteenth centuryNatacha Coquery (Professor of History, University of Lyon II)Displaying French Historical Interiors: La Tournerie and the Serilly CabinetJoanna Norman (Senior Curator, Research Department, V &#38; A)15.15 Refreshments15:45 Session Four: Then and NowThe Impact of the EnlightenmentColin Jones (Professor of History, Queen Mary’s, University of London)Fashion in PrintPatrick Steorn (Director, Thielska Galleriet, Stockholm; participant in HERA Fashioning the Early Modern Research Project)Bringing interactivity into the Galleries: the MasqueradeDawn Hoskin and Nadine Langford (Assistant Curator and Assistant Educator, Europe 1600-1815, V &#38; A)16:45 Closing Remarks on V&#38;A’s approach to gallery developmentSofía Rodriguez Bernis (Director of Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid)To book, please use this link:https://shop.vam.ac.uk/whatson/index/view/id/864/event/Creating-the-Europe-1600-1815-Galleries/dt/2016-04-08/eType/1/free/2Yours sincerely,Lesley MillerLead CuratorEurope 1600-1815 GalleriesV&#38;ACromwell RoadLondon SW7 2RL