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[caption id="attachment_5046" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Bernard Picart, Monument consacré à la postéritéen mémoire de la Folie incroyable de la XX. annéedu XVIII. siècle, 1720, estampe, Paris, BnF, Départementdes estampes et de la photographie.[/caption]Type : colloque.Date de l’événement : 10 et 11 avril 2020.Lieu : The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino.Insurance now plays pivotal roles in the construction, exhibition, and value of contemporary art and architecture. This two-day conference brings together interdisciplinary scholars to examine how insurance has constructed and inflected the civic, economic, and moral life of art and architecture from the early modern period to the present. Registration for this two-day conference is $25, with an optional buffet lunch each day for $20. Conference registration is $10 for current Huntington docents, and free for current Long-Term Fellows and students with a current student ID. Please bring your ID to event-day check-in. Students, please note school affiliation after your name when registering.Programme :vendredi 10 avril 20208:30  Registration and coffee9:30  Welcome by Steve Hindle (The Huntington)9:35  Remarks by Avigail Moss (University of Southern California) and Matthew Hunter (McGill University), Art and the Actuarial Imagination: Propositions10:00  Session 1: The Artist as ActuaryModerator: James Glisson (Santa Barbara Museum of Art)• Sophie Cras (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Art, Insurance and Post-Statistics Politics• Melanie Gilligan (Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm), Films About Social Systems: Depicting Contingency12:00  Lunch1:00  Session 2: Incorporating LiabilityModerator: Matthew Hunter (McGill University)• Nina Dubin (University of Illinois at Chicago), Eros, Inc.: Cupid, Corporate Form, and the Crash of 1720• Avigail Moss (University of Southern California), Ars Longa, Vita Brevis: The Fine Art &#38; General Insurance Company, Ltd.3:00  Break3:15  Session 3: The Hedge: Landscape and PowerModerator: Avigail Moss (University of Southern California)• Matthew Hunter (McGill University), The Sun is God: Turner, Angerstein and Insurance• Richard Taws (University College London), The Loss Adjuster: Charles Méryons Speculationssamedi 11 avril 20209:00  Registration and coffee9:30  Session 4: External ExposuresModerator: Theodore Porter (University of California, Los Angeles)• Timothy Alborn (Lehman College CUNY), Revisions of Mirzah: Death’s Trap Doors, 1711–1915• Arindam Dutta (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Money in the Material World: Speculation and Building in the Eighteenth Century11:30  Lunch12:30  Session 5: Double IndemnityModerator: Jennifer Greenhill (University of Southern California)• Hannah Farber (Columbia University), Seals, Marks, and Emblems: Art as the Basis for Property Claims• Ross Barrett (Boston University), Speculative Vision: Daniel Huntington, Land Looking, and the Panic of 18372:30  Break2:45  Session 6: Moral HazardsModerator: Sophie Cras (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)• Oliver Wunsch (Boston College), Pastel and the Portraiture of Risk• Marina Vishmidt (Goldsmiths, University of London), No Sure Thing: Art, Speculative Subjectivities, and Actuarial Genres4:45  General Reflections and Q&#38;AModerator: Steve Hindle (The Huntington)Discussants: Ross Barrett, Sophie Cras, Nina Dubin, Matthew Hunter, Avigail Moss, and Oliver Wunsch