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Margo Todd, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, examines the campaign of the mostly lay judiciaries of the Calvinist Scottish church to impose a strict and highly invasive sexual discipline on their towns in the century following the Protestant Reformation.

This symposium, organized in conjunction with the exhibition “Gardens, Art, and Commerce in Chinese Woodblock Prints,” explores the relationship and interaction between image and text in woodblock prints during the late Ming and Qing periods.

David Barker, professor of printmaking at the China National Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou, considers the important contributions made to Chinese pictorial printing by the famous Huang family of artisan block cutters.

In the age of internet searches and social media, data has become hot—and not for the first time. An international group of historians will consider the promises, fears, practices, and technologies for recording and transmitting data in the 18th century to the present, including the implications for the lives of citizens and subjects.