Playing with Scales: The Art of Restraint in the Dutch Republic
Calgary Institute for the Humanities
Date: Thursday, November 27, 2025
Time: 7 – 9pm
Location: Burnswest Theatre, The Confluence
Cost: Free (registration required)
The Third Annual Egmont Lee Founders’ Lecture is Playing with Scales: The Art of Restraint in the Dutch Republic
Join Dr. Anuradha Gobin (Associate Professor, Art History, University of Calgary) for an exploration of play and illusionism in 17th-century Dutch visual culture. Discover how miniature dollhouse objects became sites of intellectual and artistic engagement for women in the Dutch Republic, and what these dollhouses can reveal about seventeenth-century Dutch society.
For more information and to register visit playingwithscales.eventbrite.ca.
Presented by the Calgary Institute for the Humanities. For inquiries, contact: cih@ucalgary.ca.
