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Frances Gage, associate professor of art history and a faculty member with Buffalo State’s Global Studies Institute, delivered the paper “Snow Architecture and Technological Marvels: Environment and Machines in Federico Zuccari’s Dimora di Parma and in the Mantuan Nozze of 1608,” at the conference “Celebrations at Court: Ephemeral Objects, Materials and Machineries in the Early Modern Period,” held at the University of Copenhagen, in Copenhagen, Denmark, November 2 and 3. In her paper, Dr. Gage investigated a case study of the early modern response to extreme climate conditions during one of the most severe global temperature declines of the Little Ice Age (ca. 1250–1850), the Grindelwald Fluctuation (1560–1630).