Ph.D. candidate Christy Sher presented a paper titled “Procreative Passions: Visualizing Love, Desire, and Lineage in Edo-Period Japanese Erotica” at the 51st Annual Cleveland Symposium on Love and Desire in the Visual Arts, held in Cleveland, Ohio on November 14^th. Drawing on her dissertation research on sexuality and medicine in Edo-period print culture, Christy participated in the panel Erotic Objects: Visual Manifestations of Desire alongside scholars of French and Italian art history. While at the conference, Christy visited the Ingalls Library at the Cleveland Museum of Art, viewed highlights from the museum’s medieval and Asian collections, and met colleagues from around the world to discuss research on love and desire across a variety of media, historical periods, and geographic regions.