Past Conference Programs—Emerging Scholars Symposium
2007 Fifth Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Welcome and introductory remarks by Bess Williamson and Lara Pascali, Conference Co-Chairs
PANEL 1: Nicholas Bell, chair
Jennifer Van Horn, University of Virginia (Art History): “Removing the Mask: Destroying Selfhood in Colonial Portraiture”
Philippa Hubbard, University of Warwick, UK (History): “Eighteenth Century Advertising: The Trade Card in Britain and America”
Michelle Ladd, Claremont Graduate University (Cultural Studies): “The Substance of Smoke: Cigars in American Culture, 1880-1930”
Commentator: Charles Hummel, Curator Emeritus, Winterthur Museum and Library
PANEL 2: Chair, Colleen Terry, chair
Abigail Markoe, Johns Hopkins University (History of Medicine): “Advertising Healthy Babies and Marketing ‘Modernity’: Baby Competitions and Public Health Weeks in Colonial Africa”
Lara Pascali, University of Delaware (Winterthur Program in Early American Culture): “Baby Books and Childhood Narratives: Writing the Self through Material Culture”
Christine Reiser, Brown University (Anthropology): “‘With all the Pomp of Olden Days’: Materializing Community in Public Historical Imagery and Dramatic Display”
Commentator: Bernard Herman, Edward F. & Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor Department of Art History, University of Delaware
LUNCH and ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION for symposium participants, including interested members of the audience, symposium speakers, and commentators.
PANEL 3: Monica Zaleski, chair
Sarah Amato, University of Toronto (History): “Of Auto-Icons and Stuffed Pets: Science, Sentiment and Victorian Taxidermy”
Jillian Gould, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Folklore): “The Jewish Home Beautiful and a Sabbath Tea: Aesthetics of Jewish Table Settings and Performing Hospitality”
Bryn Varley Hollenbeck, University of Delaware (History of American Civilization): “Cultivating the Wild: The Domestic Exterior in Modern Child Rearing”
Commentator: David Brody, Assistant Professor of Art and Design Studies, Parsons The New School for Design
Keynote Address: Introduction by Janneken Smucker
Susan Strasser, Professor of History, University of Delaware and Senior Resident Scholar, Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and Library.
2006 Fourth Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars
Saturday, March 17, 2006
Welcome and introductory by Janneken Smucker, Conference Co-Chair, History of American Civilization, University of Delaware
PANEL 1: Rebecca Ayres, chair
Hannah Carlson, American Studies, Boston University
“’A roome to lay up my goods’: The Pocket as a Narrative of Self”
Christina Hodge, Historical Archeology, Boston University
“A Middling Gentility?: Status, Consumption, and Taste in a Newport, Rhode Island, Household, ca. 1720-1750”
Andrea Quintero, History of Decorative Arts, Bard Graduate Center
“Too Close to Home: Staging in Real Estate and the Home as Commodity”
Comments by Linda Welters, Chair, Department of Textiles, Fashion Merchandising, and Design, University of Rhode Island
PANEL 2: Heather Boyd, chair
Ellery Foutch, History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
“Stilled Life: Titian Ramsay Peale's Lepidoptera Boxes”
Katherine Stebbins McCaffrey, American Studies, Boston University
“Spectacles -- Scripted, Spoken, and Speechless: An Inquiry into the Relationship between Words and Things”
Catherine Molnar, History, York University, Toronto
“A Heart-Shaped Box: Civic Identity and the Language of Sentimentality in 1837 and 2005”
Comments by Wendy Bellion, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, University of Delaware
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION for symposium participants, including interested members of the audience, symposium speakers, and commentators.
PANEL 3: Bess Williamson, chair
Mara Katkins, Archeology, Temple University
“Bottles, Madeira, and the Wine Trade”
Freyja Hartzell, History of Art,Yale University
“Life after Jugendstil: Richard Riemerschmid and the Animation of Modern German Design”
David Namie, Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Queering Material Culture: The Case of the Yellow Book"
Comments by Edward S. Cooke, Jr., Charles F. Montgomery Professor of the History of Art, Yale University.
SUMMARY ADDRESS: Introduction by Zara Anishanslin-Bernhardt
Anne Collins Goodyear and Tia Powell Harris, Co-chairs, Smithsonian Institution’s Material Culture
Forum
CLOSING REMARKS: 4:50 – 5:00
Lori Miller, Conference Co-Chair, History of Art, University of Delaware
2005 Third Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars
Saturday, April 23, 2005
Welcome and introductory remarks given by Heather Boyd, Conference Co-Chair, History of American Civilization, University of Delaware
PANEL 1
Elizabeth Arnold-Hull, American History, University of North Carolina, “Family Pictures ‘Out of Place:’ Race, Resistance, and Celebration in the Pope Family Photograph Collection.”
Katherine Reider, History of American Civilization, Harvard University, “Gifting and Fetishization: The Portrait Miniature of Sally Foster Otis as a Maker of Memory.”
Anna O. Marley, Art History, University of Delaware, “The Parlor Car and the Pappoose: Viewing class, race, and domesticity in Gilded Age Transcontinental Tourist Guides and Travel Literature.”
Comments by Paul Reber, President, Old Salem, Inc.
PANEL 2
Isabell Cserno, American Studies, University of Maryland -- “Selling the Nation: The Role of Racialized Advertisements in Creating National Identities in the US and Germany, 1893 to 1933.”
Stefan Osdene, Virginia Historical Society , “Streamlining Neon: The Intersection of American Signmaking and Industrial Design, 1930-1940.”
Dana Byrd, Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, University of Delaware, “Way Finding: Work, Space and Evangelism at a Truck Stop Chapel.”
Comments by Amalia Amaki, Curator, The Paul Jones Collection, University Gallery, Visiting Assistant Professor, Black American Studies, University of Delaware.
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION for symposium participants, including interested members of the audience, symposium speakers, and commentators.
PANEL 3
Kelly Baker, American Religious History, Florida State University, “Dressed to Hate: The Ku Klux Klan, Uniforms, and Collective Identity.”
Susan Lamb, History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University , “Model Behaviour: A Material Culture Approach to the History of Anatomical Models.”
Holly Grout, French History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “The Old and the Beautiful: Wrinkle Creams, Hair Dyes and the Aging Body in Early 20th Century Paris.”
Comments by Kathy Peiss, Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History, University of Pennsylvania.
SUMMARY ADDRESS
David Shields, McClintock Professor of Southern Letters, Departments of English and History,
University of South Carolina.
CLOSING REMARKS
Daniel Claro, Conference Co-Chair, History of American Civilization, University of Delaware.
2004 Second Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars
Saturday, April 17, 2004
Welcome given by Elise Madeleine Ciregna, Graduate Student Chair, Symposium Planning
Committee, and graduate student, Program in the History of American Civilization, University of
Delaware; and by Dr. Bernard Herman, Director, Center for American Material Culture Studies,
University of Delaware.
PANEL 1
Patricia J. Keller, Program in the History of American Civilization, University of Delaware, ““Significant Patterns, Strategic Designs: Quilts and Quiltmaking After the ‘Age of Homespun.’
Ethan Lasser, History of Art, Yale University, “To Go ‘Round the World on a High Chest: Japanned Furniture and the Enlightened Home in Eighteenth Century Boston,”
Erik J. Larson, Cooperstown Graduate Program, History Museum Studies, State University College at Oneonta, “The Material Culture of Transition: Melamine dinnerware 1943-2004.”
Comments by Dr. Kathleen Adair Foster, Robert L. McNeil Curator and Director of the Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
PANEL 2
Daniel Claro, Program in the History of American Civilization, University of Delaware,
“John Chute Esq. and the Suits at The Vyne: An English Gentleman’s Dress and Masculinity, 1740- 1776.”
Kirsten E. Lombard, Historic Environmental Design: Interior and Landscape, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Louis XV’s Gardens at Petit Trianon: Strategies in a Material Culture Approach to the Historic Built Environment.”
Christina Harris, Anthropology, CUNY Graduate School and University Center,
“Mediators in the Transnational Marketplace: Wholesalers of Tibetan Ceremonial Scarves.”
Comments by Kym Rice, Assistant Director of Museum Studies Program, George Washington
University.
Introduction to the material culture and graduate resources at Winterthur by Dr. Gary Kulik, Deputy Director for Library, Collection Management, and Academic Programs, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library.
PANEL 3
Hadley F. Kruczek-Aaron, Anthropology, Syracuse University, “Material Sacrifice: Simplicity, Self-Denial, and the Material Culture of Everyday Life.”
Kelli Lucas, Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, University of Delaware,
“How the Other Half Saw Themselves: Photographs and Fictions on the Lower East Side.”
Jonathan C. Smith, Assistant Professor, American Studies, Saint Louis University
“‘Speak for Me”: Understanding the African American Funeral Program.’”
Comments by Dr. Amanda Kemp, Adjunct Assistant Professor of American Studies and Research Associate in Africana Studies, Franklin and Marshall College.
PANEL 4
Kari Main, American Studies, Yale University, “‘Utah’s Attic”: Daughters of the Utah Pioneers as Keepers of Cultural Memory.’”
Ruth Bergman, American Studies, University of Maryland, “Domesticity Undercover: Canvas Shelters and the ‘Age of Homespun.’”
Melissa Renn, Art History, Boston University, “From Journal to Catalog: The Transformation of Arts and Crafts Ideology in Gustav Stickley’s The Craftsman.”
Comments by Dr. LuAnn De Cunzo, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Delaware.
Summary Address by Dr. Ann Smart Martin, Chipstone Professor of American Decorative Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Closing Remarks by Elise Madeleine Ciregna
SPECIAL TOURS
Delaware: Historic New Castle, led by Bernard L. Herman
Delaware: Winterthur Period Rooms, and Research Library
2003 First Annual Emerging Scholars Symposium on Material Culture
Saturday, April 26, 2003
Welcome given by Zara Anishanslin-Bernhardt, Graduate Student Chair, Symposium Planning Committee, and doctoral candidate in the History of American Civilization at the University of Delaware.
PANEL 1
Frances Davey, doctoral candidate in the History of American Civilization at the University of
Delaware, “The Hygiene Question and Women’s Undergarments, 1880-1920.”
Catherine Lanford Joy, doctoral candidate in the History of Art at Yale University, “Placesettings: Silver and Self-Consciousness in Romantic Boston.”
Jeroen van den Hurk, doctoral candidate in Art History at the University of Delaware, “’To Be Properly Completed’: Dutch Building Contracts and Practices in New Netherland.”
Comments by Dr. Dell Upton, Harrison Professor of Anthropology and Architecture, Department of Architectural History, University of Virginia.
PANEL 2
Kyle Roberts, doctoral candidate in History at the University of Pennsylvania, “Tracts, Gift-books, and a Chair: The Material History of an Evangelical Text.”
Elizabeth Hooper-Lane, doctoral student in Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “House Beautiful’s ‘Victory Home’ as Propaganda Tool: Connections between Domesticity and Patriotism in WWII and Post-war America.”
Ellen Daugherty, doctoral candidate in Art History at the University of Virginia, “Refiguring African-American Public Memory: The Monuments of Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C.”
Comments by Dr. Bernard L. Herman, Edward F. & Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor,
Department of Art History, University of Delaware.
Introduction to the material culture and graduate resources at Winterthur by Dr. Gary Kulik, Deputy Director for Library, Collection Management, and Academic Programs, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library.
PANEL 3
Akela Reason, doctoral candidate in Art History at the University of Maryland, “’Behold the Man’: Thomas Eakins’s Crucifixion.”
Joanna Frang, Lois F. McNeil Fellow in the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture at the University of Delaware, “East India Mica Paintings and their American Collectors.”
David Satran, doctoral candidate in English at the University of Delaware, “Chocolate from Dickens to Joyce: Thoughts on Material Culture's Uses for English Studies.”
Comments by Dr. Robert St. George, Associate Professor of History at University of Pennsylvania.
Summary Address by Dr. Ritchie Garrison, Associate Director, Museum Studies Program; Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Delaware.
Closing remarks, Zara Anishanslin-Bernhardt
SPECIAL TOURS
Delaware: Historic Houses of Odessa
Delaware: Winterthur Period Rooms, and Research Library
Philadelphia: Elfreth’s Alley, led by Bernard L. Herman
Philadelphia: Tea and Coffee Conference, Library Company of Philadelphia