The Graduate Student Lecture Series committee in Art History at the University of Delaware welcomes Dr. Dorothy Moss, Curator of Painting and Sculpture, National Portrait Gallery, who will present the lecture “Active Absence, The Obama Portraits, and… Read More
2nd Biannual CMCS Conference “Black Bibliographia: Print/Culture/Art” University of Delaware, April 26-27, 2019 The second biennial Center for Material Culture Studies conference wants to address the question “What is a black book?” Such question is implicit… Read More
How electric light created new spaces that transformed the built environment and the perception of modern architecture. In this book, Sandy Isenstadt examines electric light as a form of architecture—as a new, uniquely modern kind… Read More
Join us for the next meeting of the CMCS-Sponsored Working Group: Media Old and New! WHEN:May 8, 2018 at 5:30pm WHERE: Old College 211 (VRC) This session will include brief presentations of ongoing dissertation research… Read More
Professior Minoru Inaba (Kyoto University/Princeton) is a world-renowned archaeologist of Central Asia and Afghanistan. He will be speaking on one of the most illusive subjects in modern-day archaeology – the study of Buddhist monuments… Read More
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Hazardous Objects: Function, Materiality, and Context Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library April 27-28, 2018 REGISTER HERE! View/Print Flyer PROGRAM Click Here to View/Download Full Program Keynote Speaker: Dr. Alison Matthews David, Associate Professor in the… Read More
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Lecture by Michael Suarez, S. J. University Professor and Director of Rare Book School, University of Virginia The Book beyond the Library: Sir William Hamilton’s Cabinet and the Eighteenth-Century Decorative Arts Revolution With its striking ocher and… Read More
Jane Klinger, Chief Conservator for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and a Coremans Fellow in the Preservation Studies program at the University of Delaware, will be delivering a guest lecture on the material culture of the… Read More
