Join the Center for Material Culture Studies Graduate Student Working Group on Sunday, December 3rd for our Puppets and Paintings Field Trip to Baltimore, Maryland! The working group will be… Read More
Material Culture (and Muppets) Field Trip!
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Historian Rob Goldberg to Give Talk About Children’s Toys
The Center for Material Culture Studies is delighted to present a public lunchtime talk by Dr. Rob Goldberg, author of Radical Play: Revolutionizing Children’s Toys in 1960s and 1970s America (Duke University… Read More
Associate Professor Marcy Norton to Give Talk on Indigenous and European Modes of Interaction
On Monday, October 30 2023, Associate Professor Marcy Norton will present a public talk at 5:30pm in Gore Hall 116. The talk is part of this year’s CMCS Thing Tank on… Read More
Professor Jocelyn Alcántara-Garcia to Give Talk on Spanish Illuminated Manuscripts
On Wednesday, May 10, 2023, Professor Jocelyn Alcántara-Garcia will discuss her research on Spanish illuminated manuscripts in her talk, “How Hidalgos Flaunted Their Status: Materials Symbolism in 15th- to 18th-century… Read More
Dissertation Work-In-Process Session Featuring Matt Rinkevich and Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, May 8th
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… Read More
“Buddhist Monuments to the West of Afghanistan” Lecture with Dr. Minoru Inaba, April 25th
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 –… Read More
“Staff: The Stuff of World’s Fairs” Lecture with Dr. Linda Kim, April 19th
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“The Book Beyond the Library,” April 12th
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… Read More
“Problem Solving: Highlights from the Experimental Printmaking Institute,” March 5th
You are invited to a reception in celebration of the new exhibition Problem Solving: Highlights from the Experimental Printmaking Institute. The exhibition is curated by Galina Olmsted, a Delaware Public Humanities… Read More
Undergraduate Summer Program in Material Culture: Object Lab 10.0 Call for Applications
Object Lab 10.0 — Call for Participants Dates: June 2-7, 2018 Location: The Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Object Lab is a material studies program organized and funded by the Chipstone Foundation for… Read More