University of Delaware Library Associates 2016 Faculty Lecture Lecture Title: “20th-Century Ireland: A Family Odyssey” Speaker: Anne M. Boylan, Professor of History When: March 15, 2016, 4:40PM Where: University of Delaware Library Reading… Read More
Month: February 2016
Debra Hess Norris Wins National Preservation Award
Debra Hess Norris, the Unidel Henry Francis du Pont Chair in Fine Arts and the chair of the Department of Art Conservation at UD, has received the 2016 award for… Read More
Dr. Sarah Wasserman At Princeton, March 2016
Title: “We Have Never Been Post-Post Modern” When: Panel 1 – March 4, 9:00 – 10:45AM (the entire conference spans March 4 – 5) Where: Aaron Burr 219, Princeton, New Jersey… Read More
Lecture: Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson, March 2016
The University of Delaware Center for Material Culture Studies and the College of Arts and Sciences are pleased to announce the inaugural lecture in the African American Material Culture and… Read More
DELPHI Information Reception
When: February 15, 5:00PM Where: 77 East Main Street, Newark, DE The Center for Material Culture Studies is hosting an introductory reception for anyone interested in DELPHI (Delaware Public Humanities… Read More
Lecture: Dr. Eglee Lopez Zent, February 2016
Title: “Unfurling Western Notions of Nature and Amerindian Alternatives” Speaker: Dr. Eglee Lopez Zent When: February 15th / 12:20 – 1:10 Where: TBD Dr. Zent’s passions reside at the intersections… Read More
Martin Brückner at Stenton Hall, January 2015
“The Social Life of Maps in Eighteenth-Century America” A talk given by Martin Brückner, Associate Director of the Center for Material Culture Studies This talk examines the rise of maps… Read More
The Architecture of Electric Light
By Sandy Isenstadt, Director of the Center for Material Culture Studies The Architecture of Electric Light reconceives modernism in architecture to include not just the aesthetic exploitation of new materials… Read More