Object Lab 8.0 When: June 5-9, 2016 Where: The Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Object Lab is a material studies program organized and funded by the Chipstone Foundation for third and… Read More
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14th Emerging Scholars Symposium, Possessed: The Material Culture of Ownership, April 2016
Between April 22nd and April 23rd, the University of Delaware and the Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library will be hosting the 14th annual Emerging Scholars Symposium. Free and open to… Read More
Lecture: Nationalist Kitsch in Imperial Germany, April 2016
A European Studies Program Lecture Title: “A Nation of Objects: Nationalist Kitsch in Imperial Germany” Speaker: Helmut Walser Smith, Martha Rivers Ingram Chair of History, Vanderbilt University When: Thursday, April 28,… Read More
Lecture: “20th-Century Ireland: A Family Odyssey”, March 2016
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
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