The Center for Material Culture Studies (CMCS) at the University of Delaware is excited to announce the growth of ThingStor: A Material Culture Database for Finding Objects in Literature & Visual Art. Developed by a… Read More
WANTED: 1,000 OBJECTS!
Where Are They Now? Featured DELPHI Alumni: Maria João Petisca
Maria João Petisca (Preservation Studies Program, Department of Art Conservation) was a participant in the Delaware Public Humanities Institute in 2016. She currently lives in Lisbon, Portugal, where she works in a private practice, conserving artifacts for… Read More
2019 Conference: “Black Bibliographia: Print/Culture/Art,”
“Black Bibliographia: Print/Culture/Art” April 26-27, 2019 University of Delaware A symposium hosted by the Center for Material Culture Studies in collaboration with UD Library, Museums & Press and the College of Arts & Sciences’… Read More
Where Are They Now? Featured DELPHI Alumni: Dr. Katie Wood Kirchhoff
Katie Wood Kirchhoff was a participant in the Delaware Public Humanities Institute in 2010. She currently lives in Shelburne, Vermont, and is the Associate Curator at the Shelburne Museum. Some of her recent publications and… Read More
2018 Delphi
With support provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, fourteen ten-week summer fellowships were awarded to MA and PhD students in the arts, humanities, and social sciences pursuing research in material culture studies, broadly defined… Read More
Books and Illustration at the Turn of the Century in Britain and America, May 19th
BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATION AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY IN BRITAIN AND AMERICA A public symposium presented by The Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies Saturday, May 19, 2018 · 1:30 pm Delaware Art Museum 2301 Kentmere Parkway,… 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 presentations of ongoing dissertation research… 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 – the study of Buddhist monuments… Read More
“Staff: The Stuff of World’s Fairs” Lecture with Dr. Linda Kim, April 19th
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“The Social Life of Maps in America 1750-1860” by Dr. Martin Brückner
In the age of MapQuest and GPS, we take cartographic literacy for granted. We should not; the ability to find meaning in maps is the fruit of a long process of exposure and instruction. A… Read More