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UD Museums Spring Exhibitions

April 12, 2021
by Kristen Nassif

This spring, UD’s Old College Main and West Galleries opened two new exhibitions with a wide material culture focus. Read below to learn more! Art, Artifacts and Specimens from the… Read More

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Wasserman on Disappearing Things and Postwar American Fiction

April 5, 2021
by Kristen Nassif

In March, Dr. Sarah Wasserman participated in an interview for A Bit Lit where she spoke about her recently published book, ephemera, and material culture studies. Founded in spring 2020, A Bit Lit provides a… Read More

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Virdi Participates in Bard Graduate Center Podcast

April 2, 2021
by Kristen Nassif

This past February, Professor Jaipreet Virdi participated in an episode of Fields of the Future, a podcast hosted by the Bard Graduate Center. The podcast amplifies the voices and highlights the work of… Read More

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“From Temporary Migrants to Permanent Attractions” by Dr. Carla Guerrón Montero

March 29, 2021
by Kristen Nassif

Based on long-term ethnographic and archival research, From Temporary Migrants to Permanent Attractions: Tourism, Cultural Heritage, and Afro-Antillean Identities in Panama considers the intersection of tourism, multiculturalism, and nation building.… Read More

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Registration Open: 2021 Emerging Scholars, “Animaterialities”

March 24, 2021
by Kristen Nassif

The Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware welcomes you to the 16th Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars, “Animaterialities: The Material Culture of Animals (including Humans).”… Read More

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Special Collections Online Exhibition – “Greetings from Delaware: A Century of Postcards”

March 22, 2021
by Kristen Nassif

The University of Delaware’s Special Collections has recently published the online exhibition “Greetings from Delaware: A Century of Postcards.” Postcards have long been a part of American material culture, yet they… Read More

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Parker’s biography of Turrell featured in C-SPAN & Ms. Magazine

March 19, 2021
by Kristen Nassif

Professor Alison Parker‘s biography of the civil rights activist and Black feminist Mary Church Terrell, Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell (UNC Press, 2020), has been featured in… Read More

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CFP “Ecomaterialism”: 2021-2022 CMCS Thing Tank

March 15, 2021
by Kristen Nassif

The Center for Material Culture Studies invites applications for Thing Tank, a new annual research forum for CMCS affiliated faculty and graduate students. Modeled on interdisciplinary seminars at research universities, Thing Tank… Read More

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Blackness & Publicness Working Group Spring Schedule

March 12, 2021
by Kristen Nassif

The Blackness and Publicness Working Group has released its Spring 2021 workshop schedule. Participants will workshop writings-in-progress and discuss readings that interrogate Blackness and publicness from the early modern period to… Read More

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“Heterosexual Histories” co-edited by Rebecca Davis

March 8, 2021
by Kristen Nassif

Heterosexuality is usually regarded as something inherently “natural”—but what is heterosexuality, and how has it taken shape across the centuries? By challenging ahistorical approaches to the heterosexual subject, Heterosexual Histories… Read More

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