The Methods in Material Culture Graduate Working Group invites you to join them at the Winterthur Museum for an afternoon surveying the fundamentals of object study. The workshop is free and open to graduate students only. Interested… Read More
The Center for Material Culture Studies is proud to announce the Delaware Public Humanities Institute Class of 2017. This year also marks the 10th Anniversary of DELPHI at the University of Delaware. Special thanks to… Read More
Jennifer Van Horn The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America (UNC Press Culture, 2017) Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in… Read More
Stories and Stitches: The Culture of Amish Quilts With Dr. Janneken Smucker When: Wednesday, May 24 at 7pm Where: Elkton Library, 301 Newark Avenue, Elkton
Creating Brilliance: A 21st-Century Look at 19th-Century Lighting When: October 27–28, 2017 Where: Winterthur Museum, Kennett Pike, Winterthur, Delaware 19735 Join lighting specialists and enthusiasts, museum and historic house curators, students, and preservation and technology experts… Read More
The Center for Material Culture Studies (CMCS) invites interested students from across the Humanities to attend the first informational meeting about its new collaborative Research and DH initiative — ThingStor: a Material Culture Database for… Read More
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
“Imagined Forms: Modeling and Material Culture” November 17-18, 2017 A symposium hosted by the Center for Material Culture Studies, University of Delaware, and the Hagley Museum and Library, Delaware Keynote Speakers: Johanna Drucker, UCLA Peter… Read More
“Methods in Material Culture” Working Group Friday, April 21 / 12PM-1PM Munroe Hall The Center for Material Culture Studies is pleased to announce a new effort to encourage interdisciplinary research in material culture here at… Read More
“A Cabinetmaker’s Perspective on Thomas Day” When: April 11, 4:00-5:30PM Where: The Rotunda at Winterthur Museum The Academic Programs Department at Winterthur warmly invites you to our Brown Bag Lecture: “A Cabinetmaker’s Perspective on Thomas… Read More
