On 25 September, 2017, the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries will host a special display of highlights from the recent UD Library exhibition, Victorian Passions: Stories… Read More
Bess Williamson was a participant in our first Delaware Institute for the Public Humanities in 2008. Earning a PhD in American History from the University of Delaware, Dr. Williamson has since published numerous articles on… Read More
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
