Want to learn more about Whistler? Check out the latest Scholar in the Library lecture by Professor Margaret Stetz. A description of her talk is below: Like his contemporary and “frenemy” Oscar… Read More
The Methods in Material Culture Graduate Student Working Group is an interdisciplinary organization of graduate students at the University of Delaware focused on sharing material culture methodologies. The group convenes throughout… Read More
At the age of four, Jaipreet Virdi’s world went silent. A severe case of meningitis left her alive but deaf, suddenly treated differently by everyone. Her deafness downplayed by society… Read More
Check out Dr. Sarah Wasserman’s recent contribution, “Thing Theory,” to Oxford Bibliographies Online. If you’ve been looking for a resource dedicated to material culture studies and thing theory, this publication is for you! Wasserman summarizes… Read More
How could any Belgian graphic novel escape Tintin’s shadow? Enter Brecht Evens’s The Making Of. To find out more, check out Dr. Sarah Wasserman’s new article published in Public Books, an online… Read More
And that’s a wrap (for now)! Congrats to our 14 DELPHI Fellows and thanks to our 17 guest speakers for an outstanding two weeks. During the Delaware Public Humanities Institute… Read More
CMCS is proud to feature Matthew Rinkevich’s online learning resource, built with his material culture colloquium. Students engaged in independent research to catalog objects they found in plays they read… Read More
Professor Jennifer Van Horn took her graduate seminar, “Landscapes of Slavery,” to Charlottesville (UVA’s campus, Monticello, and Montpelier) to experience plantation landscapes firsthand & to consider how these spaces are… Read More
King George III will not stay on the ground. Ever since a crowd in New York City toppled his equestrian statue in 1776, burying some of the parts and melting… Read More
The Communal Studies Association is holding its annual conference at Winterthur October 17-19, 2019. This year’s theme is “Space, Place, and the Spirit of Material Culture. See here for more details.
