The Graduate Seminar “The Black Atlantic & the Archive,” ENGL/HIST/ARTH 667, invites faculty, students, and staff to participate in the visiting scholar workshops organized by Professor Laura Helton and graduate students Mali Collins-White and Brandi Locke within… Read More
CALL FOR PAPERS “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… Read More
The CMCS working group Thingstor is accepting new members! The working group seeks to develop an interactive database for students and scholars to recognize and better understand the form and function of material objects referenced in… Read More
Truths of the Trade: Slavery and the Winterthur Collection Exhibit On View at Winterthur Starting May 5, 2018 On May 5th, a new student-curated exhibition opens at Winterthur Museum. Truths of the Trade: Slavery and… Read More
ThingStor began in a graduate seminar. Dr. Martin Brückner’s “Introduction to Theories of Material Culture Studies” is a cross-listed graduate course that brings together students from Art History, English, Museum Studies, and more to discuss… Read More
Project lead: Dr. Katherine Grier Participants: undergraduate and graduate students Disposable America (http://www.disposableamerica.org) uses digital artifact biographies to explore the history of disposability and the complex relationship of Americans to their trash. The product of a graduate writing seminar… Read More
By Sandy Isenstadt, Director of the Center for Material Culture Studies The Architecture of Electric Light reconceives modernism in architecture to include not just the aesthetic exploitation of new materials and methods of construction, but… Read More
ThingStor: An American Material Culture Database for Finding Objects in Literature and Visual Art ThingStor is an interactive database that will enable students and scholars to recognize and better understand the form and function of… Read More
