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Sixth Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars
CFP reminder: On Display: Historic Homes and Great Estates, Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens, Akron, OH
The Stan Hywet Symposium Committee is proud to announce a “Call for Presentations” for the first annual The Stan Hywet Symposium. The symposium was initiated in 2007 as a forum for the study and discussion of a diverse range of historical, architectural, and preservation issues. It is a collaborative effort through The University of Akron, Kent State University and Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens to address such issues for both scholarly and public audiences. Symposium presentations take place at the historic Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens in Akron, Ohio and include personalized tours and intimate gatherings. The symposium expects to bring together over 200 participants from all areas of the region for two days of programming and networking. The 2008 Symposium is entitled: On Display: Historic Homes and Great Estates and is set for October 17-18, 2008. Deadline for submissions: 5:00pm, April 2, 2008. For more information please visit http://www.stanhywet.org or contact Mark J. Heppner, Symposium Liaison, at .
Edith Wharton’s House in possible foreclosure
Caucus Business Meeting: Preliminary Agenda
Friday, October 12, 2007
Marriott Room 410
6:30 pm
Convened by: Shirley Wajda, Susan Garfinkel
1. Introductions; old business; announcements
2. Updates, discussion and committee appointments re: online initiatives: ASA Web site, ARTIFACT Web site, e-list, blog, and bibliography project
3. Discussion of caucus’s potential involvement in the area of public
history
4. Selection of theme(s) for 2008 sponsored session
—nominations for organizer and chair
5. Additional planning for 2008
6. Nominations and appointments for caucus steering committee
7. New Business
Sixth Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars
Material. Culture. Now.
Winterthur Museum & Country Estate
Saturday, April 12, 2008
The Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware
invites submissions for papers to be given at the Sixth Annual
Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars.
Focus: The symposium provides graduate students and other emerging
scholars with a venue for interdisciplinary dialogue relating to the
study of material life and culture. Participants are free of
chronological and topical restraints but are strongly encouraged to
engage with contemporary issues pertaining to the study of objects and
to give particular attention to their own use of objects, whether as
evidence, within a theoretical discourse, or within a comparative
context. Past symposia have included presenters from the fields of
American Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Consumer Studies,
English, History, and the Histories of Art, Architecture, Design and
Technology.
Format: The symposium will consist of nine presentations divided into
three panels. Each presentation is limited to twenty minutes and each
panel is followed by comments from established scholars in the field.
There will be two morning sessions and one afternoon session, with
breaks for discussion following each session and over lunch.
Participants will also have the opportunity to tour Winterthur’s
unparalleled collection of early American decorative arts.
Submissions: The proposal should be no more than 300 words, and
should clearly indicate both the topic and the critical approach
taken. Preference will be given to papers that address contemporary
issues in material culture studies and that are analytic rather than
descriptive in nature. Send your proposal, along with a current c.v.
(no more than two pages), to
Deadline: Proposals must be received by Monday, November 12th, 2007.
Speakers will be notified of the vetting committee’s decision by early
January 2008. Confirmed speakers will be asked to provide symposium
organizers with digital images for use in publicity and are required
to submit a final draft of their papers by February 25, 2008. Travel
grants will be available for all speakers.
Website: http://www.udel.edu/materialculture/emerging_scholars.html
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Nicholas R. Bell, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture,
University of Delaware.
Colleen M. Terry, Department of Art History, University of Delaware.
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The Sixth Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars (MCSES)
http://www.udel.edu/materialculture/emerging_scholars.html
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