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Attention H-Material Culture Community:
The H-Net Network on Material Culture and Vernacular Landscapes and Artifact Preservation will promote and support the study of objects, buildings, sites, structures, landscapes and other material cultural productions as part of the visual record of life.
We are currently seeking reviewers for a large backlog of books on material culture! Please consider becoming a reviewer for H-Material Culture by visiting this page and filling out the form to be included in our reviewer database.
We welcome announcements, CFP's, queries, contributions, and discussions of all things material! To add yours, click the orange "Start a Discussion" button above this text.
Interested in writing for our Occasional Objects blog? Reach out to the editorial team using the link on the right. We also welcome totally new projects. If you have an idea for a new on-going feature or a one time resource for the field, let us know. If you've got a grand idea, we have people who can help make it happen. Podcasts? Video tours? Image galleries? Digitization projects? We can do those, and more! Let us know what you're thinking.
And we tweet, too! https://twitter.com/H_Mat_Culture
Recent Announcements and other activity appear below. All CFP's posted to the site can be found in the links on the right, as can Jobs in Material Culture Studies.
Recent Announcements
Call for art reviewers
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Type:
Call for Papers
Subject Fields:
Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Dance and History of Dance, Cultural History / Studies, Fine Arts, Military History
2020 Jacques Cartier MA Award
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Type:
Prize
Date:
March 31, 2020
CFA: 2020-2021 Fellowship: "America’s Jewish Questions" at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania
Deadline: September 23, 2019
The Herbert D. Katz Center at The University of Pennsylvania is now accepting applications for the 2020–2021 academic year on the theme of America’s Jewish Questions.
Instruction Paper.
Apologies for any crossposting.
Dear H-Material Culture Community,
For the many who have expressed an interest, and any latecomers, here is the link to the free educational science paper, giving instruction on The Algorithmic Method For Translating MS408: https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/004653
ISLPMC Annual Conference and Awards
From member Wayne Brew:
Join us in Detroit for the 51st Annual Conference of the International Society for Landscape, Place, and Material Culture! The conference will be held Wednesday October 9th- Saturday October 12th, 2019 in the heart of Detroit. You can view more details about the conference and the call for papers here: http://pioneeramerica.org/annualmeeting2019callforpapers.html. Abstracts are due by September 5.
The Metropolitan Museum Journal to provide free image service for its authors
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Type:
Journal
Location:
New York, United States
JEMMS Volume 11, Issue 1
The new issue of Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society has published!
Workshop: Ethics and Politics of Material in Architecture (Florence, 11-12 July 2019)
Ethics and Politics of Material in Architecture
Workshop at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai, Via dei Servi 51, 50122 Florence
11 - 12 July 2019
Organized by Hana Gründler, Albert Kirchengast, Achim Reese, Katharine Stahlbuhk
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Recent Discussions
Snow Globes: From Art to Kitsch
Snow globes are childhood’s wintery dreamlands, so powerful an allegory that they appear in films, television series, and commercials to carry spectators into a holiday happily-ever-after. During the holiday season, should a snow globe not be readily available from a nearby toy chest or shelf, you can download a snowglobe app for both iPhone and Android, transforming your quotidian emails and social media sites. The ongoing popularity of these iconic pop culture objects, now transformed to the digital realm, gives pause to ask: why snow globes?
Moler on Dianne Harris, 'Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America'
Here's a review just published on H-USA about the role of houses in creating race in the US.
H-Material-Culture Needs New Editors
Hiya folks,
Re: Material Culture Podcasts
(oops: Roundup link above goes to blank page. Great resource if only we could get to it... thanks)
Editors note: I should have caught that. Sorry. Here's the link: https://networks.h-net.org/node/84048/pages/111820/academic-podcast-roundup
Re: Material Culture Podcasts
Thanks for all these great suggestions -- I've added them to the Roundup. Feel free to keep them coming!
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Occasional Objects series
The scrolling images to left are from H-Material-Culture's "Occasional Objects" series--a periodic informal examination of objects sent in by our subscribers. View the full collection, read the essays, and add your contribution here in Occasional Objects.
Recent Queries
Re: CFP: Museums in Context and Partnership (York, UK, 19-20 April)
Good morning! Will this conference be live-streamed, or live-tweeted for those who cannot attend?
Confidentiality of Site Locations vs Public Interpretation
Archaeologists, having seen lots of destruction of sites due to looting, some of a commercial (rather than hobbyist) scale, tend to want to hold all information about archaeological sites (location, contents, etc.) as confidential, actually, as secret. While this is somewhat understandable, this presents a significant challenge to public education and interpretation on archaeologial topics where often “place” and site content are key aspects of a site’s interpretive value.
H-Material Culture seeks contributors and editors
H-Material Culture seeks new content editors and contributors to support this growing network. Currently, we have a need for the following:
Exhibition on Coffee -- Looking for IDEAS
Dear H-Material Culture-community,