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:
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 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.
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. We are barely scratching the surface of what this website can do and we have a great staff of tech-minded folks at H-Net. 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! There are a few thoughts here, but the internet's the limit. Let us know what you're thinking.
And we tweet, too! https://twitter.com/H_Mat_Culture
You can see Recent Queries and Recent Discussions below, and Recent Announcements at the bottom of the page below the scrolling "Occasional Objects" images. All CFP's posted to the site can be found in the links on the right, as can Jobs in Material Culture Studies.
Recent Queries
Exhibition on Coffee -- Looking for IDEAS
Dear H-Material Culture-community,
Re: Looking for bibliography on material culture and the practice of (Islamic) art
Hi,
I would recommend a book called "Religious Objects in Museums" by Crispin Paine. It deals specifically with all the issues surrounding the public display of religious objects, but it also covers the relationship between those objects and the religions they're associated with.
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Recent Discussions
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!
Re: Material Culture Podcasts
Dr. Jon Kay--Director of Traditional Arts Indiana and Curator of Folklife and Cultural Heritage at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures has been active in producing material culture podcasts. His series Artisan Ancestors has 40 episodes (so far) on a wide range of material culture topics. It can be found in iTunes and at the Internet Archive. He has recently begun hosting the Mathers Museum of World Culture's own podcast series Conversations on Culture. With students associated with Traditional Arts Indiana he has also produced a foodways podcast called Second-Servings.
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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 Announcements
War In Asia: Launch of Online Platform for histories, heritage and memory of World War Two in Asia
War In Asia: Launch of Online Platform for histories, heritage and memory of WW2 in Asia
Re-Envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th Century Visual and Material Culture
Responsible person(s): Joanne Bernardi
Synopsis: Creative digital curation of an original physical collection of travel and educational ephemera about Japan
Content type: High resolution images, moving images, audio materials, interactive timeline
Intended audience: Academic community and general public
Host institution: University of Rochester
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:
Workshop: Fashioned from Holy Matter (Florence, 6-7 July 2017)
Fashioned from Holy Matter
A Cross-Cultural Workshop on the Semantics of Image-Making
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
Florence, 6 – 7 July 2017
Concept and organization: Annette Hoffman and Jessica N. Richardson
TOC: Huntington Library Quarterly Summer 2017
The following is the table of contents for the Summer 2017 issue of Huntington Library Quarterly, a journal published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. The theme for the issue is "Early Modern English Manuscript Identities: Composition, Transmission, and Use in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries."
Women in Technological History (WITH) SHOT Conference Grant
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Type:
Grant
Date:
August 15, 2017
Deadline extended: Call for Host NWFC 2018
***DEADLINE EXTENDED TO THE 1ST OF SEPTEMBER 2017***
The fifth NWFashionConference (NWFC) is scheduled for the autumn of 2018. The NWFC Steering Committee is looking for a partner to host this next edition.
The NWFC was established to end the stubbornly persistent euro- and ethnocentric underpinnings of dominant fashion discourse and to construct alternative narratives. The NWFC stimulates critical reflection on fashion developments and histories.
Book Launch: Conserving Health in Early Modern Culture and Malleable Anatomies
Centre for the Study of the Body and Material Culture
7 July 2017
6pm to 8pm
Senate House, SH261
Join us for the book launch of
Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey, Conserving Health in Early Modern Culture: Bodies and Environments in Italy and England
and
Lucia Dacome, Malleable Anatomies: Models, Makers, and Material Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy
Comments by Alex Bamji (Leeds) and Anna Maerker (KCL)
Followed by a drinks reception.
All welcome!
3-months Internship at the GHI, Washington D.C.
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Type:
Fellowship
Date:
August 31, 2017
“Modern/Contemporary Materialities” lecture series, The Art Institute of Chicago
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Type:
Lecture
Date:
June 7, 2017