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.
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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.
Bard Graduate Center welcomes applications for a funded research fellowship and mentorship program aimed at promoting diversity and inclusion in the advanced study of the material world. The 2020-2021 research theme is "How Do We Know." Applications are due Nov. 15, 2019.
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Dear Material Culture Network,
The second paper in the Plant Series of translations from an Italian Manuscript is now freely available to download:https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/004845
Jacopo Strada's 'Magnum ac Novum Opus'. A Renaissance Corpus of Ancient Numismatics
Project Presentation
Florence, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
15 October 2019
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Organized by Akkasah, the Center for Photography at New York University Abu Dhabi, in collaboration with the Photothek of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
The conference is organized by the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut and the Museo Galileo,
under the patronage of the Comitato Nazionale per la celebrazione dei 500 anni dalla morte di Leonardo da Vinci.
Dear Material-Culture Scholars,
The translation of a Medieval manuscript page has revealed the record of a rare Mediterranean medicinal plant, from Iberia. The plant is Atropa baetica, which is now endangered and included on the IUCN Red List, with fewer than 150 specimens remaining. You may freely download a paper giving the translation and additional information: https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/004797
International Conference Studying Traditional Crafts: Goals and Methods in Higher Education takes place from 12th to 13th of November 2019 at the University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy in Viljandi, Estonia.
Traditional handicraft techniques are taught and studied in only a few European higher education institutions, so this year's native crafts conference will be a unique international arena where experts in this field come to share and establish new collaborative relationships. The working language of the conference is English.
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?
Here's a review just published on H-USA about the role of houses in creating race in the US.
Hiya folks,
(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
Thanks for all these great suggestions -- I've added them to the Roundup. Feel free to keep them coming!
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Good morning! Will this conference be live-streamed, or live-tweeted for those who cannot attend?
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 new content editors and contributors to support this growing network. Currently, we have a need for the following:
Dear H-Material Culture-community,
