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.
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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.
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.
Hi Mark - what an interesting project! Here are a few suggestions:
1) Yasser Elsheshtawy has a chapter in "The Evolving Arab City" about how Abu Dhabi, UAE has had similar struggles with public art. Citation here: Elsheshtawy, Y. (2008). “Cities of Sand & Fog: The Emergence of Abu Dhabi as a Global City.” In Y. Elsheshtawy (ed.). The Evolving Arab City: Tradition, modernity & urban development. London: Routledge.
Dear friends,
I am currently working with community partners in Newark to develop an exhibition and public programming on Kea Tawana's Ark, a three-story boat-like structure built and dismantled in Newark in the 1980s. You can see some great photos of the Ark here: http://www.spacesarchives.org/explore/collection/environment/keas-ark/
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!
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.
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.
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Maritime History and Culture Seminars, 2016–17
This series, convened by the National Maritime Museum (London, UK) and held at the Institute of Historical Research, explores humankind’s relationship with the sea through museum and archive collections. At its heart is the idea that our history is entwined with the maritime world and that people’s lives have always been shaped by the sea. Bringing together established names and new researchers, the series draws upon a range of different approaches to encourage debate and discussion.
What do Contentious Objects Want? Political, Epistemic and Artistic Cultures of Return
International Conference
to be held at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
Florence, October 21-22, 2016
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Creating African Fashion Histories, a one day conference hosted by Royal Pavilion and Museums (Brighton) with the Sussex Africa Centre/University of Sussex and the University of Brighton is taking place on the 2nd of November.
Dear Colleagues,
The Islamic Manuscript Association, together with the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation, Cambridge University Library, and the University of Cambridge’s HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies, announces its Tenth Annual Intensive Introduction to Islamic Codicology Course, which will be held from 3-7 October 2016 at the Cambridge University Library.
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN:
Object Lessons and Nature Tables: Research Collaborations Between Historians of Science and University Museums
University of Reading, 23 September 2016, 9:30 to 17:00
http://objectlessonsandnaturetables.info/
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Archives is pleased to announce that it is accepting applications for its 2017 fellowship program. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, a New York-based humanitarian organization, has been active in relief efforts around the world since its inception in 1914.
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Registration for the Southeast Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) is open through the summer! The conference rates increase nominally on August 1st. Please consider joining us in New Orleans, September 28-October 1, 2016, for all or a part of the conference program - speakers, paper and poster presentations, tours, and awards for scholarship and preservation excellence throughout the region. For the conference registration page, please see
