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
Rare Book School Fall and Winter Courses
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Seminar
Date:
October 22, 2017 to January 12, 2018
Parade Material Culture
Readers of H-Material-Culture may be interested in reading Parade Material Culture: You Caught What at a Parade!? about bringing material culture studies to parades, especially as regards the things parade participants throw to the crowds they pass.
Registration for "Good, Fast, Cheap: Printed Words & Images in America Before 1900" now open
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Conference
Date:
October 6, 2017 to October 7, 2017
UTS School of Design calls for 2018 PhD applications
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Event
Date:
October 31, 2017
Waste: A Symposium. Papers on Disposability, Decay, and Depletion (free, booking essential)
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Conference
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September 21, 2017
Course Registration Open: Introduction to Islamic Codicology, Cambridge University Library, 4-8 September 2017
Registration Open: Introduction to Islamic Codicology Course
4-8 September 2017
Cambridge University Library
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