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.
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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.
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Reflections of Identity on Silk: Towards a Re-Reading of the “Islamic” and the “Secular” in Greek Orthodox Church Fabrics
Wednesday, 13 October 2021, 19:00 (Turkish time, GMT+3)
Lecture by Nikolaos Vryzidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
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The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 27 September 2021 to 4 October 2021. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Material-Culture. See the H-Net Job Guide website at http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide, write to jobguide@mail.h-net.org, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.
International Conference on Material Culture (ICMC), 20 and 21 October 2021, Sunway University, Malaysia (online)
Theme: Things in Daily Life, Life of Things in the East. Past and Present.
Organisers: Prof. Sabine Chaouche, Dr Fiona Wong E Chiong, and Pn Bibi Zafirah Hanfa Badil Zama
Plenary speakers:
THE POWER OF MATERIAL OBJECTS: THE MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS OF JAVANESE SHADOW PUPPETS
59th Annual Seminar on Glass
The Corning Museum of Glass
Happening Virtually | October 8–9, 2021
All are welcome to register for the free two-day seminar, which will include lectures and panel discussions, with pre- and post-seminar digital materials.
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 13 to 27 September 2021. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Material-Culture. See the H-Net Job Guide website at http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide, write to jobguide@mail.h-net.org, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.
The University of Delaware's Winterthur Program in American Material Culture provides interdisciplinary study of diverse ideas, contexts, and theories—supported by truly unparalleled hands-on study of objects, landscapes, buildings, decorative arts, and design, both within and outside the vast collections of the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library—so that all of our students m
Fellowships and Travel Grants from the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center
**Note: Due to reduced operational capacity resulting from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center is limiting its fellowship and travel grant offerings for 2022-2023.
You might look at thethe contributions to Making Gender with Things, English translation (available on line through JStor of Objets et Fabrication du genre. Autumn, 2014 issue (40) of Clio: Femmes, Histoire, Genre. Editors Leora Auslander, with Rebecca Rogers and Michelle Zancarini-Fournel. On material culture as a source for historians of gender and sexuality.
Best,
Leora Auslander
History, Univ. of Chicago
Hi, I have written on the materiality of the AK47 rifle among Islamist militants and implications on masculinities among them. The article touches upon the theme of the gendered object. You can find abstract and URL below:
Also Kevin Smith, curator at the Haffenreffer Museum at Brown would likely be a good resource: https://www.brown.edu/research/facilities/haffenreffer-museum/index.php?...
You might try contacting Marge Bruchac at UPenn:
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/anthropology/people/margaret-bruchac
I am an AmeriCorps service member and currently work at an environmental nonprofit in southeastern Massachusetts. As part of my service work, I am collaborating with local Wampanoag groups so as to infuse the nonprofit's conservation mission with indigenous knowledge. One of the groups I'm working with, called the Indigenous Resources Collaborative (IRC), is embarking on an endeavor that involves correlating historical Wampanoag cultural artifacts they have in their possession (for use in an educational exhibit) with native archaeological sites in Massachusetts.
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?
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.
Hello,
I am a researcher at Leiden University, Netherlands. I am trying to build up a network of academics interested in the subject of women collectors and women in museums. The outcome would be a network of people of common interests and also a conference.
If there is anyone interested in this topic I would very much like to hear from you.
You can contact me on h.o.farrell@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Best wishes!
Holly
You might look at thethe contributions to Making Gender with Things, English translation (available on line through JStor of Objets et Fabrication du genre. Autumn, 2014 issue (40) of Clio: Femmes, Histoire, Genre. Editors Leora Auslander, with Rebecca Rogers and Michelle Zancarini-Fournel. On material culture as a source for historians of gender and sexuality.
Best,
Leora Auslander
History, Univ. of Chicago
Jo Paoletti's Pink and Blue: telling the boys from the girls in america is one of my go-to referrals for the topic of children's gendering and material culture.
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/809762103
I think looking at the presentation of very young children is especially effective because they were dressed almost without gender until school-age for most of portraited history. And now you'll see some parents push back on boys wearing even a plain daygown because it's a "dress".
Hi Sophie,
I find that Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs by Psyche Williams-Forson (link below), is a great example of material culture and gender converging. I hope you find it useful!
https://books.google.ch/books/about/Building_Houses_Out_of_Chicken_Legs....
