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.
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.
If you have an idea for a new on-going feature or a one time resource for the field, let us know. Podcasts? Video tours? Image galleries? Digitization projects? Let us know what you're thinking.
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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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The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from
26 December 2022 to 2 January 2023. 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
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The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from
19 December 2022 to 26 December 2022. 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
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ANTHROPOLOGY
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from
12 December 2022 to 19 December 2022. 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
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ANCIENT HISTORY
Applicants are sought for research positions in the Environmental History of Socialism and the History of Socialist Science at the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) within the framework of The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts (SAVA), a project funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee.
HOME/MAKING: A SERIES OF EVENTS AT THE INTERSECTION OF 'CRAFT' AND 'HOME'
Home/Making symposium: May 12-13, 2023
Hosted by Elaine Cheasley Paterson and Molly-Claire Gillett
Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Tiohtià:ke|Mooniyang|Montreal
Dear Colleague,
The Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience and the John Carter Brown Library invite applications for the Hodson Trust - John Carter Brown Fellowship, a unique research and writing fellowship.
Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
Call for Papers
Editor: Elizabeth C. Macknight, Independent Scholar
The Material Culture Caucus of the American Studies Association invites submissions to three proposed sessions at the ASA’s Annual Meeting (Montreal, Canada, November 2-5, 2023). We encourage proposals that connect meaningfully with the conference theme: “SOLIDARITY: WHAT LOVE LOOKS LIKE IN PUBLIC”
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.
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:
Hi, I'm teaching a new Graduate interdisciplinary seminar on "Gender & Material Culture" (keen to keep it open in terms of time/place as it will have a range of students), I would appreciate any suggestions for readings and approaches that have worked well, esp. in terms of methodology but also case-studies. Thanks!
Sophie White, Professor of American Studies, University of Notre Dame
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
