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.
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/
There's some interesting artifact analysis in the Atlantics "Objects" project. http://objectsobjectsobjects.com/
Steve
Hi, everyone.
I will compile these sources--and any others that you send to me--on our teaching resources page on H-Material-Culture.
Anastasia
The podcasts from my neck of the woods of which I'm aware, are of talks from seminars and conferences versus being episodic, if you're also seeking those. Podcasts are usually put up of the talks at the "Things" seminar series on material culture, which has been running at CRASSH Cambridge since 2011: http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/1183756?mediaOffset=40&mediaMax=20#Media Many of the talks at my own material culture conference, "Objects in Motion: Material Culture in Transition", have also been podcast: http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/2148925
I would recommend adding both "99% Invisible", which is an exploration of the built environment and design in general, and "The Memory Palace" which often uses material culture as a jumping off point for an exploration of an idea or historical event. I have used episodes of both of these to teach introductory historic preservation class to help students understand not only the interpretation of material culture, but also the concept of multiple layers of interpretation at any given site.
Hi folks,
A good article by Russell Jacoby of the dangers of Material Culture Studies in the Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/The-Object-as-Subject/229587/
Indeed, that was my little April Fool's jape. Fear not materialists everywhere: material culture studies is alive and well.... or...as well as anything not STEM can be in the academy... hmmm...
Chuckle Culture! The new multi-disciplinary field! Love it!
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 PERSPECTIVES OF CEREMONIES, RITUALS AND FESTIVALS
IN THE OTTOMAN WORLD
An International Symposium
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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
The International Society for Landscape, Place, & Material Culture (ISLPMC--formerly Pioneer America Society: Association for the Preservation of Artifacts and Landscapes) is proud to issue a call for nominations for the 2017 Fred Kniffen Book Award, and the 2017 Allen Noble Book Award.
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The MUA is proud to announce a new project journal: Ships of Discovery and East Carolina University's OPERATION FORAGER! This joint project explored various aspects of Saipan's history both above and beneath the waves. Their online project journal includes great posts, slideshows, interactive images, and 3D models. You can read their posts here: http://www.themua.org/ECUSaipan
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The University of Tartu (UT) in Estonia is pleased to announce the opening of a new English-language master’s programme, “Folkloristics and Applied Heritage Studies”.
This two-year programme is intended for graduates and professionals interested in the concepts and workings of cultural heritage, folklore and the heritage of crafts in diverse socio-cultural contexts, past and present.
Application deadline: March 1, 2017.
Massachusetts Historical Society Short-term Fellowships carry a stipend of $2,000 to support four or more weeks of research in the MHS collections sometime between July 1, 2017, and June 30, 2018. Approximately twenty awards will be made. Short-term fellowships are open to independent scholars, advanced graduate students, and holders of the Ph.D. or the equivalent.
