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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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/
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!
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Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Amherst, Massachusetts
June 22-24, 2018
Registration is now open.
The Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists (CQHA) will hold its next biennial conference at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on June 22-24, 2018. The conference will be followed by an optional post-conference bus tour to Quaker sites in Massachusetts and Rhode Island on June 24-26.
Lecture: Islamic Textiles from Iberia: Reevaluating their Role in the Mediterranean Context
This is a reminder that full-fee scholarships are available for applicants to the National College of Art & Design MA Design History and Material Culture, deadline April 30th. Further information on the scholarship and application process is available here:http://www.ncad.ie/postgraduate/school-of-visual-culture/postgraduate-scholarships/
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Hazardous Objects: Function, Materiality, and Context
War, Photo Archives and the Temporalities of Cultural Heritage
Workshop organized by Costanza Caraffa, Almut Goldhahn (Photothek of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, Florence) and Ewa Manikowska (Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw) with the generous support of the Deutsch-Polnische Wissenschaftsstiftung
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
Florence, 18-20 April 2018
Panel: Medieval Eurabia: Religious Crosspollinations in Architecture, Art and Material Culture during the High and Late Middle Ages (1000-1600)
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