University of Delaware's Winterthur Program in American Material Cutlure Fall Visit Days

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

The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the publication of The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture. This book was coedited by Prof. Ivan Gaskell (BGC) and me and features the work of 34 scholars of history and material culture from around the world.  It is arranged thematically in six sections that respectively address the relationship of history and material culture to cognition, technology, the symbolic, social distinction, and memory. The chapters range across time and space, from Paleolithic to Punk.

Publication: The Hidden Life of Textiles in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean

Dear colleagues, 

I am pleased to announce the publication by Brepols of the edited volume of essays The Hidden Life of Textiles in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean. The book contains published papers of the conference 'Textiles & Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean: Paradigms of Contexts and Cross-Cultural Exchanges' of the British School at Athens, held at the (Benaki) Museum of Islamic Art in 2016, as well as some new contributions.  

Material Culture Review /Revue de la culture matérielle (MCR/RCM) Seeks New Editor and Host Institution

Material Culture Review /Revue de la culture matérielle (MCR/RCM), Canada's only scholarly journal dedicated to the study of material culture, is currently seeking a new Editor-in-Chief and host institution. 
 
The journal seeks a new Editor-in-Chief and host institution who will be committed to furthering the publication as a forum for the exchange of current research and methodologies in the field of material culture stud

Symposium: From Suffrage to Stonewall: The Visual and Material Culture of Social Justice, Saturday, March 14th, Wellesley College

The 2020 Wellesley/Deerfield Symposium

From Suffrage to Stonewall: The Visual and Material Culture of Social Justice

 

Saturday, March 14th, 2020 8:30-5:00

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