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The Center for American Material Cultural Studies at the University of Delaware will present the first annual Emerging Scholars Symposium on Material Culture from 8:45 a.m.–5 p.m., Saturday, April 26. Free and open to the public, the event will be held in the Copeland Lecture Hall at Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library near Wilmington.

The symposium will provide emerging scholars with a venue for promoting an ongoing, interdisciplinary dialogue about material culture. Freeing scholars of chronological and topical restraints, it will encourage conversation across perceived boundaries of time, space and discipline.

Created and organized by UD graduate students, this is the only such interdisciplinary event at the graduate level. It offers a forum for discussing emerging scholars’ work and brings together new and established scholars to foster interdisciplinary camaraderie and exchange.

This year, nine graduate students from six academic institutions–enrolled in departments of art history, English and history and programs in the history of American civilization and the Winterthur program in Early American Culture–will give papers. There also will be audience discussion periods led by commentators and special tours will be offered at a variety of sites in Philadelphia and Delaware on Friday, April 25, and Saturday, April 26, (the day of the symposium).

For more information or to register, visit [http://materialculture.udel.edu].
Online registration is available until Monday, April 21. Pre-registration is required for all special tours, but on-site registration for the symposium will be available the morning of the event.

Contact: Kristi Hook (302) 831- 8749
April 10, 2003