Material culture symposium set April 23

11:03 a.m., April 15, 2005--A daylong seminar on American art, history and material culture is set to be held from 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday, April 23, in the Copeland Lecture Hall at Winterthur.

Presented by UD’s Center for Material Culture Studies and the Winterthur Museum, the third annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars will provide a venue for students of material culture to network and share their research. Discussions will focus on particular objects, but will address how those objects fit into specific cultural histories.

Nine graduate students from eight academic institutions will give 20-minute papers in two morning sessions and one afternoon session. Each presentation will be followed by a discussion period led by Amalia Amaki, curator of University Museums and of the Paul R. Jones Collection; Paul Reber, president, Old Salem Inc.; and Kathy Peiss, University of Pennsylvania. Conference participants also will take a tour of Winterthur's library and collection of early American decorative arts.

The symposium, which is open to the public, as well as UD students and professors, will include a closing address by special guest David Shields, University of South Carolina.

The symposium is the only annual event devoted to material culture scholarship at the graduate student level. Although free, registration is required by Thursday, April 22, to ensure seating.

For more information or to register, go to [http://materialculture.udel.edu/achievements/emerging-scholars/ems-2005/index.html] or call (302) 831-1251.

The University of Delaware's Center for Material Culture Studies cosponsors the symposium, along with the departments of art history, history and the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture.

The symposium is partially funded by the Delaware Humanities Forum, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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