Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars
Presented by the Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware and Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, Winterthur, Delaware
Embodied Objects: Material Culture Studies in Three Dimensions
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
Saturday, April 20, 2013
This annual symposium, organized entirely by University of Delaware graduate students, provides emerging scholars—graduate students and recent PhDs from a variety of academic disciplines as well as museum professionals—with a venue for interdisciplinary conversations centering on material culture. We encourage discussion across perceived boundaries of discipline, medium, and methodology; past symposia have included scholars and professionals from such fields as anthropology, art history, historical archeology, history, and American studies. Each fall, we welcome paper proposals from graduate students and professionals early in their careers on any topic related to material culture. Please see the Call for Proposals for compete details.
At the conference, distinguished scholars provide comments on the papers and lead discussion sessions. Participants also have the opportunity to participate in roundtable discussions and special tours of Winterthur’s collections with graduate students in the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, including tours of the Winterthur library and conservation labs.
Online registration begins in March. This symposium is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact:
2013 Emerging Scholars Co-Chairs
Liz Jones, Department of History, American Civilization Program
Amy Torbert, Department of Art History
University of Delaware