Call for Proposals—2010 Emerging Scholars Symposium
Eighth Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars
Materials of Exchange
Winterthur Museum & Country Estate
Saturday, April 24, 2010
The Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware
invites submissions for papers to be given at the Eighth Annual Material
Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars.
Focus: Supported in part by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for public engagement in the humanities, this year's symposium encourages graduate students and other emerging scholars to submit papers exploring material exchange over time and space. Within that context, we seek diversity in topics, chronology, and disciplinary approaches.
Travel grants of up to $300 will be available for presenters. Disciplines represented at past symposia include American studies, anthropology, archaeology, consumer studies, English, gender studies, history, museum studies and the histories of art, architecture, design and technology.
Format: The symposium will consist of nine presentations divided into
three panels. Each presentation is limited to twenty minutes and each panel
is followed by comments from established scholars in the field. There will
be two morning sessions and one afternoon session, with breaks for
discussion following each session and over lunch. Participants will also
have the opportunity to tour behind the scenes at Winterthur's unparalleled
collection of early American decorative arts.
Submissions: The proposal should be no more than 300 words and should
clearly indicate the focus of your object-based research, the critical
approach you take toward that research, and the significance of your
research in the wider community. While the audience for the symposium
consists mainly of university and college faculty and graduate students, we
encourage broader participation. In evaluating proposals, we will give
preference to those papers that keep that broader audience in mind. Send
your proposal, along with a current c.v. (no more than two pages), to
emerging.scholars@gmail.com
Deadline: Proposals must be received by 5 pm on Friday, 20 November 2009.
Speakers will be notified of the vetting committee's decision in January
2010.
Confirmed speakers will be asked to provide symposium organizers with
digital images for use in publicity and are required to submit a final draft
of their papers by 12 March 2010.
2010 Emerging Scholars Co-chairs
Kate LaPrad & Rebecca Bertrand
Lois F. McNeil Fellows
Winterthur Program in American Material Culture
University of Delaware