Program—2008 Emerging Scholars Symposium
Sixth Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars
Material. Culture. Now.
Winterthur Museum & Country Estate
Saturday, April 12, 2008
8:00-8:45 Registration
8:45 Welcomes from the symposium co-chairs, the Center for Material Culture Studies, and the Winterthur Museum & Country Estate
9:00 Panel 1
Sarah Jones, University of Delaware (Winterthur Program in American Material Culture): “‘A Grand and Ceaseless Thoroughfare’: The Social and Cultural Experience of Shopping on Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, 1820-1860”
Sarah J. Chicone, Museum of the Earth, Ithaca, NY (Paleontological Research Institution): “Reimagining America’s ‘Deserving’: Poverty, Materiality, and the 1913-14 Southern Colorado Coal Strike”
Martina Grünewald, University of Applied Arts, Vienna (Design History): “Inalienable Possessions of a Different Sort: On the Fading World of Pawnbroking in Vienna”
Commentator: Michael Prokopow, Managing Director, Institute for Contemporary Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
11:00 Panel 2
Eric F. Gollannek, University of Delaware (Art History): “The World I Drank, or Empire in the Punch Bowl”
Jennifer Ferng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (History, Theory, & Criticism of Architecture and Art): “The Life of Stones: Geology, Aesthetics, and the Excavation of the Material World”
Juliette Kristensen, Kingston University, London (History of Design): “A Crafty Woman’s Touch: A Phenomenology of Embroidery, Piano Playing and Typing”
Commentator: Julian Yates, Associate Professor of English and Material Culture Studies, University of Delaware
12:30 Lunch (with optional Roundtable)
1:30 Winterthur tours – collections, library, conservation
3:00 Panel 3
Lynley Herbert, University of Delaware (Art History): “Egyptian Appliqués: Sewing the Seeds of Cultural Revival”
Hillary Kaell, Harvard University (American Studies): “Christian Teens and Biblezines: An Analysis of Revolve: The Complete New Testament”
Rebecca Onion, University of Texas, Austin (American Studies): “Reclaiming the Machine: Steampunk Practice and the Humanization of the Technological Object”
Commentator: Jonathan C. Smith, Assistant Professor of American Studies, Saint Louis University
4:30 Introduction
Keynote Address: Shirley Wajda, Assistant Professor of History and American Studies, Kent State University
4:50 Closing Remarks