1:31 p.m., Sept. 1, 2009----A Material Culture Studies fall colloquium series, “Interpreting Objects,” will meet weekly from 1:25 to 2:15 p.m., Wednesdays, in Room 326B Alison Hall.

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The schedule of lectures is as follows:

Sept. 2: Course Introduction, “Getting Lost in an Object.”

Sept. 9: Julian Yates, Department of English, “'Oranges and Lemons Say...'; Or, Nursery Rhymes and Material Culture.”

Sept. 16: Lance Winn, Department of Art, “Frankenstein Revisited: Technology and Monsters.”

Sept. 23: Martin Brueckner, Department of English, “Maps, Wars, and Object Lessons: The Cult of Cartifacts in 19th Century America.”

Sept. 30: Will Scott, Department of History, “The Retail Revolution: From Main Street to Mall, 1900-1960.”

Oct. 7: Julie McGee, curator of African American art, will offer a tour of the current exhibit, Sound: Print: Record: African American Legacies. Meet in the Mechanical Hall Gallery.

Oct. 14: Ritchie Garrison, Department of History and Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, “Before FedEX and UPS: The Atlantic World and the Problem of Freight.”

Oct. 21: Joyce Hill Stoner, Department of Art Conservation, “Speaking Directly With the Artists: Focus on the Wyeths.”

Oct. 28: Lu Ann DeCunzo, Department of Anthropology, “What Their Garbage Tells Us About People in the Past.”

Nov. 4: Marcy Dinius, Department of English, “Mirror With a Memory: The American Daguerreotype.”

Nov. 11: Ashley Pigford, Department of Art, workshop on type and hand printing. Meet at the Raven Press, second floor of the Studio Arts Building, near Old College.

Nov. 18: Alison Klum, Department of English, “Pressing Flowers: Floral Representations in 19th Century Print Ephemera,” and Ginny Garnett, Department of English, “Scrapbooks and SuperFans: May Ward's Tribute to Ellen Terry.”

Nov. 25: No class.

Dec. 2: Anne Krulikowski, Department of History, “Through the Colonial (Revival) Doorway: Fact and Fancy in the Gilded Age.”

Dec. 9: Amanda Norbutus, Department of Art Conservation, “Preserving the Meaning (and Materials) of Public Murals,” and Andy Bozanic, Department of History, “From Whiskey Bottles to Railroad Nails: Everyday Objects and the History of the Acoustic Guitar.”

The lectures are open to the public.