[Discussion] NOTICE: Third Annual Material Culture Symposium, Delaware, 4/23

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From: Daniel Claro <dclaro@UDel.Edu>

Third Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars
http://materialculture.udel.edu

Presented by The Center for Material Culture Studies at the
University of Delaware and Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library,
Winterthur, Delaware

Saturday, April 23, 2005
Copeland Lecture Hall,
Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, Winterthur, Delaware

The Material Culture Symposium provides emerging scholars with a venue
for interdisciplinary dialogue centering on material culture. Freeing
scholars of chronological and topical restraints, this symposium
encourages discussion across perceived boundaries of time, space and
discipline. We will explore, therefore, papers that are grounded in the
study of a particular object or objects but that address broad
themes--for example, the Atlantic World, comportment and the body, or
texts and contexts. We invite graduate students from American Studies,
Art History, Archaeology, English, History, and other disciplines to
reevaluate the field of material culture studies, share their research,
and explore new avenues of interpretation and critical thinking.  While
the conference is a scholarly one, we actively encourage participation
from the general public, including interested public policy and
preservation professionals.

This symposium is currently the only such annual interdisciplinary
event devoted to material culture scholarship at the graduate student
level. It offers a forum for discussing emerging scholars work, and
brings together emerging and established scholars to foster
interdisciplinary camaraderie and exchange.

Format:
The conference format encourages graduate students from a variety of
fields to share their research and interpretive arguments.  Nine
graduate students, from eight academic institutions, will give
twenty-minute papers in panels of three speakers each. There will be two
morning sessions and one afternoon session, each followed by a
discussion period, to be led by Amalia Amaki (Paul Jones Collection,
University of Delaware), Paul Reber (President, Old Salem, Inc.), and
Kathy Peiss (University of Pennsylvania). After lunch, conference
participants are invited to tour Winterthur's library or its
unparalleled collection of early American decorative arts. David Shields
(University of South Carolina) will conclude the formal presentations
with a summary address, suggesting an interpretive framework that
participants can use to think about the current state of the field of
material culture studies.

There is no admission fee for the Symposium. We will provide coffee
during a short morning break; lunch is available for purchase in the
Winterthur Visitors Center at the midday break. We encourage symposium
participants to take advantage of several free special tours and events
on Friday, April 22. Pre-registration is required for all special tours
and the symposium.


Program (for full details visit http://materialculture.udel.edu)

Panel 1

Elizabeth Arnold-Hull, American History, University of North Carolina
Family Pictures  Out of Place: Race, Resistance, and Celebration in the
Pope Family Photograph Collection.

Katherine Reider, History of American Civilization, Harvard University
Gifting and Fetishization:  The Portrait Miniature of Sally Foster Otis
as a Maker of Memory.

Anna O. Marley, Art History, University of Delaware
The Parlor Car and the Pappoose: Viewing class, race, and domesticity in
Gilded Age Transcontinental Tourist Guides and Travel Literature.

Comments by Paul Reber, President, Old Salem, Inc.


Panel 2

Isabell Cserno, American Studies, University of Maryland
Selling the Nation: The Role of Racialized Advertisements in Creating
National Identities in the US and Germany, 1893 to 1945.

Stefan Osdene, Virginia Historical Society
Streamlining Neon: The Intersection of American Sign-making and
Industrial Design, 1930-1940.

Dana Byrd, Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, University of
Delaware
Way Finding: Work, Space and Evangelism at a Truck Stop Chapel.

Comments by Amalia Amaki, Curator, The Paul Jones Collection, University
Gallery, Visiting Assistant Professor, Black American Studies,
University of Delaware.


Panel 3
Kelly Baker, American Religious History, Florida State University
Dressed to Hate: The Ku Klux Klan, Uniforms, and Collective Identity.

Susan Lamb, History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Model Behaviour: A Material Culture Approach to the History of
Anatomical Models.

Holly Grout, French History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Old and the Beautiful: Wrinkle Creams, Hair Dyes and the Aging Body
in Early 20th Century Paris.

Comments by Kathy Peiss, Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of
American History, University of Pennsylvania.


Summary address, David Shields, McClintock Professor of Southern
Letters, Departments of English and History, University of South Carolina.

http://materialculture.udel.edu



SPECIAL TOURS
Friday, April 22, 2005

PHILADELPHIA, PA
Special Tour, Philadelphia: Material Culture of the City
1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Limited to 12 participants
A guided tour will highlight the rich resources available for material
culture scholars within the nationally renowned Library Company of
Philadelphia.

Philadelphia Public Art Tour
2:30 to 3:00 p.m.
Starting at City Hall, this tour will highlight Philadelphia s public
sculpture, the Mural Arts Program, and small-scale individual efforts
that have transformed Philadelphia s visual landscape. Walking distance:
Less than 2 miles

DELAWARE
Historic New Castle, Delaware
1pm
Limited to 12 participants
Join Bernard L. Herman for a tour of historic New Castle, which retains
an intact eighteenth and nineteenth century district right on the
Delaware River. The tour will include the New Castle courthouse, the
Green, and the Strand, home to many of New Castle's early elites. The
group will also visit the Dutch House, one of the region's earliest
extant frame houses, and the Amstel House, an exceptional example of the
local engagement with classicism in the early eighteenth century.


Saturday, April 23

Winterthur Collections Tour, Saturday, April 23, 1:30 and 2:00 pm
Join graduate students from Winterthur s program in Early American
Culture as they lead thematic tours through the period rooms at
Winterthur Museum, Henry Francis Du Pont's collection of over 80,000
decorative arts objects produced or used in America from 1640 to 1860.
Space for these tours is limited, so sign up soon. Visitors should allow
for 45 minutes to an hour for each tour. Please indicate interest in
period or region, if desired. Tours are limited to 5 individuals per
group on a first-come, first-served basis.

Winterthur Library Tour, Saturday, April 23, 1:00 pm
A guided tour will highlight the rich array of research material
available in the collections of the Winterthur Library. The collections
document American household goods and their use, decorative arts and
design, and the material culture of everyday life in America from the
17th through the  early 20th centuries. The library s 17,000 rare
American and European imprints and the wide ranging holdings in the
Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera will be
highlighted as parts of the Library's assorted primary

Winterthur Garden Tour, Saturday, April 23, 1:00 pm
Tour is limited to 15 participants.
Take a garden tram through Winterthur s world famous gardens.
Winterthur's 982-acre country estate encompasses rolling hills, streams,
meadows, and forests. Founder Henry Francis du Pont (1880-1969)
developed an appreciation of nature as a boy that served as the basis
for his life's work in the garden. He selected the choicest plants from
around the world to enhance the natural setting, arranging them in
lyrical color combinations and carefully orchestrating a succession of
bloom from late January to November. Du Pont translated his love of the
land into a unified work of art that embodies a romantic vision of
nature's beauty. Ride on the garden tram as a guide takes you through
the most spectacular areas of the estate at the time of your visit.


For more information, please contact Daniel Claro and Heather Boyd at
emerging.scholars@gmail.com