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Material Culture Faculty are continually engaged with the scholarly community at large, and work to involve their students with a variety of intersting and challenging scholarly forums.
Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt Symposium on the Decorative Arts & Design
April 3 & 4, 2008
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York
Sponsored by the MA Program in the History of Decorative Arts & Design,
offered jointly by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and Parsons The New School for Design
The Seventeenth Annual Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt Symposium on the Decorative Arts & Design convenes scholars and students of decorative arts and design from graduate programs in the History of Decorative Arts, History of Design,
History of Art, History of Architecture, Anthropology, History, Literary
Criticism, and related fields. It is an excellent opportunity for graduate
students to introduce themselves and their original research to scholars in the field. Papers are being sought on all aspects of decorative arts, material culture and design, from the Renaissance to the present.
The symposium will feature a keynote address by Victor Margolin, Professor Emeritus of Art and Design History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and author or editor many essential works in design theory and history, including: American Poster Renaissance; Design Discourse: History, Theory,
Criticism; Discovering Design: Explorations in Design Studies; The Idea of Design; The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946; and The Politics of the Artificial: essays on Design and Design Studies. Professor Margolin will speak on "The Uses of Design History," and will also be the discussant for the symposium.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Send a two-page abstract, one-page bibliography and a c.v. to:
Dr. Ethan Robey, Assoc. Director
MA Program in the History of Decorative Arts & Design
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
2 East 91st Street
New York, NY 10128
robeye@si.edu
[material may be submitted via email]
Deadline: January 21, 2008
Material. Culture. Now.
Winterthur Museum & Country Estate
Saturday, April 12, 2008
The Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware invites submissions for papers to be given at the Sixth Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars.
FOCUS: The symposium provides graduate students and other emerging scholars with a venue for interdisciplinary dialogue relating to the study of material life and culture. Participants are free of chronological and topical restraints but are strongly encouraged to engage with contemporary issues pertaining to the study of objects and to give particular attention to their own use of objects, whether as evidence, within a theoretical discourse, or within a comparative context. Past symposia have included presenters from the fields of American Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Consumer Studies, English, History, 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 Winterthur's unparalleled collection of early American decorative arts.
SUBMISSIONS: The proposal should be no more than 300 words, and should clearly indicate both the topic and the critical approach taken. Preference will be given to papers that address contemporary issues in material culture studies and that are analytic rather than descriptive in nature. 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 Monday, November 12th, 2007. Speakers will be notified of the vetting committee's decision by early January 2008. 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 February 25, 2008. Travel grants will be available for all speakers.
Website: http://www.udel.edu/materialculture/emerging_scholars.html
Nicholas R. Bell, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, University of Delaware.
nicholas.r.bell@gmail.com
Colleen M. Terry, Department of Art History, University of Delaware.
cterry@udel.edu
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The Sixth Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars (MCSES)
emerging.scholars@gmail.com
http://www.udel.edu/materialculture/emerging_scholars.html
The Viennese Café as an Urban Site of Cultural Exchange
A two-day conference organised by the Viennese Café and Fin-de-siècle Culture Research Project, to be held at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Royal College of Art, London on October 17 th and 18 th 2008. As today, the cafés of fin-de-siècle Vienna were an important component of modern city life, an extension of both home and workplace. Cafés were as much to do with intellectual and social interaction as with procuring refreshment. This conference will focus on the complexities of the Viennese café as an urban space in order to better understand wider questions about Viennese modernism. Through its focus on the café, the conference aims to redefine our understanding not only of the arts in Vienna , but also of modernity more generally. The conference encourages a cross-disciplinary approach to subjects and welcomes proposals for papers from scholars and practitioners in any field.
Possible topics include, but are not restricted to:
• The complex inter-relationships between urban modernity and artistic modernism in relation to the Viennese café.
• The Viennese café as a liminal space: public and private, ‘high' and ‘low' culture.
• The café as a site for consumption: coffee and commerce.
• Contrasts and comparisons between the Viennese café and the café cultures of other world cities.
• The café as a site for performance.
• The café as a designed space: interrelations between modern design, society and fashion.
The Viennese Café and Fin-de-siècle Research Project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and is based at the Royal College of Art and Birkbeck, University of London . http://www.rca.ac.uk/viennacafe
We invite abstracts of 400 words to be submitted electronically to Dr Charlotte Ashby charlotte.ashby@rca.ac.uk
The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2008.
1st Annual Conference on Arts, Curriculum, and Community
Anyone Can Fly © Faith Ringgold
Educational, Social and Personal Expression Through Quilts
In early March, 2004, Professor Beverly Gordon (Department of Environment, Textiles & Design) participated in this groundbreaking conference led by artist/author Faith Ringgold.
"Women's Sphere: Reconfigured Traditions, Taking back-Taking over: Engaging, redefining, and reconstructing gendered space," Fall 2003
In October of 2003 the 28th Annual Conference of the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Consortium brought together academics, teachers, students, community leaders and activists, and others whose lives have been enriched by Women's Studies to celebrate, examine, and envision the past, present, and future of Women's Studies, at the University of Wisconsin Stout campus in Menominie, WI. Professor Anna Andrzejewski (Department of Art History) and Ph.D. student Elizabeth Hooper-Lane (Department of Art History) were both part of a session entitled "Negotiating Home Space." Professor Andrzejewski spoke on her work on surveillance in the Victorian-American house; Liz spoke on her research on World War II and post-war American housing and propaganda. Professor Beverly Gordon (Department of Environment, Textiles & Design) presented her Feminist Analysis of Restroom World: A Public/Private Woman's Space , a material culture analysis of how a small Madison bathroom embodies a community's connectedness and creativity.
Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars, Spring 2003
In the spring of 2003 the Material Culture Program at the University of WIsconsin-Madison was invited to participate in the only such annual interdisciplinary event, held at the Winterthur Museum and Gardens in Delaware, devoted to material culture scholarship at the graduate student level. It offered a forum for discussing emerging scholars' work, and brought together emerging and established scholars to foster interdisciplinary camaraderie and exchange. The annual symposium seeks papers that are grounded in the study of a particular object or objects but that address multidisciplinary themes—for example, the Atlantic World, comportment and the body, or texts and contexts. Graduate students from from American Studies, Art History, Archaeology, English, History, and other departments are invited to reevaluate the field of material culture studies, share their research, and explore new avenues of interpretation and critical thinking. Professor Ann Smart Martin (Department of Art History) was accompanied by Ph.D candidate Amy Ortiz-Holmes (Department of Art History), and Ph.D student Elizabeth Hooper-Lane (Department of Art History) who presented her work on the conflation of propaganda and patriotism in the World War II and post-war American home.
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