Job Opportunities Director of
Development, Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum Volunteer
Manger,
Director, WI Field Office (Grant Funded), National Trust for Historic
Preservation Internships/Fellowships Various summer internships and fellowships are available both locally through the Wisconsin Historical Society as well as nationally and internationally. Most of these are for a summer term with application deadlines in the spring. These get posted as we are made aware of them. SUMMER INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY IN Does the local historical society in your hometown need help with program development or artifact cataloging? Do you know of a great collection at a local museum that deserves some in-depth research? The Material Culture Program at UW-Madison is offering a unique opportunity for a graduate student or advanced undergraduate to develop an internship with a Wisconsin museum or historic site. With this opportunity, you can create a position tailored to your interests and experience, share your knowledge and skills with a site that needs them, and support the Material Culture Program's mission to foster relationships with small, local institutions. In consultation with the Director of the Material Culture Program, you will secure a position at a suitable host institution and develop a written proposal for specific tasks to be performed. The proposal must be approved by the Director of the Material Culture Program and the supervisor from the host institution before the internship can be accepted for credit and for an honorarium. Thanks to a generous grant from the Caxambas Foundation, the UW-Madison Material Culture Program is able to offer an honorarium of $2000 for this position. REQUIREMENTS • 200 work hours are required between May and August, 2010, for a total of 3 course credits earned. This can be a scheduling challenge for small volunteer-run institutions, so the intern needs to be flexible. • The intern must provide his or her own transportation to the site. • Preference will be given to candidates who are currently working toward a Material Culture Certificate at UW-Madison. To find out more, contact Professor Ann Smart Martin, Director of the Material Culture Program at UW-Madison (asmartin@wisc.edu). Conferences "CAA2010" February 10-13, 2010; Chicago, IL The 98th Annual Conference of the College Art Association.
"READING MATERIAL: TEXTUAL AND CULTURAL OBJECTS" March 4-6, 2010;
Madison, WI
"MYSTERIOUS THINGS"
"SPACES: PERSONAL, CULTURAL, URBAN"
The 2010 Annual Conference of the Middle
Atlantic American Studies Association, hosted by La Salle University.
Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars Presented by the Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of
Delaware and Winterthur Museum & Country Estate, Winterthur, Delaware Calls for Proposals/Papers/Artwork "MYSTERIOUS THINGS" Call for Proposals The 11th Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History, the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Symposium Executive Committee is interested in assembling a
geographically, temporally, and topically diverse body of papers.
This year's theme, "Mysterious Things," speaks to a variety of trends that
are currently shaping the field of women's and gender history. This
is particularly the case as we march on through a world where things-be
they ideas, objects, or some strange mix thereof-continue to delight,
baffle, liberate, and ruin individuals, as well as global institutions.
Successful proposals could directly explore and build upon the
implications of the moment in Marx's thought concerning commodities
wherein what should become inanimate matter actually assumes a mysterious,
yet undeniable kind of life. Proposals could begin to chart out this
life in a variety of fields-particularly gender and sexuality-and its
effects upon those whom it comes into contact. Indeed gender and
sexuality are, themselves, mysterious things, and proposals could also
include any work that seeks to expose and demystify their strange
functions in the everyday life of people and institutions. We
welcome all proposals that seek to examine and interrogate any of the
nebulous, enigmatic areas included under the rubric of women's and gender
history. The choice of theme is purposefully broad but provocative,
inviting perspectives and reflections from a variety of temporal,
geographical, and inter/disciplinary perspectives. To submit a paper or panel proposal, please send one attachment in
Word or PDF format containing a 250-word abstract and a one-page CV for
each paper presenter, commentator, or panel chair to
gendersymp@gmail.com by
November 15, 2009. The subject line of the email MUST read "Attn:
Programming Committee." "MATERIALS OF EXCHANGE" April 24, 2010; Winterthur Museum & Country Estate, Winterthur, DE Call for Proposals Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars Presented by the Center for Material Culture Studies at the
University of Delaware and Winterthur Museum & Country Estate, Winterthur,
Delaware 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. Submissions: Proposals 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. 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
November 20, 2009. Speakers will be notified of the
vetting committee's decision in January
2010. Confirmed speakers will be asked to provide symposium organizers with "READING MATERIAL: TEXTUAL AND CULTURAL OBJECTS" March 4-6, 2010;
Madison, WI Call for Proposals English Dept. Graduate Student Conference The Graduate Student Association at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison English Department is pleased to announce the 6th annual
MadLit Conference. This year's conference, "READING MATERIAL,"
engages the intersections between literature and material culture. We are currently soliciting proposals for 15 to 20 minute
presentations and three-person panels on any aspect of objects, things,
and literature. Possible considerations might include: Please submit a 250-word abstract to
UWMadLit@gmail.com by January 10,
2010. Accepted papers will be announced by January 25, 2010.
"SPACES: PERSONAL, CULTURAL, URBAN"
Call for Papers
The 2010 Annual Conference of the Middle
Atlantic American Studies Association, hosted by La Salle University.
On the La Salle campus, one finds a cultural
site of interest to all students of American culture: Belfield, the
one-time estate of Charles Willson Peale. As a painter, civic leader,
inventor, educator, taxidermist, museum curator, military
Undergraduates interested in presenting their
work in the Undergraduate Roundtable should select a mentor and then
contact Dr. Francis J. Ryan
(ryan@lasalle.edu).
Accepted graduate students will be encouraged
to submit their work electronically several weeks prior to the conference
so as to be considered for our award – Most Outstanding Graduate
Deadline for Proposals is January 15,
2010. Please send a one-page abstract and one-page CV to John R. Haddad
either electronically (jrh36@psu.edu)
or by mail:
John Haddad Courses SPRING 2010 Art History
475
Japanese Ceramics and Allied Arts. Advanced lecture/discussion
course on the history of ceramics in Japan from earliest times to the
post-war period looking at the technological, cultural, political, and
economic, as well as aesthetic, dimensions of ceramic development in
Japan. Prereq: Undergrads: a prev crse in art hist or design and
satisfaction of Com B requirement. Knowledge of Japan recommended.
Phillips. 563 Proseminar in Material Culture. I;
3 cr (H-D). Interdisciplinary study of the way people use objects and
environments to express identities and relationships in households,
communities, and larger social/economic systems. P: So st. Andrzejewski. 600 Special Topics in Art History.
600 Special Topics in Art History. Design Studies 355: History of Fashion, 1400-Present 420: Twentieth Century Design 512: Material Culture Analysis: The Arts and the Consumer Society Folklore 530: Topics in Folklore
MESDA SUMMER INSTITUTE COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG PROGRAMS WORKSHOPS AT OLD WORLD WISCONSIN
Ten Chimneys
Foundation
MATERIAL CULTURE/LOCAL HISTORY/MUSEUM STUDIES
http://conference.collegeart.org/2010/
University of Wisconsin-Madison Conferences in Language and Literature (MadLit)
March 4-6, 2010; Urbana, IL
The 11th Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History, the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
March 19-20, 2010; Philadelphia, PA
"MATERIALS OF EXCHANGE"
April 24, 2010; Winterthur Museum & Country Estate, Winterthur, DE
March 4-6, 2010; Urbana, IL
digital images for use in publicity and are required to submit a final draft
of their papers by March 12, 2010.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Conferences in Language and Literature (MadLit)
March 19-20, 2010; Philadelphia, PA
commander, paleontologist, naturalist, and landscape gardener, Peale
embodied
the interdisciplinary ideal that continues to shape the field of American
Studies. Fittingly, it is the spirit of Peale that inspires this
conference theme. In the American Studies tradition, we seek
interdisciplinary papers that explore multiple and varied concepts of
space: transnational or intercultural spaces; public spaces; intellectual
spaces; imaginary or fantastical landscapes; rural, suburban, and urban
America; retail and shopping venues; religious spaces; city planning and
architecture; artistic spaces; ethnic spaces; tourism; spaces shaped by
memory and nostalgia; and spaces of food creation and consumption.
Paper.
American Studies
School of Humanities
Penn State Harrisburg University
777 West Harrisburg Pike
Middletown, PA 17057
MATERIAL CULTURE COURSES
457 History of American Vernacular Architecture and Landscapes. I;
3 cr (H-D). Survey of American vernacular buildings and landscapes from
the colonial period to the present. Emphasis is on acquiring descriptive
tools and developing interpretive frameworks to explore the significance
that these vernacular environments have had for their makers and users. P:
Jr st & at least one Art Hist crse, or cons inst. Andrzejewski.
"Crafting Museum Exhibit: 150 Years of Women's Craft." 3cr. P: Jr
st, or cons inst. Martin.
"The Architecture of Cuba." 3 cr. P: Jr st, or cons
inst. Menocal.
Changing form and meaning of costume in the West from Renaissance to
present. Dress considered in relation to social/cultural milieu and as an
art form. Includes treatment of the body; ethnic/class variations;
couture; "antifashion". 3 cr. P: Jr st or cons inst. Gordon.
Design, including interior, furniture, graphic and textiles, is viewed
through broader social and cultural issues including: an aesthetic to
express a new age; processes, materials, and marketing techniques; roles
for designers; consumer versus designer initiated production. Visits to
local collections. 3 cr. P: ETD 120, or Art Hist 202, or cons inst.
Boyd.
The meanings of objects--both art objects and consumer goods.
Interactions between people and objects; "decoding" objects as primary
sources of information about the people/cultures that make and use them. 3
cr. P: Jr st. Gordon.
"Cultural Landscape Preservation." 1-3cr. P: Jr st or cons inst. The course begins with
discussions of what cultural landscapes are, includes a landscape history
resources overview, and spends much of the semester reviewing varied
landscape preservation types from local to international. Issues of
policy and history of preservation are embedded in the readings and can be
deepened through reading, discussion, and project work. Speakers
representing various types of cultural landscape preservation come to
class to present on the type of preservation work they do in varied work
settings. *Cross-listed with Landscape Architecture 677.
Gilmore.
OTHER EDUCATIONAL OFFERINGS:
The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts and the
University of Virginia offer a graduate Summer Institute on early southern history and decorative arts. This summer's session,
July 11-August 6, 2010 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, will focus on the
Chesapeake regions. For more information contact Sally Gant at
MESDAEducation@oldsalem.org
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in conjunction with the College of William and Mary offers two residential programs for college students:
Williamsburg Semester-in-Residence Program offers a variety of approaches to studying the past, but a chief feature will be classes conducted "on site" at museums, historic structures, and archaeological projects. 12 cr.
Williamsburg Collegiate Program
is a year-long interdisciplinary approach to the study of the American past,
material culture, and the purpose and operations of museums. The program
requirements include two core courses, one field school, one semester-long
internship, and three electives.
Throughout the year, Old World Wisconsin
offers the opportunity to learn the customs, trades and crafts practiced
by 19th-century Wisconsin settlers through a variety of workshops designed
to give participants a hands-on experience in a true-to-life historic
setting. Be sure to check out the Calendar & Events page.
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