The Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware is pleased to announce
The Fifth Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Copeland Lecture Hall, Winterthur Museum and Country Estate
Winterthur, Delaware
Free special tours of Winterthur and local sites occur on Friday, April 13 and Saturday, April 14.
For full schedule and additional details visit http://www.udel.edu/materialculture
Direct link to registration: http://www.udel.edu/materialculture/achievements/emerging-scholars/ems-2007/registration.html

This annual symposium provides emerging scholars – graduate students from a variety of academic disciplines -- with a venue for interdisciplinary dialogue centering on material culture. By freeing scholars from chronological and topical restraints, we encourage discussion across perceived boundaries of discipline, medium, and methodology.

This event, now in its fifth year, brings together scholars from fields including History, Anthropology, Art History, English, and American studies. The day is organized around three panels of three papers each, with comments by established scholars – Charles Hummel (Winterthur Museum), David Brody (Parsons School of Design), and Lynn Meskell (Stanford University). The day will end with a keynote address by Susan Strasser, historian of American consumer culture. We invite emerging and established scholars, museum professionals, and interested members of the public to join us for an exciting day of new scholarship.

The symposium and special tours are free. We encourage you to pre-register online up until April 10th. On-site registration will also be available at the symposium. We require pre-registration for all special tours.
Registration available at http://www.udel.edu/materialculture. Email emerging.scholars@gmail.com for additional information.