Materials of Exchange
Winterthur Museum & Country Estate
Saturday 24 April 2010
The Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware invites submissions for papers to be given at the Eighth Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars.
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.
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 behind the scenes at Winterthur's unparalleled collection of early American decorative arts.
Submissions: The proposal 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. While the audience for the symposium consists mainly of university and college faculty and graduate students, we encourage broader participation. In evaluating proposals, we will give preference to those papers that keep that broader audience in mind. 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 Friday, 20 November 2009. Speakers will be notified of the vetting committee's decision in January 2010.
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 12 March 2010.
2010 Emerging Scholars Co-chairs
Kate LaPrad, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture
Rebecca Bertrand, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture
emerging.scholars@gmail.com
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