CONF: Material Culture Conference at Winterthur, April 16

Objects in Revolt
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
Saturday, April 16, 2011

The Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of
Delaware invites you to attend the Ninth Annual Material Culture Symposium
for Emerging Scholars.

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. This year's
commentators are as follows:

• Carol E. Henderson, Associate Professor of English and Black
American Studies, University of Delaware

• Katherine Grier, Director of Museum Studies and Professor of
History, University of Delaware

• Thomas Hine, Writer, Scholar, and Guest Lecturer, University
of Pennsylvania and Temple University

We are also pleased to announce David Brody, Assistant Professor of
Design Studies at Parsons The New School for Design, as our keynote speaker.
His remarks will close the symposium.

In addition to listening to presentations and participating in
post-panel discussions, conference attendees will have the opportunity to
tour Winterthur's unparalleled collection of early American decorative arts.
For more information, including abstracts and registration
guidelines, please visit our website:

http://www.udel.edu/materialculture/emerging_scholars.html

The symposium is free and open to the public. We look forward to
your attendance and to a great conference.

2011 Symposium Co-chairs
Virginia Garnett, Department of English
Theodore Triandos, Department of Art History
Alessandra Wood, Department of History, American Civilization
University of Delaware




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Patrick Cox
Editor, H-MATERIAL CULTURE
PhD Student
2010-2011 David K. Sengstack Fellow
Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University
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2010 ChLA Hannah Beiter Graduate Student Research Award Recipient
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