2013 Emerging Scholars Symposium
Eleventh Annual Symposium
Embodied Objects: Material Culture Studies in Three Dimensions
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library (directions)
(Print Program)
Friday, April 19, 2013
4:00 pm “Approaches to Material Culture” Roundtable Discussion
Gore Hall, Room 104, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
Keynote speaker Jennifer Jane Marshall will discuss her recent book, Machine Art, 1934,and commentator Martin Brückner will discuss his recent Winterthur exhibition, Common Destinations: Maps in the American Experience.
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Copeland Lecture Hall, Winterthur Museum
8:15 am Registration
8:45 am Welcome and Introductions
David P. Roselle, Executive Director, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
Matthew Kinservik, Associate Dean for the Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Delaware
9:00 am Panel 1:Race and Cultural Memory
“A Mother’s Heart Alone Can Understand It”: The Trope of the Childless Slave Mother in the Transatlantic Abolition Movement’s Print and Material Culture, 1820-1860
Rhae Lynn Barnes, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Harvard University
Power and Scale in Ethnographic House Models
Alexander Brier Marr, Ph.D. Candidate in Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester
Collecting Disaster: September 11th, Hurricane Katrina, and the “Common Sense” of Race
Courtney Rivard, Fixed-term Faculty, English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Commentator: Cynthia G. Falk, Professor of Material Culture, Cooperstown Graduate Program
10:20 am Break: Tea and Coffee in Winterthur Café
10:50 am Panel 2:Public Spaces and Commemoration
To Frame a Ruin: The La Rochefoucauld and the Archaeological Garden in Pre-Revolutionary France
Gabriel Wick, Ph.D. Candidate in History and Cultural Geography, University of London – Queen Mary
Tombstone Attachment: Daguerreotypes and the Death of the Cemetery
Jacob Begin, Ph.D. Candidate in American and New England Studies Program, Boston University
“An Interloper in the Cause”: The Fall of the Elbert County Confederate Monument and the Embodiment of Civil War Memory
Sarah Beetham, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, University of Delaware
Making the Mapparium
Sara Georgini, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Boston University
Commentator: Martin Brückner, Associate Professor in English and Material Culture Studies, University of Delaware
12:30 pm Lunch: Garden Café at the Visitors’ Center
Please take this time to explore Winterthur’s gardens and exhibition galleries. The exhibition Common Destinations: Maps in the American Experienceopens today.
2:00 pm Keynote Address
Introductions: Deborah C. Andrews, Director, Center for Material Culture Studies, University of Delaware
Sandy Isenstadt, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Delaware
Speaker: Jennifer Jane Marshall, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
2:45 pm Break
3:00 pm Panel 3:Gender and the Exchange of Knowledge
A Study in Ivory: Anatomical Models and Women’s Medicine in the Early Modern Era
Cali Buckley, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, Pennsylvania State University
Dolled Up: The Embodied Dissemination of Knowledge of National Dress and Foreign Fashions in Renaissance Europe
Sophie Pitman, M.A. Student in Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture, Bard Graduate Center
“Her maske so hinders mee:” Unmasking Colonial American Women, 1650-1770
Philippe L.B. Halbert, M.A. Student in the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture
“You in Navy Blue:” Gender, Fashion, and the Navy WAVES
Shoshana Resnikoff, Collections Fellow, Cranbook Center for Collections and Research
Commentator: Jennifer van Horn, Assistant Professor of Art History, George Mason University
4:45 pm Roundtable discussion of papers and concluding remarks
Moderator: J. Ritchie Garrison, Director, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, and Professor of History, University of Delaware
5:30 pm Tours of Winterthur collection (advance registration encouraged)
