Material Culture @ Winterthur Museum
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Student run account for the Winterthur Program in Material Culture // Uplifting our favorite contemporary material culture research (opinions our own)
Winterthur, Delaware
Joined April 2022
🚨 Mark your calendars! 🚨 The 17th Emerging Scholars Symposium will be held later this month, April 21–22! Join us for panels & workshops on the materiality of popular cultures and keynote address by @stylesquared. For more details & registration, visit: https://t.co/GVfUh2pUr6
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Happy Monday! With our spring symposium approaching, we continue to introduce our speakers to you one by one. Today, we introduce Dorian Cole and their presentation titled “Play Things: Teaching Systemic Prejudice through Children’s Toys.”
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Please join us TONIGHT at 6:00pm for a public talk by Dr. Mimi Sheller! Sheller's talk is part of this year's #ThingTank on "Material Futures" and will be both in person at Trabant Theater and broadcast live on Zoom at https://t.co/Sr8go1O9VJ
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A great question from @kinohin on Zoom: "What does it mean to reconstruct histories of disability through material culture studies?" #DisGaze22
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#DisGaze22 has more fantastic #materialculture scholarships. Emily Bach (@winterthurmtcul) shows us how close object study of garment interiors and their padding highlights spinal differences, while appearing unaltered from the exterior @UDMatCult
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Next Friday, 4/15: SEA Seminar Series: Early American Studies Scholarship Beyond The Book Friday, April 15, 1-2:30 PM central time, ON ZOOM (REGISTER HERE: https://t.co/mauWN0UzzG )
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Two perspectives: National Museum of Women in the Arts' online exhibition DMV Color ( https://t.co/bcWvrYRVQS) and Ruth Ozeki's recent podcast interview ( https://t.co/i2nBkZgcfI) explore issues surrounding the book as material.
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“Complicating cultural definitions of piña thus invites not only broader understandings of the objects to which the definition refers but also deeper analytical frameworks that can capture the nuanced contexts that these objects reveal.”
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Check out Abi Lua’s (‘23) recent publication “Interrogating Translucence: Biological and Cultural Definitions of Piña” with Mapping Philippine Material Culture
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Scarf Length, Philippines, mid 1800s, Rhode Island School of Design Museum Introduction In the last three decades, scholars have written broadly on the subject of Philippine piña textiles. However,...
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