Beyond Production and Consumption: Refining American Material Culture
Studies
Submission Deadline: November 30, 2012 Conference Date: Saturday, March
23, 2013
Call for Papers
The American and New England Studies Program at Boston University is
pleased to announce its 2013 graduate student conference: “Beyond
Production and Consumption: Refining American Material Culture
Studies.” We invite submissions that engage material culture from a
broad range of disciplinary perspectives and that examine processes of
appropriation, transformation, reclamation, or reinvention related to
American material culture. The conference seeks to enlarge our
understanding of what Arjun Appadurai has identified as “the social
life of things,” and to extend the analytical and methodological
processes that underpin material culture studies.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to: multivalent and/or
mutable objects; transnational patterns in the use and categorization
of objects; reclamation and redevelopment of the landscape; the
labeling and rehabilitation of gray fields and/or brown fields;
gentrification, adaptive use, and/or decay in urban and rural settings;
objects relating to immigration and/or migration; the aesthetics of
material transformation; literary representations and/or
characterizations of the shifting meaning of things/objects; semiotic
sign-shifting; material makeovers; popular representations of object
processes [Storage Wars, Antiques Roadshow, etc.]; adaptations of
objects, edifices, landscapes, over the course of time; transgressive
or subversive objects; cultural attitudes towards material
transformation; adaptations of the landscape and/or livestock through
agriculture; those who reclaim/reinvent/repurpose objects [pickers,
pawners/ hockers, traders, advertisers, peddlers]; the shifting
meanings and/or instabilities of “craftsmanship” in a global economy;
the recycling of fashion and trends; appropriation and transformation
through bodily actions [using, eating, watching, performing]; notions
of expiration [foods, shelf life, fads, excess].
The Graduate Student Association of the American and New England
Studies Program at Boston University is committed to collaborative
scholarship and encourages graduate students in all fields with
interdisciplinary interests related to American material culture to
submit proposals for twenty-minute presentations. A successful proposal
will identify its sources and methodology and will be analytic rather
than descriptive. The conference will be held on Saturday, March 23,
2013 on Boston University’s Charles River Campus. Submit abstracts of
no more than 250 words and a two-page CV to:
[log in to unmask] The deadline for submissions is
November 30, 2012. Successful applicants will be notified before
Friday, January 11.
This event is sponsored by the Graduate Student Association of the
American and New England Studies Program, the American and New England
Studies Program at Boston University, and the Boston University Center
for the Humanities.
Rebekah Beaulieu
Ph.D. Candidate
American and New England Studies
Boston University
-----Original Message-----
From: Sterling Jenson <[log in to unmask]>
To: MUSEUM-L <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thu, Nov 8, 2012 3:38 pm
Subject: Re: [MUSEUM-L] Internal loan policies and procedures
Greetings,
I used to work as the Graduate Assistant to the Mathers Museum of World
Cultures at Indiana University. I followed the same procedures and
policies for loans to different departments as I did for loans to other
organizations. Hopefully, this comment will be of some help.
Sterling
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Anna Cannizzo <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
Greetings Listers,
I was wondering if any of you have examples of policies or procedures
for loans that may exist within your organization. I work at a college
museum that is just over six years old and receive inquiries from other
college entities about the display and use of collections in other
areas of campus i.e. the office or home of our President. I would like
to develop a policy, type of loan agreement, and/or guidelines to be
able to service these types of requests. Any examples or input would
be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks,
--
Anna Cannizzo
Curator of Collections
Denison Museum
P.O. Box 810
Granville, OH 43023
740-587-6554
http://denisonmuseum.org
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