Last May, Professor Julian Yates joined Professor Jeffrey Jerome Cohen to give a virtual talk about their work-in-progress at the “Sea Sense: Blue Humanities and the Early Modern Imaginary” conference.… Read More
A recording of the ThingStor virtual webinar is now available on YouTube. During the event, working group members introduced the database and spoke about their experiences of cataloging objects represented… Read More
To mark our 20th anniversary, the Center has developed an illustrated history of CMCS on the ArcGIS platform StoryMaps. Explore our rich history by scrolling through the window below, or click… Read More
Ecomaterialism, the forum topic for 2021-22, focuses on the relationship between environment and materiality. It was once common to think of these terms as distinct. Where “nature” signified the physical… Read More
Endowed by the National Endowment for the Humanities and a generous bequest from a private donor, the Delaware Public Humanities Institute (DELPHI) has been facilitating the professional growth and development of material… Read More
Over the summer, Professor Martin Brückner participated in an episode for The Clements Bookworm, an online webinar series hosted by the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan. The webinar… Read More
The Material Culture Pedagogy Working Group brings together faculty, staff, and graduate students across University of Delaware’s campus and affiliated cultural institutions to discuss how to teach material culture to diverse audiences… Read More
What is public and who decides? How is racial identity formed, communicated, and negotiated through material, visual, and virtual formats? Public performances of blackness and the politics of racial identity… Read More
Want to learn more about Whistler? Check out the latest Scholar in the Library lecture by Professor Margaret Stetz. A description of her talk is below: Like his contemporary and “frenemy” Oscar… Read More
The Methods in Material Culture Graduate Student Working Group is an interdisciplinary organization of graduate students at the University of Delaware focused on sharing material culture methodologies. The group convenes throughout… Read More
