Workshop on Material Culture and Thing Theory
APRIL 20, 2015 – 2:00PM TO 5:00PM
Michael Yonan, Art History, University of Missouri-Columbia, “What’s the Matter with Franz Xaver Messerschmidt?”
Nancy Um, Art History, SUNY-Binghamton, “Spices, Porcelain, and Wood: Material Registers of Dutch Exchange Around the Indian Ocean, ca. 1700”
Respondent: Kristina Kleutghen, Art History, Washington University in St. Louis
Sophie White, History, Notre Dame, “Enslaved Africains, Their Words, and Their Things”
Alex Dubé, History, Washington University in St. Louis, “The Fabric of the State: Reading the Eighteenth-Century French Empire Through Woolen Cloth”
Respondent: Mark Valeri, Danforth Center for Religion and Politics, Washington University in St. Louis
Masonic Ritual as Philosophy in Early Eighteenth-Century France
MARCH 5, 2015 – 4:00PM TO 6:00PM
Pannill Camp, Performing Arts, Washington University in St. Louis
Umrath 201
Workshop on Material Culture and It-Narratives
FEBRUARY 27, 2015 – 2:30PM TO 5:00PM
Dramatic reading of an it-narrative (Smollett’s Adventures of an Atom) by Amanda Lee and Tili Boon Cuillé
Lynn Festa, English, Rutgers, “Anthropomorphic Things”
Michael Kwass, History, Johns Hopkins, “Contraband: An Underground History of the Consumer Revolution”
Round-table discussion on teaching about things hosted by Alex Dubé, History, Washington University in St. Louis
Florestan Among the Revelers: Postclassical Virtuosity and Schumann’s Critique of Pleasure
JANUARY 29, 2015 – 4:00PM TO 6:00PM
Peepshows, Society, and Visuality in Early Modern China
NOVEMBER 17, 2014 – 3:00PM TO 5:00PM
Roxana and England’s Catholic Captivity
OCTOBER 27, 2014 – 3:00PM TO 5:00PM
Patriarchy, Celibacy, and Marriage: Subversion and Religious Education in Early Nineteenth-Century France
OCTOBER 1, 2014 – 3:00PM TO 5:00PM
Lycanthropy and the Fantasy of Human Exceptionalism in Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly
JANUARY 29, 2014 – 3:00PM TO 5:00PM
Sarah Bernhardt Meets the Gauchos: Hemispheric Travelers on the American Stage
DECEMBER 10, 2013 – 3:00PM TO 5:00PM
Music Theorists in the Age of Empfindsamkeit
NOVEMBER 20, 2013 – 4:00PM TO 6:00PM