[BCMA] Call for Papers Material Culture, Craft & Community

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CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Material Culture, Craft & Community: 

Negotiating Objects Across Time & Place

 

20-21 May 2011

University of Alberta

Material Culture Institute

 

This interdisciplinary conference will explore the varied expressions of
craft - material, cultural, social - in past and present societies.  Craft
practice has a rich history and remains vibrant today, sustaining
communities while negotiating cultures.  Craft-made goods were, and are,
created for domestic or institutional use, for local or international
markets.  They express gender roles and cultural aspirations, sustain
economies, and express aesthetic values and skills of making.  Craft
practice has long defined communities and groups, and continues to do so in
the midst of global trade networks.  Moreover, the flow of ideas, goods, and
peoples animate the making, circulation, and meaning of craft goods.  These
and other issues will be addressed over the course of the conference.

Keynote Speaker:

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard University

 

Confirmed Speakers:

Eiluned Edwards, London College of Fashion, UK

 

Edward S Cooke, Yale University

Janice Helland, Queen's University, Kingston

Laura Peers, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

Ruth Phillips, Carleton University, Ottawa

Call for Papers:

Paper proposals and full panels are invited on topics ranging from the
history to present practice of craft, issues of production, use, and trade
of craft, and the construction and interpretation of the meanings of craft,
in the context of personal interactions, local communities, national groups,
modes of international circulation, and forms of cultural context.  

 

Graduate students are encouraged to apply with either single papers or
panels. Three graduate proposals will be selected for a special graduate
plenary session, in addition to those papers selected for concurrent
sessions. 

 

Proposals are invited from all disciplines.  The proposal package should
include a paper summary of 150-200 words and a two-page CV.  Proposals
should be received by 10 October 2010. Registration will open on 15 December
2010.

Conference Organizer: Beverly Lemire, Department of History & Classics and
Department of Human Ecology, University of Alberta

Proposals should be sent to: material.culture at ualberta.ca 

 

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