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The Materializing Race
Annual "Unconference" 2021
Objects and Identity in #VastEarlyAmerica
Postponed: New Date and Time TBA
Continuing in our commitment to advancing new research, our second annual "unconference" will foreground a diverse array of perspectives and methodological approaches on objects and identity in #VastEarlyAmerica 1450 to 1830, to include North, South, Central America and the Caribbean.
Please read our statement regarding the postponement of this event.
More information on rescheduling and audience ticketing coming soon!
Activation & Engagement II:
Making as Interrogatory Method
Friday, April 9, 2021, 1PM EST
Hear historic trades and foodways interpreters, independent makers, business owners, and others who ground their practice of (re)creating objects and other items using traditional or historical methods discuss objects, race, and identity with a particular focus on experimental/experiential archaeology, embodiment, and replication. As always, tickets are free for this event.
Special thanks to the Society of Winterthur Fellows for their generous sponsorship of this event.
Activation & Engagement I:
Interpretation, Curation, Mission
Saturday, September 26, 2020, 1-3 PM EST
This event is the first in a two-part series focused on bringing historical issues of race and identity to the forefront of museum and historic site programming and the public humanities.
Hear curators, museum professionals, historic interpreters, and scholars from Canada, Mexico, the UK and the US discuss objects, race, and identity in museums and public history settings with a particular focus on interpretation, curation, and mission.
Special thanks to the Society of Winterthur Fellows for their generous sponsorship of this event.
Materializing Race
Inaugural "unConference" 2020
Monday, August 24, 2020, 1-3PM EST
Tuesday, August 25, 2020, 1-3PM EST
Our inaugural two-day “unconference” seeks to promote a diverse cross-section of scholarship that discusses intersections of race, identity, and material culture in #VastEarlyAmerica.
Special thanks to the Society of Winterthur Fellows for their generous sponsorship of this event.
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Tin-glazed earthenware tile with a Chinese figure
Date: 1650-1700
Place: Puebla, Mexico
Maker: Unknown
Location: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Collection Accession No.: 1917-190