Consortium for American Material Culture
10th Annual Meeting
Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture
New York, NY
May 12-13, 2016
Note: You will receive copies of the attendees list and schedule upon arriving at Bard Graduate Center's Academic Programs Building at 38 West 86th Street on Thursday. You can also download them here, CAMC Attendees 2016.pdf and CAMC Schedule 2016.pdf
Please also see Student Exhibitions & Projects and Diversity Statements.
Attendees
Will Moore, American and New England Studies Program, Boston University
Steven Lubar, American Studies and John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Brown University
Sarah Lichtman, History of Design and Curatorial Studies Program, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum/Parsons School of Design, The New School
David Brody, History of Design and Curatorial Studies Program, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum/Parsons School of Design, The New School
Cindy Falk, Cooperstown Graduate Program, State University of New York at Oneonta
Fath Davis Ruffins, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian
Margi Hofer, The New-York Historical Society (Friday)
Debra Schmidt-Bach, The New-York Historical Society (Thursday)
Jan Ramirez, 9/11 Memorial Museum
Cynthia Copeland, New York University, Seneca Village Project and Weeksville
Anne Verplanck, American Studies, Penn State Harrisburg
Wendy Woloson, History, Rutgers University-Camden (Thursday)
Debby Andrews, English, University of Delaware (Emeritus)
Martin Bruckner, English and Center for Material Culture Studies, University of Delaware
Kasey Grier, American Civilization Program and Museum Studies, University of Delaware
Ritchie Garrison, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture and History, University of Delaware
Catharine Dann Roeber, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture
Gabrielle Berlinger, American Studies and Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, University of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ann Smart Martin, Art History and Material Culture Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Matthew Jacobson, American Studies, African American Studies, History, and Public Humanities, Yale University (unable to attend)
Karin Roffman, English and Public Humanities, Yale University
Catherine Whalen, Bard Graduate Center
David Jaffee, Bard Graduate Center
Ivan Gaskell, Bard Graduate Center (Thursday)
Aaron Glass, Bard Graduate Center
Jesse Merandy, Digital Media Lab, Bard Graduate Center
Shawn Rowlands, Bard Graduate Center/American Museum of Natural History Fellow in Museum Anthropology, (Thursday)
Note: Events held at 38 West 86th Street are open to Bard Graduate Center faculty.
Schedule of Events
Thursday, May 12
All events at the Academic Programs building at 38 W. 86th unless otherwise noted
MORNING SESSION – Lecture Hall, 1st Floor
9:30-10:00 Coffee
10:00-10:45 Welcome and Introductions - Led by Catherine Whalen and David Jaffee
10:45-12:30 Student Exhibitions & Projects - Discussion moderated by David Jaffee
Please post projects here
LUNCH 12:30-1:30 – Penthouse North & South, 6th Floor
AFTERNOON SESSION – Bard Graduate Center Gallery at 18 West 86th and off-site
1:30-2:15 Student Exhibitions & Projects - Frontier Shores: Collection, Entanglement, and the Manufacture of Identity in Oceania with curator Shawn Rowlands and students, Focus Gallery, 18 West 86th
2:30-3:00 Travel to M11 Gallery
3:00-5:00 Tour of M11 Gallery - Robin Nagle, New York University
5:00-5:30 Travel back to 38 West 86th
RECEPTION 5:30 – Penthouse North & South, 6th floor
DINNER 6:00 – Penthouse North & South, 6th Floor
Friday, May 13
All events at the Academic Programs building at 38 W. 86th
MORNING SESSION - Seminar Room, 1st Floor
9:30-10:15 Student Exhibitions & Projects - Introspective: Contemplations on Curating with student curators from the course Curatorial Practice as Experiment: A Chipstone Foundation-Bard Graduate Center Collaboration
10:15-12:30 Diversity in Academia - Discussion moderated by Catherine Whalen
Please post materials here
LUNCH 12:30-1:30 – Penthouse North & South, 6th Floor
AFTERNOON SESSION
1:30-2:30 Reflections and Future Plans - Group discussion
Note: You are welcome to tour the Bard Graduate Center Main Gallery exhibition Artek and the Aaltos: Creating a Modern World on your own.