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The 15th annual
Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars begins on Friday, April 27th at 4:30 p.m. in Old College 211 with a keynote address from Dr. Alison Matthews David, an associate professor in the School of Fashion at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada.
The theme of this year's symposium is
"Hazardous Objects: Function, Materiality, and Context," which aims to discuss materials that are hazardous either materially, environmentally, or culturally.
The symposium will continue Saturday, April 28 at
Winterthur Museum, Garden ​and Library with a full day of programming, including presentations from Art History students
Bridget Killian and Zoe Weldon-Yochim, and an introduction from Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Material Culture Studies
Sandy Isenstadt.
The symposium was also co-chaired by graduate students
Kiersten Mounce and
Victoria Sunnergren.
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The Material Culture Symposium is sponsored by the Center for Material Culture Studies and Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library.
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