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<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,</font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Please see the CFP for the University of Delaware's 17th Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars on April 21-22, 2023, entitled "From Hogarth to Hypebeast: The Materiality of Popular Cultures." Though it broadly focuses on popular culture, we welcome any and all proposals in comics studies!</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><u>From Hogarth to Hypebeast: The Materiality of Popular Cultures</u></b></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Seventeenth Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">University of Delaware</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">April 21-22, 2023<br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Submit by: December 5, 2022</font></div><div><div class="gmail-field gmail-field--name-body gmail-field--type-text-with-summary gmail-field--label-hidden" style="box-sizing:border-box"><div class="gmail-field__items" style="box-sizing:border-box"><div class="gmail-field__item even" style="box-sizing:border-box"><p style="color:rgb(66,66,66);box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.65em"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-615c2d10-7fff-3c22-9f58-fddf481a22cd"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware invites submissions for papers by graduate students that examine the relationship between material and popular cultures for its biennial Emerging Scholars Symposium (April 21–22, 2023). T</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">his symposium will trace the </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">materiality of popular culture from earlier periods to the present in order to think expansively about</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(248,247,242)"> </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">long historical arcs and key differences over time. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are especially interested in how popular culture’s materiality persists even digitally. What does it mean to be a </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">viral </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">material in the past, present, and future? By merging the interdisciplinary study of popular media with material culture studies, we invite participants to reflect on the politics of popular culture; cultural trends and material practice; and virtual space and mass media technology. </span></span><br></font></p><p style="color:rgb(66,66,66);box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.65em"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The symposium will explore the dynamic relationship between popular and material cultures across time, place, and medium. By emphasizing the fluidity between material and popular cultures, we encourage critical thinking about the ways people share their ideas and cultural fascinations. This conference suggests that "popular culture" is a cumulative archive of human experience. In this way, popular culture is always material, even when it appears otherwise.</span></span></font></p><p style="color:rgb(66,66,66);box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.65em"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How do cycles of popularity allow us to re-evaluate and negotiate the historical significance of material cultures as they move through our collective consciousness? We now navigate trends, fads, and shifting markets at unprecedented rates, but have yet to understand fully how this shapes and changes our perception of the offline material world. The volatility of the present demands that we look backward to consider how popular and material cultures have shaped our societies and that we look forward to imagining what the future might bring.</span></span></font></p><p style="color:rgb(66,66,66);box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.65em"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In addition to exploring the materiality of historical and contemporary popular culture, we aim to consider how the discipline of material culture studies can illuminate our present cultural environment, from porcelains and scrapbooks to Pyrex and slime. How does popular culture inform the stories we tell about our material past? How can those stories shape our understanding of the present and future? We look forward to exploring the distinctions and ambiguities between popular and material that inform our current moment.</span></span></font></p><p style="color:rgb(66,66,66);box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.65em"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Generative Questions May Include:</span></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.65em"></p><ul><li style="color:rgb(66,66,66)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How can studying popular culture as material, and material culture as popular, shape our understanding of both?</span></span></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">How do popular material cultures reach across, complicate, and generate global systems, digital landscapes, and new worlds?</span></font><br></li><li><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">How does studying popular material cultures influence our understanding of decorative arts in the modern age?</span><br></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">How do popular digital practices intersect with materiality? How far can we (or must we) expand our definition of the material? </span><br></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">How can we understand our popular material lives as both a product of, and a challenge to, global capitalism?</span><br></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">How is our experience of the past rendered virtual through the staged presentation of historical materials in museums? </span><br></font></li></ul><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Contributions to this theme may take, but are not limited to, the following forms:</span></font></div><div><ul><li><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Digital humanities and material culture studies</span></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Histories of mass media events</span></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Ephemeral media across time</span></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Influencer culture</span></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Material futurism</span></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Objects in literature and popular media</span></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Popular media in popular memory</span></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Focus on a singular material (digital or tangible)</span></font></li><li><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Popular media and objects in museum studies</span></font></li></ul><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Submissions</b>: Proposals by current graduate students and recent graduates (degree from May 2022 or later) should be no more than 250 words. Up to two relevant images are welcome. Please send your proposal and a current c.v. (two pages or fewer) to <a href="mailto:emergingscholars2023@gmail.com">emergingscholars2023@gmail.com</a>.</span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Deadline:</b> Proposals must be received by <b>December 5th, 2022.</b> Speakers will be notified of the committee’s decision by the end of January 2023. Confirmed speakers will be asked to provide digital images for use in publicity and are required to submit their final papers and presentations/slide decks ahead of the conference. 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