Symposium - Secondhand Culture: Waste, Value, and Materiality, April 15-16, 2010, Bard Graduate Center
Symposium – Secondhand Culture: Waste, Value, and Materiality
Thursday, April 15, 2010 – Friday, April 16, 2010
Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, 38 West 86th Street, New York, NY
Secondhand Culture: Waste, Value, and Materiality explores the ways in which objects ranging from clothing to collectibles to trash have been constructed and experienced. Scholars of Theater, History, Geography, and Art and Design History discuss this vital new area at the intersection of consumerism, material culture studies, cultural geography, and artmaking.
Thursday, April 15, 2010, 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
5:00 pm – Welcome: Michele Majer
Assistant Professor, Bard Graduate Center
5:15 pm – Film Screening: "Secondhand (Pepe)", (2007)
followed by Q&A with the filmmakers Hanna Rose Shell and Vanessa Bertozzi
6:00 pm – Reception
6:30 pm – William Davies King
Professor of Theater, University of California Santa Barbara
"Suited for Nothing: Collecting Second-Hand"
Friday, April 16, 2010, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
9:15 am – Welcome: Catherine Whalen
Assistant Professor, Bard Graduate Center
9:30 am – Shirley Teresa Wajda
Historian
"Secondhand Culture Studies: A View from the Rust Belt"
10:10 am – Alexandra Palmer
Senior Curator, Royal Ontario Museum
"Back to Back: Retro-fitting Fashion within the Museum"
10:50 am – Coffee Break
11:15 am – Alison Isenberg
Associate Professor, History, Rutgers University
"Second-Hand Cities: Antiques, Inheritance, and Preservation from the Civil War to Urban Renewal"
12:00 pm – Lunch Break
1:30 pm – Nicky Gregson
Professor, Geography, University of Sheffield
"Death, the Phoenix, and Pandora: End of Life Ships,
Chock-Chocky Furniture and the Bangladeshi Middle Class"
2:10 pm – Marilynn Gelfman Karp
Emeritus Professor of Art, New York University
"In Flagrante Collecto: Caught in the Act of Collecting"
2:50 pm – Susan Strasser
Professor, History, University of Delaware
Commentary
3:30 pm – Open Discussion moderated by Amy F. Ogata
Associate Professor, Bard Graduate Center
This symposium is organized by Catherine Whalen, Amy F. Ogata, Michele Majer, and Pat Kirkham at the Bard Graduate Center. It is free and open to the public. RSVP required to 212.501.3019, academic-events@bgc.bard.edu. For additional information contact Alex Phelan, phelan@bgc.bard.edu.
http://www.bgc.bard.edu/news/events/symposium-secondhand-culture.html
Thursday, April 15, 2010 – Friday, April 16, 2010
Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, 38 West 86th Street, New York, NY
Secondhand Culture: Waste, Value, and Materiality explores the ways in which objects ranging from clothing to collectibles to trash have been constructed and experienced. Scholars of Theater, History, Geography, and Art and Design History discuss this vital new area at the intersection of consumerism, material culture studies, cultural geography, and artmaking.
Thursday, April 15, 2010, 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
5:00 pm – Welcome: Michele Majer
Assistant Professor, Bard Graduate Center
5:15 pm – Film Screening: "Secondhand (Pepe)", (2007)
followed by Q&A with the filmmakers Hanna Rose Shell and Vanessa Bertozzi
6:00 pm – Reception
6:30 pm – William Davies King
Professor of Theater, University of California Santa Barbara
"Suited for Nothing: Collecting Second-Hand"
Friday, April 16, 2010, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
9:15 am – Welcome: Catherine Whalen
Assistant Professor, Bard Graduate Center
9:30 am – Shirley Teresa Wajda
Historian
"Secondhand Culture Studies: A View from the Rust Belt"
10:10 am – Alexandra Palmer
Senior Curator, Royal Ontario Museum
"Back to Back: Retro-fitting Fashion within the Museum"
10:50 am – Coffee Break
11:15 am – Alison Isenberg
Associate Professor, History, Rutgers University
"Second-Hand Cities: Antiques, Inheritance, and Preservation from the Civil War to Urban Renewal"
12:00 pm – Lunch Break
1:30 pm – Nicky Gregson
Professor, Geography, University of Sheffield
"Death, the Phoenix, and Pandora: End of Life Ships,
Chock-Chocky Furniture and the Bangladeshi Middle Class"
2:10 pm – Marilynn Gelfman Karp
Emeritus Professor of Art, New York University
"In Flagrante Collecto: Caught in the Act of Collecting"
2:50 pm – Susan Strasser
Professor, History, University of Delaware
Commentary
3:30 pm – Open Discussion moderated by Amy F. Ogata
Associate Professor, Bard Graduate Center
This symposium is organized by Catherine Whalen, Amy F. Ogata, Michele Majer, and Pat Kirkham at the Bard Graduate Center. It is free and open to the public. RSVP required to 212.501.3019, academic-events@bgc.bard.edu. For additional information contact Alex Phelan, phelan@bgc.bard.edu.
http://www.bgc.bard.edu/news/events/symposium-secondhand-culture.html
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