CALL FOR PAPERS
MESDA CONFERENCE ON AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE
October 9, 10 and 11, 2008
The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts presents its sixth
biennial conference for recent research in early American material culture and
decorative arts on October 9 - 11, 2008
The conference provides a major forum for scholarly presentation and
interaction on American material culture and decorative arts.
In addition to a keynote address by Edward S. Cooke, Jr., Professor
of American Decorative Arts and Material Culture at Yale University, the
conference includes a day of field trips to regional material culture and
decorative arts collections and the Gordon Seminar, a day of paper
presentations on topics in American material culture. Session moderators will
be Dr. Cooke, Dr. Katherine C. Grier, University of Delaware and Dr. David
Lubin, Wake Forest University.
Scholars and graduate students in fields related to American and
particularly southern material culture are invited to submit proposals for
presentation at the Gordon Seminar.
Subjects with an interdisciplinary approach to the study of material
culture are highly encouraged.
Proposals will be accepted for individual papers or for panel sessions
Paper proposals must include the author's name, the paper title, a
one-page abstract and the author's curriculum vitae.
Session proposals must include a chair, list of presenters, cover
letter, one-page summary of the session theme, presenter curriculum vitae,
and abstracts for all papers.
Deadline for proposals: May 16
Notification of acceptance: June 13
Accepted papers submitted in full: September 1
Proposals for individual papers or panel sessions may be sent to Sally
Gant, MESDA Conference, P. O. Box 10310, Winston-Salem, NC 27108-0310 /
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Electronic submission in Word format is preferred.
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