H-Material Culture seeks applications for a Book Reviews editor, to start in November 2025. Interested applicants should send a CV and short letter of interest to [email protected] #MaterialCulture

H-Material Culture seeks applications for a Book Reviews editor, to start in November 2025. Interested applicants should send a CV and short letter of interest to [email protected] #MaterialCulture

We are delighted to announce that A Material World will be returning for our 6th year of events @warburginstitute.bsky.social. The theme for this year is Encounters. Full programme to be announced soon. #materialculture #arthistory #history #globalhistory

✨ Call for Papers ✨ AGENCIES AND TEMPORALITIES IN COMPLEX ARTEFACTS FROM RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES (C. 1000–1600) What if medieval artefacts weren’t “finished” objects, but living works in progress? (1/6)

#OutNow: Object-Based Learning by Thomas Kador This textbook offers an up-to-date perspective on the theories and practices of object-based learning, as well as practical case studies & exercises. Download: uclpress.co.uk/book/object-... #ObjectBasedLearning #MaterialCulture #Museums

From counterculture to #design icon, @stevenheller.bsky.social's story is one of rebellion & creativity. Read about his 40-year legacy #DesignHistory #GraphicDesign #Innovation newartschool.education/2024/05/20/d...

🙌Call for Papers🙌 We are excited to invite abstracts for an interdisciplinary conference on The Hand: Emotions, Embodiment, Identity, at @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social on 8-9 Jan 2026 Send abstracts of 300 words to [email protected] by 22 Sep - please circulate among your networks!

Charles E. Murphy’s Command Records sleeves merged illustration and abstraction. Read more at designreviewed.com/illustrating... #AlbumCovers #DesignHistory #Modernism

Illustrations scanned from The Complete Commercial Artist (現代商業美術全集), Ars, No. 04, 1928 designreviewed.com/artefacts/th... #graphicdesign #designhistory

George Giusti designed 40+ covers for Command Records.https://designreviewed.com/illustrating-sound-george-giusti-and-command-records/ #GeorgeGiusti #AlbumDesign #DesignHistory

@architecturehub.bsky.social Eames Chairs at SF’s Transamerica Building felt like a cultural wake—bright, precise, once projecting US authority, now in elegant decline. My essay: krishinasnani.substack.com/p/chairs-at-... #EamesChairs #DesignHistory #Architecture#CulturalCriticism

Erwin Poell’s 1960s data visualisations for n+m made science accessible. Read more at designreviewed.com/illustrating... #DataViz #DesignHistory #InformationDesign

Support independent design history. Membership is less than a coffee designreviewed.com/membership/ #DesignHistory #Membership #PreserveDesign

Ready to start your career in Publishing? Based in or around #Manchester? We're delighted to be working with training provider LDN Apprenticeships to recruit our first Apprentice Publishing Support Assistant. More info here: www.independentpublishersguild.com/IPG/Jobs_Boa... Deadline 5th September.

✨ CFP: The Odorous Object ✨ Perfumed letters, scented ceramics, fragrant glass vases — from the visible vessel to the invisible scent, olfactory objects carry histories of art, science, power, and imagination. (1/4)

Call for Book Review Editors for H-Material Culture. If you're interested, get in touch by sending an email to [email protected] and we'll follow up! #MaterialCulture

CFP📣!! 'The Samhain Industry in Ireland', a 1 day symposium, Maynooth University @maynoothuniversity.ie Ireland, 29 Oct 2025. Potential topics include: cultural policy, tourism, digital media, environment, #folklore, LGBTQI+, postcolonialism. Abstracts by 17 Sept👻 networks.h-net.org/system/files...

CFP: The Materiality of the Late Medieval Book: Production, Reading, and Transition, session(s) at the 2026 International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 6–9, 2026. Submissions due September 14, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/the-mat...

New Episode of Hagley History Hangout Podcast: The Power of Patents: Global Intellectual Property, 1880-1950 with Joël Praz #MaterialCulture www.hagley.org/research/his...

Announcement: The Watson Collection is now available to view online. It is part of University of Oxford's broader Their Finest Hour Online Archive (theirfinesthour.org), a 2022-24 project that digitally preserved 25,000+ stories and objects from WW2 shared by the UK public. #MaterialCulture

CFP: International Conference of Europeanists, June 16-18, 2026, University College Dublin. Theme: Integrity, Solidarity, and Unity: Hopes and Realities of the European Future. Applications due: Oct 8. #MaterialCulture councilforeuropeanstudies.org/conferences/...

Every member helps digitise and preserve fragile artefacts for articles and education. Support the archive at designreviewed.com/membership/ #DesignArchive #PreserveDesign #DesignHistory

NEW advance article! A Spirited Way to a Rational Home: Cultivating Normativity through the Victorian Spiritualist Interior by Vanessa Galvin. Read this open access article at academic.oup.com/jdh/article/... #JournalOfDesignHistory #DesignHistory #DomesticLife #Interior

Guys a new vocatio newsletter on medieval material culture just dropped. Links about reenactor and maker blogs, leatherwork from Oslo, Hapsburg fire-lances, and a sword called Brok. https://ageofdatini.info/vocationes.html #histodons #materialculture

H-Material Culture seeks applications for a Book Reviews editor, to start in November 2025. Interested applicants should send a CV and short letter of interest to [email protected] by September 1, 2025. #MaterialCulture

NEW advance article! Liquid Forms: Questions for a Design History of Water by @madsfolkmann and Malin Graesse. Read and subscribe now at academic.oup.com/jdh/advance-... #JournalOfDesignHistory #DesignHistory #Aesthetics #GreyEcology

Newly published: "Grace, Piety and Memory: The Material Culture of British Catholics 1534-1850", a guide by the British Catholic Material Culture Research Group. More info and free download link here: britishartnetwork.org.uk/research/bri... #skystorians #catholicism #skyhistory #materialculture

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝟭𝟮.𝟭 (𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱) 𝗦𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 Edited by Elina Gertsman More info: bit.ly/4fHvBlr #Medievalsky #ArtHistory #Religion #History #MaterialCulture #Medievalists #Medieval #ArtHistorysky #Historysky

H-Material Culture seeks applications for a Book Reviews editor, to start in November 2025. Interested applicants should send a CV and short letter of interest to [email protected] by September 1, 2025. #MaterialCulture

#MaterialCulture www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Things4Things: new podcast with historians @drzara.bsky.social and Dr. Joanna Cohen rss.com/podcasts/thi... #MaterialCulture #archives #museums #PublicHistory

Coming up this Saturday, our June speaker is...us! #MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory #WomensHistory #Religion #ReligiousHistory

🌍✨ Calling all scholars of Iberian, Islamic, and Global Renaissance Art! 📣 SIGA is thrilled to announce THREE exciting Calls for Papers for RSA 2026 in San Francisco! (1/5)

Call for Contributors: Foreclosure, a Special Issue of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism. Please send abstracts of 300 words and a biographical note of 100 words by Friday 18th July 2025. #MaterialCulture For more details visit: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife’s 2025 gathering, Recalling the Revolution in New England, will be held June 27–28 2025 at Historic Deerfield, MA. #MaterialCulture Virtual & Hybrid.To register, visit: www.historic-deerfield.org/events/dubli...

The Museum of Fine Arts Houston will offer 3 scholarships to grad students in art history, history, #MaterialCulture, or other related fields to attend the David B. Warren Houston Antiques Symposium, Oct 10-11, 2025, in Houston, Texas. Deadline: July 20. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

The Folklore and Science Section of the American Folklore Society invites submissions for the 2025 Folklore and Science Prizes; deadline July 1. #MaterialCulture See link for details: tinyurl.com/FolkloreAndS...

Hege Høyer Leivestad explores the ultimate object in histories of global capitalism: the shipping container. www.historyworkshop....

"I knew, from the photographs that my father had taken and preserved, of sharply dressed men in bespoke suits and women in dresses that they had sewn themselves". Elli Michaela Young on why collecting garments from the Carribean turned into an archive of resistance. www.historyworkshop....

Now on our blog, a post by Pappal Suneja (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), a former GHIL #scholarship holder: 'The Modern Architecture Discourse of Design (1957–1988) Through a Postcolonial Lens'. 1/4

How can a Jamaican fashion archive challenge colonial histories of the Carribean, and what resistances does it reveal? Elli Michaela Young responds to the provocation 'Is there really fashion in Jamaica?' www.historyworkshop.org.uk/black-histor...

From casta painting and sacred art to pigment economies and racialized collecting, the goal is to reframe visual regimes of race across Iberian worlds. 🖼️📦 (5/6)

One study abroad trip. One life-changing decision. Dr. Erin French tells how a three-week program in the UK led to a master’s in design history. ⚫ Watch Episode 49 of iNNOVATION Insights: youtu.be/88RfLKsb_Gw #iNNOVATIONInsights #StudyAbroad #DesignHistory

April Issue of *Technology and Culture* Available Online - This issue seems particularly pitched towards thinking about #MaterialCulture networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Fellowship Announcement: Scholarship program of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: 2026 Annual Theme: Small Forms – Between Materiality, Mediality and Genre #MaterialCulture networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

📝Call for Papers 📝 Coded. A Somewhat Emotional State Symposium, 12–14 November 2025, Lise Meitner Group “Coded Objects”, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut Deadline: 1st July 2025 ➡️ www.khi.fi.it/de/aktuelles...

Announcement: CADIZ SUMMER SCHOOL 2025 on Global Cadiz: New Perspectives, July 7-9, 2025 #MaterialCulture flacso.edu.ec/laglobal/sum...

📣 Call for Contributions! (1/6) Are you researching race, colonialism, or visual/material culture in the early modern Iberian world? This is for you. #CallForPapers #GlobalIberia #ArtHistory

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