Event/Speaker
Symposium: Secondhand Culture: Waste, Value, and MaterialityDate
Thursday, April 15, 2010 – Friday, April 16, 2010Time
Thursday, 5:00 pm – 8:00 pmFriday, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Place
Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th StreetCOST
FREE General AdmissionFREE Students and Seniors
RSVP required to 212.501.3019, academic-events@bgc.bard.edu
Description
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.
Printed crimped steel, each 1-1/4” diameter.
Courtesy Marilynn Gelfman Karp,
In Flagrante Collecto: Caught in the Act of Collecting
Bard Graduate Center Symposium Organizers
Pat Kirkham, Professor
Michele Majer, Assistant Professor
Amy Ogata, Associate Professor
Catherine Whalen, Assistant Professor
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
5:00 pm – Welcome: Michele Majer
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 16th, 2010
Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
9:15 am – Welcome: Catherine Whalen
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 Ogata
Bard Graduate Center
Secondhand Culture:Waste, Value, and Materiality Schedule (PDF)
For additional information contact Alex Phelan, phelan@bgc.bard.edu.
Home page photograph/Cork figures with hats and skirt, 1948. Cork with silk thread, each 4” high. France. Courtesy Marilynn Gelfman Karp, In Flagrante Collecto: Caught in the Act of Collecting
(24 min.) followed by Q&A with the filmmakers
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