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Seminar in New York & American Material Culture

Wednesday September 24, 2008
“Second-hand Cities: Urban Inheritance and the Racialized Origins of the American Antique Trade, 1860s-1960s”
Alison Isenberg (History, Rutgers University)

Wednesday December 3, 2008
"The Adultery of Mary West and Richard Jones: Writing Material Culture in the Absence of Objects"
Bernard Herman (Art History, University of Delaware)

Wednesday February 25, 2009
"Governing Happiness"
Sam Binkley (Department of Communication, Emerson College)


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