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2011 CHAViC Summer Seminar
Picturing Reform:
How Images Transformed America, 1830-1880
June 19-24, 2011
Worcester, Massachusetts
| The Center for Historic American Visual Culture (CHAViC) facilitates the use and understanding of popular images by scholars and their students in many disciplines — American studies, history, art history, and literature. Sessions at this summer seminar will focus on the history of print production in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; interpreting portrait paintings, prints, and photographs; "reading" illustrations in popular journals; and related topics. |
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About the Faculty
Louis P. Masur, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American Institutions and Values at Trinity College, will lead the seminar. Professor Masur is a specialist in cultural history and the author of many books and essays.
He will be joined by Lauren Hewes, the Andrew W. Mellon curator of graphic arts at the Society; Georgia Barnhill, CHAViC's director; David Jaffee, professor of early American history and material culture at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture; Jack Larkin, chief historian and museum scholar emeritus at Old Sturbridge Village; Joshua Brown, executive director, American Social History Project and professor of history, City University of New York; and Amy Richter, associate professor of history, Clark University.
Cost
The cost of the seminar will be $750 with some financial aid available for graduate students. Housing will be at a hotel within walking distance; the room rate is about $100 per night plus taxes. Participants can share rooms at a considerable savings.
Application
The deadline for applications to the seminar is March 18, 2011.
Download a pdf of the application.
Housing
Rooms, at the reduced rate of $109 (single/double) per night, are available at the Worcester Courtyard by Marriott, 72 Grove Street, Worcester, MA 01605. State and local taxes apply.
Reservations must be made by May 28, 2011, to receive this rate.
To make a reservation please call the hotel directly at 1-508-363-0300 and mention that you are coming in with the American Antiquarian Society "Summer Seminar-CHAViC" group.
Contact Information
For more information about the seminar, please contact Georgia B. Barnhill, Director of CHAViC, at gbarnhill[at]mwa.org or 508-471-2173.
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