Led by Katherine C. Grier

The Center for Historic American Visual Culture (CHAViC) encourages and facilitates the use and understanding of popular images by scholars in a variety of disciplines including American studies, gender studies, history, art history, literature, and theatre. The 2013 Summer Seminar, Domestic Impressions: The Visual and Material Culture of the American Family Home, 1750-1890 will be held July 7-12, 2013 at the American Antiquarian Society, 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA.

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.

Led by David Paul Nord and John Nerone

Led by Philip Round

Led by Ed Larkin and Phil Gould