- Cyberculture Working Group
- Early American Seminar
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Material Culture/Visual Culture Working Group
The Material Culture/Visual Culture Working Group is an interdisciplinary group of faculty and graduate students engaged in research on these facets of culture. The group has several goals: to build a learning community within which we can share and critique each other's research, think together and think cross-disciplinarily about important issues of common interest to our fields, and exchange information about courses, resources, and events in each other's units.
Gail Dubrow Lecture
December 5, 2002
Defiant Heritage: Reconceptualizing Preservation
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Asian American and Feminist Perspectives
In 2000-2001 and 2001-2002, MCVCWG focused on African-American material and visual culture. Speakers included Dr. Farah Jasmin Griffin, author of "Who Set You Flowin'?:" The African-American Migration Narrative; Dr. Deborah Willis, author of Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840-Present; Dr. Noliwe Rooks, author of Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture, and African-American Women; Dr. Andrew Wiese, author of numerous prize-winning articles on African-American suburbs; and a panel on African American quilts and quilters, featuring several expert local quilt artists. The group has produced a website with resources on African-American Material, Visual, and Textual Culture on the World Wide Web.
The group was founded by Mary Corbin Sies and Psyche Williams-Forson.