A summary of what the MC is up to at Kalamazoo this year.
The Dinner Party: Invitations Long Overdue
3The Material Collective Plays with Food: Art and Activism at the 2017 College Art Association Meeting in New York
The Resistance
0Keep pushing, keep marching, keep calling, keep signing petitions, keep teaching, and keep resisting.
Severed Heads, Abnormal Sights, and Perplexity
0Might the medieval reception of heads on pikes help us think through our own reactions to the display of a severed head of Hillary Clinton at a Trump rally?
Hoarders and Hoards
0The Material Collective’s special issue of postmedieval, Hoarders and Hoards: Responses to the Staffordshire Hoard, is now available.
Off the cuff
0Looking at art takes a lot of time, and if we slow down enough, we will be startled by how much we can find that we missed on quicker looks.
The Problematic of Things
0Recently, while on a trip to Istanbul, I fell and shattered my knee. I ended up having surgery there and, thanks to my husband’s Herculean efforts, am now back in the States coping with recovery.
“If Everyone is Special, Then No One Is”: Medieval Manuscripts for the Masses
0The widespread digitization of medieval manuscripts has revolutionized our field. But how has it changed the ways scholars relate to manuscripts personally?
Write a guest blog post for the Material Collective!
0The Material Collective is looking for guest blog posts and welcomes contributions on all topics that relate to the themes and mission of our group, broadly conceived.
#Kzoo 2016
0How can we even begin to summarize all the glories of this year’s Kalamazoo? I know that kind of hyperbole always appears in these recap posts, but seriously, there was SO MUCH this year.