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Ben Tilghman

CFP: Ecological Seeing I & II (Kalamazoo, May 2023)

July 25, 2022 By Ben Tilghman Leave a Comment

Otters!

​​CALL FOR PAPERS International Congress on Medieval Studies Kalamazoo, MI May 11-13, 2023  Ecological Seeing I – Teaching Environmental Art History Ecological Seeing II – New Research in Environmental Art History Sponsored by the Material Collective. Co-organized by Danielle Joyner (Lawrence University), Nancy Thebaut (Skidmore College) & Benjamin C. Tilghman (Washington College / The Material […]

CFP: Intersectional Medievalisms at Kalamazoo 2019

July 9, 2018 By Ben Tilghman Leave a Comment

Medieval studies has a diversity problem. I’m not going to detail it here, mostly because there are many excellent essays that do it better than I could do. But it’s a problem that we all need to keep working on, regardless of the resistance and barriers that get thrown in our way by the institutions […]

Still Looking

September 18, 2015 By Ben Tilghman Leave a Comment

What do we see when we stop to look? Why stilling ourselves helps us see things in broader perspectives.

Scale and the Challenge of Sand

November 10, 2014 By Ben Tilghman 3 Comments

Sand challenges our understanding of scale because it refuses to settle within a single conceptual framework. Is sand immense, or is it tiny?

New Materialisms at CAA

March 7, 2014 By Ben Tilghman Leave a Comment

The 2014 Annual Conference of the College Art Association didn’t feature any participation by the Material Collective as a group, but did feature quite a lot of discussion about issues of continuing interest to the Collective, particularly around materiality and objecthood.

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