H-Material Culture

H-Material Culture seeks applications for a Book Reviews editor, to start in November 2025. Interested applicants should send a CV and short letter of interest to editorial-Material-Culture@mail.h-net.org #MaterialCulture

H-Material Culture seeks applications for a Book Reviews editor, to start in November 2025. Interested applicants should send a CV and short letter of interest to editorial-Material-Culture@mail.h-net.org #MaterialCulture

We are delighted to announce that A Material World will be returning for our 6th year of events @warburginstitute.bsky.social. The theme for this year is Encounters.

Full programme to be announced soon.

#materialculture #arthistory #history #globalhistory

✨ Call for Papers ✨
AGENCIES AND TEMPORALITIES IN COMPLEX ARTEFACTS FROM RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES (C. 1000–1600)
What if medieval artefacts weren’t “finished” objects, but living works in progress?
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#OutNow: Object-Based Learning by Thomas Kador

This textbook offers an up-to-date perspective on the theories and practices of object-based learning, as well as practical case studies & exercises.

Download: uclpress.co.uk/book/object-...

#ObjectBasedLearning #MaterialCulture #Museums

Steven Heller: A Life in Design, History, and Education Heller stands as one of the most prolific and influential figures in the field. His impact spans generations, disciplines and continents, shaping not only how we see design, but how we think about …

From counterculture to #design icon, @stevenheller.bsky.social's story is one of rebellion & creativity. Read about his 40-year legacy #DesignHistory #GraphicDesign #Innovation newartschool.education/2024/05/20/d...

Call for Papers. The Hand: Emotions, Embodiment, Identity. An Interdisciplinary Conference. 8-9 January, 2026 London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. Proposal Deadline: 22 September 2025

What do hands reveal about us? We invite abstracts for papers of 15-20 minutes, for presentation at our 2-day interdisciplinary conference, part of The Victorian Hand: Emotions, Embodiment, and Identity, Past and Present, supported by UKRI.

We welcome presentations from multi- and interdisciplinary research fields, including Critical Studies, Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences and STEM. We encourage proposals from artists, makers and performers. Image includes an illustration of magnetism, a Victorian man sitting under 3 hands, 2 of whom have lines of magnetic power emanating onto his head and shoulders

Please send abstracts up to 300 words, and biographies up to 100 words to victorianhand@fashion.arts.ac.uk by 22 September 2025 Read the full call at thevictorianhand.uk/call-for-papers-the-hand Image features the 3 logos of Lancaster University, UAL and UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council

🙌Call for Papers🙌
We are excited to invite abstracts for an interdisciplinary conference on The Hand: Emotions, Embodiment, Identity, at @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social on 8-9 Jan 2026

Send abstracts of 300 words to victorianhand@fashion.arts.ac.uk by 22 Sep - please circulate among your networks!

Illustrating Sound: Charles E. Murphy and Command Records - Design Reviewed Command Records was founded by Enoch Light in 1959, their record sleeves can be distinguished by their bold, illustrated, and abstract cover designs, created by a range of designers.

Charles E. Murphy’s Command Records sleeves merged illustration and abstraction. Read more at designreviewed.com/illustrating...
#AlbumCovers #DesignHistory #Modernism

Illustrations scanned from The Complete Commercial Artist (現代商業美術全集), Ars, No. 04, 1928 designreviewed.com/artefacts/th... #graphicdesign #designhistory

George Giusti designed 40+ covers for Command Records.https://designreviewed.com/illustrating-sound-george-giusti-and-command-records/
#GeorgeGiusti #AlbumDesign #DesignHistory

@architecturehub.bsky.social
Eames Chairs at SF’s Transamerica Building felt like a cultural wake—bright, precise, once projecting US authority, now in elegant decline. My essay:
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#EamesChairs #DesignHistory #Architecture#CulturalCriticism

Illustrating Science. Erwin Poell and naturwissenschaft+technik Magazine - Design Reviewed Last year (2024), I came across a selection of his design work for n+m: Naturwissenschaft und Medizin (Natural Science and Medicine) magazine. Erwin Poell's work for n+m magazine, which was published ...

Erwin Poell’s 1960s data visualisations for n+m made science accessible. Read more at designreviewed.com/illustrating...
#DataViz #DesignHistory #InformationDesign

Support independent design history. Membership is less than a coffee designreviewed.com/membership/ #DesignHistory #Membership #PreserveDesign

Apprentice Publishing Support Assistant

Ready to start your career in Publishing? Based in or around #Manchester?
We're delighted to be working with training provider LDN Apprenticeships to recruit our first Apprentice Publishing Support Assistant.

More info here: www.independentpublishersguild.com/IPG/Jobs_Boa...
Deadline 5th September.

✨ CFP: The Odorous Object ✨
Perfumed letters, scented ceramics, fragrant glass vases — from the visible vessel to the invisible scent, olfactory objects carry histories of art, science, power, and imagination.
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Call for Book Review Editors for H-Material Culture. If you're interested, get in touch by sending an email to editorial-material-culture@mail.h-net.org and we'll follow up! #MaterialCulture

CFP📣!! 'The Samhain Industry in Ireland', a 1 day symposium, Maynooth University @maynoothuniversity.ie Ireland, 29 Oct 2025. Potential topics include: cultural policy, tourism, digital media, environment, #folklore, LGBTQI+, postcolonialism. Abstracts by 17 Sept👻
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The Materiality of the Late Medieval Book: Production, Reading, and Transition | Mary Jaharis Center There are currently no approaching deadlines.

CFP: The Materiality of the Late Medieval Book: Production, Reading, and Transition, session(s) at the 2026 International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 6–9, 2026. Submissions due September 14, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/the-mat...

New Episode of Hagley History Hangout Podcast: The Power of Patents: Global Intellectual Property, 1880-1950 with Joël Praz #MaterialCulture www.hagley.org/research/his...

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Announcement: The Watson Collection is now available to view online. It is part of University of Oxford's broader Their Finest Hour Online Archive (theirfinesthour.org), a 2022-24 project that digitally preserved 25,000+ stories and objects from WW2 shared by the UK public. #MaterialCulture

CFP: International Conference of Europeanists, June 16-18, 2026, University College Dublin. Theme: Integrity, Solidarity, and Unity: Hopes and Realities of the European Future. Applications due: Oct 8. #MaterialCulture
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Every member helps digitise and preserve fragile artefacts for articles and education. Support the archive at designreviewed.com/membership/ #DesignArchive #PreserveDesign #DesignHistory

NEW advance article! A Spirited Way to a Rational Home: Cultivating Normativity through the Victorian Spiritualist Interior by Vanessa Galvin. Read this open access article at academic.oup.com/jdh/article/...
#JournalOfDesignHistory #DesignHistory #DomesticLife #Interior

Guys a new vocatio newsletter on medieval material culture just dropped. Links about reenactor and maker blogs, leatherwork from Oslo, Hapsburg fire-lances, and a sword called Brok. https://ageofdatini.info/vocationes.html #histodons #materialCulture

H-Material Culture seeks applications for a Book Reviews editor, to start in November 2025. Interested applicants should send a CV and short letter of interest to editorial-Material-Culture@mail.h-net.org by September 1, 2025. #MaterialCulture

Liquid Forms: Questions for a Design History of Water Abstract. The article introduces a largely overlooked topic within the history of design: Designed objects serving as interfaces with water, enabling inter

NEW advance article! Liquid Forms: Questions for a Design History of Water by @madsfolkmann and Malin Graesse. Read and subscribe now at academic.oup.com/jdh/advance-...
#JournalOfDesignHistory #DesignHistory #Aesthetics #GreyEcology

Newly published: "Grace, Piety and Memory: The Material Culture of British Catholics 1534-1850", a guide by the British Catholic Material Culture Research Group. More info and free download link here: britishartnetwork.org.uk/research/bri... #skystorians #catholicism #skyhistory #materialculture

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝟭𝟮.𝟭 (𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱)
𝗦𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲

Edited by Elina Gertsman

More info: bit.ly/4fHvBlr

#Medievalsky #ArtHistory #Religion #History #MaterialCulture #Medievalists #Medieval #ArtHistorysky #Historysky

H-Material Culture seeks applications for a Book Reviews editor, to start in November 2025. Interested applicants should send a CV and short letter of interest to editorial-Material-Culture@mail.h-net.org by September 1, 2025. #MaterialCulture

After 150 years, a prized box returns to an Indigenous nation in Canada: ‘I felt like royalty traveling with it’ The unlikely return of the bentwood box underscores the challenges facing Indigenous communities working to reclaim items raided from their lands

#MaterialCulture www.theguardian.com/environment/...