Making: an intl conf on materiality & knowledge (Sep 2012, Norway)

Location: Notodden, Norway
Dates: 24-27 September 2012
Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2012
Website: http://making.nordfo.org/

In Notodden, Norway, september 2012, the international conference “Making - an international conference on Materiality and Knowledge” will take place. The  conference aims to provide an outlet for international and interdisciplinary knowledge production within the Making Disciplines/Making Professions/Making Education.

We kindly invite you to submit abstract to the conference by 15th March 2012. Please visit our website: http://making.nordfo.org/ for more information about the two versions of paper presentation (with or without peer-response), and for more information about the conference theme, aim and organizer.

Do you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask either marte.gulliksen@hit.no or kirstine.riis@hit.no.

The Life of New Materials (Nov 2011, Philadelphia)

Dates: 17-18 Nov 2011
Location: Philadelphia USA
Deadline for proposals: 1 April 2011
Website: http://www.pachs.net/newmaterials

Paper proposals are invited for a conference on Nov. 17 and 18, 2011 that will explore the lives of the new materials that have made
possible many of the technological advances of our age. Whether based on plant, metal, chemical, or nano technologies, the development, use, re-use, and disposal of new materials is an embedded feature of our industrial society. The focus of this conference is to understand the relationships from which new materials emerge, and which they in turn often refashion. We are especially interested in proposals that focus on the life history of a new material: its biography, use cycle, place in supply chains, or features as material culture. We encourage papers to address the reasons and methods for development of a new material; its design, manufacture, testing, and subsequent incorporation into final products or already existing technologies; its reuse or disposal after completion of its primary purpose; and its impact – anticipated or not – on subsequent innovations. Exploration of the creation of new materials should situate those scientific and technological processes within the commercial, institutional, or social contexts that lead to their development. Papers should be historical and based on original research, and may consider any region of the world after 1900.

9th Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars (Apr 2011, Delaware)

Date: 16 April 2011
Deadline for submission: 24 November 2010

The Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware invites submissions for papers to be given at the Ninth Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars.

Focus: Objects order the social body and mediate cultural interactions. Yet, at the same time, objects can be deployed against established structures. Whether designed to effect change or repurposed to undermine normative practices, objects often revolt against social, cultural, intellectual, economic and political systems. This conference seeks papers that explore the creation, use and manipulation of things as they reorder our world.

2011 Nat’l Conf of the Material Culture Area of PCA/ACA (Apr 2011, San Antonio USA)

The Material Culture Area of PCA/ACA (Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association) <http://www.pcaaca.org> is pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for the 2011 National Conference, to be held in San Antonio, Texas, Wednesday, April 20– Saturday, April 23. You are invited to submit proposals now through December 15, 2010.