Secondhand Culture: Waste, Value, and Materiality explores the ways in which objects ranging from clothing to collectibles to trash have been constructed and experienced. Scholars of Theater, History, Geography, and Art and Design History discuss this vital new area at the intersection of consumerism, material culture studies, cultural geography, and artmaking.
April 15
Michele Majer
Bard Graduate Center
Welcome
Film Screening: “Secondhand (Pepe),” (2007)
Followed by Q&A with the filmmakers Hanna Rose Shell and Vanessa Bertozzi
William Davies King
Professor of Theater, University of California Santa Barbara
Suited for Nothing: Collecting Second-Hand
April 16
Catherine Whalen
Bard Graduate Center
Welcome
Shirley Teresa Wajda
Historian
Secondhand Culture Studies: A View from the Rust Belt
Alexandra Palmer
Senior Curator, Royal Ontario Museum
Back to Back: Retro-fitting Fashion within the Museum
Alison Isenberg
Associate Professor, History, Rutgers University
Second-Hand Cities: Antiques, Inheritance, and Preservation from the
Civil War to Urban Renewal
Nicky Gregson
Professor, Geography, University of Sheffield
Death, the Phoenix, and Pandora: End of Life Ships, Chock-Chocky Furniture and the Bangladeshi Middle Class
Marilynn Gelfman Karp
Emeritus Professor of Art, New York University
In Flagrante Collecto: Caught in the Act of Collecting
Susan Strasser
Professor, History, University of Delaware
Commentary
Open Discussion
Moderated by Amy Ogata, Bard Graduate Center
Organized by Pat Kirkham, Professor; Michele Majer, Assistant Professor; Amy Ogata, Associate Professor; Catherine Whalen, Assistant Professor.
