Friday, November 10

Mentoring Breakfast, with the Visual Culture Caucus, 8-9:30 am

This breakfast offers a chance for emerging scholars in the fields of Visual and Material Culture to connect and receive mentorship. Interested graduate students and recent graduates will be paired with senior faculty and museum professionals.

Mentorship groups will be organized in advance of the breakfast, so please RSVP to Andrea Quintero and Michaela Rife at mcc.vcc.mentoring@gmail.com by November 8th. In your email please include a bit about your work and some goals for the breakfast. This event will be held in the conference hotel restaurant and is pay your own way.

If you are willing to serve as a mentor during the breakfast please contact Andrea Quintero and Michaela Rife at mcc.vcc.mentoring@gmail.com

Reception, with the Visual Culture Caucus, 5:00-7:00 pm

The School of the Art Institute, Sharp Building, 37 South Wabash, Room 327

Hors-d’oeuvres, cash bar. Please make sure you have a photo id with you to show to security as you enter the building.

Saturday, November 11

Sponsored Panel

Empathy as Pedagogy: The Possibilities and Perils of Understanding Dissent Through Objects. 8:00 to 9:45am, Hyatt Regency Chicago, McCormick, Third Floor West Tower

Annual Meeting

Material Culture Caucus. 11:00am to 12:00pm, Hyatt Regency Chicago, Picasso, Concourse Level West Tower

Sponsored Panel

Materializing Dissent: Nat Turner's Relics, McKinley's Glass Bowl, Antinuclear Activists' Everyday Stuff, and Pussyhat Politics. 12:00-1:45 McCormick, 3rd floor, West Tower

Sponsored Roundtable

Material Culture Pedagogy Across the Curriculum

Sat, November 11, 2:00 to 3:45pm, Hyatt Regency Chicago, McCormick, Third Floor West Tower