Collective (A Roundtable)
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Material Collective
Organizer Name
Joy Partridge, Alexa Sand
Organizer Affiliation
Graduate Center, CUNY, Utah State Univ.
Presider Name
Alexa Sand
Paper Title 1
We Are the Union
Presenter 1 Name
Maggie M. Williams
Presenter 1 Affiliation
William Paterson Univ./Material Collective
Paper Title 2
Bad "We's"
Presenter 2 Name
Julie Orlemanski
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Chicago
Paper Title 3
With and against Objects, and Ourselves
Presenter 3 Name
Benjamin C. Tilghman
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Lawrence Univ./Material Collective
Paper Title 4
From Collaboration to Community: Art History That
Presenter 4 Name
Amy K. Hamlin, Karen J. Leader
Presenter 4 Affiliation
St. Catherine Univ., Florida Atlantic Univ.
Paper Title 5
Do We Only Preserve What We Enjoy? Sustaining Images of Medieval Art and Architecture
Presenter 5 Name
Alison Langmead, Aisling Quigley
Presenter 5 Affiliation
Univ. of Pittsburgh, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Start Date
11-5-2017 3:30 PM
Session Location
Sangren 1730
Description
As either a noun or an adjective, the term ‘collective’ refers to the assemblage of disparate entities into a whole. Even when that whole is singular, it is rarely entirely uniform. Medieval owners could gather diverse objects into hoards, burials, church treasuries, and libraries. Modern assemblages—in museums, libraries, and through digital platforms—may disperse or draw together medieval objects. People can be collective, too, and individual minds and personalities might join together in a common enterprise—medieval or modern.
Using medieval models like the universitas and the artists’ guilds, this session interrogates the term collective in every sense. How can an investigation of the word help us to understand more about how we view medieval culture and also how we function as scholars and workers in 21st century Medieval Studies? What are the inherent advantages and difficulties of collectivity, collections, or collective action?
Joy Partridge
Collective (A Roundtable)
Sangren 1730
As either a noun or an adjective, the term ‘collective’ refers to the assemblage of disparate entities into a whole. Even when that whole is singular, it is rarely entirely uniform. Medieval owners could gather diverse objects into hoards, burials, church treasuries, and libraries. Modern assemblages—in museums, libraries, and through digital platforms—may disperse or draw together medieval objects. People can be collective, too, and individual minds and personalities might join together in a common enterprise—medieval or modern.
Using medieval models like the universitas and the artists’ guilds, this session interrogates the term collective in every sense. How can an investigation of the word help us to understand more about how we view medieval culture and also how we function as scholars and workers in 21st century Medieval Studies? What are the inherent advantages and difficulties of collectivity, collections, or collective action?
Joy Partridge