Co-sponsored by CCA, RCHA, and the Program in History of Science, Technology, Environment and Health
Times: 10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Location: Alexander Library, Teleconference Lecture Hall
(4th floor), 169 College Avenue, College Avenue Campus,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Contact: {encode="jdelbourgo@history.rutgers.edu" title="jdelbourgo@history.rutgers.edu"}
How do people collect themselves by collecting things? Etymologies of “collect” point to practices of assembling and gathering, with reference to money, religion and politics. Scholars have recently insisted on the need to understand “the social” as constituted by processes of assembling, while “things” have been reinterpreted through the collectives that make them meaningful. This interdisciplinary symposium explores the reciprocity between collecting things and collecting people, and the novel cultural mixtures produced thereby.
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Cultural Analysis, the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, and the Program in History of Science, Technology, Environment and Health, Rutgers University