a symposium on shoes
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Are you fascinated by historic shoes? Do you want to learn more about the roles footwear has played in people's lives and the styles they wore and why? Do you want the inside scoop on some of the latest museum projects involving cataloging & accessibility of collections? Then join us for a symposium on shoes, planned in conjunction with "Cosmopolitan Consumption: New England Shoe Stories, 1750" May 29th-30th, 2015. Sponsored by the Portsmouth Athenaeum and UNH History Department. Kimberly Alexander, Ph.D. and Sandra Rux, Organizers & Co-CuratorsTRANSCRIPT
Friday, May 29– Saturday, May 30, 2015
All events take place at the Discover Portsmouth Center and Portsmouth Athenaeum unless noted otherwise.
Cosmopolitan Consumption:
New England Shoe Stories1 750-1850i k
A SYMPOSIUM
FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2015
3:00 Registration Opens
4:00 Gallery talk: SANDRA RUX Co-curator, Independent Museum Professional
5:00 Reception
6:00 “For the Love of Shoes”: SUSAN HOLLOWAY SCOTT best-selling historical fiction novelist and well-known history blogger (twonerdyhistorygirls.blogspot.com)
SATURDAY, MAY 30, 2015
8:30 Registration
9:00 Welcome & Introduction: TOM HARDIMAN Keeper, Portsmouth Athenaeum
9:15 -10:00 "Some Observations on Noteworthy Shoes1750-1850”: EDWARD F. MAEDER Curator/Conservator- The Roddis Dress Collection, Research Associate, Theatre Department, Smith College
10:10-10:55 “Made in Lynn: Uncovering 350 Years of History in the 'shoe capital of the world'": ABBY BATTIS Assistant Director, Lynn Museum and Historical Society
Short Break
11:15- 12:00 "Very Good and Worthy of Notice: Lynn shoemaker Edward Swain Davis and his 1839 Exhibition Shoes": PAULA BRADSTREET RICHTER Curator for Exhibitions and Research, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts.
12:05-12:50 "Recycled Shoes and Clothing": MARY DOERING Adjunct Professor, Costume History Smithsonian- Mason MA in the History of Decorative Arts
1:00-1:30 Question and Answer Panel with the Speakers
Lunch on Your Own
2:00-5:00 Select local Museums & Historic Houses open.Informal gallery talks at the Athenaeum with the curators.Details TBA
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