About this Event
This year’s theme will analyze the effects of early consumerism as introduced in the DAR Museum’s exhibit, To Supply a Nation: Origins and Impacts of Everyday Things. This exhibit explores the origins and impacts of household goods in the 18th and 19th centuries. Listen to a full day of speakers and have time to visit the exhibit on your own.
Lunch included for in-person registration
Speakers include:
Milly Cai, MA Candidate in Art History, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Presentation: “Illuminating Racialized Surveillance: The Double Lives of the Candlelight and the Silhouette in the 18th and 19th Century”
Sarah Fling, Historian, White House Historical Association
Presentation: “Sugar, Slavery, and the White House China"
Dr. Daniel Graham, Instructor of History, Slippery Rock University, The Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry at the Science History Institute
Presentation: "Rubber and the History of Technology in the Early American Republic"
Neal T. Hurst, Associate Curator of Costume and Textiles, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Presentation: “Robert Beverley of Virginia and his London Clothiers 1762-1775"
Katie McKinney, Margaret Beck Pritchard Associate Curator of Maps & Prints, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Presentation: “Picturing the Walls: Maps and Prints in the early Chesapeake"
Kathryn Prinkey, Emerging Museum Professional
Presentation: “Exports and Embargoes: Trading with the Enemy in Colonial America"
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
DAR Museum, 1776 D St NW, Washington, United States
USD 45.00 to USD 99.00