Daniel Miller
Professor of Material Culture, University College London
"The Material Culture of Loss"
Daniel Miller will be coming to speak Tuesday April 21, 2009, as part of the annual Iris Foundation Award Lecture, on: "The Material Culture of Loss." Dr. Miller is the recipient of one of this year's
Iris Foundation Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Decorative Arts.
Daniel Miller, Professor of Material Culture, at University College London, received his Ph.D. in Anthropology and Archaeology from Cambridge University. His areas of interest include material culture, objectification, consumption and relationships, value and political economy, clothing, media and housing. Dr. Miller has been awarded the Rivers Memorial Medal from the Royal Anthropological Institute (2008), has been named an Elected Fellow of the British Academy (2008), and has undertaken fieldwork across the globe in such places as India, Trinidad, and Indonesia. He is the joint founding editor of the Journal of Material Culture, a joint editor of Materializing Culture (Berg book series), and is on the editorial board of Anthropology Today, the International Journal of Cultural Studies, and the Journal of Consumer Culture, among others. Among his recent books are: The Comfort of Things (2007); with H. Horst The Cell Phone: an anthropology of communication(2006); (ed.) Materiality (2005) ; (ed. with S Küchler) Clothing as Material Culture; (with M. Banerjee) The Sari (2003). He also edits the blog www.materialworldblog.com with Haidy Geismer of New York University.
Please join us this Tuesday evening. The lecture will be preceded by a reception in the lobby of Bard Hall at 5:00 PM; talk begins at 5:30 PM.
RSVP of attendance is required to, academic-events@bgc.bard.edu.
