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Summer Seminars and Workshops

The Center for Historical American Visual Culture (CHAViC) engages teachers on all levels to make images more accessible to them and their students.

We are accomplishing this with a series of workshops, seminars and one-day conferences at AAS and elsewhere.

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2022: Summer Seminar "On Stage: Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century America" more information
2019: Summer Seminar "The Political is Visual" more information
2017: Summer Seminar "In Black and White: Race and American Visual Culture" more information
2016: Summer Seminar "Seeing Nature: The Environment in American Visual Culture to 1900" more information
2015: Summer Seminar "Culinary Culture: The Politics of American Foodways, 1765-1900" more information
2014: Summer Seminar "The Art of Science and Technology, 1750-1900" more information
2013: Summer Seminar "Domestic Impressions: The Visual and Material Culture of the American Family Home, 1750-1890" more information
2012: Summer Seminar "Seeing the American Civil War: How Visual Culture Recorded, Interpreted, and Remembered the Conflict"
2011: Summer Seminar "Picturing Reform: How Images Transformed America, 1830-1880"
2010: Summer Seminar "Interpreting Historical Images for Teaching & Research"
2009: Summer Seminar "Interpreting Historical Images for Teaching & Research"
2008: K-12 Educator Workshop "A Thousand Words: Images & Literacy in U.S. History"
2006: 1-day Conference for K-12 Educators "Visualizing the Past"