Reed Gochberg

Museum curator and cultural historian. Author, Useful Objects (Oxford, 2021). All views my own.

[Reed Gochberg @reedgochberg]

So thrilled to announce that Useful Objects is out today from @OUPAcademic!

[Reed Gochberg @reedgochberg]

@RezekJoe Amazing news! Congratulations!

[Reed Gochberg @reedgochberg]

@book_historia Shared this with a friend at NASA in case they have any leads!

[Harvard Art Museums @harvartmuseums]

The Harvard Art Museums are thrilled to announce free admission for all visitors, effective immediately!

“Art is for everyone, and the Harvard Art Museums will now be free to all visitors,” said Lawrence S. Bacow, President of Harvard University. https://t.co/NAmJWeLaYv

[Reed Gochberg @reedgochberg]

@book_historia @WinterthurMuse Congratulations!! Fantastic news!!

[Reed Gochberg @reedgochberg]

For International Museum Day, I wrote about Thoreau's specimens and imagining sustainable futures for museums for @OUPHistory https://t.co/fcg1rYwhS2

[Reed Gochberg @reedgochberg]

Today at 12 pm EST! Join us for an exciting discussion with Pedro Raposo and Paul Callomon @AcadNatSci @chstmorg Details and Zoom link here: https://t.co/Etz46uy9ne

[Reed Gochberg @reedgochberg]

Please join us on Friday, May 5th at 12 pm EST for our last @chstmorg "Collections and Collecting" working group of the spring! We'll hear from Pedro Raposo and Paul Callomon from @AcadNatSci on "People, Nature, and the Social Extension of Specimens." https://t.co/Etz46uy9ne

[Reed Gochberg @reedgochberg]

Please join us on Friday, May 5th at 12 pm EST for our last @chstmorg "Collections and Collecting" working group of the spring! We'll hear from Pedro Raposo and Paul Callomon from @AcadNatSci on "People, Nature, and the Social Extension of Specimens." https://t.co/Etz46uy9ne

[Reed Gochberg @reedgochberg]

Tomorrow at 12 pm EST! Join us for an exciting discussion about scientific collections and material culture with @martaclourenco. Details and Zoom info below. #histSTM @chstmorg @Adrianna_Link

[Reed Gochberg @reedgochberg]

Join the @chstmorg "Collections and Collecting" working group this Friday (4/7) at 12 pm EST for a workshop with Marta Lourenco on "Engaging Storytelling: Reading Artefacts of Science." More details here: https://t.co/Etz46uyHcM

[Reed Gochberg @reedgochberg]

Join the @chstmorg "Collections and Collecting" working group this Friday (4/7) at 12 pm EST for a workshop with Marta Lourenco on "Engaging Storytelling: Reading Artefacts of Science." More details here: https://t.co/Etz46uyHcM

[Reed Gochberg @reedgochberg]

Today at noon EST! Please join us to hear more about this fabulous research! @chstmorg https://t.co/Etz46uy9ne

[Reed Gochberg @reedgochberg]

Please join the @chstmorg "Collections and Collecting" working group this Friday, March 3rd at 12 pm EST to hear from Ally Fulton on Elizabeth Agassiz, stenography, and scientific objectivity. More details here: https://t.co/Etz46uy9ne

[Wade Campbell @looking4mutton]

Are you in the Northeast? Are you curious about the ways in which #Native scholars are pushing historiographical boundaries through the use of alternative archives to #reclaim Native histories? If so, come to @BUAmnesp on May 4 and hear this incredible slate of speakers!

[Adrianna Link @Adrianna_Link]

A reminder that the Collections & Collecting Working Group hosted by @chstmorg will meet tomorrow, March 3 at 12pm ET to discuss Ally Fulton's chapter, "Crafting Fidelity: Elizabeth Agassiz, Stenography, and Scientific Objectivity." Join us! https://t.co/j13XM8oHSO

[Reed Gochberg @reedgochberg]

Please join the @chstmorg "Collections and Collecting" working group this Friday, March 3rd at 12 pm EST to hear from Ally Fulton on Elizabeth Agassiz, stenography, and scientific objectivity. More details here: https://t.co/Etz46uy9ne

[Reed Gochberg @reedgochberg]

Excited to see a review of Useful Objects included in this epic special issue of @AmLitHist and thank you to @ethomasfinan for such a thoughtful reading!

[Thomas Finan @ethomasfinan]

For @AmLitHist, I reviewed @reedgochberg's "Useful Objects" (@OUPAcademic, 2021). https://t.co/siZu7cvNN5

[ECA Material and Visual Culture Seminar @mvcseminar]

🚨We are very excited to share the #CfP for our upcoming one-day hybrid conference on 19th May ‘Historical Fragments: Making, Breaking, and Remaking’. Abstracts due by 15th March 2023.

[Museum of Comparative Zoology @MCZHarvard]

Image from "Robert Gilbert's doctoring saves many a run-down creature in Museum of Zoology at Harvard", Boston Sunday Herald in 1931 tells of Gilbert's (1869–1942) crucial role in preserving MCZ specimens on display in present-day @HarvardMuseums #BlackHistoryMonth

[Small Special Collections Library (UVA) @RareUVA]

ON VIEW NOW: ‘Women Making Books' demonstrates the social, personal, and political possibilities when women take control of a book’s content and structure. From scrapbooking to satirizing, from embroidery to zines, women have pushed at the boundaries of what a book is and can be.

[Tamara Fernando @TamaraFernando3]

#CfP: Excited to be organizing "Making Science of Things: Objects in and between the Natural and Human Sciences" w Brooke Penaloza-Patzak!

Deadline: 4 March
Workshop dates: Vienna, 29 Jun - 1 July 2023

Please share/RT
#sts #histsci #materialculture #twitterstorians

[Adrianna Link @Adrianna_Link]

TODAY at 12pm ET! Paper is fantastic -- hope you can join us!