Speaking at Yale, Friday Jan. 30

Looking forward to joining Laura Wexler and the members of the Yale Photographic Memory Workshop and History of Science people at the Gilder Lehrman Centre’s Seminar room from 4:30-6:30. Open to the public — do come. I leave or Paris the next day, so this is your last chance for 5 months. (I don’t think the Photographic Memory Workshop means they study people with photographic memory, but rather the kind of work Laura has done on photography and memory, and most recently the extraordinary Photogrammar project, for searching and doing much more with FSA photos from the Depression.

NYC talk on scrapbooks – Feb 13

Wed. Feb. 13 informal talk on scrapbooks – New York Metro American Studies Association, at Hunter College. Plenty of pictures!

Scrapbooks: The Facebook of 1800s — The Durham Herald-Sun’s write-up of my scrapbook talk at Duke

Write up of my Duke University talk

So great that the Duke University library put some of the scrapbooks I was speaking about on display for people to look at.