The Ballard Institute & Museum of Puppetry presents:

Summer 2020 Online Puppet Forum #3: "Object Lessons: Material Culture and Humanistic Studies" with Scott Shershow

On June 18 at 4 p.m. ET, Professor Scott Shershow of University of California, Davis will speak with John Bell about “Object Lessons: Material Culture and Humanistic Studies,” and how puppets and performing objects have been part of literary studies, the new philosophic field of “object-oriented ontology,” and even such mundane subjects as bread and the nature of letters.

Scott Cutler Shershow is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Puppets and “Popular” Culture (Cornell University 1995) and of other articles and books on theater, popular culture and critical theory. His most recent books are Bread, from Bloomsbury’s “Object Lessons” series, (2016); and The Love of Ruins: Letters on Lovecraft (SUNY 2017).

This forum will take place via Facebook Live at facebook.com/BallardInstitute