Engaging Objects Workshop Amsterdam
Things! Chris Witmore's seminar on material culture
Thing Theory Seminar at Columbia/Barnard Anthropology
Material Worlds: Art and Agency in the Near East and Africa: Ömür Harmansah's course on material culture (Spring 2007)
Cogut Center Events for Fall 2007 including talks by Margaret Locke on altheimers and another dealing with architecture.
Material world blog is an anthropologically based online hub for contemporary debates, discussion, thinking and research centred on material and visual culture.
An upcoming symposim at Harvard 9April2008 featuring Bill Brown 
Modern.Age.pdf
A fascinating exhibit at RISD about styrofoam
