Explore the history of cartomancy, or divination using a deck of cards, in the early United States through materials from our Special Collections.

Join doctoral student Victoria Kenyon to discuss how fortune-telling cards can serve as haptic objects, how racial imagery has been used in cards and publications, and what these elements reveal about the formation of American identity and the politics of empire-building in the period.

Victoria Kenyon is a curatorial track doctoral student in the Department of Art History. Her research interests include the history of religion and the supernatural in 19th- and early-20th-century American visual and material culture.

This in-person event is part of our Scholar in the Library series. It is free and open to the public. The event will not be recorded.

To register visit:

https://udel.libcal.com/event/11396915