Hey Jeff --
I'd love to speak. My background and expertise is in 1909-1916 Deadball -- in the media technologies emergent at the time, the printing methods, economic conditions; rapid scaling of globalization and industrialization which produced the overarching social, political, and cultural conditions which themselves are the Deadball ethos and aesthetic quality that we observe in the remaining artifacts and documents from the era. I also talk about how cultural and collective memory functions to create the image and images of this bygone era.
Everything from photographic, lithographic (cards), journalistic, and documentary artifacts like letters and contracts/founding documents are fair game in my work; I incorporate them all.
Started at the Smithsonian NMAH as a baseball archivist (the only one on staff) when I was a teenager; got my masters in Philosophy and Cultural Studies. Essays in SABR groups as well as on my personal Substack accessible here and on YouTube. Linking both so you can see where I would fit in your seminar list.
I would have to be Zoom/remote if you can swing it, if not, no worries. Message me here or on FB since we've already started convos together?
Best,
David
https://davidbussellarchive.substack.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@BaseballCardPhilosophy