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Events<\/h1>\n

The\u00a0Bodies, Environments and Material Culture Collective<\/em>\u00a0regularly hold events which play host to key speakers in our field of work.<\/p>\n

Please regularly check this page to discover what events are coming up and for information on how to attend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Session 1, led by Dr Joshua Rushton, 28 October 2026, 9.30-11, Sam Alex, A4<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Andrea Toffolon, \u2019The Sacrality of Water\u2019: Religion and Medicine in the Spas of the Early Modern Veneto\u2019,\u00a0Histoire, m\u00e9decine et sant\u00e9<\/em>, 24 (2023, 25\u201339). [Available via library catalogue]<\/li>\n
  2. Alexandra Walsham, \u2018Reforming the Water: From Holy Wells to Healing Springs\u2019, in\u00a0The Reformation of the Landscape<\/em> (Oxford, 2011), 397\u2013414. [eBook]<\/li>\n
  3. Melanie Giles, Bog Bodies: Face to Face with the Past <\/em>(Manchester, 2020), chapter 2, \u2018Discovering bog bodies\u2019. [eBook]<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Session 2, led by Dr Manon Rafford, 2 December 2026, 9.30-11, Sam Alex, A4<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Nathaniel Ray Pickett and Shannon O\u2019Lear, \u2018Chornobyl Body Politics: Making Environmental Violence Visible\u2019, 25\u201349: https:\/\/cambridge.org\/core\/books\/exploring-environmental-violence\/chornobyl-body-politics\/2C6C0528E9C1A623D58BB392EEDB0F37<\/a><\/u><\/li>\n
    2. Mikko Joronen and Wassim Ghantous, \u2018Weathering Violence: Atmospheric materialities and olfactory durations of \u2018skunk water\u2019 in Palestine\u2019, EPE: Nature and Space<\/em>, 7:3, 2024, 1122\u20131141: https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/41908965\/<\/a><\/u><\/li>\n
    3. Manon Raffard, \u201cThe Atmospheric Cost of Class-Based Spatial Segregation in Nineteenth-Century Paris.\u201d Venti Journal<\/em>, 3:1, 2025: https:\/\/www.venti-journal.com\/manon-raffard<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      Artisan Epistemologies, Material Imaginaries: Making and Knowing Insights with Professor Pamela Smith (6 May 2026, 4pm)<\/h2>\n

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      Together with the Department of Art History and Cultural Practices, the Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective are delighted to host a seminar with Pamela Smith, Seth Low Professor of History, Columbia University, USA. The seminar, entitled,\u00a0Artisan Epistemologies, Material Imaginaries: Insights from the Making and Knowing Project<\/strong>, will take place online on 6 May, 4pm-5.30pm.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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      Over the course of the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries, artists and artisans increasingly produced writings about their practice. An intriguing late sixteenth-century anonymous manuscript, Ms. Fr. 640 (now held by the Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de France), collects together over 900 \u201crecipes” for objects of art, technology, and everyday use. In 2020, the Making and Knowing Project released\u00a0Secrets of Craft and Nature in Renaissance France<\/em>, an open-access digital edition and English translation of this manuscript. The technical and artistic instructions contained in Ms. Fr. 640 provide opportunities to explore the meanings and conceptualization of making and materials in early modern Europe, and shed light on the embodied knowledge of handworkers, showing how the work of\u00a0making<\/em>\u00a0was (and is) a form of\u00a0knowing<\/em>. This lecture will review results from the Making and Knowing Project’s research and teaching in the lab, classroom and the field over the last decade.<\/p>\n

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      Pamela H. Smith, Seth Low Professor of History at Columbia University, is founding Director of the Center for Science and Society and its cluster project the Making and Knowing Project (www.makingandknowing.org [makingandknowing.org]<\/a>). Her books, including\u00a0The Business of Alchemy<\/em>\u00a0(1994),\u00a0The Body of the Artisan<\/em>\u00a0(2004), and\u00a0From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World<\/em>\u00a0(2022), investigate craft and practice as a way of knowing. She has collaborated on edited volumes that treat the history of practice, embodied knowledge, and material culture. She led the Making and Knowing Project\u2019s multiyear creation of\u00a0Secrets of Craft and Nature in Renaissance France<\/em>\u00a0[edition640.makingandknowing.org]<\/a>\u00a0(2020), and is now working on\u00a0longue dur\u00e9e<\/em>\u00a0histories of socio-natural sites of pre-industrial industry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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