The Manchester Material Culture Lab is a reading group of Manchester-based researchers interested in material culture studies. These meetings shall engender a dialogue between the disciplines studying material culture in Manchester. We also run work-in-progress sessions to discuss drafts.

Attendance is limited to members of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective. Registration is required, so please get in touch with stefan.hanss@manchester.ac.uk if you wish to attend these events to get further information (location, readings).

This semester, The Manchester Material Culture Lab hosts the following events:

3 November 2022, 3–4pm: Multispecies Theory (in Practice)

(Reading suggestions by Dr Nick Overton, Prof Sasha Handley, and Dr Leah Astbury)

17 November 2022, 3–4pm: Work-in-progress Session

(Work-in-progress drafts written by Dr Leah Astbury and Dr Holly Fletcher)

8 December 2022, 3–4pm: Animism in Archaeology, Anthropology, and History

(Reading suggestions by Dr Nick Overton and Dr Stefan Hanß)

Image Credits:

Unidentified artist, The Courtesan Moshio Reading a Book, ca. 1655–61, Japan. Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk. 64.8 × 34 cm (image). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2019.420.17. Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary, 2019, https://www.metmuseum.org/.

Mahmud ‘Abd-al Baqi, The Great Abu Sa’ud Teaching Law (folio from a Divan of Mahmud ‘Abd-al Baqi), mid-16th century, Baghdad (attributed to).Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper. 26 x 15.2 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 25.83.9. Gift of George D. Pratt, 1925, https://www.metmuseum.org/.

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