The Manchester Material Culture Lab—a reading group of Manchester-based researchers interested in material culture studies—is back. 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.

18 October 2023, 4-5pm: The Body of the Artisan Reconsidered (Samuel Alexander Building, A213)

Rublack, Ulinka, ‘Craft, Labour and Cabinets of Curiosities: Rethinking the Body of the Artisan’, German History 41, no. 3 (2023): 337–66, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghad029.

Hanß, Stefan, ‘Gendering the Material Renaissance: Women, Industriousness and the Female Body at the Court of Württemberg’, German History 41, no. 3 (2023): 367–99, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghad031.

1 November 2023, 4-5pm, Reviewer #2: Response to Reviews Practice Session (Samuel Alexander Building, A213)

22 November 2023, 4-5pm, Material Culture(s) of Emotions (Samuel Alexander Building, A213)

Harris, Oliver J. T., and Tim Flohr Sørensen, ‘Rethinking Emotion and Material Culture’, Archaeological Dialogues 17, no. 2 (2010): 145–63.

Downes, Stephanie, Sally Holloway, and Sarah Randles, ‘A Feeling for Things, Past and Present’, in Feeling Things: Objects and Emotions through History, edited by Stephanie Downes, Sally Holloway, and Sarah Randles (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 8–24, https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/permalink/44MAN_INST/bofker/alma992976080692901631.

Bertheaux, Cyril, et al., ‘Emotion Measurements Through the Touch of Materials Surfaces’, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 13 (2020): article no. 455, https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/permalink/44MAN_INST/1rfd42k/cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_bf15eab279554d5e9d187cf032314163.

6 December 2023, 4-5pm, Work-in-progress session (Samuel Alexander Building, A213)

Please register via email stefan.hanss@manchester.ac.uk to receive the readings.

Image credit: 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/.

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