Dr Emily Rowe has been awarded a two-month 2022/3 fellowship at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, to begin research for her project Little cities—an interdisciplinary study of early modern military camps. Little cities combines literary analysis and...

Affective Artefacts is proud to host the next event of this cross-disciplinary seminar series on material cultures: a session on cosmetic, culinary, and medicinal recipes. We welcomeAmanda Herbert (Durham)Elaine Leong (UCL)Alisha Rankin (Tufts University)for‘The...

Congratulations to Dr Alison Bennett for her recent article ‘Objects of Catholic Conversion in Colonial Buganda: A Study of the Miraculous Medal’, published in the Journal of Religion in Africa—a fascinating study of religious material culture and local agency.The...

Affective Artefacts welcomesMichael Peter (Abegg-Stiftung)for the talk‘Serial Production and Individualisation in Late Medieval Silk Weaving’3 May 2022, 4–6pmSamuel Alexander Building, A113. This public event is free to attend, but registration is required.Register...

In the third event of the Affective Artefact Seminar Series 2022, Konrad Hirschler (Hamburg) and Christopher Bahl (Durham) will discuss Islamic manuscript cultures in the late medieval and early modern period. 22 March 2022, 4–6pmJohn Rylands Research Institute and...

Three members of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective—Prof Sasha Handley, Dr Edward Wouk, and Dr Stefan Hanß—are Partner Investigators of the new Australian Research Council-funded project Albrecht Dürer’s Material World: In Melbourne, Manchester and...

In the second event of the Affective Artefact Seminar Series 2022, acclaimed scholar Marta Ajmar (Victoria & Albert Museum) will explore questions of making and remaking, manual knowledge, and the epistemology of Renaissance arts. ‘Reciprocal Design: Exploring...

The first event of the Affective Artefact Seminar Series 2022 will bring Critical Indigenous Studies, Indigenous perspectives, and curators’ approaches into a conversation with material culture studies to problematise the affectivity and emotional significance of...

Third Biennial Conference of the Society for the History of EmotionsFlorence, 30 August – 2 September 2022 ConvenersGiovanni Tarantino – University of Florence/COST Action PIMoBenno Gammerl – European University InstituteIda Caiazza – Marie Curie Global Fellow,...

As a widely celebrated expert in the early modern history of sleep, Professor Sasha Handley, founding member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective, is part of the recent CNN conversation ‘How our ancestors used to sleep can help the sleep-deprived...