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The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective presents here its most recent discussions about the interplay between bodies, emotions, objects and materials in past and present societies, in research and teaching. Stay tuned for exciting blog posts and announcements.
UPCOMING SEMINAR SERIES: Affective Artefacts is back!
We are delighted to announce that Affective Artefacts is back for another year of fantastic interdisciplinary research. As well as a resheduled event from last year's programme on early modern witch bottles, this year we are celebrating the path-breaking research of...
Sleeping Well at Ordsall Hall
On Sunday 22 September we had our final workshop of the ‘Sleeping Well at Ordsall Hall’ programme. This two-year engagement project, funded by the Wellcome Trust and led by Professor Sasha Handley, has delivered sleep-themed workshops for the general public, schools...
UPCOMING EVENT: 9 October, Dr Susanna Ivanic: ‘Objects and Environments in Early Modern Central Europe’
On 9 October Dr Susanna Ivanic from the University of Kent will present in the History Departmental Seminar on ‘Objects and Environments in Early Modern Central Europe.’ The seminar will take place in Roscoe 2.3 at 13:00 and all Collective members are welcome to...
‘Book of the Year’ nomination for pathbreaking new volume bridging textile studies, critical cultural theory, and material culture studies
by Jonathan Brown (School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, Senior Communications and Engagement Officer)In-Between Textiles, 1400–1800: Weaving Subjectivities and Encounters, a volume created between colleagues at the University of Manchester and the University of...
New Directions in the History of the Body: Holly Fletcher in Conversation with Willemijn Ruberg
In this series for The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective blog, Dr Holly Fletcher interviews leading historians on the subject of the history of the body. For this post she spoke to Dr Willemijn Ruberg about her previous and current research, as well as...
The Early Modern Transnational Book Conference
By Seren Morgan-Roberts, University of ManchesterOn the 28th and 29th of May 2024, Ellen Werner, a member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective, and Seren Morgan-Roberts hosted a two-day conference that celebrated the early modern book as an object...
New English Historical Review Article by Dr Abigail Greenall
‘In Pursuit of Equanimity: Managing Change and Adversity in Early Modern English Households, c.1570–c.1670’ by Dr Abigail Greenall has been now published in The English Historical Review:https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae005This article establishes equanimity as an...
Scott Backrath to give Lecture on 18th-Century Biopiracy at James Cook University Australia
REGISTER HERE:https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/botany-conquest-kidnapping-british-biopiracy-in-the-late-18th-century-tickets-921283582997 ABSTRACTThe theft of botanical materials and knowledge from Indigenous Peoples in the early modern period is a relatively...
Sasha Handley Awarded a Prestigious AHRC Impact Accelerator Award
Sasha Handley has recently been awarded an AHRC Impact Accelerator Award worth c. £60,000 for the project ‘Sleeping Well in Salford’. The funds will support a one-year placement for Dr Anna Fielding with Ordsall Hall in Salford (part of Salford Council Leisure) to...
New Directions in the History of the Body: Holly Fletcher in Conversation with Gary Ferguson on Same Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome
In January, the Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective hosted Professor Gary Ferguson who delivered a lecture on the subject of his latest book ‘Same Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome’. Dr Holly Fletcher spoke to Professor Ferguson about his experience of...
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