The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective blog 

In this new 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 Professor Laura Gowing about her previous and current research, as...

Ellen Werner, member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective, is co-organising the upcoming event The Early Modern Transnational Book Conference: Printing, Translating, and Reading, 1500–1800 (28-29 May 2024). Please note this following CfP: Related...

Dr Ben Jackson, British Academy Research Fellow at The John Rylands Research Institute and member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective, is giving an online lecture Tuesday (17:30-19:00) at the Warburg Institute, London, for their The Material World:...

Dr Ali Bennett, member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective at The University of Manchester, is co-organisingMaterial Cultures of Eastern Africa: New Historical Perspectives from the Local to the GlobalWednesday 7- Thursday 8 February 2024(Eastern...

Affective Artefacts is the University of Manchester's radically interdisciplinary seminar series on material culture, emotions and affect theory. This seminar series discusses the agentive and affective qualities of matter, thus, the capacity of materials and things...

Join us for Albrecht Dürer’s material world: print culture in focus—a series of exciting lectures celebrating the work of Albrecht Dürer, as well as the landmark exhibition at The Whitworth, University of Manchester, co-curating by members of The Bodies, Emotions and...

Revista de Historia Industrial – Industrial History Review (RHI-IHR)Call for PapersThe Connected World: New Perspectives in Global Economic HistoryWorkshop and Special Issue The Dana Studio, Science Museum, London05 June 2024, 9am-5:30pm IntroductionThe Revista de...

The special issue of Emotions: History, Culture, SocietyObjects, Material Culture and the History of Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Europehas been published earlier this year! Articles have been authored by several colleagues in Manchester and Melbourne and...

In this new 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 Professor Ulinka Rublack about her previous and current work, as...

The author of this blog entry is Dr Abigail Greenall, Early Career Research Fellow at The John Rylands Research Institute, University of Manchester.For some years now, Sasha Handley and I have shared a fairly healthy obsession with apotropaic, or evil averting, burn...