We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for this year's Annual Meeting for Medieval and Early Modern Studies in the North West which will take place Monday 12 June, 9.45 - 16.45 at The John Rylands Research Institute and Library in Manchester. It's...

Dr Rachel Winchcombe, Lecturer in Early Modern History at The University of Manchester and member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective, is organising the fascinating one-day symposium Food Knowledges in the Early Modern WorldTuesday 6 June,...

Affective Artefacts proudly presents William Tullett (Anglia Ruskin), Smelling the Past: An Archaeology of the “Vast Structure of Recollection” The John Rylands Research Institute and Library Tue, 30 May 2023 16:00 – 17:30 BST Please register here. There will be also...

Affective Artefacts proudly presents Aslı Niyazioğlu (Oxford): “Why did 16th-Century Ottoman Poets write about the Gardens of Istanbul?” Neha Vermani (Sheffield): “Curating Nature: Domestic Gardens & Masculinity in Mughal South Asia” The John Rylands Research...

 On the occasion of the publication of The Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life (Reaktion Books, 2023), co-authored by Jane Hamlett and Julie-Marie Strange, former member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective, Sasha Handley...

Affective Artefacts proudly announces Dr Ludovic Coupaye (UCL), Technicity against “Technology”: An Anthropology of Technical Objects 25 April 2023, 4–5.30pm, Samuel Alexander Building, A112 For this public lecture, please register here. Dr Ludovic Coupaye will also...

In collaboration with Amsterdam University Press, Affective Artefacts proudly hostsIn-Between Textiles, 1400–1800: Online Book Launch20 Apr 2023, 3–4pm BST, online event via zoom.For this open event, please register here. Recently published by Amsterdam University...

Affective Artefacts is back!This iconic material culture seminar series is organised by Stefan Hanß, Sasha Handley, and Rachel Winchcombe on behalf of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective, and generously funded by The John Rylands Research Institute...

Dr Ingrid Rembold, Lecturer in Medieval History and member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective Manchester, has been interviewed by the Mancunion. Read the full interview here: https://mancunion.com/2023/03/05/meet-uoms-new-medieval-film-club/...

The new monograph of Dr Rebecca Whiteley—British Academy Fellow at the University of Birmingham, member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective Manchester, and former Shreeve Fellow in the History of Medicine at the John Rylands Research Institute and...