To celebrate the official launch of the Whitworth exhibition Albrecht Dürer’s Material World, The University of Manchester will host a two-days symposium withGiulia Bartrum (British Museum), Shira Brisman (Pennsylvania), Matthew Champion (Melbourne), Jeffrey Chipps...

In collaboration with Dr Edward Wouk, Prof Sasha Handley, and Prof Stefan Hanß, The Whitworth has just opened a new exhibition on the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. Albrecht Dürer’s Material World considers how a changing Renaissance material world,...

This blog entry celebrates another year of Affective Artefacts, Manchester’s by now iconic and radically interdisciplinary material culture seminar series.The seminar series has been organised by Stefan Hanß, Sasha Handley, and Rachel Winchcombe on behalf of The...

Dr. Menchinger will publish a new article with the journal Turcica.On 25 October 1596, an Ottoman army led by Sultan Mehmed III engaged an imperial force under Archduke Maximilian of Austria on the plain of Mezőkeresztes, or Haçova in Turkish, about 150 km northeast...

Esther Rollinson is a postgraduate research student at The University of Manchester, writing a PhD thesis entitled ‘Revisiting the English Catholic Household: Faith, Family and Identity, 1660–1750’. This research is generously funded by The School of Arts, Languages...

Dorothea McEwan was appointed the first archivist of The Warburg Institute Archive, London, in 1993. Her research interests include Aby Warburg, Fritz Saxl and Ethiopian illuminated manuscripts and Ethiopian history. In 2008 she was awarded the Austrian Cross of...

 Affective Artefacts proudly presentsProfessor Erica Fudge (Strathclyde), The Will as Affective Artefact: the Dying Human and the Living Animal in Early Modern EnglandThe John Rylands Research Institute and LibraryTue, 13 Jun 2023 16:00 – 17:30Please register...

Dr Sarah Johanesen will be giving a public talk on Priestly Disguise in Elizabethan and Jacobean England at Harvington Hall on Wed 26 July 3-4.30pm, as part of their first ever History Festival.Across 17 events with top historians and authors, the Festival celebrates...

Dr Catherine R. Evans, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at The John Rylands Research Institute and member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective, is participating in an online roundtable that is part of the IHR People, Place, and Community...

Affective Artefacts proudly presentsProfessor Melanie Giles (Manchester), Enchanted Garments: The Clothing of the Barrock Bog BodySamuel Alexander Building, A112Tue, 6 Jun 2023, 16:00–17:30Please register here.In this session on the affective power of artefacts,...