Events
The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective regularly hold events which play host to key speakers in our field of work.
Please regularly check this page to discover what events are coming up and for information on how to attend.
Upcoming Events
Affective Artefacts 24/25
23 October, Fergus Bovill, ‘From Choirbooks in Gubbio to an Album in Manchester’
Fergus Bovill (independent scholar) will be presenting a paper entitled ‘From Choirbooks in Gubbio to an Album in Manchester: Rylands Latin MS14 and the Lives of a Group of Illuminations between the 15th and 19th Centuries’ as part of the Art History and Cultural Practices Research Seminar. The event will take place at 16.45 in Mansfield Cooper G20.
6 November, Professor Owen Davies, Dr Ceri Houlbrooke and Nigel Jeffries ‘Early Modern Witch Bottles: Concealed and Revealed’
In a rescheduled event from last year’s Affective Artefacts seminar series, Owen Davies (Hertfordshire), Ceri Houlbrooke (Hertfordshire) and Nigel Jeffries (MOLA) will discuss early modern witch bottles. The seminar will take place at 16.00 in Ellen Wilkinson A3.7. All welcome and no booking required!
11 November, Professor Sophie Woodward: ‘Imagination and Gifts: The Lives and Temporalities of Dormant Gifts’
On Monday 11 November, Professor Sophie Woodward will present in the Manchester Social Anthropology series on ‘Imagination and Gifts: The Lives and Temporalities of Dormant Gifts’. The talk will take place in Humanities Bridgeford Street, Hanson Room at 15.00.
20 November, Dr Abigail Greenall: ‘Material Happiness in Early Modern English Households’
In our final Affective Artefacts seminar of the semester, join us and Dr Abigail Greenall (Manchester) to learn more about material happiness in early modern English households. The seminar will take place at 16.00 in Ellen Wilkinson A3.7. All welcome and no booking required!
Past Events
Animals in the Archive: Organising Committee: Dr Leah Astbury, Dr Clara Dawson, & Dr Catherine Evans Funded by CIDRAL
Affective Artefacts (2024)
Organised by Sasha Handley, Rachel Winchcombe and Stefan Hanß
‘The Early Modern Transnational Book Conference: Printing, Translation, and Reading, 1500–1800’ (2024)
28–29 May 2024, organised by Seren Morgan-Roberts and Ellen Sophie Werner
Albrecht Dürer’s Material World: Print Culture in Focus (2024)
with Jeanne Nuechterlein, Ulinka Rublack, and Alexander Marr, organised by Edward Wouk, Sasha Handley, and Stefan Hanß
Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome: Bodies, Emotions, Material Culture (2024)
16 January 2024, lecture by Gary Ferguson (Virginia) with a response by Holly Fletcher (Manchester)
Conversion, Emotions, and Sexuality in the Early Modern Mediterranean (2023)
29 November 2023, with Eric Dursteler and Stefan Hanß
Society for Renaissance Studies Book Launch ‘Narrating the Dragoman’s Self in the Veneto-Ottoman Balkans’ (2023)
with James Amelang (Madrid), Alex Bamji (Leeds), Eric Dursteler (Brigham Young), Stefan Hanß (Manchester), and Aslı Niyazioğlu (Oxford),
Pamela H. Smith (Columbia University), Embodied Knowledge and Texts in Early Modern Europe (2023)
cancelled, 31 October 2023
The Manchester Material Culture Lab (2023)
Symposium Albrecht Dürer’s Material World (2023)
Organised by Sasha Handley on behalf of the Australian Research Council-funded research project ‘Albrecht Dürer’s Material World’
Annual Meeting for Medieval and Early Modern Studies North West (2023)
Organised by Ingrid Rembold
Food Knowledges in the Early Modern World (2023)
Organised by Rachel Winchcombe
Affective Artefacts (2023)
Organised by Stefan Hanß, Sasha Handley and Rachel Winchcombe
The Manchester Material Culture Lab (2022)
Compassion & Care (2023)
Co-organised by Kate Gibson
Integrated Objects (2022)
Co-organised by Florrie Badley and Niels Weijenberg
Friends of the Whitworth Fundraising Event ‘Albrecht Dürer’s Material Renaissance’ (2022)
Roundtable with Dr Edward Wouk, Professor Sasha Handley, and Dr Stefan Hanß
Fat Bodies in Early Modern Europe (2022)
Co-organised by Holly Fletcher
Affective Artefacts (2021-22)
Organised by Stefan Hanß and Sasha Handley
Legacy: Textile Studies, the Past Informing the Present (2021)
Early Textiles Study Group Conference, organised by Cordelia Warr
Affective Artefacts (2020-21)
Organised by Stefan Hanß and Sasha Handley
Microscopic Records: The New Interdisciplinarity of Early Modern Studies (2020)
Affective Artefacts (2019-20)
Organised by Stefan Hanß and Sasha Handley
Marcantonio Raimondi, Raphael and the Image Multiplied (2016-17)
Exhibition at The Whitworth Art Gallery organised by Edward Wouk and David Morris
Magic, Witches and Devils in the Early Modern World (2016)
Exhibition at The John Rylands Library organised by Dr Jenny Spinks and Professor Sasha Handley
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