Material Culture Pre-1850

WORKSHOP INFORMATION:

THEMES

The MCPE workshop maintains a broad focus on the material culture of the long eighteenth century, early modernity and the medieval period. We aim to foster multi-disciplinary approaches to historical materiality, meaning, and making, with a particular focus on visual, haptic, olfactory, aural and gustatory experiences prior to 1850. For Michaelmas Term 2024, our papers respond to the theme ‘Embodied/Unbodied’.

FORMAT

The Material Culture Pre-1850 (MCPE) workshop is an interdisciplinary forum run by postgraduate students. Whilst based in the History faculty, the convenors warmly invite those from a broad range of disciplines and across all geographies to attend and present. The workshop provides a productive and open forum for the discussion of both new or work-in-progress papers, and we welcome those at any stage in their academic career to submit an abstract.

The workshop will take place on Monday evenings between 5-7pm, and will operate in a hybrid format. For those meeting in person, discussion will continue afterwards over drinks. Papers are typically 20 minutes, followed by time for discussion and questions, but both format and length are flexible. 

For the Zoom link, please subscribe to our mailing list: https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/soc-materialcultureworkshop or email the convenors.

CONTACT

The convenors for 2024-25 are Tomas Brown (tbnb2@cam.ac.uk), Leo Thoma-Stemmet (et441@cam.ac.uk), and Sophia Feist (stcf2@cam.ac.uk). Please feel free to contact us with any questions. 

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