Lasting impressions: The role and perceptions of reproductions in the museum Call for Talks and Posters Student led Study Day 29th June, 2018 Laing Gallery and Hatton Gallery Newcastle upon Tyne Reproductions – whether as drawings, casts, scale models and photographs – have been used to document and generate research on collections since the birth of …
The All-Seeing Eye: Vision and Eyesight Across Time and Cultures Tickets, Wed, 11 Apr 2018 at 09:30 This workshop will explore medical, social, and cultural meanings of the eye and vision in contemporary and historical perspective. Vision has often provoked fascination within societies and cultures as the most revered sense. In Western Europe, the eye …
In histories of science, technology and medicine, essential questions must be investigated related to the nature of expertise and the circulation of knowledge. The one-day workshop aids researchers by addressing new intellectual, practical and methodological perspectives on science communication in its historical and historiographical context. The event includes two talks. Dr James Sumner, Senior Lecturer …
Material Matters | The Place of Objecthood in Academia and the Museum Wednesday 25th October 2017 The National Gallery Sainsbury Wing Conference Room 1 This study day will explore the materiality of cultural objects from academic and museum perspectives, hosting student papers which reflect upon the ways in which objecthood prompts the direction of …
On Friday 12th May, a small group of CDP students met at Tate Britain to discuss ‘Researching Practice’, thinking particularly about the complexities of doing practice-as-research, the ethical issues of studying the practices of your colleagues or collaborators, and the possibilities of researching historical practices through an analysis of an object. We heard from Marianne …
Worlds in Miniature 4: Models, Miniatures and the Maritime World 12th and 13th June 2017 National Maritime Museum, Greenwich A workshop hosted by the National Maritime Museum, and organised by Nick Ball, Jack Davy, Charlotte Dixon and Anna McKay, featuring a series of papers on miniaturisation and the maritime world. This is the fourth in …
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CDP students: Deborah Dawkin (BL/UCL), Peter Good (BL/Essex) and Katie McElvanney (BL/QMUL) On 21 March 2016, the ‘Global Voices in the Archive’ workshop and conference took place at the British Library. This very well-attended event was organised by three current CDP students, Deborah Dawkin, Peter Good and Katie McElvanney, all of whom also presented papers. …
In November 2014, the AHRC put out a call for Shakespeare scholars to share their research and help the BBC plan their programming for the 2016 quatercentenary of Shakespeare’s death in 2016. They stressed that PhD students were welcome to apply and so I did, and a few weeks later found myself at the Mailbox …
