2019-20
Semester 1
18 Sep 2019 | Archives and Material Culture | Valentina Flex, ‘Material Culture and Records of the Holocaust: Reading the Scrolls of Auschwitz’; Sonja Dobroski, ‘The Mark of Freedom: The Plains Feathered Headdress & United States Fraternal Orders’ | Evolution House, Room 5.21 | 5pm - 7pm | View event >
2 Oct 2019 | Object Biographies | Clare Tonks, ‘Napoleon’s Waterloo Carriage: Conquering the Emperor’; Sarah Harper, ‘Material and Visual Culture of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) during the Cold War in Scotland’ | Evolution House, Room 5.21 | 5pm - 7pm | View event >
16 Oct 2019 | Colour and Materiality | Joyce Dixon, ‘Colour, word, thing: representing natural colour 1760–1820’; Jillian Luke, ‘Adam and Eve printed, painted, poeticised’ | Evolution House, Room 5.21 | 5pm - 7pm | View event >
30 Oct 2019 | Books and Materiality | Valentina Flex, ‘Material Culture and Records of the Holocaust: Reading the Scrolls of Auschwitz’; Sonja Dobroski, ‘The Mark of Freedom: The Plains Feathered Headdress & United States Fraternal Orders’ | Evolution House, Room 5.21 | 5pm - 7pm | View event >
13 Nov 2019 | Politics and Material and Visual Culture | Dexter Govan, ‘Orange aesthetics: material and visual culture in Belfast Orangeism during the third Home Rule crisis, 1910-1914’; Carlo Scapecchi, ‘Tapestries as status-markers in Early Modern Europe and Renaissance Italy’ | Location to be confirmed | 5pm - 7pm | View event >
27 Nov 2019 | Textiles and Fashion | Cacsi Ritchie, ‘Fashioning Prince Rogers Nelson, 1980-1984: A study of Trench Coat’; Dr Alison Mayne, ‘A Very Scottish Stash’ | Evolution House, Room 5.21 | 5pm - 7pm | View event >
11 Dec 2019 | The Body | Dr Freya Gowrley, ’Visual and Material Cultures of the Fat Body in Britain & its Empire, 1750-1830’; Dr Camilla Mørk Røstvik, ‘Do Not Flush Feminine Products!’ The Environmental History, Biohazards and Norms Contained in the UK Sanitary Bin Industry since 1960’ | Evolution House, Room 5.21 | 5pm - 7pm | View event >
- Contact materialcultureresearcheca@ed.ac.uk for more information
