Material Culture in Global History - An Exploratory Workshop

Material Culture in Global History: An Exploratory Workshop 

Co-hosted by the Oxford Centre for Global History and the Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

Tuesday 24th of June, 9:30am, Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford 

Programme: 

9:30-9:45 - Welcome & Introductions 

9:45-11:00 - Archives & Materiality 

_{Geoffrey Batchen (History of Art): “Antimatter: The Materiality of the Photograph”}

_{Lena Vosding (Medieval and Modern Languages): “Stored Greetings: The Hunt for Traces of Letter Culture in the Archives of Medieval Women's Monasteries”}

_{Stephanie M. Volder (English): “Paper Wars: Colonial Newspapers and the Cultural Imagination of Black Resistance in Jamaica”}

_{Judith Siefring (Bodleian Libraries): “Making the Material Digital: The Choices and Challenges of Digitization”}

_{Chair: Rajaa Saleem Sahgal (History)}

11:00-11:30 - Break 

11:30-13:00 - Working with Institutions & Sites 

_{Leah R. Clark (History of Art): “Beholding early modern objects: Sensory approaches and positionality”}

_{Katharine Waldron (Hamilton Kerr Institute): “Illuminating fragments: paint cross-sections as an essential resource for the study of English medieval painting”}

_{Jim Harris (Ashmolean): "Knowing about things we know nothing about"}

_{Marenka Thompson-Odlum (Pitt Rivers Museum): TBC}

_{Jane Kershaw (Archaeology): “Geochemical analyses as a historian's tool: a case-study of early Islamic silver”}

_{Chair: Michelle Chan (History)}

13:00-14:00 - Lunch 

14:00-15:30 - Materials & Makers 

_{Lily Crowther (History): "Anglo-French competition, international inspiration: the revival of architectural terracotta, 1850s-80s"}

_{Kuldip Kaur Singh (AMES): "Which Maker? The Transnational Vogue for Chinese Jade in the Early 20th Century"}

_{Yaxi Liu (History): “Crafting the Unknown: Acrylic Recycling in Rural Yishan, China, 1973–1987”}

_{Catherine Jackson (History): “Historian meets Glass: Glass and glassblowing in the history of modern chemistry”}

_{Chair: Andres Bustamante (History)}

15:30-16:45 - From the Research Trail 

_{Maxine Berg (History), “The Wild Swan and the Printed Calicoes of early modern Gujarat/Kutch”}

_{Julia Smith (History), “A Chinese textile in early medieval western Europe: ways of thinking about material culture.”}

_{Chair: Avin Houro (History)}

17:00 - 'Secret Red: at the Heart of Safflower' - Artist Workshop with Joumana Medlej 

To register for this workshop please email: global@history.ox.ac.uk