REGISTER!
Making and Mobilising Objects: People, Process, and Place,
A one day interdisciplinary conference, University of Warwick, 21st February 2015
Keynote Lectures
"Thinking through Things in Early Modern Europe"
Professor Evelyn Welch (Kings College London)
"Nelson's Uniform Unpicked: The biography and mythology of an object"
Amy Miller (Curator Emeritus of Decorative Arts and Material Culture, Royal Museums Greenwich)
Making and Mobilising Objects aims to explore the tangled networks of people, processes, and places in which objects have been formed and used. The conference identifies objects as dynamic, having undergone both a process of construction and a process of use: a birth, and an afterlife. The themes to be addressed work to unpack the fluid materialities of objects, and include:
Networks of use and affinity
Components of objects
Sites and methods of making
Mobility and circulation of meanings
Rituals and performances related to objects
Imagined and real meanings and interactions
Ownership and the commissioning process
Making and Mobilising Objects brings together postgraduate researchers, university academics and museum curators to discuss and share interdisciplinary approaches to the use and meaning of objects. It includes an interactive object-based workshop session, during which delegates will be encouraged to interact with objects and develop thoughts and ideas collaboratively.
!! Register by 12th February !!
To view the full programme and register: www.makingobjects.com
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