Cambridge Material Culture Workshop

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We are very pleased to announce our Michaelmas 2025 Term Card - we look forward to more good talks, good company and good cheese and wine!

Just one more day! Get your abstracts to us by 9am tomorrow.

🚨 Under one week until our CfP closes! 🚨 Submit your abstracts for 'Holding Court' before the 17th of September, see pinned post for details.

📢 It's that time of year again - we're so excited to share the #CfP for our 7th annual seminar series. We have expanded our date range and changed up the format! Please send an abstract + bio to materialcultureresearcheca@ed.ac.uk by 5 Sept. We look forward to hearing from you!

We are very excited to announce our latest 🚨CfP🚨 on the theme 'Holding Court', deadline 17 September 2025. Looking very much forward to reading your submissions over the next year!

We are extremely excited to present our Easter 2025 Term Card! A huge thanks to everyone for their submissions.

🚨Under a week to go until our Call for Papers closes 🚨 We look so forward to reviewing your submissions - get them in before the 28th!

🚨 NEW CFP 🚨 The Material Culture pre-1850 Workshop is very pleased to announce a new call for papers on the theme of 'lifecycles'. We are looking for 20 minute papers from researchers of all career stages, deadline 28 April 2025

🚨VENUE CHANGE 📷 Our upcoming session this Monday (24/2) will now be held in the Parson Room (F Staircase 1st Court), St John's College, rather than our usual space. We look forward to seeing you there!

Today is the first Lent session of the Material Culture Pre-1850 Workshop! We're pleased to be welcoming Sylvia Alvares-Correa (Oxford) and Emma Bruckner (Courtauld). It will take place from 5-7 PM in the Couch Room, Old Divinity School - come get your 🍷and 🧀

We are pleased to announce our newest Term Card - please join us either in person or online for this exciting roster! 🚨 First talks this coming Monday! 🚨

#CfP Hello, if anyone is still here on X! I’m thrilled to be organising a conference with @lucyjanehavard on Plants and People. Please send abstracts and bios to us by Friday 14 March!

The CFP for our closing conference 'Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World, 1440-1833' is now live! Deadline for submissions is 14th February, and the conference takes place 15th-17th May 2025. Please share! tinyurl.com/4y9bee66 #earlymodern #histmed @kingshistory

A reminder that our CFP on the theme of technê is 🚨closing tomorrow! 🚨 See our pinned post for details. Image: Benard after L.J. Goussier, Net-Makers' equipment and tools, engraving, c.1722-1799, Wellcome Collection.

It’s your final weekend to get abstracts in - You don’t want to miss out!

CFP DEADLINE 13 JANUARY - Our Call for Papers closes in three days! The theme is TECHNÊ 🛠️🖌️🖍️🪡🏺 See pinned post for details! Image: Martin Engelbrecht, Femme de Marechal/Eine Huff oder Grobschmidin, engraving, c. 1700-1750, Wellcome Collection.

Wishing everyone a happy new year! Just a quick reminder about our call for papers on the theme of techne, deadline 13 Jan!

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 We are ecstatic to announce our latest CfP - we are seeking submissions for 20 minute papers on the theme of technê, deadline the 13th of January 2025. See below for details!

Congratulations Prof Ulinka Rublack, awarded the 2025 Einhard Prize for her “captivating” biography: Dürer’s Lost Masterpiece. It brings to life the artist’s fight to be adequately paid, and explores how we came to value the arts still relevant to our time. Link in reply ⬇️