PROGRAMME: 3rd EUI Conference in Visual and Material Culture Studies.

Souvenirs, Keepsakes and Tokens: Material and Visual Expressions of Personal Memories 16 May 2022 – 17 May 2022 REGISTRATION: Monday 16 May 2022: eui.eu/events?id=543819 Tuesday 17 May 2022: eui.eu/events?id=547460 Organisers: Elisa Chazal, Isabelle Riepe, Ana Struillou (Visual and Material History Working Group) The researcher-led Visual and Material History Working Group of the Department of History […]

WORKSHOP: Between text and materiality. Discussions in book history

The Visual and Material History Working Group is collaborating with the Intellectual History Working Group at the EUI to bring you a two-hour seminar with three exciting avenues into book history. We ask what a focus on the practices involved in making, moving and reading books brings to the field of book history. Our aim […]

TALK: Visual and material history of sexualisation – 28.02.2022

The Visual and Material History Working Group and the Queer and Feminist Studies Interdisciplinary Working Group host a joint session at the crossroads of gender history and material culture. This workshop aims to conduct a reflection on how to integrate visual and/or material sources within the study of gender and sexuality. This workshop will be […]

Call for Papers: Souvenirs, keepsakes and tokens: material and visual expressions of personal memories (12th-21st centuries)

CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd EUI CONFERENCE IN VISUAL AND MATERIAL CULTURE STUDIES Souvenirs, keepsakes and tokens: material and visual expressions of personal memories (12th-21st centuries) 16th May 2022 European University Institute, Florence Organizing committee: Elisa Chazal, Isabelle Riepe, Ana Struillou People use objects as a memento for fragments of their lives, be they ordinary memories of childhood, or extraordinary memories of travel, wonder, belief, rupture or oppression. From the […]

NEW WORKSHOP SERIES: Grappling with things

Have you ever wondered how to include visual and material sources in your research and writing? The Visual and Material History Working introduced in November 2021 a new format of workshops and informal coffees to create a space for exchange in dealing and including ‘objects’ in scholarly research.Our introductory workshop was held in Sala degli […]

TALK: THE VISUAL AND MATERIAL CULTURE OF PERIOD FILMS & TV

Wednesday, 3rd November 11am CET via Zoom   The Visual and Material History Working Group is happy to invite you to its next session on 3rd November at 11:00 on Zoom. We will explore the use of objects, costumes and decors in historical films and TV series and how their presence and role have shifted […]

PROGRAMME: 2nd EUI Conference in Visual and Material Culture Studies

2nd EUI CONFERENCE IN VISUAL AND MATERIAL CULTURE STUDIES Scandalous Feasts and Holy Meals: Food in Medieval and Early Modern Societies 25-26 May 2021 via Zoom Organizing committee: Moïra Dato, Ana Struillou, Elisa Chazal, Isabelle Riepe Image: Diego Velazquez, El almuerzo, 1618-9, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest From medieval Western Europe to the early modern […]