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Recently Published: Workshopping: Exploring the Entanglement of Sites, Tools, and Bodily Possibilities in an Academic Gathering by Paul Craddock and Anna Harris
Paul Craddock and Anna Harris have co-written and co-produced a video article examining academic and craft workshops as places of embodied experimentation and learning. Workshopping: Exploring the Entanglement of Sites,…
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PhD Defence Thijs Hagendijk: Reworking Recipes. Reading and Writing Practical Texts in the Early Modern Arts
For centuries, knowledge about arts and crafts has been passed on from generation to generation. But what role do instructive texts play in that process? On 29 June, Ph.D. Thijs…
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REENACTMENT COOKING EXPERIMENT
Bachelor students at Utrecht University have developed Taste of Time to discover forgotten, traditional Dutch recipes and show you how to make them. The project is part of the Living Pasts…
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Press Release – Secrets of Craft and Nature
The Making and Knowing Project (www.makingandknowing.org) celebrates the publication of Secrets of Craft and Nature in Renaissance France. A Digital Critical Edition and English Translation of BnF Ms. Fr. 640,…
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Call for Papers: Archaeological Approaches to the Study of the Potter’s Wheel
If you are interested in contributing, please submit an abstract (300 words maximum) via email by 30 March 2020. Click here to go to the website of the conference,which will take place…
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Call for Paper Abstracts: Alternative Knowing Spaces
We welcome paper abstracts to the panel track Alternative Knowing Spaces (track no. 5) at the 4S/EASST Conference in Prague, from 18 – 21 August 2020. This open panel focuses…
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Call for Papers: Cabinet, Elaboratory, Gallery 1500-1800 – The Preservation of Art and Material Culture in Europe and Beyond
Cabinet, Elaboratory, Gallery 1500-1800 – The Preservation of Art and Material Culture in Europe and Beyond This one-day conference will take place on Friday the 24th of July 2020, at…
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Book Review: ‘An Archaeology of Skill’
A recently published book review on Michael H. G. Kuijpers’s book An Archaeology of Skill: Metalworking Skill and Material Specialization in Early Bronze Age Central Europe, which might interest anyone interested in…
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Recently published article: “Working with Artisans; The ‘It Depends’ Dilemma”
Archeologist Christina Petty (CA) recently published the article Working with Artisans; The ‘It Depends’ Dilemma in which she reflects upon the ‘Well, it depends …’-response many academic researchers receive on their…
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Invitation to Fourth International Seminar on the Material Culture in the History of Physics at the Deutsches Museum, Munich
** Application deadline is on Monday 15 Dec. 2019 ** Intvitation to participate in the Fourth International Seminar on the Material Culture in the History of Phisics, which will take…
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