Second Workshop of the Materialized Identities Group, Bern and Zurich, 16th–17th March 2017
At the 16th and 17th March 2017, the research group Materialized Identities ran its second of a number of workshops on the topic of how...
Augsburg Featherworkers in the Past and Present: A Historian’s Visit to the Augsburger Puppenkiste
I Early Modern Cultures of Making In early modern Augsburg, a cultural and commercial hub of Southern Germany, feathers held a prominent...
Is a Veil a Veil? – Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli’s A Capo Coperto
In recent years, discussions about veiling have almost always revolved around Islamic women wearing hijab or other head coverings. To...
The Museo del Vetro in Murano: A Visit Worth Making
The island of Murano is closely linked to the idea of Venetian glass. Here, the Glass Museum, part of the Venice Civic Museums...
Shell Gold – Production, Usage, and Handling of a Historical Artisanal Technique (including a hands-
We touched on the topic of shell gold during our fascinating workshop in Cambridge with Dr Spike Bucklow at the Hamilton Karr Institute...
Effects and Affects of Bodily Practices
A focus on objects, affects and effects in early modern culture – such as in our research project – will almost certainly have to include...