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Panel | Global Material Culture and the Body
British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Pembroke College, Oxford, 8–10 January 2025
Panel organized by Chloe Wigston Smith

Proposals for this session due by 18 October 2024

Jointly supported by the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture and the University of York’s Center for Eighteenth Century Studies, this panel aims to foster interdisciplinary conversations about the relations between global material culture and the body, in keeping with the theme of the 54th annual BSECS conference, Bodies and Embodiment. Papers might focus on the body’s physical proximity to examples of global material culture, whether in the form of clothes, accessories, cosmetics, and domestic furnishings (and more); the body’s haptic experience of global objects, through making, production, handling, and consumption; and / or the representation of the body and bodies on specific objects. Papers might focus on a wide range of print, visual, and material sources, including ceramics, drawings, watercolours, handiwork, woodwork, etc, and / or the broad range of materials in the period, such as cotton, indigo, or silver. Submissions from early career scholars are especially encouraged. Please submit abstracts of no more than 350 words along with a short (1 page) CV to Chloe Wigston Smith at chloe.wigstonsmith@york.ac.uk.

Please note that selected presenters will need to become members of BSECS to register for the conference. Or BSECS honors ASECS memberships, so if you are an ASECS member you will not need to join BSECS.