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From the announcement:

Lifecycles | Material Culture Pre-1850 Workshop, University of Cambridge

Hybrid format, alternate Monday evenings, Easter Term 2025

Proposals due by 28 April 2025

The Material Culture pre-1850 Workshop at the University of Cambridge invites submissions for 20-minute papers. Our theme for Easter term is Lifecycles, which we frame as encompassing the ways in which objects endure their afterlives; the manners in which they are transferred, rarefied, treasured, rearranged, commodified, used up, mended and destroyed. Papers may wish to respond to this concept particularly in terms of object biography.

The workshop is a forum for researchers at all career stages to discuss the material culture of the medieval period, early modernity, and the long eighteenth century. We welcome submissions from all disciplines. The workshop will meet in a hybrid format on alternate Monday evenings from 5 to 7pm GMT.

Submissions must include a title, abstract (250 words), and brief academic bio, to be sent to Sophia Feist (stcf2@cam.ac.uk) and Tomas Brown (tbnb2@cam.ac.uk) by 28 April 2025. Submissions with potentially distressing content should include a warning, excluded from the word count.