Description
This hands-on, interactive course for PhD candidates (also open to RMA students when places are available) consists of two full days and focuses on material objects as sources for cultural/historical research. The first workshop day takes place on 21 February 2025 in Groningen. The second workshop day will take place on 28 February 2025 in Utrecht.
We discuss key theoretical concepts of working with material objects and engage in some hands-on work. Each session highlights a particular theme and related methodologies:
(1) Life of Things: Object Biography as Conceptual Approach
(2) Caring and Making: Conservation and Reconstruction of Objects and Practices
(3) Contested Objects: Politics of Ownership
The full programme and syllabus will be made available half January 2025.
Learning objectives:
- How and why material objects can be used as relevant research sources
- Insight into the types of knowledge connected to Visual & Material Culture, including tacit knowledge, sensory knowledge, as well as the political, social, economic dimensions of objects.
- Gaining (limited) experience in hands-on object research
- Understanding how you can use material objects, and results from reconstruction and conservation research in your personal research
Registration
You may register via the form below. RMA students will initially be placed on a waiting list. PhDs have first access until 9 December. After that date, free spots will be filled with RMA students from the waiting list in order of registration.
