Description
This hands-on, interactive course for PhD candidates (also open to RMA students) consists of 3 sessions and focuses on material objects as sources for cultural/historical research. 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
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
More information soon.
