This three-day conference (7-9 April 2016) at Plymouth University on the theme of ‘Gender, Power and Materiality in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800’ is part of a two-year AHRC-funded international research network run by Professor James Daybell (Plymouth University), Professor Svante Norrhem (Lund University), Dr Nadine Akkerman (Leiden University) and Professors Susan Broomhall and Jacqueline Van Gent (University of Western Australia).The conference seeks to explore the relationships between gender, power and ‘materiality’ – a term that is broader than ‘material culture’, in that it opens up spatial sites and material texts – defined both in terms of objects or the physical features of texts and the social and cultural practices, and spaces in which they were produced, consumed, exchanged and displayed. Papers will focus on different forms of power (political, social, economic and cultural) across the early modern period in Europe, and encompasses formal and informal power. In viewing power and materiality through the lens of gender, the organisers encourage transdisciplinary approaches and aim to bring into dialogue historians, art and architectural historians, literary critics, material culture specialists, anthropologists, archaeologists, curators, archivists and conservators.Keynote speakers:
Tara Hamling (University of Birmingham)
Joanna Norman (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
Ulinka Rublack (University of Cambridge)
- Early Bird Delegate Rate: £185
- The Early Bird Delegate Rate will apply for registrations made by Monday 7 March. The Standard Delegate Rate of £205.00 will apply for bookings made after this date.
- Graduate Student Rate: £130.
- The Graduate Student Rate is for current graduate students only.
- These registration fees include lunch and refreshments on Thursday 7, Friday 8 and Saturday 9 April. Dinner for the nights of Thursday 7 and Friday 8 April is also included.
- The dinner on Thursday 7 April will be held at The Mission restaurant, Plymouth.The dinner on Friday 8 April will be hosted by the Earl of Devon at Powderham Castle, Kenton. Travel by coach and a tour of the castle is also included.
- Booking:
- Please book via estore. The last booking date is1st April 2016