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A series of free #materialculture events at @warburginstitute.bsky.social | Theme for 2024-25: Work v. Play | Posts by convenor @louisamckenzie.bsky.social

https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/whats-on/material-world
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Ever wondered what Warburg alumni go on to do?

Our latest Life After the Warburg blog features @louisamckenzie.bsky.social, now a Research Associate on the UKRI-funded Art and Inequality in the Post-Black Death Century project at the University of Glasgow.

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Life after the Warburg: Louisa McKenzie
Warburg alumna Louisa McKenzie discusses her current research, the impact she hopes it will have and the routes her career has taken since leaving the Institute.
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December 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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For our next event, Dr Barbara Lasic (Sothebys Institute of Art) will speak on ‘Crafting and Staging Magnificence: French Royal Manufactures as Sites of Diplomatic Encounters’.

🗓️ 12 January
🕰️ 5:30pm
📍online @warburginstitute.bsky.social

🔗 Find out more and book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
December 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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📣 For our first event for 2025-2026, Maria Golovteeva (@warburginstitute.bsky.social) will speak on ‘Visions of Nubia: Photographing and Researching Nubian Art in the 1970s’.

🔗 Book for free via the link in our bio.

#art #nubianart #photography #afterlives #arthistory #museums
November 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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We are delighted to announce that A Material World will be returning for our 6th year of events @warburginstitute.bsky.social. The theme for this year is Encounters.

Full programme to be announced soon.

#materialculture #arthistory #history #globalhistory
September 5, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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♻️ Waste not, want not!

Discover more about how parchments were reused and recycled in the 14th century, plus some of our discoveries in the archives, here: www.artandinequality.com/waste-and-re...

#history #materialculture #waste #reuse #medievalbindings #medievalhistory #archives
June 20, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Interested in the commissioning practices of late medieval non-elites? Give @artandinequality.bsky.social a follow to keep up to date with their latest news.
artandinequality.bsky.social Art & Inequality in the Shadow of the Black Death @artandinequality.bsky.social · Jun 16
📜All the documents our project looks at have one thing in common - they were drawn up by a notary.

🪶Each medieval notary used a distinctive personal mark. Find out more here: www.artandinequality.com/whats-your-s...

#medievalhistory #arthistory #nonelite #history #testaments #notary
June 16, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Interested in art commissions made by European non-elites between 1225 and 1525? Then give @artandinequality.bsky.social a follow!

#arthistory #medieval #medievalhistory #testaments
June 5, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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📺 Now available to watch:

'Game of Thrones. Early Modern Playing Cards and Portrait Miniature Painting'

Discover how playing cards became the unexpected canvas for miniature portraits in this talk by Karin Leonhard.

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A Material World | Game of Thrones. Early Modern Playing Cards and Portrait Miniature Painting
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May 8, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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📣Happening next week ‼️
More details below⬇️

#arthistory #renaissance #materialculture #games #portraits #funandgames #history
amaterialworld.bsky.social A Material World @amaterialworld.bsky.social · Mar 13
Join us on 1 April (5:30pm), online @warburginstitute.bsky.social, to hear Karin Leonhard (Konstanz University) on ' #GameofThrones #EarlyModern #PlayingCards and Portrait Miniature Painting'.

More details and book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/a-mat...

#arthistory #portraits #renaissance
March 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Join us on 1 April (5:30pm), online @warburginstitute.bsky.social, to hear Karin Leonhard (Konstanz University) on ' #GameofThrones #EarlyModern #PlayingCards and Portrait Miniature Painting'.

More details and book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/a-mat...

#arthistory #portraits #renaissance
March 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Missed our most recent event at @warburginstitute.bsky.social? Never fear, you can catch up below:
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Go #behindthescenes of the exhibition Untold Lives: A Palace at Work held at Kensington Palace last year, with one of the curators, Dr Mishka Sinha.
#history #earlymodern
A Material World | Living work: recovering unrecorded histories through ordinary objects
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February 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Happening tomorrow online! Curator Mishka Sinha on 'Living work: recovering unrecorded histories through ordinary objects'.

Book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/a-mat...

#untoldhistory #materialculture #museums #curating #curatorial #materialmonday
November 25, 2024 at 9:28 AM
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Join us on Tuesday (26/11) at 5:30pm, online at the Warburg Institute, to hear curator Mishka Sinha on 'Living work: recovering unrecorded histories through ordinary objects'.
Book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/a-mat...

#untoldhistory #materialculture #museums #curating #curatorial
November 22, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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Go #behindthescenes of a recent exhibition at Kensington Palace with one of the curators, Mishka Sinha, in our next event, 'Living work: recovering unrecorded histories through ordinary objects'
📆 26/11
🕰️5:30pm
📍online @warburginstitute.bsky.social
Book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/a-mat...
A Material World - 'Living work: recovering unrecorded histories through ordinary objects'
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November 18, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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Happening very soon! ⬇️
amaterialworld.bsky.social A Material World @amaterialworld.bsky.social · Nov 11
📣 One week to go until our first event of 2024-25!

Hear Timothy McCall on ‘Dyes that Kill and Mordants that Bite: The Centres and Margins of Luxury in Renaissance Italy’.
📆 18 November
🕰️ 5:30pm UK time
📍online @warburginstitute.bsky.social

🔗 Book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/a-mat...
November 18, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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In the meantime, catch up with recordings of our previous events here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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The 'A Material World' event series focuses on the reconstruction of life in the past through objects and materials, the people who made them and the people ...
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October 23, 2024 at 7:51 AM
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#socialhistory #historyoffashion #dresshistory #renaissance #materialculture #earlymodern #arthistory #politicalhistory
amaterialworld.bsky.social A Material World @amaterialworld.bsky.social · Nov 11
📣 One week to go until our first event of 2024-25!

Hear Timothy McCall on ‘Dyes that Kill and Mordants that Bite: The Centres and Margins of Luxury in Renaissance Italy’.
📆 18 November
🕰️ 5:30pm UK time
📍online @warburginstitute.bsky.social

🔗 Book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/a-mat...
November 11, 2024 at 9:33 AM
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📣 One week to go until our first event of 2024-25!

Hear Timothy McCall on ‘Dyes that Kill and Mordants that Bite: The Centres and Margins of Luxury in Renaissance Italy’.
📆 18 November
🕰️ 5:30pm UK time
📍online @warburginstitute.bsky.social

🔗 Book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/a-mat...
November 11, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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A Material World is an event series hosted by the Warburg Institute which focuses on the reconstruction of life in the past through objects and materials, the people who made them and the people who used them. Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/whats-on/mat...

#materialculture #arthistory #museums
A Material World
An event series that focuses on the reconstruction of life in the past through objects and materials, the people who made them and the people who used them.
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November 10, 2024 at 7:11 AM
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Have you booked for our next event yet?
On 18/11, online, discover the role that clothing played in the representation and operation of aristocratic power in #earlymodern Europe. Find out more and book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/a-mat...

#socialhistory #historyoffashion #dresshistory
November 8, 2024 at 10:04 AM
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Hello new followers! Lovely to connect. I’m Louisa, a historian of late medieval and early Renaissance devotional (for the most part) art and material culture. I’ve worked a lot on wax sculpture and my main interests include: (cont’d)
November 8, 2024 at 8:53 AM
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Join us for our first event of 2024/5:
Timothy McCall (Villanova) will speak on 'Dyes that Kill and Mordants that Bite: The Centres and Margins of Luxury in #Renaissance Italy'
📅 18 November
⏲️ 5:30pm (UK time)
📍online @warburginstitute.bsky.social
Book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/a-mat...
A Material World - 'Dyes that Kill and Mordants that Bite: The Centres and Margins of Luxury in Renaissance Italy'
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October 29, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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In the meantime, catch up with recordings of our previous events here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
A Material World - YouTube
The 'A Material World' event series focuses on the reconstruction of life in the past through objects and materials, the people who made them and the people ...
youtube.com
October 23, 2024 at 7:51 AM