Dr Jane Partner (Cambridge) Dr Irene Galandra Cooper (CRASSH, Cambridge) Abstracts Dr Jane Partner Reading the Early Modern Body: The Case Study of Textual Jewellery This paper presents part of the initial research for the book Reading the Early Modern Body, which seeks to bring together the many ways – both concrete and abstract – in which the body was presented and interpreted as a text during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. One of the central concerns of this research is to...

Professor Neil Kenny (University of Oxford) Edwin Rose ( University of Cambridge) Abstracts Professor Neil Kenny The mineral-hunters: Martine de Bertereau and her husband Jean du Chastelet One kind of object dominated not just the life of Martine de Bertereau (1590–1643), but also her family’s past and so to an extent her social identity: minerals. Little wonder, then, that she married a fellow mineralogist, Jean du Chastelet. They spent their years and their resources prospecting...

Professor Regina Lee Blaszczyk (University of Leeds) Professor Regina Lee Blaszczyk The Secret Life of a Colour Card Who decides the colours of the seasons, and why? This presentation explores the hidden history of colour prediction for the creative industries by exploring how a shade card is designed. It pulls back the curtain on the inner workings of the transatlantic fashion system through a case study of the world's pioneering colour forecasting organization, its leading lady Margaret...

Mervyn Millar (Independent Artist/Puppetry Director & Designer) Perception and Performing Things How is it possible that we can feel empathy for a thing? Since the beginning of civilisation, humans have been compelled and transfixed by performing objects and puppets. From our earliest play, to some of our most sophisticated entertainments, performing things draw on sculpture, movement, texture and context to stimulate emotional responses in an audience. Please "bring a thing" - any...

Caroline van Eck (University of Cambridge) Emily Fitzell (Independent Artist, University of Cambridge)

Cecilia Bembibre (University College London) Mark Jenner (University of York)

Dr Tom Blaen (University of Exeter)

Dr Stefan Hanß (University of Cambridge) Dr Jose Ramon Marcaida (University of Cambridge)

Thomas Rusbridge (University of Birmingham) Philip Warner (National Leather Collection)

Dr Mary Newbould (University of Cambridge)

Professor Jo Ann Oravec (University of Wisconsin at Whitewater) Sleight of Hands: Cheating and Deception Detection by Human Observers and Artificial Intelligence Systems

Professor David Gentilcore (University of Leicester) Richard Fitch (Historic Royal Palaces)

Rebecca Unsworth (QMUL/V&A) Dr Elizabeth Currie (Central Saints Martins)

Associate Professor Sean Silver (University of Michigan) Dr Ruth Scurr (University of Cambridge)

Professor Michael Wheeler (University of Stirling) Professor Gunther Rolf Kress MBE (UCL)

Dr Daniel Jütte (Associate Professor, Department of History, New York University: Eurias Fellow, CRASSH 2016-17) Jacqueline Nicholls (Independent Artist) Abstracts Jacqueline Nicholls Doors, Gates & Curtains Traditional Jewish texts utilises imagery of different types of entrances, each evoking particular ideas with regard to the relationship between physical reality and the world of the divine. This visual art presentation will focus on drawings that interpret relevant Talmudic texts...

Victoria Bartels (University of Cambridge) *Site visit to the Fitzwilliam*

Encounters on the Shop Floor: Embodiment and the Knowledge of the Maker Dr Marta Ajmar (Victoria &Albert Museum) Professor Roger Kneebone (Imperial College, London) Fleur Oakes (Independent artist) This talk will present research from a five-year collaborative project co-led by Marta Ajmar and Roger Kneebone, supported by the V&A Research Institute (VARI) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It will consider the models of thinking and doing that emerge from 'encounters on the shop...

Dr Victoria Avery (Keeper of Applied Arts, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge) Andrew Lacey (Artist and Independent Scholar) Bronze was used in Renaissance Italy for numerous types of functional objects (artillery, bells, coins, lamps, inkwells) as well as decorative ones (equestrian monuments, statues, busts, medals). Extremely expensive, meaning-laden and complex to produce, works of art cast in bronze were desirable status symbols for Humanist patrons, and proofs of incredible...

Dr James Poskett (Faculty of History, University of Cambridge) Remembering Haiti: Phrenology, Slavery and the Material Culture of Race, 1791-1861 Dr Stefan Hanß (Faculty of History, University of Cambridge) Familiar with the Matter: Slavery and the Body in the Early Modern Mediterranean Abstracts: Dr James Poskett. Eustache Belin saw the violence of slavery and revolution first hand. Born a slave on the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1773, Eustache spent his youth toiling in the sugar...

Dr Stella Panayotova (Keeper of Manuscripts and Printed Books, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) Dr Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (Reader in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Cambridge) Abstract Re-Constructing Illuminated Manuscripts and Paintings This talk will present recent research undertaken by the speakers in collaboration with Marie D'Autume (École normale supérieure, Cachan), Paola Ricciardi (MINIARE project, Fitzwilliam Museum) and Spike Bucklow (Hamilton Kerr Institute). Two case...

Christine Slottved Kimbriel (Assistant to the Director, Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge)

Dr Joanne Sear (History,Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge) Professor Deborah Howard (Architecture & History of Art, University of Cambridge) Prof Deborah Howard Recovering the lost soundscape of Palladio’s church of the Redentore in Venice Dr Joanne Sear 'To the chapel of St. Andrew … a broken basin of silver'. The importance of ‘material’ in late medieval religious bequests This presentation considers the importance of the materials used for a range of...

Dr Antony Buxton (Tutor in Design and Domestic History, Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford) Professor Ulrich Leben (Associate Curator of Furniture, The Rothschild Collection, Waddesdon Manor) Dr Antony Buxton 'A Few Sorrie Stooles’: reading the social dynamic of the non-elite early modern household through its material culture This brief paper will outline the use of probate inventories and wills as evidence of the practice, and therefore the changing social dynamic...