This final workshop worked with the blind and partially sighted community to think about how looking is only one component of understanding historical objects.

📸: Morgan Phillips

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The aim of the project was to assess new ways of studying multisensory experiences in the early modern world and to demonstrate the importance of the senses in retrieving knowledge about people of the past who left very little physical evidence behind them.

📸: Morgan Phillips

At the end of last month, the final workshop in the 'Sensory Subjectivities: Identities and Alterity in the Early Modern World' project took place at the @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social and the @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social 🏛️

🔗 Read more about this final workshop: buff.ly/t1UNIlw

📸: Morgan Phillips

Brilliant first day of our @torchoxford.bsky.social funded workshop on sensory subjectivities- handling & listening to textiles among many other things!

Introducing Invisible East! Based at our Department, their research aims to uncover the rich cultural and religious life of the medieval Islamicate East. From Judeo-Persian letters to Bactrian legal texts – explore their research online and get involved in upcoming events! buff.ly/mRc4xe2 #OxfordUni

I have quite a good collection of books about law / social science and HIV, built up over the decades. I’d like them to go to a good home, where they’ll be used (and ideally borrowable). If you know of any library or organisation that might be willing to take them, let me know 🙂 🙏

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Very exciting opportunity to work with me! Full time permanent post in art of the Global South, specialising in either early modern or modern art and material culture. Please share! #arthistory
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI408/d...

Interested in the #senses & museum displays? Check out this 2 day course at oxford: www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/scen...
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