{"id":2405,"date":"2012-09-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/20514"},"modified":"2012-09-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T00:00:00","slug":"gender-in-material-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/gender-in-material-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender in Material Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Apologies for cross-posting. Proposals of papers are invited for the annual<\/span>Gender and Medieval Studies conference that will meet on the<\/span>theme of ‘Gender in Material Culture’ at Bath Spa University (Corsham Court<\/span>campus) from 4th to 6th January 2013. I would be grateful if you could<\/span>circulate this via any email lists you may have.<\/span><\/div>\n
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<\/span>The Conference will consider the gendered nature of social, religious and<\/span>economic uses of ?things’, exploring the way that objects and the material<\/span>environment were produced, consumed and displayed in medieval culture.<\/span><\/div>\n
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<\/span>Papers will address questions of gender from a range of interdisciplinary<\/span>perspectives, embracing literature, history, art history, and archaeology.<\/span>Plenary papers will be delivered by Prof. Catherine Karkov, University of<\/span>Leeds and Dr Simon Yarrow, University of Birmingham.<\/span><\/div>\n
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<\/span>From saintly relics to grave goods, and from domestic furnishings to the<\/span>built environment, medieval people inhabited a material world saturated with<\/span>symbolism. Gender had a profound influence on the production and consumption<\/span>of this material culture. Birth charms and objects of Marian devotion were<\/span>crafted most often with women in mind, whilst gender shaped the internal<\/span>spaces of male and female religious houses. The material environment could<\/span>evoke intense emotions from onlookers, whether fostering reverence in<\/span>religious rituals, or inspiring awe during royal processions. How did gender<\/span>influence encounters with these objects and the built environment’ Seldom<\/span>purely functional, these items could incorporate complex meanings, enabling<\/span><\/div>\n
acts of display at every level of society, in fashionable circles at<\/span>European courts or amongst civic guilds sponsoring lavish pageants. Did<\/span>gender influence aesthetic choices, and how did status shape the way that<\/span>people engaged with their physical surroundings’ In literary texts and in<\/span>art, the depiction of clothing and objects can be used to negotiate symbolic<\/span>space as well as class, gender, sexuality and ethnicity. Texts and images<\/span>also circulated as material objects themselves, with patterns of<\/span>transmission across the British Isles, the Anglo-Norman world, and between<\/span>East and West. The exchange of such objects both accompanied and enacted<\/span>cross-fertilisation in linguistic, political and cultural spheres.<\/span><\/div>\n
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<\/span>Themes will include:<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>– adornment, clothing and self-fashioning<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>– the material culture of devotion<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>– objects and materialism<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>– the material culture of children, adolescents and life cycle<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>– emotion, intimacy and love-gifts<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>– entertainment and games<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>– memory and commemoration<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>– pleasure, pain, and bodily discipline<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>– production and consumption<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>– monastic material culture<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>– material culture in literary texts<\/span><\/div>\n
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<\/span>Please e-mail proposals of approximately 300 words for 20 minute papers to<\/span>the GMS committee at gms.bathspa.2013@gmail.com<\/a> by 14 September 2012. Please<\/span>also include your name, research area, institution and level of study in<\/span>your abstract. The Kate Westoby Travel Fund provides limited financial<\/span>support for postgraduates and independent researchers who wish to attend the<\/span>meeting. Please consult the GMS website for further details:<\/span>http:\/\/www.medievalgender.co.uk\/<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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Apologies for cross-posting. Proposals of papers are invited for the annualGender and Medieval Studies conference that will meet on thetheme of ‘Gender in Material Culture’ at Bath Spa University (Corsham Courtcampus) from 4th to 6th January 2013. I would be grateful if you couldcirculate this via any email lists you may have. The Conference will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"categorie_personnage":[],"class_list":["post-2405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualites","category-appels-contribution"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"gb","enabled_languages":["fr","gb"],"languages":{"fr":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"gb":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"categorie_personnage","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categorie_personnage?post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}