Objects in Motion

Objects in Motion brings together scholars, curators and artists from around the world to dialogue about material objects in transition - cultural, temporal and geographical.All material objects are produced within specific contexts – whether they are ancient Roman tombstones, century-old Inuit clothing, or modern video games. How are differences in use and meaning negotiated when these objects transition into other contexts? What continuities remain, and what is reinterpreted and refashioned? How does this affect the meanings and knowledge embodied in, or found with, such objects?The subjects discussed will range in time from antiquity to the present day, and in geography across different continents. The individual disciplines encompassed include history, history of science and medicine, anthropology, social anthropology, archaeology, ethnology, art and performance, history of art, geography, digital humanities, museums, and cultural heritage.This breadth of speakers and topics will facilitate a fruitful exploration of material culture dynamics which are central to the human experience even in an era of multinational corporations, global communication, and increasing standardisation. It will also foster discussion of the different disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to studying and communicating about these themes. Image courtesy of williambeem.com from Flickr Creative Commons

Recent Episodes
  • Amal Sachedina - More Coffee Anyone: The Coffeepot as an Object of Reform and Restoration in the Sultanate of Oman
    Jan 4, 2016 – 26:17
  • Nazneen Ahmed - Religious Objects in Motion: Two Ealing Case Studies
    Jan 4, 2016 – 25:13
  • Nicholas Thomas - A Critique of the Natural Artefact: Rethinking Re-contextualisation
    Jan 4, 2016 – 01:03:00
  • Paul Gooding and Stephen Bennett - “A Link to the Past”: Remastered Videogames and the Material Archive
    Jan 4, 2016 – 19:05
  • Petra Tjitske Kalshoven - Animal Artefacts: Categorical Trespassing by the Curiously Lifelike
    Jan 4, 2016 – 23:42
  • Rachel Hand - Polity in Motion: 18th Century Musical Instruments and the Regalia of Tonga’s Sacred Chief
    Jan 4, 2016 – 21:25
  • Simon Schaffer - Soft Matter and Mobile Objects
    Jan 4, 2016 – 45:14
  • Stephanie Bunn - The Pattern of the Past in the Present: Felt Textiles in Transition in Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia
    Jan 4, 2016 – 22:16
  • Willemijn van Noord - An Ancient Mirror in Motion: From China Through Siberia to the Netherlands and Back (c. 100 BCE - 1700 CE)
    Jan 4, 2016 – 27:22
  • Christina Williamson - Movement and Meaning in a Century-Old Inuit Parka
    Jan 4, 2016 – 21:44
  • Claire Sabel - Cultures of Colorimetry
    Jan 4, 2016 – 21:13
  • Dora Vargha - Traveling Pathogens, Flying Vaccines: A Story of Failure in Global Polio Vaccination
    Jan 4, 2016 – 22:56
  • Elsje van Kessel - Temporary exhibitions as object movers in early modern Italy
    Jan 4, 2016 – 21:05
  • Emma Martin - The Transition of Tibetan Book-covers into Colonial Worlds
    Jan 4, 2016 – 20:33
  • John P. McCarthy presented by Chris Wingfield - Extraordinary Uses of Ordinary Things: Negotiating African Identity at the Cemeteries of the First African Baptist Church, Philadelphia
    Jan 4, 2016 – 16:42
  • Katharina Nordhofen - More Than a Frame: Strategies of Appropriation of Byzantine Ivories on Ottonian Book Covers
    Jan 4, 2016 – 21:57
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