Making & Mobilising Objects:People, Process & Place
A One-Day Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference
University of Warwick, Saturday 21st February 2015
CFP Deadline: 1st October 2014
Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Evelyn Welch (King’s College London) & Dr Amy Miller (National Maritime Museum)
Making and Mobilising Objects aims to explore the tangled networks of people, processes, and places in which objects have been formed and used. The conference identifies objects as dynamic, having undergone both a process of construction and a process of use: a birth, and an afterlife. The themes to be addressed work to unpack the fluid materialities of objects, and include:
- Networks of use and affinity
- Components of objects
- Sites and methods of making
- Mobility and circulation of meanings
- Rituals and performances related to objects
- Imagined and real meanings and interactions
- Ownership and the commissioning process
Making and Mobilising Objects will bring together postgraduate researchers, university academics and museum curators to discuss and share interdisciplinary approaches to the use and meaning of objects. It will include an interactive object-based workshop session, during which delegates will be encouraged to interact with objects and develop thoughts and ideas collaboratively.
The organisers invite abstracts from postgraduates of 250 words for 20 minute papers to be presented at the event. Abstracts, along with 100 word biographies, should be sent to the organisers Natalie Cox and Serena Dyer at makingobjects@gmail.com by 1st October 2014.