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Digging Deep
“Are you an eagle or a mole?” my supervisor once asked me when I was a third year undergraduate considering whether or not to stay on for a research degree. “Oh, definitely an eagle,” I replied...
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Material Questions
A few days before a critical progress meeting with my supervisors, I had a slight headache. The invitation to attend the two-day session about the possibilities and limits of technical art history at...
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Witnessing Material at the British Library
There are basically two thoughts that run through the head of a first-year PhD student: 1) “There is no way I have enough time do research, go to lectures and workshops, and have a life; 2) “If time is...
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From Manuscripts to Metal
Owen Coggins blogs about the workshop ‘Text as Object 2: Printed Books and Pamphlets’ held at Canterbury Cathedral Library in January 2014 I’m studying religious discourses and mystical practices...
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Listening to the Sound Archive
Elinor Carmi, who is writing a PhD on iSpam at Goldsmiths, blogs about the recent ‘Sound as Artefact’ workshop. What are we looking for when we take sound as an artefact? In the introductory session of...
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Studying Sculpture in Situ
Yesterday was such a fascinating day in the life of Material Witness that I can’t resist a heavily-illustrated post about it, in advance of a more reflective post by two of the doctoral students on the...
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Medieval and Modern perspectives on the Sculpture In Situ study day
A co-authored post by Levi Prombaum and James Cameron, respectively a modernist and a medievalist and both PhD students at the Courtauld Institute, about experiences of the Sculpture in Situ day. Dr....
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Measuring Up
Diane Heath, currently completing a PhD on the medieval Bestiary at the University of Kent, reports on the ‘Size Matters’ workshop at the University of East Anglia, 24-25 May 2014 (1) Norwich Cathedral...
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Squeeze It Out: Creating Visual Arts for Material Witness
TEEME PhD student Linnéa Rowlatt describes the Drawing Masterclass at the University of Kent. Pick up a pencil and draw! Most of us working in humanities scholarship haven’t touched charcoal or paints...
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Assessing Architecture at Canterbury Cathedral: Day 1
Jessica Barker reports on the first day of a workshop exploring Canterbury Cathedral with archaeologists and conservators On an uncharacteristically sunny day in June, a group of material witnesses...
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