CREMS Brown Bag lunch on Collecting and Collections

Dear All

We're planning two informal brown bag lunches, starting at 1pm, to talk about a couple of topics that we hope will be of interest: the first on Thursday, 16th Jan, on collections and collecting (with an emphasis upon theories and concepts beyond the psychoanalytic), and the second on the futures of book history (Thursday 23rd Jan). There's no required reading, as we hope that people will bring along ideas and contexts from their own research, but we have come up with a small selection of texts which we think might provoke discussion. For the Collecting session, we will provide extracts from:
Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
Bleichmar and Mancall (eds), Collecting Across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Stewart, On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection
Küchler and Forty(eds), The Art of Forgetting

We'll be making these available in a dropbox folder - please email Helen if you would like access.

We hope many of you will come along, and look forward to a lively discussion.

Bring your own lunch, CREMS will provide tea and coffee.

All best wishes

Emma Molin and Helen Smith
(helen.smith@york.ac.uk)