Past events

The Man who Photobombed De Gaulle

15:00 - 17:00 3 October 2024

The 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Paris offers an opportunity to explore the discrepancy bet...

Clerical Lives in Britain, c.1600-1800

16 - 17 September 2024

Clerical Lives in Britain, c.1600-1800 is a 2-day conference on the social, cultural, intellectual,...

Empire and the Affective Archive: Understanding Bureaucracy, Emotion, and Activism in Records of the Colonial Object III

15:30 - 16:30 25 June 2024

The third workshop of the Empire and the Affective Archive series is entitled 'Affective Archives an...

Animals and the Archive

14 June - 6 October 2024

This one-day workshop brings emerging and established scholars together to explore how archival sour...

Blind Spots, Gaps, and Archival Silences: Reconstructing Contestation in the Venetian State Archive

15:00 - 17:00 28 May 2024

Venice boasts one of the largest early modern state archives. Produced by the Republic of Venice (79...

Decoding Codices: Mesoamerican Manuscripts and Indigenous Knowledge SOLD OUT

13:00 - 15:00 22 May 2024

Did you know that the Northwest of England holds some of the rarest Indigenous manuscripts that have...

Venetian Seminar - in Memoriam Brian Pullan 1935-2022

09:00 - 16:00 17 May 2024

10.00 Coffee 10.30-12.00 Georg Christ (Manchester): Provincializing Ve...

Heritage and Archival Correspondences: The attentive public and the ‘impact’ of discovery

09:00 - 15:00 16 May 2024

This one-day workshop explores the direct engagement of an ‘attentive public’ with researchers a...

Sound as an Archive of Memories: Constructing the Andalusi Past

15:00 - 17:00 1 May 2024

This workshop will study sound, broadly understood, as a political archive that mobilises the past t...

Empire and the Affective Archive: Understanding Bureaucracy, Emotion, and Activism in Records of the Colonial Object II

09:00 - 10:30 26 April 2024

The second workshop of Empire and the Affective Archive series is entitled 'Colonialism's Material C...