The Long Eighteenth Century and the Senses: Symposium
Talks from external speaker Dr. Anna Maerker at King's College London, as well as papers from postgraduates and ECRs
All are welcome to join - this event is free and refreshments are provided.
Wednesday 26 November 2025
Location: Vivien Stewart Room, Murray Edwards College, 1.30–4.30pm
Keynote:
Dr Anna Maerker, King's College London
Presentations:
Eleanor Peebles (MPhil in Early Modern History): ‘To Know Themselves’: Touch, Vision, and the Paper Body in Johann Remmelin’s ‘Catoptrum Microcosmicum’
Hettie Marsden (PhD candidate in Art History): “A System of Minor Actions”? Recreational Embroideries, Aesthetic Affection and Female Agency in Early Victorian Britain
Mika Hyman (PhD candidate in History of Science) and Dr Stephane Crayton (Faculty of Music): Instruments of Sensation: Marin Marais’ ‘Le Tableau de l’Opération de la Taille’ and the Embodied Archive