This free workshop will be hosted online on 25 June 2020. Papers will be made available to registered participants in advance, so will not be delivered on the day, which will instead focus on discussion. The programme is:

11am: Welcome

11:15-12:15pm: Material culture and museum collections

• Dominik Huenniger (University of Hamburg), ‘The pedagogy of things: teaching the eighteenth century with university collections’

• Lenia Kouneni (University of St Andrews), ‘Teaching eighteenth-century classical reception through university museum collections’

• Alice Marples (University of Oxford), ‘Approaching the history of science and medicine through museum collections’

LUNCH

1-2pm: The eighteenth century in the classroom

• Arthur Burns (KCL) and Oliver Walton (Royal Collections Trust), ‘At the court of King George: letting untrained students loose in the eighteenth-century archive’

• Elizabeth Potter (University of York), ‘Re-considering approaches to indigenous America(ns)’

• Ruth Larsen (University of Derby), ‘Let’s talk about sex: gender, bodies and erotica in the classroom’

BREAK

2:30-3:30pm: Sound and the senses

• Peter D’Sena (University of Hertforshire), ‘Ethnomusicology, crime and gender in the long eighteenth-century: some strategies for teaching, learning and assessment’

• William Tullet (Anglia Ruskin University), ‘Teaching the sensory eighteenth century: taste, smell, and sound in the classroom’

3:30-4pm: Concluding discussion

The event is organised by Matthew McCormack, Ruth Larsen and Alice Marples, and is supported by the East Midlands Centre for Teaching and Learning in History.

Numbers are limited to ensure a good discussion. Should the event sell out, please email matthew.mcccormack@northampton.ac.uk to join the waiting list.