Friday, November 17
Transcribing events all day, including:
- 1pm GMT/ 8am EST/ 5am PST: Live transcribing, with conversations and questions in our live Zoom Room.
- 3pm GMT/10am EST/ 7am PST: Zoom discussion facilitated by Gail Chapman from the Royal College of Physicians. To join, click here. You can send questions to panelists ahead of time, via Slido. The speakers will include:
- Professor Jill Burke, author of ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’
- Julia Nurse, a collections research specialist at Wellcome Collection
- Pamela Forde, archive manager at the Royal College of Physicians.
- 5pm-8 pm GMT/ 12-3 pm EST/ 9 am-noon PST: Conversations and questions in our live North American Teams Room.
Tuesday, November 14
3pm GMT/10am EST/ 7am PST: Live online discussion, Recipes for Early Modern Beauty, hosted by Wellcome Collection. Register here to attend; video is available here for those who couldn’t make the live talks.
Patricia Akhimie, Director of the Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library, will facilitate a discussion featuring three scholars:
- Professor Jill Burke, author of ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’
- Hayley O’Kell will talk about Iberian women’s addiction to eating fired clay, a beauty fad that captured the attention of some of the period’s most famous artists and writers.
- Dr Romana Sammern will discuss the connections between early modern beauty, art and artefacts – reflecting on what objects like toilet boxes and ointment jars can tell us about beauty cultures.