In this blog post Imogen and Francesca reflect on the conference, which was held online on Saturday 14th May.
Departmental news
An organiser’s guide to putting on a conference (as an ECR)
Writing about web page https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/supernatural/
The last blog post by Francesca and Imogen is slightly different, offering final reflections in the form of top tips for making both the planning and running of your own conference as smooth as possible. Of course no two conferences are the same, with different themes, disciplines, durations, funding bodies and institutions all shaping the final product but they hope you find these suggestions useful in some small way.
Bridging the gap: reflections on running an interdisciplinary conference
Writing about web page https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/supernatural/
In this blog post Imogen and Frankie reflect on their experience putting on an interdisciplinary conference, and offer some advice for others hoping to do the same.
'Following Living Things and Still Lifes in a Global World': Reflections on the conference
Writing about web page https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/flt/
In this post, Cheng Heand Camilo Uribe Bottalook back at and reflect on their conference 'Following Living Things and Still Lifes in a Global World', which took place in mid February.
The Supernatural and Suffering in Research: Reflections from our Speakers (Part Two)
Writing about web page https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/supernatural/
In this fifth blog post for The Supernatural: Sites of Suffering in the Pre-Modern World, HRC doctoral fellows Francesca Farnelland Imogen Knoxare back with more reflections from the speakers on how their research intersects with the conference themes. This should give a flavour of the variety of topics that will be explored at the conference! Please register for free here.
The Supernatural and Suffering in Research: Reflections from our Speakers
Writing about web page https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/supernatural/
In this fourth blog post for The Supernatural: Sites of Suffering in the Pre-Modern World, HRC doctoral fellows Francesca Farnelland Imogen Knoxasked some of their speakers to share their own research and how their work intersects with the conference themes. This should provide a flavour of the variety of topics that will be explored at the conference!
'Following Living Things and Still Lifes in a Global World': introducing panel #3 and keynote
Writing about web page https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/flt/
In their latest post, Cheng He and Camilo Uribe Botta introduce the final panel for the 'Following Living Things and Still Lifes in a Global World' conference, which takes place on Saturday 12th February. There are also details on the key note lecture.
'Following Living Things and Still Lifes in a Global World': introducing panel #2
Writing about web page https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/flt/
In this post, Camilo Uribe Botta andCheng He introduce the second panel for their conference on 'Following Living Things and Still Lifes in a Global World'. It includes three panels on plants, following them through art, science and consumption. The three authors show the elusive characteristics of plants in between living things and still lifes and show what plants can tell us about the people who created, traded, collected and worked with them.
Interview with Professor Diane Purkiss, keynote for 'The Supernatural' conference
In this third blog post for The Supernatural: Sites of Suffering in the Pre-Modern World, HRC doctoral fellows Francesca Farnell and Imogen Knox speak with Professor Diane Purkiss about how her interest in the supernatural came about, and how her research intersects with the conference themes.
'Following Living Things and Still Lifes in a Global World': introducing panel #1
In this post, Camilo Uribe Botta and Cheng He introduce the first panel for their conference on 'Following Living Things and Still Lifes in a Global World'. It includes four papers on different materials, which show each presenter’s way of approaching the ‘mobility’ of things and conceiving materials. This panel opens with two methodological discussions about objects and their meanings, followed by two discussions about the main ‘things’ of concern in this conference: plants and animals, as an opening to the following panels.