International network on skin in literature &culture. Mailing list; online reading group; #CulturalSkin23 hybrid conference in July. Led by @cemathieson @nicnyf
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How did British people approach suntanning and skincare in the early 20th century? In a new blog post, Senior Lecturer at the University of Surrey @cemathieson explores the medical and commercial histories of sun protection through literary text:
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ALT A black and white photo of a group a women at the beach. On the far right, a woman applies sun cream to her friends' backs on Margate Main Sands, 1934. Image credit: © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images
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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: TEXTURES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY MATERIAL AND LITERARY CULTURES: victorianist.wordpress.com/2…
Following our successful conference in July, we are planning an edited collection on cultures of skin
And that's everything! A big thank you to everyone involved for their stimulating presentations and discussions over the past two days. We look forward to working with you all again in the near-future - keep an eye out here for updates #CulturalSkin23
Our roundtable - thinking about what's next for skin studies - is now underway, with @nicnyf starting us off on surface readings #CulturalSkin23
Some questions so far include: How can we engage with our reflexivity toward skin? How does skin engage with affect theory or sensory studies? #CulturalSkin23
We're back for Panel 7 ('Sensing Skin') - starting with Caroline Pollentier's paper on 'Haptic Minds: Fictions of Excarnation in the Long 20th Century' #CulturalSkin23
What is your reaction to (potentially) eating milk-skin? #CulturalSkin23
Can theorists like bell hooks or Sara Ahmed help us to reconfigure the emotions behind touch systems? #CulturalSkin23
The third paper is 'Affective Transmission and Haptic Contact in Middlemarch' by Sarah Licht from @Georgetown #CulturalSkin23
Next is an exploration of 'Art and the Science of Skin' in Giotto's Arena Chapel Frescoes, from Theresa Flanigan @TexasTech #CulturalSkin23
How do complexion and colour contribute to our understandings of skin? #CulturalSkin23
What do you make of the interrelations between the fiction of Will Self and Virginia Woolf? How does touch/lack of touch affect communication and empathy between individuals? #CulturalSkin23
Panel 6 - 'Skin as Thing' - opens with 'Sheepskin and the Law in Early Modern Drama' by Lily Freeman-Jones, from @QMUL
The final paper before lunch is by @BohmSchnitker from @UniFAU - on taxidermy, trauma, and gendered ecologies in Kate Mosse's 'The Taxidermist's Daughter' (2014) #CulturalSkin23
Our third paper on this panel is from Mae Losasso, @UniOfYork, who is presenting on 'Sensuous Surfaces in the Poetry of Barbara Guest' #CulturalSkin23
The second paper is by Liza Foley from @NCAD_Dublin - 'Tracing the Animal in Early Modern Leather Gloves'
Did you know early modern vellum contracts were cut in half using unique patterns, to ensure they weren't altered or changed by either party? #CulturalSkin23
Sheepskin also contains a residue which made it difficult to erase or alter inscriptions on parchment #CulturalSkin23
