The Senses and Disease: A Renaissance Perfume Burner and a Victorian Poisonous Bookcase

From Renaissance Italy to Victorian England, join Christy and Amélie to explore how a perfume burner and a toxic bookcase can help us to discover the sensory world of disease.

Date: 4 June 2019, 12:30 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2019)
Venue:
Ashmolean Museum
Beaumont Street OX1 2PH
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Details: Meet in Gallery 56 (Floor 2)
Speakers: Christy Callaway-Gale (University of Oxford), Amélie Bonney (University of Oxford)
Organising department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Organisers: Hugo Shakeshaft (University of Oxford), Helena Guzik (University of Oxford)
Part of: Talking Sense Gallery Talks
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Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editor: Helena Guzik