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
Venue:
Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street OX1 2PH
Venue 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
Topics:
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Helena Guzik
