Wednesday 16th May 2018 Newcastle University Claire McGann   Responding to the “material turn” in premodern scholarship, a number of recent events have provided academics with opportunities to talk “things” through in new ways. For example, in February 2017 Lancaster University’s Embodiment and New Materialism conference combined discussions of new materialist criticism and premodern bodies … Continue reading Objects, extensions, prosthetics: the body and subjectivity in the pre-modern period