Please note that this programme may be subject to change.

Day 1: Thursday 8 January

Welcome: 09.30-09.45

Session 1: 10.00-11.30

Panel A: Hand-Workers

• Melanie Bell and Alice Sage - Handmade: The Invisible Craft and Labour of Film Costume (short film, 6 mins, and discussion).

• Anna Duffield - Embroidery-as-Research: Exploring the history and process of needlework through the re-creation of a family embroidery sampler.

• Kate Sekules - Hand/Mending: News from the Coalface.

Panel B: Victorian Hands

• Tilly A.F. Guthrie - Keeping in Touch: Tactile materiality in the correspondence of the British blind community, c. 1840-1905.

• Jay Sullivan - Severed Hands in Victorian Egyptomania.

• Jonathan Westaway - ‘But there is Art and ART’: Winckelmann, Pater and the Haptic Aesthetics of Mountaincraft.

Coffee break: 11.30-12.00

Session 2: 12.00-13.30

• Hands on workshop led by textile artist, Ruth Singer.

Lunch: 13.30-14.30

Session 3: 14.30-16.00

Panel C: Iconic Hands

• Eve Connor - The Many Thinking Hands of Jack Sheppard.

• Sarah Potvin - Walt Whitman’s Hands.

• Bertha del Valle - Fidel Castro’s Hands: Sentiment and Affect as Sources of Political Legitimacy in Revolutionary Cuba.

Panel D: Practice Based Research

• Janine Goldsworthy - Between Hands and Pixels

• Fiona Snow - The Thinking Hand: Embodied Learning in Art, Craft and Design Pedagogy.

• Elise Maynard - The Hand as Temporal Bridge: Cross-Modal Translation Through Practice-Based Research.

Coffee break: 16.00-16.20

Session 4: 16.20-17.50

Panel E: Hands and Healthcare

• Daniel Grey - Out of Touch? Life and Death in the Hands of Midwives in England, 1871-1914.

• Louise Bell - ‘It’s always been a good fitting leg because I made do myself’: Adapting prostheses in the aftermath of two world wars.

• Doris George Yohannan - Air Anatomy: The Hand as a Medium of Embodied Learning in Anatomical Education.

Panel F: Artists’ Hands

• Mattea Gernentz - The Impression of Touch: Hands that Paint and Cultivate.

• Rebecca Fortnum - A Gesture to Genius.

• Margarita Kamalyan - The Eloquent Hand in Arto Chakmakchyan's Art.

Day 2: Friday 9 January

Session 1: 10.00-11.30

Panel G: Virtuality and Touch Phenomenon

• Gwendolyn Bolderink - I want your hands on me: how to be a sex object.

• Brian L. Frye - The Invisible Hand of the Muse.

• Weerada Muangsook - The Hand in Motion: The Performative Gesture of Page-turning in the Consumption of Jet Age Fashion Media.

Panel H: Victorian Makers

• Lena Ferriday - Touching Skill: The Place of the Hand in Rural Labour, 1840-1910.

• Róisín Quinn-Lautrefin - Victorian women’s domestic crafts and the hands that made them.

Coffee break: 11.30-12.00

Session 2: 12.00-13.30

Hands on workshops

• Rebecca Whiteley - Illustrations of hands and intimate touch in obstetrical and gynaecological books.

• Michelle Baruch-Baron - Using haptic experiences from the Clay Field to explore the potential of somatic healing.

Lunch: 13.30-14.30

Session 3: 14.30-16.00

Panel K: Fashion

• Nico Frederick - Quee(ring) the Hand: Coded Accessories, Lesbians, and Rings.

• Lauren Bell - Covered in Flesh: Fashion, Eroticism, and Music Video Aesthetics.

• Petra Egri - Embodying Heritage: The Hand, the Glove, and the Survival of Craft in Pécs.

Panel L: Hands of Power

• Kate West - Unruly Hands: Gestural Resistance and Metropolitan Carceral Power.

• Rachael Haslam - ‘Giving his Faith in his Hands’: The Hand and Embodied Trust in Late Medieval Church Court Disputes.

• Maybell Romero - Handed Down.

Plenary: Tactile Subjects, 16.20-17.50

• Sarah Jackson, Peter J. Capuano and Caroline Seymour.

Closing Remarks, 17.50-18.00