Bodies of Evidence: Death, Display, and the Legacies of the Late-Victorian Archive
Friday 1 March 2024, 12pm
Pitt Rivers Museum Lecture Theatre
Sean Willcock (ContEd, Oxford)
Visual representations of bodies marked by violence played an increasingly prominent role in the public discourse and archival logics of the late-Victorian period. This talk considers the ethical and epistemic codes that governed the creation, dissemination, and discussion of these grim visual documents, and explores some of the imagery’s legacies in shaping historical memory, public mourning, and curatorial care.
Pitt Rivers Museum Research Seminar in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology, Hilary 2024
Fridays, 12pm-1.30pm
In person at the Pitt Rivers Museum Lecture Theatre.
