A special seminar with Professor Hanna Rose Shell, historian of art / cinema / science from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She will be talking about her ongoing research into the history and concept of Shoddy - which, long before it meant cheap and rubbish, referred to a versatile material recycled from rags and fabric clippings. Hanna will be introduced by the historian Camilla Schofield (KCL, Political Economy). Responses / interventions will follow from three other distinguished researchers in the history of early modern recycling, nineteenth-century science and literature, and wool science: Professor Simon Werrett (UCL); Dr Adelene Buckland (KCL), and Monica Leeds Stenzel (Leeds).

All are welcome at this interdisciplinary event, particularly relevant to those working in environmental humanities, visual and material culture, and modern British and colonial history. Refreshments will be available, thanks to KCL’s Arts and Humanities Research Scheme Network funding.

Please register at the link here.

Organiser: Dr Rowan Boyson, English Department, Co-Lead of the Environmental Humanities Network (rowan.boyson@kcl.ac.uk)