The Reading Material Project

Name: The Reading Material Project
Start: 2025-10-30T15:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-30T17:00:00+01:00
Location: Steenstraat 1, 2312 BS Leiden, Netherlands

Schedule

Thu Oct 30 2025 at 03:00 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Steenstraat 1, 2312 BS Leiden, Netherlands | Leiden, ZH

Public Talk | October 30, 2025 | 15.00 - 17.00 | Gerbrandszaal, Wereldmuseum Leiden
The Research Center for the Material Culture is pleased to welcome Professor Jessica Hemmings for a public talk that marks the final presentation of her research fellowship through the Rita Boland fellowship program at the RCMC/Wereldmuseum from 2020 to 2023. During her fellowship, Hemmings initiated the Reading Material project, which looked closely at the Batik collection of the Wereldmuseum archives.