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Inside the secret museum : magic, sex, and secrecy in the British Museum’s secretum, 1866-1896
No full textIn 1866 British Museum curators fitted out a room in the museum’s north basement for Collections Illustrative of Phallic Worship. Equipped with its own catalogue and library and containing nearly a thousand items classified according to different regions of the globe, the Secretum was one of the world’s first international facilities for collecting and researching religion, sex, and sexuality. Like the British Museum Library’s famous Private Case of obscene publications, the Secretum had its own catalogue, kept separately from those available to the public. Although Secretum collections were mentioned in government reports and even national newspapers, knowledge about the Secretum’s contents as well as details of who researched there and what they discovered were disseminated in highly controlled ways. The Secretum was discussed as a “secret chamber”. This talk explores the sociality of secrecy among scholars who curated and researched inside the Secretum. I examine how items from the Secretum collections appeared in different contexts, but also how the Secretum and its contents were made absent and occluded. Information about the Secretum was occulted inside masonic and hermetic secret societies, who cultivated the esoteric art of knowing what not to know. Making use of Michael Taussig’s idea of the public secret – “that which is generally known but cannot be spoken” – I investigate how the Secretum institutionalised a classed currency of gentlemanly discretion, mediating male sociability and scholarly distinction at a time when archaeology was marketed towards mass audiences
Bridging the gap – exploring the digital divide in ChatGPT use among UK higher education students
No full textDeveloping a comprehensive method for integrating the thermal, optical and electrical properties of a complex fenestration system into building simulation software for building performance characterisation
Get PDFInvestigating the effect of state support on innovation pathways by tracking the legacy performance of firms involved in academic co-operations
Get PDFThe performance of firms involved in projects from 2 UK research councils was investigated; firms in Innovate UK projects receive co-funding while firms in Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) projects do not. Firms in 266 projects 2009–2012 were tracked for Standard Industrial Code (SIC), location and year-on-year financial performance 2012–22. The results show that firms (un- and co-funded) were mainly not local to universities. The growth performance of non-funded firms was steady in the majority of SIC codes, but some SIC codes performed very well, while for co-funded firms, many SICs performed under control but losses were made up for on average by exceptionally high performance in other SIC codes. Overall, non-funded firms achieved average growth of ∼29 % above control while co-funded firms only achieved an average growth of ∼18 % above control. Firms (both co- and un-funded) associated with 21 universities perform consistently well, while other firms (co- and un-funded) associated with 24 other universities perform consistently poorly. This difference in performance was better correlated to degree of business ambidexterity in the tech transfer function, rather than with university reputation
Female leadership for gen AI-enabled creativity and collaboration : transforming team resistance into resilience
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Prognostication as an interactionally delicate matter : a conversation analytic study of hospice multidisciplinary team meetings
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1989 WAS 34 YEARS AGO
No full textNoisy props and costume changes: transparent PVC, translucent curtains, t-shirts with paper slogans and a microphone.
This research evolved after completing stand-up comedy training and research at the Women's Art Library.
Biographical information, meets reflections on shared queer histories. Amidst the joke-writing I'm trying to examine my positionality and lived experience, uncovering archival materials and histories, access needs, and the conventions of artistic disciplines
