3 weeks to go until the deadline for abstracts for our conference The Hand: Emotions, Embodiment, Identity (8-9 Jan 2026). Are you getting yours ready?✍ Send abstracts and bios to [email protected] by 22 September 2025. We can't wait to hear from you!

Check out the call for papers for The Victorian Hand project's conference, January 2026. We can't wait to hear from you!!

We are really very excited indeed by this event. If you share our interest in the cultural significance, symbolic meaning, and lived experience of the human hand either in the past or today (or both!) then please do think about putting in an abstract. And please sprad the word to your networks!

This is a thrilling opportunity for interdisciplinary research exchange. I am so excited to be co-organising @victorianhand.bsky.social's conference. Whether you're a historian, a maker, an activist, a healer - we want to hear from you!

Week 1 of working on @victorianhand.bsky.social and having a wonderful time! This is a dream of a project. So excited to share further updates soon!