On the 4th and 5th of April we will host the ‘Migration – Innovation: Human Mobility & Technological Innovation in History’ conference at the German Museum of Technology in Berlin.

The Project will facilitate a series of workshops with migrant makers at the Shipley Gallery in Gateshead which will result in an exhibition showcasing the objects and skills they have brought to their new home in the Northeast of England.

On Tuesday October 31st the whole team took the train down to Durham to do another teacher training day at the Oriental Museum in Durham

On Wednesday 11th October, Felicia, Floris, and Oliver travelled to our project partner, the Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle to discuss and plan collaborative outputs, which we are very excited about

In October 2-3, 2023, Rémi Dewière attended an international conference entitled "Thinking in the Multiverse: Unraveling the Layers of Islamic Diplomatic History" sponsored by the NYU Abu Dhabi Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World.

On the 29th of September, Felicia, Floris, Oliver and Rémi all visited the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin to take part in a symposium.

On 26 September, the project team visited the Deutsches Technikmuseum, our international project partner in Berlin.

On September 20th and 21st the UKRI-FLF ‘Migration, Innovation, Adaptation’ project held two workshops, organised by Remi Dewiere and Floris Van Swet: the ‘Migration Matters Workshop’ and ‘Migration and Entrepreneurship in Early Modern Technology Transfers’ at Northumbria University.

In collaboration with the Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) the project team is organising a symposium that will explore the links between skilled migration and scientific and technological innovation across the premodern and early modern worlds.

In July, Floris went to Japan to conduct research for the project and in particular to further the outputs the project has planned.

In late July, Felicia, Rémi and Floris travelled the Netherlands to take part in the Seventh European Congress on World and Global History 2023 in The Hague

On Monday May 22nd Floris and Oliver went to the Oriental Museum in Durham to run the second of our teacher training sessions.

From the 12th to the 15th of April, Rémi and Felicia took part in the European Social Science History Conference 2023, in Gothenburg, Sweden.

The article “Migration and innovation in early modern Islamic societies. The case for firearms”, has been published this month.

On Tuesday March 14 Felicia, Rémi and Floris went to the Oriental Museum in Durham in order to run a teacher training day for Durham University School for Education’s PGCE students as part of a continued collaboration with the University’s Library and Collections Learning and Engagement team.

Date: 24th and 25th JULY, 2023

Place: ONLINE

On a foggy autumnal morning, the project team crammed into Oliver’s small car and set off to the Bowes Museum.

I travelled to Sunderland on a rainy bonfire night to spend a day making glass marbles at the National Glass Centre. After arriving late due to my poor time management, we met the artist-teacher Zoe Garner (https://www.zoegarner.co.uk/home). We were taken backstage into the workshop and after a health and safety brief, we were let loose on the glass and blowtorches.

11-12 October saw the annual UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Conference that took place in person for the first time since 2019. Two very intense days at the Hilton in Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre were filled with plenary sessions, workshops, and networking amongst the Fellows from the different cohorts during workshops and poster sessions.

On a sunny Autumn Thursday in early October, Oliver made the trip to London to visit the Victoria and Albert Museum. After getting lost in the vast museum galleries, Oliver eventually found his way to the conference he was attending. The Association of the History of Glass, along with the Victoria and Albert Museum, hosted a conference titled “Celebrating the birth of English and Irish Crystal Drinking Glass”.