Professor Miri Rubin will deliver a keynote lecture at the University of Warsaw (link is external) on the historigraphical trails which inspire the current interest in material culture. Prof Rubin will explore the interests in performance, liturgy and rituals, as arising after decades of preoccupation with textuality, and how these approaches may be combined. Using materials from 1400-1600 and from several parts of Europe, she will consider categories such as Europe, agency, region and identity, in connection with material objects and performances created by Europeans in that period.