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Lecturer in Modern Art and Theory, UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social

Please apply—or tell people who might!

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Gotta love how academic books don't earn you money, but LLMs can make money off of stealing them in the aggregate and if you write enough, they can also profit from stealing your personality after you are dead.

👀 The intro of Inventing Nadar is now up online for free!

Tomás Harris Lecture 2026: Lamia Balafrej We are delighted to welcome Lamia Balafrej (UCLA) for a lecture series on 'Technical Marvels and the Making of Difference in Medieval Islam'.

Tomás Harris Lecture with Lamia Balafrej (UCLA)✨

Technical Marvels and the Making of Difference in Medieval Islam explores automata, “hidden labor,” frontier talismans, and the making of medieval race, from idols to Gog and Magog.

🗓 17–19 Mar 2026

⭐ Open to all ⭐

🎟 Book here: shorturl.at/xin9b

Haiti's 'Double Debt': from Commemoration to Reparation The fifth instalment of the annual Elsa V. Goveia Speaker Series from the UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery.

🌍 Haiti’s ‘Double Debt’: from Commemoration to Reparation

Join the 5th Elsa V. Goveia Speaker Series from the UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery, honouring Elsa V. Goveia 💬

🎤 With Charles Forsdick (University of Cambridge).

⭐ Open to all – free tickets: shorturl.at/N6zjn

New “Lesson[s] of a Bas Relief” We welcome Professor Professor Sarah Betzer (University of Virginia) for a research seminar on New “Lesson[s] of a Bas Relief”.

We are delighted to welcome Professor Sarah Betzer (University of Virginia) for a research seminar on New “Lesson[s] of a Bas Relief.” 💬

📅 05 Mar 2026 | 🕠 17:30–19:30
📍 IAS Common Ground
🌟All welcome!

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New job at UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social 'Lecturer in History of Art, Materials, and Technology'. Deadline 1 March. Please circulate/apply!
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A massive thank you to everyone who came along to ‘Curating Kerry James Marshall’ last week 🎉

A packed lecture theatre, great conversations, incredible energy and an unforgettable surprise visit from Kerry James Marshall himself! 🌟

Gail Day and Steve Edwards discuss their much-anticipated book on Allan Sekula Join this 'Marxism in Culture' seminar with Gail Day, Steve Edwards, Alex Fletcher and Stephanie Schwartz.They will be discussing Allan Sekula (1951–2013), the award-winning, anti-capitalist artist, p...

Gail Day & Steve Edwards discuss their much-anticipated book on Allan Sekula, 'Amphibious Realities'.
30 Jan, 5:30–7:30 pm
Join this @marxisminculture.bsky.social seminar on Allan Sekula, the award-winning, anti-capitalist artist, photographer, filmmaker and theorist.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

London Group of Historical Geographers Since 1989, the London Group of Historical Geographers has organised fortnightly themed seminars that are interdisciplinary in focus.

The Spring programme for the London Group of Historical Geographers is now live. We start again on 13 January with Thermal Horizons: Energy and Infrastructures of British Global Power, c. 1830-1900. In person at the IHR, London and on Zoom. Free and open to the public. All welcome, please register.

The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care? The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...

And wow what a cover! It looks stunning Emily, can’t wait to read!

Past Imperfect Book Launch: Jack Hartnell Please join the Past Imperfect seminar to hear Jack Hartnell reflect on his new book Wound Man: the Many Lives of a Surgical Image.

Join us for the Past Imperfect seminar with Jack Hartnell (Head of Research, National Gallery, London) discussing his new book Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image 🩹📚

In conversation with Bob Mills followed by Q&A 💬

Signed and discounted copies available!

👉https://shorturl.at/amiRW

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New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:

Check out Edward Gillin (@ucl.ac.uk)’s review of @richardtaws.bsky.social (@uclhistoryofart.bsky.social)’s book _Time Machines: Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France_, pub 2025 @mitpress.bsky.social

Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social

Volume 48 Issue 1 | Oxford Art Journal | Oxford Academic Publishes innovative critical work in art history from Antiquity to contemporary art practice, with a commitment to the political analysis of visual art and material representation from a variety of t...

Stellar new issue of Oxford Art Journal in honour of @carscott.bsky.social feat. essays by Alex Potts, Thomas Hughes, Steve Edwards, Katie Scott, Clare Pettitt, Jeremy Melius, Susan Siegfried, Keren Rosa Hammerschlag, T.J.Clark…and of course Caroline herself! academic.oup.com/oaj/issue/48/1

History of Art Research Seminar Series | Dr Francesca Berry Atelier-Chambre and Chambre: The Sexual Politics of Intimiste Space

On Thursday 2nd October (5.15pm GMT), I am giving a research paper, hosted by HannahHalliwell of University of Edinburgh. It’s online and I believe anyone can register to attend. All welcome!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/history-of...

As part of the Art History Festival 2025, the Association for Art History is hosting a standout series of special in-person events in London. They’re all free, but make sure you book.

Visual Culture and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Individually and collectively, the essays in this cross-disciplinary collection explore the impact of the revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars on European visual culture, from the outbreak of the pan-Eur...

Katie Hornstein's 'Picturing War in France' might also be worth a look. Also, Sue Walker had a Charlet-related essay in this book www.routledge.com/Visual-Cultu...

There was also a good Charlet expo at La Roche-sur-Yon in 2008, with a useful catalogue. La Combe’s 1856 biography is still a key source, too, and well worth a read.

I love Charlet! We have a great collection of his prints at UCL, and I use them quite a bit for teaching—some years back there was an exhibition here, which Sue Walker (who Jann mentioned) was involved in organising--i was on her committee and have her contact details, if you want to get in touch

Google battling ‘fox infestation’ on roof of £1bn London office Foxes have ‘begun to dig burrows’ in soil of rooftop garden at the as yet unopened King’s Cross headquarters

London foxes 👌

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A map of the UK, overlaid with a heat map that displays 'cold spots' where there is a lack of provision of social sciences and humanities higher education courses.

A map of the UK overlaid with colour coded circles that show the concentration of student numbers across different regions.

A line chart showing changes in student numbers over time.

Our map of cold spots in provision of humanities and social sciences courses and student numbers across the UK has been updated with the data for the 2023/24 academic year. Explore for yourself here: buff.ly/2x7yE5K

Displacement and the French Revolution This interdisciplinary workshop brings together historians, historical geographers, literary scholars and art historians working on the theme of "displacement" in and around the French Revolution.

Next week! www.ucl.ac.uk/history/even...

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Thank you Kirsten Tambling for this first review of 'Time Machines'! @mitpress.bsky.social

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LinkedIn promoted post about Universities UK's partnership with a firm called Studiosity, who are offering universities a free trial of their "AI for learning (not corrections), for formative feedback at scale)".

Text from the announcement which says the AI technology "means all students can benefit from personalised formative feedback in minutes, including guidance on how they can demonstrably improve their own work and critical thinking skills. Actionable insight is accessible to faculty and leaders, revealing the scale of engagement with support, cohorts requiring intervention, and measurable learning progress."

Not at all concerning to learn that Universities UK are partnering with a company to sell an AI product that offers automated feedback on student work. Who needs staff?

Sometimes it feels like my whole career has been a chain of gatherings where UK & US academics trade stories of the particular kinds of stress & grief & short-sightedness that shadow our work. I want better for all of us.

Yes, but how close?