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Dr Amanda Sciampacone @asciampacone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For anyone working on decolonizing art history, please apply for the session I’m co-convening with Rina Arya, Claire Moran, Ceren Özpınar, and Sophie Kazan Makhlouf for @forarthistory.org.uk’s 2027 annual conference. CFP deadline is 25 October 2026: forarthistory.org.uk/33-decolonis...

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33. Decolonising Art History: Methods, Practices and Epistemologies (FULL DAY) - For Art History

Decolonisation has become an influential framework within art history, visual culture, museum studies, and related disciplines and we, as AAH’s Higher Education Committee (HEC) held a successful sessi...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

'Racism is structural but structures are not always visible; they become perceptible in encounters – in who is assumed to belong, who is interrupted, who is doubted, whose authority attaches effortlessly and whose must continually be demonstrated.' Wise words.

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When the academic must become the evidence

Rina Arya argues Jason Arday's death raises a wider question about the autobiographical burden placed on academics of colour who write about race

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OpenARC Research Centre @openarc.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

✍️ Can taste, touch, smell and sight inspire creative writing? Join Dr Lania Knight for a sensory writing workshop featuring tea tasting, historic objects, and creative practice. 📅 11 June 2026 | London 🔗 www.goldsmiths-centre.org/whats-on/cre... @ouliterature.bsky.social @laniaknight.bsky.social

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

"Art history gives you tools to interpret the visual world and makes you more of a critical viewer of political messages, advertising and a barrage of social media images. It’s dangerous if you can’t examine these things critically". apollo-magazine.com/art-history-...

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Art history is too important to be the preserve of the privileged

The subject is endangered at A level just as it couldn’t be more essential or universal. Helen Barrett makes the case for its survival in British schools

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Dr Amanda Sciampacone @asciampacone.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Just recommended this to our @openuniversity.bsky.social A237: Art and Life before 1800 (www.open.ac.uk/courses/modu...) students, who are currently exploring the relationship between art and its environments, including a case study on mapping practices of Pacific Islanders.

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Art and Life Before 1800 | Open University | A237

Explore the dynamic roles that art, architecture and other artefacts played in human life from prehistory up to around 1800.

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Dr Amanda Sciampacone @asciampacone.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

For anyone working on decolonizing art history, please apply for the session I’m co-convening with Rina Ayra, Claire Moran, and Ceren Özpınar for @forarthistory.org.uk’s 2026 annual conference. CFP deadline is 2 Nov 2025: forarthistory.org.uk/decolonising...

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Decolonising Art History - Continuing the Conversation - For Art History

The AAH’s dedicated resource portal on antiracism and decolonial approaches, established in 2020 during the global pandemic in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, represents a key milestone in...

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Dr Amanda Sciampacone @asciampacone.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Check out the call for papers for @forarthistory.org.uk‘s 2026 Annual Conference. What a fantastic list of sessions!

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Dr Amanda Sciampacone @asciampacone.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

The @rgsibg.bsky.social is currently holding Impossible Measures, an amazing exhibition of Kristina Chan’s work inspired by historic instruments in their collection. Thank you @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social for the invite to the opening. Looking forward to reading your essay in the catalogue.

View of the entrance to the gallery, with the poster for the exhibition on left and stairs leading up to the gallery with artworks hanging on the wall on the right.

Cover of the accompanying exhibition catalogue Kristina Chan: Habitable Climes.

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Dr Amanda Sciampacone @asciampacone.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Attended a fantastic talk by @daisyhunguk.bsky.social yesterday evening about her new book I Am Not A Tourist: Conversations on Being British Chinese. Very much looking forward to reading it!

Daisy speaking with a microphone in her hands as she stands in front of a screen with the introduction slide for her talk.

The cover of Daisy’s book I Am Not a Tourist: Conversations on Being British Chinese.

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Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Are you working in #VisualMedicalHumanities with a specific focus on art, anatomy and medicine? The BMJ Medical Humanities has just released this CFP for articles on "visuality in medical practice and history". Looking forward to seeing how this moves the field forward! mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...

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Topic Collection: Visual Medical Humanities | Medical Humanities

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Dr Amanda Sciampacone @asciampacone.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

With @amyjanebarnes.bsky.social and Veronica Davies, our Objects, Collections and Museums Research Group table is all set up for the @openarc.bsky.social festival. Looking forward to showcasing our work today!

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.

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Trudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goods

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Amy Ryall @amyryall.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

And numerous academic related, professional services jobs too. The effect on the towns and cities that are losing all of these jobs (academic and academic related) will be immeasurable. Universities are amongst the major employers in many places. The knock-on will cause even more job losses.

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Dr Amanda Sciampacone @asciampacone.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Spent a day at the British Museum immersed in their Hew Locke: what have we here? & Silk Roads exhibitions. Both are fantastic! The former critically explores the museum’s close ties to the British empire & the latter showcases the extensive connections btwn Asia, Africa, & Europe in 500-1000 CE.

Opening wall text of the exhibition next to a video of the artist Hew Locke explaining the exhibition.

A view of artworks in display cases in the Hew Locke exhibition.

A view of the Dunhuang section of the Silk Roads exhibition, showing artworks on display.

A view of metal and ceramic vessels and statuettes in a display case in the Silk Roads exhibition.

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