Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoArtHist @arthist-net.bsky.social · 07/04/2026CFP: Beyond the Image (Urbino, 1 Oct 26) arthist.net/archive/52172 arthist.netBeyond the Image (Urbino, 1 Oct 26)Dr Cristiana Sorrentino, University of Florence, Italy, University of Florence. Urbino, Italy, 01.10.2026, Eingabeschluss : 22.05.2026 011
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoGeoff Belknap @curatorgeoff.bsky.social · 07/04/2026For those interested in photo history, attached is a CFP for a study day on the history photomechanical images in Italy. Proposals are due by the May 22 to cristiana.sorrentino@unifi.it & francesca.strobino@labafirenze.com The study day will be held at the University of Urbino on October 1st. 044
Dr Francesca Strobino @francescastrobino.bsky.social · 07/04/2026We're delighted to share our CfA for the study day "Beyond the Image: Towards a Redefinition of the Photographic Object in Printed Materials in Italy" (Urbino, Italy; 1 October 2026). Deadline for abstracts: 22 May✨ A peer-reviewed volume collecting the contributions is planned for publication. 020
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoRose Teanby @roseteanby.bsky.social · 08/02/20264 weeks today we will be celebrating #InternationalWomen’sDay with our 2026 online Women of Photography conference-athon on 8th March. Join 72 speakers over 24 hours travelling across the world beginning with photography of Antarctica. Registration is open and free. womenofphoto.comwomenofphoto.comWomen of PhotographyJoin us to celebrate the contributions of women practitioners to the history and living present of photography. 0147
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoRose Teanby @roseteanby.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Registration is open for the 2026 Women of Photography conference-athon on 8th March. Join 72 speakers over 24 hours celebrating International Women’s Day - starting with photography of Antarctica & travelling across the world. womenofphoto.comwomenofphoto.comWomen of PhotographyJoin us to celebrate the contributions of women practitioners to the history and living present of photography. 077
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoDe Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies @dgb-mem.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Announcing the 2026 Nuncius Prize for the best original essay on the material and visual #history of #science, #technology and #medicine in any period. The prize aims to encourage, recognize and promote high-quality research among graduate and early career scholars: 🔗 brill.com/view/journal... 074
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoRose Teanby @roseteanby.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Join me in person or online on 5th November 1pm for a Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. She witnessed the birth of #photography but maintained a love of art throughout her life. Details here: photooxford.org/events/const...photooxford.orgConstance Talbot, early photographer and lifelong artist Talk by Rose Teanby — Photo OxfordSir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, The Bodleian Library Wednesday, 5 November 13015
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoMolly Caenwyn @mollycaenwyn.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Home Darkrooms in Britian 📸🏠🏳️🌈 Oral History Project I wish to speak to LGBTQIA people who have experience of having a home darkroom or used a darkroom that felt like home. If you are interested in learning more, please get in touch: 📧 m.warren@westminster.ac.uk 📞 +447902489831 01515
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoRebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 11/07/2025I heard @francescastrobino.bsky.social on this at #BSHS2025 - an amazing archive and fascinating story of 'scientific' crafting and manipulation #histSTM 191
Dr Francesca Strobino @francescastrobino.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Very grateful for the prize and excited to share this article! 1122
Dr Francesca Strobino @francescastrobino.bsky.social · 12/06/2025I'm really excited to finally share my article "Colouring and Crafting 19th-Century Science," awarded the 2024 Nuncius Prize. It's available in open access: brill.com/view/journal... 1175
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoDuke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 05/06/2025In "Negative Originals," Juanita Solano Roa explores race and identity through photographic practices in late nineteenth-century Medellín, Colombia. Read the introduction for free on our website now! #VisualCulture #Photography buff.ly/TmxT1uo 0289
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoDr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 24/04/2025The latest issue of History of Photography is out and it includes my article on the funding and institutionalisation of medical photography! I loved that they used the only photo in the article, a negative glass plate of the Salpêtrière photo studio, in the front cover ❤️ #photohist #histmed 24314
Reposted by Dr Francesca Strobinoʙᴜᴅɪ ɴ. ᴅ. ᴅʜᴀʀᴍᴀᴡᴀɴ @budinddharmawan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Symposium Future Memories: How Photography Shapes Our Understanding of the World | 14 May 2025 at The Rijksmuseum | A one-day international symposium exploring the impact of photojournalism and documentary photography on our perceptions of the world | Live & online www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/...rijksmuseum.nlSymposium Future Memories - Rijksmuseum 0117
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoMichelle Henning @michellehenning.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Two upcoming events being disorganised by me: 1/Weds 30 April – writer Melissa McCarthy – “Absolutely Nebulous: Fog, Fuzzy Edges and Vagueness in Photographic Fields” University of Liverpool /online – full details and book here - www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-th...ticketsource.co.uk 1126
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoRuth Quinn @ruthquinn.bsky.social · 06/03/2025The National Science and Media Museum are looking for a fixed term Curator of Photography & Photographic Technology (I'm off to grow a small human). It's a great job, wonderful collections, best colleagues and an exciting time to be in Bradford. Please share. ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_web...ce0111li.webitrent.comPowered by MHR 11510
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoNicolò Antolini @nantolini.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Yesterday @francescastrobino.bsky.social officially received her PhD 🎉🎉 I'm super proud of you and so glad we had this journey together ❤️ 071
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoSteffen Siegel @steffensiegel.bsky.social · 11/02/2025William Henry Fox Talbot, British polymath and eminent pioneer of photography, was born today, on the day, 225 years ago. In the mid-1830s, he embarked on an endeavor that eventually led to pictures he called “photogenic drawings”—photographic representations made with and without a camera. /1 182
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoRose Teanby @roseteanby.bsky.social · 08/02/2025#InternationalWomensDay is 8th March. Please join me & Kris Belden-Adams in a unique 24hour online conference celebrating women of #photography. 60 speakers from 17 countries across multiple time zones from New Zealand to West coast USA. Registration here: egrove.olemiss.edu/womenofphotogr… 0248
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoPhilosophy of Photography journal @philo-photography.bsky.social · 07/02/2025The first speaker in the Photoecologies Study Group online seminar series is Michelle Henning, 25 February 2025, 5-6.30pm GMT. Please register to attend this talk here: www.eventbrite.com/e/michelle-h... . 02911
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoPhilosophy of Photography journal @philo-photography.bsky.social · 07/02/2025You are invited to the Photoecologies Study Group, a new space for exploring photography as an environmental, elemental and energetic assemblage. To find out more about and register to attend our upcoming events, see our eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.com/o/photoecolo... . 02112
Dr Francesca Strobino @francescastrobino.bsky.social · 06/02/2025New article out! I wrote about a small collection of eight salted paper prints by W. H. F. Talbot, housed in the Polish Academy of Sciences Kórnik Library. In addition to discussing these photographs, it explores the role of diplomats in the diffusion of paper photography across Central Europewbc.poznan.plWilliam Henry Fox Talbot's photographs at the Kórnik Library. Pamiętnik Biblioteki Kórnickiej. Z.41 - Wielkopolska Digital LibraryWielkopolska Digital Library is... Here put the description for the main page matadata, visible e.g. when sharing on Facebook. 0114
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoDr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 06/02/2025My latest article is out! It argues that the public subvention of photography in Parisian hospitals enabled the institutionalisation of photography and shaped the kind of photography that could be done #photohist #histmed 📷📸🗂️ It took me literal years to write!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comThe Institutionalisation of Medical Photography, Public Funding and Medical Reform in Parisian Hospitals (1878–1913)*While historians of photography and medicine have rarely engaged with the financial aspects of medical photography, funding strategies had a key role in the early development of this practice. The ... 36117
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoProf. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 06/02/2025THREE AHRC NWCDTP Collaborative Doctoral Awards on the fascinating project “Visual Cultures of Fascism” - deadline for applications 5pm, Friday, 28 Feb. 2025. Please send applications to my colleague, Roland Clark (clarkr@liverpool.ac.uk) #skystorians 🗃️www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgr...liverpool.ac.ukTHREE AHRC NWCDTP Collaborative Doctoral Awards on the project “Visual Cultures of Fascism”Applications are invited for three fully-funded AHRC NWCDTP Collaborative Doctoral Award (+3) beginning in September 2025. The rising popularity of the 35mm Leica camera and the Parvo video camera i... 02116
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoTim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social · 03/02/2025This look amazing! A 24-hour “conference-a-thon” all about women of photography. Coming in early March. #photography #womenphotographers #photohistory #arthistory egrove.olemiss.edu/womenofphoto...egrove.olemiss.edu 2025 | Women of Photography: A 24-Hour Conference-a-thon Celebrating International Women’s Day 2025 173
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoPetra Trnkova @ptrnkova.bsky.social · 12/01/2025I'm happy to announce that my book on early paper photography in central Europe "Inventors, Pirates, Epigones" is now available as an e-book at a.co/d/cl5PYJX; a sample can be viewed at www.academia.edu/126980382/In... 2163
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoMichelle Henning @michellehenning.bsky.social · 08/01/2025I wrote an article for this special issue on Darkrooms last year and it’s available open access www.eshph.org/journal/phot... 22912
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoPetra Trnkova @ptrnkova.bsky.social · 27/12/2024#CfP The peer-reviewed journal Umění/Art invites authors to submit article proposals for a special issue entitled Mechanical reproduction of art works and artefacts in the 19thC | Abstract submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | Article submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 www.academia.edu/126618718/Cf...academia.eduCfP - Mechanical Reproduction of Artefacts / 19thCentury - Umění/Art journalThe peer-reviewed academic journal Umění/Art invites authors to submit article proposals for a special issue entitled Mechanical reproduction of art works and artefacts in the 19th century. - Abstract... 086
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoChristina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Funded PhD in photographic history: please share widely! With The Story, Durham and @durhamhistory.bsky.social, 'Images and Empire in British Military Collections' will examine the photo archive of the Durham Light Infantry regiment over its 90-year history. Apply by January 31st! 🗃️📜📷📸dur.ac.ukCurrent Opportunities - Durham University 17168
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoMichelle Henning @michellehenning.bsky.social · 04/12/2024I have a new article now online- it’s a short piece for the relaunch of @vcib.bsky.social talking about my thoughts on what “visual culture in Britain“ might mean. There’s a little preview of themes and topics in my next book (A Dirty History of Photography) too- www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comTake Me to the River: Place and Material in Visual CulturePublished in Visual Culture in Britain (Ahead of Print, 2024) 12311
Dr Francesca Strobino @francescastrobino.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Any quantum physicists out there? @nantolini.bsky.social is looking for his community here on bluesky :) 130
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoMichelle Henning @michellehenning.bsky.social · 25/11/2024I can now announce my book A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog and Empire is going to be published by University of Chicago Press in Fall 2025. 1916322
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoBill Jenkins 🏴 @billjenkins.bsky.social · 22/11/2024My new book, David Brewster and the Culture of Science in Scotland, 1793-1843, comes out this month from Edinburgh University Press. Thanks to everyone at EUP and all my colleagues on the 'After the Enlightenment' project at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-david-b... 32610
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoChristina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Paper now done (just in time!) for the conference Photography and the Museum, starting later today at the University of Sunderland. Runs until Sunday: free in person or online, programme in link below. 📜📷📸 Amazed by the energy and vision of organizers Alexandra Moschovi and Amanda Ritson.northeastphoto.netConference - NEPN 1114
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoDaniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social · 21/11/2024If you are interested in the history of photography and do not know about Photographica, you should! Last issue on decentered histories of early photo with great authors (Olubukola Gbadegesin, Ece Zerman and many others). Free access here: journals.openedition.org/photographica/ 14313
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoSteffen Siegel @steffensiegel.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Call for Papers The journal “photographies” is looking forward to receive proposals for a special issue on “Photography & Memory in the Age of AI” which will be co-edited by Sara Oscar and Cherine Fahd. Submissions are due on January 15, 2025. 1219
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoMichael Brown @medhistoryman.bsky.social · 21/11/2024The advert for our Research Associate post in Victorian Cultural and Material History is now up on jobs.ac.uk - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS158/r... Please spread the word!!!!jobs.ac.ukResearch Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History at Lancaster UniversityLooking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History on jobs.ac.uk! 07386
Dr Francesca Strobino @francescastrobino.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Tomorrow: conference "The Window as Protagonist in British Architecture and Visual Culture" at Paul Mellon Centre. I'm going to give a short talk about WHF Talbot's latticed window showing how he used it as a test object. Free tickets in the link (sold out in person, only zoom tickets available)paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk“What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks?”: The Window as Protagonist in British Architecture and Visual CultureThis conference will explore the multifaceted, multi-purpose nature of the window as protagonist, with an emphasis on its place in British architecture and visual… 0235
Dr Francesca Strobino @francescastrobino.bsky.social · 13/11/2024We spent last weekend building a camera obscura for my history of photography class. This week, we’ll start digging into the origins of photography—I can’t wait to show it to my students! 1271
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoJudith Riemer @judithriemer.bsky.social · 12/11/2024CfP for photo album fans 👇👇👇 www.pismowidok.org/en/cfp/41-fo...pismowidok.org#41 Photo albums | View. Theories and Practices of Visual CultureCFP for 41 issue of View: Photoalbums 02610
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoJudith Riemer @judithriemer.bsky.social · 12/11/2024CfP#2 for photo album fans 👇👇👇 journals.openedition.org/photographic...journals.openedition.org12 | 2026 – Bound Histories: Memories, Materialities, and Meanings ...Co-editors Carolin Görgen, Associate Professor of American Studies, Sorbonne Université Alice Morin, Media and Photo historian, Fellow at Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen Marie-Eve Bouillon,... 0238
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoSOURCE Photographic Review @sourcephoto.bsky.social · 10/11/2024We wanted to find the people writing about photography so we've made a starter pack. Let us know if there's anyone w should add. 164617
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoMatthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 06/05/2024Join me on May 21st at 5 pm (UK) and 12:00 pm (east cost USA) on The Revolving Century to talk about my new book! #hstm #histsci #bookhistory #sts #hps #manuscripts #notebooks forms.office.com/pages/respon... 0209
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoPetra Trnkova @ptrnkova.bsky.social · 11/02/2024Don't miss the series of talks on photography/photomechanical topics organized by the PhotoMatrix team in Prague | onsite + online | February-May 2024 photomatrix.cz/outputs 083
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoAlisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 16/01/2024Nominations are open for the BSHS Pickstone Prize, awarded every 2 years for best scholarly book in the history of science. The deadline for nominations is 19 February 2024 at 5pm. Nominations should be submitted via the following online form: britsochistsci.wufoo.com/forms/q1j0xf... #histsci #hpsbritsochistsci.wufoo.comBSHS Pickstone Prize 2024The BSHS Pickstone Prize is awarded every two years to the best scholarly book in the history of science (broadly construed) in English. The Prize aims to recognize pioneering works that advance the s... 01614
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoAmerican Historical Association @historians.org · 08/12/2023The AHR seeks proposals for a special, digital-only issue of the journal on “The Mistakes I Have Made.” We invite historians to reflect on their missteps and how those missteps reveal insights into historical practice. The deadline for proposals is Dec. 15. 🗃️historians.orgAHR Special Issue: The Mistakes I Have MadeThe American Historical Review seeks proposals for a special issue of the journal on how missteps reveal insights into historical practice. 23219
Reposted by Dr Francesca StrobinoAndrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 07/12/2023PhD opportunity for #BookHistory & #histsci. Economies of Natural History: Publishing Science in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. More details: www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...royalholloway.ac.uk 01815
Dr Francesca Strobino @francescastrobino.bsky.social · 23/11/2023First post on Blusesky! Here's my recent article 'Early Photographic Accounts at the Prima Riunione degli Scienziati Italiani (Pisa, 1839)' on the materiality of early photographic experiments and the material culture of Italian nineteenth-century natural philosophers.t.coEarly Photographic Accounts at the <i>Prima Riunione degli Scienziati Italiani</i> (Pisa, 1839) | St...Early Photographic Accounts at the Prima Riunione degli Scienziati Italiani (Pisa, 1839) 0111
