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Art History - Indian Ocean Studies - Digital Humanities

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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@drhanwill.bsky.social is far too modest to share this, but it's so brilliant to see her and Meredith Martin's work on @colnet.bsky.social featured in the NY Times! You can watch their film with Madeleine Le Cesne at www.colonialnetworks.org/linked-lives...
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Linked Lives: Film, Poetry, and Portraits with the National Gallery – Colonial Networks
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
☕ For those following recent developments in the Red Sea @nytimes.com takes us back further in time. I got to talk about why Mokha is and is not really a coffee port and why these topics are so vital to understanding the world that we live in today. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/w...
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Why Mokha, Historic Port That Shaped the Coffee Trade, Is a Prize in Yemen’s War (Gift Article)
A strategic location on the Red Sea afforded the city centuries of trading dominance — and makes it a coveted target in today’s fighting in the Middle East.
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Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Chair of Art History at Oxford advert is now live, and the important bit is this: "We welcome applications from candidates with expertise in any area of the History of Art". You've got till October 19 to apply or tell somebody else to. A wonderful job, go for it. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Our exhibition research process captured in a comic! Visit @gettymuseum.bsky.social for the full story of a wartime art loss soon to be returned to its rightful home. The exhibition, Lost. Found. Returned, is on view until October 18, 2026. www.getty.edu/exhibitions/...
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Lost. Found. Returned. | Getty Exhibition
The story of how a drawing by Otto Greiner disappears from Dresden during World War II and re-emerges in Los Angeles decades later
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This new Smarthistory video provides a preview of the new exhibition, "Lost.Found.Returned," opening at the Getty Research Institute next week! www.getty.edu/exhibitions/...
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Lost. Found. Returned. | Getty Exhibition
The story of how a drawing by Otto Greiner disappears from Dresden during World War II and re-emerges in Los Angeles decades later
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Go Korea!
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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Call for Papers: "Technologies of Making and Knowing" Hosted jointly at Getty, LACMA, and UCLA Los Angeles, California, March 4 - 6, 2027 www.historiansofislamicart.org/events-and-s...
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Technologies of Making and Knowing - HIAA
Beyond its modern conceptualization, technology has always informed artistic production...
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Diane Zorich @dzorich.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Job posting: Assoc Dir for Interpretation, Learning & Public Programs @ Smithsonian Nat'l Museum of Asian Art. Closes 03/16; Salary: $143,913-$158,306. Onsite, Washington, DC.
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Associate Director for Interpretation, Learning, and Public Programs (IS-1001-14)
Job Opening: Associate Director for Interpretation, Learning, and Public Programs (IS-1001-14) at National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC.
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Great to see the Guerilla Girls back @gettymuseum.bsky.social today!
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Thank you for this terrific article - I will now deploy the terms derived, enhanced and aggregated to think about the various modalities of the datasets that I am wrestling with!
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
This is happening tomorrow @gettymuseum.bsky.social - so excited! www.getty.edu/calendar/gue...
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In Conversation: The Guerrilla Girls and Roxane Gay | Getty Events
Iconic feminist voices explore the intersections of activism, protest, and creative expression
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
If you can't make the Jan 17 event featuring Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social at Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social you can still visit the terrific exhibition "How to Be a Guerilla Girl," at the Getty Research Institute thru April 2026. www.getty.edu/exhibitions/...
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How to Be a Guerrilla Girl | Getty Exhibitions
Coinciding with the Guerrilla Girls’ 40th anniversary, the exhibition tells the story of their collaborative process and longstanding commitment to call for equity for women and artists of color in th...
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Our new data article explores funding trends in art history over the past 60 years with Wikidata facilitating cross-institutional collaboration, with @qwesterby.bsky.social and Lidia Ferrara, published in Journal of Open Humanities Data openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.... #ArtHistory
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A Practical Join: Using Wikidata to Aggregate Awards and Affiliations Data from Residential Fellowship Programs in Art History | Journal of Open Humanities Data
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Because it’s back in the news I am reposting this 🧵 about Pantone’s 2025 color of the year. Whether or not you like the color brown Mocha Mousse is much more than 💩 No comment on the 2026 pick Cloud Dancer.
Swatch of white with a label (in another shade of white) that reads Pantone 11-4201 TCX Cloud Dancer.
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
To GLAM colleagues: Do you use the GETTY VOCABULARIES? We seek feedback to improve these important resources. Please answer this survey and share it in your circles! It is anonymous although email is collected for context. 10-30 mins to complete. Thank you! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Getty Vocabularies Survey
We're looking to improve the Getty Vocabularies (AAT, ULAN, TGN) and would appreciate your feedback.
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Getty Provenance Index wins the 2025 Apollo Award for Digital Innovation of the Year! @gettymuseum.bsky.social @apollo-magazine.com apollo-magazine.com/apollo-award...
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Digital Innovation of the Year
The Getty Provenance Index is the winner of Apollo’s 2025 Digital Innovation of the Year award
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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
How the Getty Provenance Index is transforming art research. [🧵1/10]
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
NEW ARTICLE: Yemeni coins trace relations between pirates, merchants, and enslavers that traversed the North American, Arabian, & Madagascar coasts in the 1690s and shed light on colonial material exchange. #vastearlyamerica #arthistory journalpanorama.org/article/a-tr...
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A Trail of Coins from Yemen to New York: Pirates, Plunder, and Enslavement in the World of Margrieta van Varick, ca. 1695 - Panorama
Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Heading home after the invigorating fall meeting of the Association of Research Institutes in Art History. Thanks to our amazing host INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES ESTÉTICAS at UNAM - a powerhouse of art historical research. www.esteticas.unam.mx
White sign for the fall meeting of ARIAH - the association for research institutes of art history, held in Mexico City in November 2025Mural painting by Siquieros in the Collin de San Idelfonso in Mexico City representing a dramatic winged figureMosaic facade of the Central library on the historic campus of UNAM in Mexico CityPre-Colombian stone carving seen from above at the Templo Mayor Museum in Mexico City
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Great opportunity to join a vibrant and collegial department - for a senior art historian - pre modern!
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
For anyone in Los Angeles who is interested in the politics of cultural heritage, put this event on your calendar! Renowned scholar and anthropologist Lynn Meskell will speak at the Getty on Saturday November 22, 2025 at 3 pm. Register here: www.getty.edu/calendar/rui...
Photograph of the city of Kyiv with buildings in the background and tanks in the foreground. Below is text on a coral pink background that announces the lecture “Ruined” on November 22 2025, held at the Getty Center
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DH2026 | X/Twitter (@DH2026_Daejeon) @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
🎉The wait is over! CFP submissions for #DH2026 are NOW OPEN! ⏰ Deadline: December 8, 2025 (23:59 KST) 🌏 Join us in Daejeon, South Korea 📝 Submit now: www.conftool.pro/dh2026/ We look forward to your innovative contributions to digital humanities! 🔄Please share widely! #ADHO
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DH2026 Daejeon - ConfTool Pro - Login
Log in to your account to access your submitted contributions and view the results of the reviewing process, and - upon registration for participation - view your registration and payment details. …
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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The Getty Research Journal is seeking submissions for a special issue titled “Artistic Exchanges between the Eastern Bloc and Northern Africa during the Global Cold War.” Prospective authors are encouraged to submit by October 30, 2025. Apply: gty.art/4mPsjyN
Horizontal color photograph of a gray and black MacBook laptop. The laptop screen shows the Getty Research Journal cover, Number 20, 2025. The main image depicts a person through illustration. There are two hands resting on the laptop keyboard.
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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Applications are open for 3-month residencies at the Getty Conservation Institute in the Conservation Guest Scholars Program for those bringing new knowledge and fresh perspectives to the field of conservation. Learn more and apply by October 1, 2025: gty.art/476sfGn
Three people in conversation in the library stacks. The woman on the left wears an orange top and scarf while holding an open book. There is a man in black in the middle and the another person to the right with the back of their head towards the camera.
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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Applications are open for the 2026–27 Getty Scholars Program at the Villa, themed "The Classical World in Context: Religious Experience in Antiquity." Apply by October 1, 2025. Read more about the theme, scholars program, and grant details: gty.art/4287IOv
Promotional image for the Getty Scholars Program at the Villa, for the 2026–27 grant year. The theme is "The Classical World in Context: Religious Experience in Antiquity." Applications due October 1, 2025. The graphic includes a photograph of an alabaster and gold statuette of Artemis of Ephesus from 100-200 CE.
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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
For researchers seeking a short-term grant—including undergraduates—the Getty Library is offering partial support for travel to Los Angeles to use the Getty Research Institute's collections. Apply by October 1, 2025: gty.art/4mvU8f9
A full-color photograph of library research grantees working in the Special Collections Reading Room. There are four individuals pictured with two at a desk on the left side of a table and two on the right side of the table. Three are sitting down at the desk while a woman in the back left is standing flipping through the pages of a book. The man next to her on the bottom left uses a magnifying glass to look at a black-and-white illustration. The man on the bottom right wears bright royal blue gloves while smiling looking at a piece of paper. The person at the top right writes with a pencil in their right hand while wearing a baby blue pullover sweater.
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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Applications are open for the 2026–27 Getty Research Institute Scholars Program for proposals on the topic of Provenance, including the history of collecting, the study of the art market, and more. Deadline is October 1, 2025. Learn more and apply: gty.art/46AKWQC
A Getty branded split image. On the left are blue and green squares with text that reads, “Call for Applications: Grants for Scholars and Professionals 2026–2027 due October 1, 2025.” There is a Getty logo in the top left corner. On the right is a color photograph of a scholar wearing a navy blue turtleneck and pink blazer. The woman has her left arm resting on a wooden Getty-branded podium in front of her with her right hand raised as she speaks. There is a gray laptop on the podium in front of her and a sliver of a yellow presentation slide behind her in the upper left of the image.
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Ian Petrie @icpetrie.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
JOB: TT Assistant Professor, History, Binghamton University Maritime/Global Asia East Asia, Central Asia, South/Southeast Asia, and/or the Indian Ocean possible focus on the histories of environment, technology, medicine, or migration www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
In it, we explore funding patterns, with a view of where the field of art history has been heading for the past few decades. Plus an invitation to other programs with funding data to join us in putting together a bigger picture of the landscape of support for art history and related fields.
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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Postdoc Opportunity! Dr. Anna Grasskamp at Oslo seeks a postdoctoral fellow specializing in the early modern Philippines to investigate the artistic use and visual representation of geographical, geological, botanical, zoological, and climatic resources in Eurasia. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowship associated with the ERC-funded project "ECOART" (284675) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship associated with the ERC-funded project "ECOART" (284675), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Need a midweek pick me up? We have the remedy! Discover new tunes hand selected by the artists of our exhibition $3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives. gty.art/QueerPlaylist
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Here and Queer: A Playlist
Artist featured in $3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives share songs to accompany the exhibition
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Looking forward to presenting in the NNI Seminar in October - my paper explores the legacy of Margrieta van Varick (d. 1695 in New York), Red Sea piracy, the trafficking of enslaved captives from Madagascar, and the flow of Islamic coins to colonial North America (all in one essay!)
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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Resharing yet again- please encourage your provenance/history of collecting colleagues, museum friends, and pre/post doc students to explore this #provenance theme and to consider applying! I truly cannot wait to see what facets of provenance in all of its forms come together for this scholar year.
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Two open positions in the Division of Research and Knowledge Creation at the Getty Research Institute. Both opportunities are ideal for early career professionals who wish to advance the study of art history and cultural heritage! Please circulate to potential candidates! 1/3
View of a white modernist building with a rounded facade, overlooking green hills, a view of the Pacific Ocean in the background.
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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Ann Philbin is awarded the 2025 Getty Prize! Philbin chose @npr.org for the Getty Prize's accompanying $500,000 pay-it-forward grant. The funds will be split between @npr.org , @kcrw.com , and @laist.com. Read full announcement: gty.art/3Ir9q6N
NPR's office, and a headshot of Ann Philbin, text reads: Getty Prize is awarded to Ann Philbin. NPR receives accompanying $500,000 Getty grant
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Are you interested in learning more about computational provenance research? This workshop held in Germany in December 2025 offers the perfect opportunity to work directly with leaders in the field. Funding is also available! Perfect for art historians, curators and digital humanists!
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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
🧵(5) An example of a fāʼidah in the collection of Aboubacar Ben Said Library, bearing direct witness to the period of European Atlantic slavery as seen from the African perspective: hmml.org/stories/post...
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Postscript — A Fāʼidah
“Along with the direct physical resistance to this unjust trade, the text shows...”
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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Artist Cai Guo-Qiang has used gunpowder in his work for many years. His studio approached Getty asked how they could preserve the color of the pyrotechnic powders used in the fireworks displays. How Getty conservators tackled this question: gty.art/3IeG1wx
Two figures in a lab look over a series of prints with different colors on them. Text overlayed reads: "How to preserve art made from gunpowder. Read full story getty.edu/news
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Diane Zorich @dzorich.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
For the Getty's Thomas & Barbara Gaetghens lecture, Heghnar Watenpaugh uses the Zeytun Gospels' canon tables to explore "connections between art and genocide, how sacred items become artworks in museums, & how communities & art institutions can work..toward justice." www.linkedin.com/posts/j.-pau...
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The Fragment and the Whole
In the aftermath of the Armenian genocide, one medieval manuscript’s extraordinary journey
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Amazing thread that introduces important figures in the field of climate science, lots of interesting people working on oceans and marine environments. Great advocacy for advanced researchers, with terrific photos. Thanks for taking the time to do this @davidho.bsky.social
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Toby Juliff @tobyjuliff.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
My wonderful colleague Karen Hall and I are convening a panel at AAANZ2025 in Perth on unruly histories and practices of water. Histories & practices of infrastructure, hydrofeminism, blue humanities, oceanic thinking. #envhum #aaanz #cfp #water #arthistory aaanz.info/aaanz-home/c...
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Call for Papers | 2025 Conference - AAANZ | The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand
The call for papers for the 2025 CONFERENCE | UNRULY OBJECTS are now open. If you would like to speak at the conference, apply to join one of the panels detailed below.  To apply, read the instruction...
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School for Advanced Research @sarsf.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Exciting news from SAR: A new Getty-funded seminar will challenge extractive museum practices and reimagine how art historians engage with Native art and communities. Launching summer 2026 in Santa Fe. Details → sarweb.org/getty-founda...
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Transforming Art Historical Practices Through Collaboration | School for Advanced Research
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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
#provenance job alert with a wonderful team!
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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Want more accessible transit options to visit Getty? Metro is soliciting feedback about options for the Sepulveda Pass. We support Alt 3, the only option with stops at both Getty Center and UCLA. Let Metro know your thoughts in this one-comment survey: gty.art/metro
Wish you could take Metro to the Getty Center? Take the survey gty.art/metro overlayed text on an aerial photograph of the Getty Center
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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Looking forward to the Mediterranean Seminar, on "Oceanic Crossroads," Dec 8 - 9, 2025, at NYU Abu Dhabi. I am very lucky to deliver the keynote, which will consider the current urgencies and tensions that drive oceanic studies. Submit your paper proposals by September 1. mailchi.mp/mediterranea...
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CFP: “Oceanic Crossroads” The Mediterranean Seminar Fall 2025 Workshop (8 & 9 December: Abu Dhabi)
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Art Collection Ethics @uofdenver-ace.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Learn about methods and resources for provenance research on Nazi Era items and antiquities and archaeological property. Speakers on Tuesday, June 24 include Leila Amineddoleh, Kate Aufses, Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social‬ , Antonia Bartoli, Eric Hormell, Sally McKay, and Andrew Turner. Join us!
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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
We’ve just launched a free online course on ‘Born-digital research in the humanities’ reshaped.sas.ac.uk. It covers key concepts, ethics, copyright & accessing, collecting and analysing born-digital data. You can browse the course with guest access or create an account. All CC-BY-NC licensed!
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