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Vanessa Bateman

@vbateman.bsky.social
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Visual Culture & Human-Animal History - SSHRC Postdoc Fellow at Trent U 🇨🇦 Co-editor of GLOBALIZING WILDLIFE uncpress.org/9781469694757/globaliz… Previously: moving-animals.nl

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Vanessa Bateman @vbateman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The first review of “Globalizing Wildlife” is out! “…a superb contribution to ongoing debates around human-animal relations, globalization, global history, conservation, and more.” Thanks @historianmkalb.bsky.social !
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Vanessa Bateman @vbateman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is exciting! 🇨🇦
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 14/09/2026
In 1992, Canada declared a moratorium on Northern cod fishing due to overfishing. It was devastating for Newfoundlanders. This year, for the first time since then, the govt has “upgraded the cod stock’s status from ‘critical’ to ‘healthy’”. [canadianaffairs.news]
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In cod we trust
As Northern cod stocks rebound, Newfoundlanders are expressing cautious optimism over a fish they nearly lost
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Vanessa Bateman @vbateman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This article was one of those case studies I couldn’t quit when researching the history of N. American wapiti (elk). 🦌 It started by asking: what happened to the 20 wapiti “gifted” to New Zealand by Theodore Roosevelt? #animalhist
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Vanessa Bateman @vbateman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Curious about “Globalizing Wildlife”? Listen to this episode for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social We published the open access volume last spring with @uncpress.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/globalizing-...
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Raf de Bont et al eds., "Globalizing Wildlife" (UNC Press, 2026) - New Books Network
Contributors are Vincent Bijman, Christina Dunbar-Hester, Regina Horta Duarte, George Iordachescu, Nancy J. Jacobs, Ajit Menon, Gregg Mitman, Nitin D. Rai, Simone Schleper, Jules Skotnes-Brown, Monica Vasile, and James L. A. Webb Jr.
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Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The ANIMALS AND TECHNOLOGY themed issue is out!! Vol. 2, no. 3 online.ucpress.edu/ah
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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We're looking to recruit a PhD student at Trent to do some experimental community engagements with UNFCCC climate docs. Are you a theatre kid at heart? An aspiring policy wonk? A climate comms nerd? We have funding for you--Come work with us! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Funded Position in Environmental Humanities Approaches to Global Climate Change Policy
Funded Position in Environmental Humanities Approaches to Global Climate Change Policy Two researchers at Trent University (Anne Pasek and Stephanie Rutherford) are recruiting a new PhD student for ...
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Vanessa Bateman @vbateman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Congrats @czumbragel.bsky.social for a fantastic article on animals and technology, from a symposium he organized in Berlin a few years ago that was wonderful!
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Adam Lauder @adamlauder.bsky.social · 10/08/2024
Ontar (lake) + io (superlative) is Wendat for the superlative lake, the lakest of lakes, or the most lake 🌊 #ontario #lakeontario #ontar #io #superlative #lake #thesuperlativelake #thelakestoflakes #themostlake
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Vanessa Bateman @vbateman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A first for me: live animal habitat diorama (very cute African penguins) among traditional taxidermy dioramas at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco
A display of living African penguins in a natural history museum
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Vanessa Bateman @vbateman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Finally listened to this episode. Really inspiring, especially on exploring multiple topics i.e. “grazing,” accessible writing, supporting mothers/families in academia & at conferences (yes please!), and striving for completion over perfection.
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Vanessa Bateman @vbateman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Looking forward to reading this! Also - @nancyjjacobs.bsky.social has a wonderful chapter on grey parrots in Globalizing Wildlife! www.jstor.org/stable/10.51...
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CHAPTER ONE The Global Passages of the Grey Parrot | JSTOR
Nancy J. Jacobs, The Global Passages of the Grey Parrot, Globalizing Wildlife, 25-50
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Jenny Leetsch @jennyleetsch.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
CfP Sea and Migration in Art, Film, and Photography (deadline 29 July 2026) - arthist.net/archive/52668 #EnvHum #BlueHumanities #EnvHist
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Meer und Migration in Kunst, Film und Fotografie (Trier, 13–14 Nov 26)
Denis Grünemeier. Universität Trier, 13.–14.11.2026, Eingabeschluss : 29.07.2026
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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Do you know any places named for animal-human relations? I'm thoroughly enjoying this thought-provoking #teaching module by Youjia Li on the "Ox-Town" (Shibakuruma-chō) of 18th-century Tokyo. 🐂 Teaching Animal Mobilities website 🐂 animalmobilities.org/modules/2026... #HistSci #animals #mobility
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The Ox-Town
Hundreds of oxen traveled over a thousand kilometers to pull carts through the shogun’s capital. This module asks how working cattle shaped urban space, inspired iconic art, and became symbols of Edo’...
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Péter Szabó @pszaboenviro.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Short but truly fascinating paper 👇Paintings will clearly be the next big thing in historical ecology. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Vanessa Bateman @vbateman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
My article about wapiti and red deer in 20th cent New Zealand is out with @animalhistory.bsky.social ! 🦌🚁🏔️ It’s a wild story about colonial animals + technology, trophies + pests, the venison + velvet industry, and hybridity doi.org/10.1525/ah.2... #envhist #animalhist #histech
A man in a red jumpsuit stands behind a very large and sedated red deer stag with large antlers. A small helicopter is grounded behind them in the distance. Taken in New Zealand in 1976.
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Monica Vasile 🐾 @monicavasile.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
On Monday, I defended my PhD thesis, Saving Species. I am now officially an environmental historian (with a very large diploma to prove it) #envhist
Defense @ Maastricht University with suppervisors, assessment committee & paranymphs
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 01/06/2026
Roost is a messaging app where messages aren’t instant; they travel between users at the speed of whichever bird they use to send it. Note sending is limited by the # of birds in your rookery…if they’re all out, you have to wait until one returns. [roostsocial.app]
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Roost - Social Connection App
Join the waitlist for Roost, the messaging app where birds travel in real-time based on distance.
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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
A brilliant new study of the history of rats and plague by @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social focused on the historically neglected case of the third plague pandemic's impact on Mauritius: "Rats, Islands, and Global Infrastructure" (OA) www.jstor.org/content/oa_c...
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CHAPTER SEVEN Rats, Islands, and Global Infrastructure from Globalizing Wildlife on JSTOR
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.
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Gregg Mitman @greggmitman.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
It was a pleasure to contribute a chapter, "Caring for Chimps as Viral Kin," on the complex relations of care and unequal relations of exchange that developed at Vilab II in Liberia, for this great volume! Open access is available @ www.jstor.org/content/oa_b... #envhist #medhist
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Globalizing Wildlife on JSTOR
Humans have always incorporated wildlife into processes of work, capture, and exchange. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, globalization became the ...
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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 31/05/2026
Popping in to add: GLOBALIZING WILDLIFE is open access! I knew that was part of the publishing agreement but I didn't find the link until now 🦜 📖 🔓 All the chapters including mine on otters & logistics should be here: www.jstor.org/content/pdf/... #AnimalStudies #EnvHist #Booksky #STS #AcademicSky
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Globalizing Wildlife on JSTOR
Humans have always incorporated wildlife into processes of work, capture, and exchange. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, globalization became the ...
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Vanessa Bateman @vbateman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Streaming an eagle cam while writing about (the earliest?) eagle cam photos from over a century ago Such great heights! #animalhist #birds #photohistory www.youtube.com/live/B4-L2nf...
A black and white photograph of Herman Bohlman standing in a tree top while holding his camera, demonstrating how he literally goes to great heights to photograph a golden eagle nest. From 1904.
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
One for the top of the reading list for 2026 - congrats to @rafdebont.bsky.social @vbateman.bsky.social & Tom Quick. The book is a series of engaging essays by brilliant writers ⬇️
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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 27/05/2026
Happy pub day to Globalizing Wildlife!! edited by @rafdebont.bsky.social @vbateman.bsky.social and Tom Quick, with an essay by me on otters, shipping, oil, and the California coast (I tried to snap it "in the wild" but had to settle for a backdrop of my neighbor's shrubs)
Cover of the book Globalizing Wildlife, edited by Raf De Bont, Vanessa Bateman, and Tom Quick. Featuring a photo of a red deer held in a nylon sack hanging from below a helicopter
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Vanessa Bateman @vbateman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Publication Day!
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Simone Schleper 🟥 @moneschleper.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
My author copy has arrived. Happy to be part of this great and brilliant collective of #envhist authors…. And to write about animal navigation skills.
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Vanessa Bateman @vbateman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Rather than “invasive” or “alien” species, “new species” is used in the Swedish Museum of Natural History to describe non-native plants and animals.
A museum display case of taxidermy animals and plant specimens.
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Rebecca Heisman @rheisman.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
HEY HEY I may not be on social media much anymore but I wrote a thing for @biographic.bsky.social about gulls nesting in unexpected places that maybe aren't so unexpected after all. www.biographic.com/spains-cliff...
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Spain’s Cliff-Nesting Gulls Are Actually Beach Bums - bioGraphic
Almost a century ago, egg-poaching humans drove yellow-legged gulls away from beaches. Now the birds are coming back.
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Vanessa Bateman @vbateman.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
In Stockholm for the “BIOrdinary Anthropocene” conference. Human- #animalhist prominently displayed in front of the royal palace and parliament building — in the form of loop net fishing boats
A green ring net fishing boat in Stockholm
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 14/05/2026
A very good, very 2026 headline: Japan Runs Out of Robot Wolves in Fight Against Bears. “Starting at around $4,000, each bespoke Monster Wolf is now equipped with battery power, solar panels, and detection sensors.” (via @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social) [popsci.com]
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Japan runs out of robot wolves in fight against bears
The handmade, $4,000 Monster Wolf features solar panels, sensors, and intimidating audio.
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Vanessa Bateman @vbateman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
*Globalizing Wildlife* is OUT THIS MONTH (!) with @uncpress.bsky.social “An essential and timely intervention… exciting, cutting-edge vantages on crucial global histories” -Daniel Vandersommers Edited by @rafdebont.bsky.social myself, & Tom Quick #animalhist #globalhist #HistSci #envhist
Cover of the book Globalizing Wildlife, edited by Raf De Bont, Vanessa Bateman, and Tom Quick. Featuring a photo of a red deer held in a nylon sack hanging from below a helicopter.
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Vanessa Bateman @vbateman.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The most riveting screen time I’ve watched in ages! Yesterday, I watched one of the adult eagles casually drop off a nice fish to the nest.
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Robert Francis @birdhistory.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Maybe you just learned about woodcocks, but they've been a big deal for centuries. I wrote about the long history of loving the American Woodcock birdhistory.substack.com/p/more-than-...
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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
What’s the role of history—historical archives and historical thinking—in the formation of environmental justice movements in the past and today?
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Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
JOB ALERT: Two 4.5 year postdoctoral positions to work on my Wellcome-funded project 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health'. Please share widely! CLOSING DATE: 23 April (the date on Jobs.ac.uk is apparently incorrect)
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
A debate has erupted in this thread re: longstanding descriptions of Picasso's dog Bob—yes, his name was Bob!—as a Great Pyrenees, with @sharonbutler.bsky.social asserting he was clearly a St. Bernard. After the last few days not sure I have the energy for a response; you can weigh in if you'd like
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Vanessa Bateman @vbateman.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
“The Forest Service was the last major federal land agency that still had the institutional muscle to resist. It had the scientists. It had the regional foresters. It had the culture, imperfect as it was, that still believed forests belonged to the public.”(Jim Pattiz +hatchmag.com) #envhist
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Marilyn Anne Campbell @macampbell.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
It's the start of National Wildlife Week in Canada and the start of spring migration, so it's the perfect time to make sure your windows are as bird-friendly as they can be. This great poster by @rosemarymosco.com summarizes the problem of window collisions; learn what you can do at birdsafe.ca
A poster by Bird and Moon for Flap dot org.  In a comic-style format, a bird explains for humans that window collisions kill billions of birds worldwide each year. Birds don't really get windows, and instead see a safe space past the glass, reflected outdoor plants, a reflected rival bird (themselves), or outdoor plants viewed through transparent corner windows. What can you do? There are cheap, easy, attractive fixes. Create a visual barrier for birds to see using window tape for vertical lines, string or ribbon hanging down, decals, or window film. Put these on the outside of the window, spaced 2 inches or 5 centimeters apart or less. You can also make window strikes less deadly. Keep bird feeders and baths close to windows. One point five feet or a half-metre away or closer. You can also u screens on the outside of windows. To learn more visit FLAP dot org. Thank you, bird hero.
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Vanessa Bateman @vbateman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Bird people! What makes a duck attractive? 🦆 #birds #ducks #animahist #envhum
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Katie L. Burke @klburke.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
A 🧵on #conservation and humane treatment of one of the world's most overlooked, underdog pet #animals... 🧪🌎🦑 When I first met Crab Con founder Mary Akers in 2024, I was floored by what she told me... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/m...
A baby hermit crab the size of a fingernail sits on a person's hand.
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Vanessa Bateman @vbateman.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Visiting @ontarioturtlecc.bsky.social I learned that turtles need/use artificial wildlife corridors (eco-passages) just like large migratory mammals. Users also include snakes, ducks, beavers. Continually reminded of the Moving Animals project 🐢 #envhist
Info poster about how Ontario turtles need eco-passages.
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Vanessa Bateman @vbateman.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Extinct “Species at Risk” at the Redpath Museum at McGill University: Passenger Pigeon + Labrador Duck #animalhist
A museum display case featuring a passenger pigeon with the text “species at risk”
A taxidermied Labrador Duck with a sign reading: “these ducks are now probably extinct as none have been seen since 1875”
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Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Hey #envhist! Parks Canada is ending its library services+ “decommissioning” its collection. We stand to lose a valuable set of materials that reveal if and how the Agency fulfilled its mandate (or didn’t). Read more here+write the Minister @juliedabrusin.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/03/10/c...
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Canada Strong, Knowledge Devalued: Decommissioning the Parks Canada Library
In November 2025, the federal government released Canada Strong , its somewhat overdue budget. Of the many items mentioned in its nearly 500-pages, one should worry historians; namely, the labelling o...
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell
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Ding-dong! The Dutch Fish Doorbell needs you to help migrating fish
A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell
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Vanessa Bateman @vbateman.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I recently joined the Peterborough Field Naturalists @ptbonature.bsky.social with my child and was happy to witness taxidermy as a tool for hands-on learning for the “junior naturalists” last weekend at Trent University. #animalhist Most of the tags read “window collision” as cause of death.
Child standing at a table on which some taxidermy specimens of birds are placed, as well as a bin of bird study skins of ducks.
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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Restoration ecology fieldwork is delightful and deeply creepy in equal measure. #Histsci #envhist
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 18/02/2026
Searching for Birds, an engaging visualization of eBird and Google Trends data that reveals human curiosity about birds. [searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com]
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Searching for Birds
An interactive story about the birds that capture our curiosity, told through data, visuals and illustrations
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 10/02/2026
In the late 1930s, Henry Ruschmann patented a high-speed machine for cutting photographic prints, which produced small, glossy cellulose “schnibbles” as waste. His employees took these fragments home to use as artificial snow, and glitter was born.
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The Unruly Politics of Glitter
In the visual arts, glitter has been used to make the presence of such marginalized identities impossible to overlook.
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Jeff Sebo @jeffsebo.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
1/ The NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program is hiring a Postdoctoral Associate! The NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program is currently seeking a postdoctoral associate to join an interdisciplinary research project focused on wild animals in urban environments.
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ArtHist @arthist-net.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
CFP: The Invisible Image: Photography and the Unseen (Liverpool, 18-19 Jun 26) arthist.net/archive/51566
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The Invisible Image: Photography and the Unseen (Liverpool, 18-19 Jun 26)
Michelle Henning. Liverpool, UK, 18.–19.06.2026, Eingabeschluss : 30.01.2026
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