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Zoe Cormack

@zoecormack.bsky.social
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Curator at a national museum. Recovering academic and sporadic user of this site. Views my own.

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Nick Cave on Hopefulness 🎯
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Zoe Cormack @zoecormack.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Extremely predictable bank holiday DIY nightmare: the task is absolutely bigger than I thought, I don’t have enough filler, I’m definitely not going to finish this weekend yet I cannot go back because half the paint is stripped from my bathroom ceiling
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Zoe Cormack @zoecormack.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
So honoured to attend the opening of Culture House in Shepherd’s Bush this evening. Inspiring venue and community project ! Worth getting a late train home culturehouse.org.uk
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Culture House - Discover Somali Culture & Heritage - Home
At Culture House we tell the story of the British Somali Community. Discover Somali culture and heritage today by visiting us today.
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Zoe Cormack @zoecormack.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
UK potential drought this summer - Talking about household water saving is fine and good, but there is a pipe on my street that has been leaking for the last three years that Thames Water can’t or won’t fix.
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Zoe Cormack @zoecormack.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Absolutely exhausted after a long weekend with small children.
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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Vision of the tomb - El-Salahi, 1965.
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Zoe Cormack @zoecormack.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Very much here for this kind of content:
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Zoe Cormack @zoecormack.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
In Liverpool for Museum Ethnographers Group conference. Great to be here and hear about new work and projects
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Zoe Cormack @zoecormack.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I’m late to the party, but I’ve picked up Edward Wilson-Lee’s book ‘A History of Water’ which is brilliant and engrossing. Now thinking about parallels between archives, museums and history…
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Zoe Cormack @zoecormack.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Really interesting job going for an anthropologist in my department bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com//templates/C...
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Project Curator: Endangered Material Knowledge Programme Africa Oceania and the Americas Full-time (41 hours per week) Fixed term (until 1 February 2028) £43,207 per annum Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on 2 May 2025
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Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Do you have the vision and leadership skills to shape the future of public engagement in one of the most exciting museums in the UK? We are seeking a new Head of Public Engagement & Programming. Full-time permanent role. Grade 8: Starting from £48,235 p.a. Closing date: 13 May 2025. bit.ly/4lo27vk
View across museum gallery with packed display cases, ornate ironwork and a white ceiling.
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Zoe Cormack @zoecormack.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
My inspirational friend Naomi Pendle is looking for a PhD researcher on a major new project on the everyday politics on famine (in Sudan). Could it be you? It’s an experienced and international team www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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The Everyday Politics of Famine in Sudan at University of Bath on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - The Everyday Politics of Famine in Sudan at University of Bath, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Zoe Cormack @zoecormack.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
We need to talk about this more www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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One in four women in England have serious reproductive health issue, survey finds
Exclusive: Racial disparities highlighted as researchers estimate 10 million women have conditions such as fibroids or endometriosis
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Zoe Cormack @zoecormack.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
OMG someone has written a BOOK about how to do the Cambridge-London commute well. I have no words, except maybe… anyone done this for Oxford? www.amazon.co.uk/Cambridge-Co...
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Cambridge Commuter: Travel to London faster and more efficiently eBook : Oliver, Kayleigh, Hulme, Ian: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
Cambridge Commuter: Travel to London faster and more efficiently eBook : Oliver, Kayleigh, Hulme, Ian: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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Zoe Cormack @zoecormack.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
An afternoon off work and took my kids swimming - feeling so wholesome. Also my cat killed and presented us with a (small) rat. And the ants are back.
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 04/04/2025
As development agencies have become increasingly entangled with heritage projects, the dismantling of USAID raises the question of who will fill the funding gap – by @williamcarruthers.bsky.social www.apollo-magazine.com/usaid-abolit...
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What USAID did for world heritage | Apollo Magazine
As development agencies have become increasingly entangled with heritage projects, the end of USAID raises the question of who will fill the funding gap, writes William Carruthers
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Hafsa Halawa @hafsahalawa.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
“Khartoum airport’s rapid destruction speaks to the most remarkable feature of this war-how precipitous it was. How quickly Sudan was snatched from normality and plunged into a war that didn’t escalate over time, but exploded overnight.” @nesrinemalik.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The siege of Khartoum has lifted. Left behind are scenes of unimaginable horror | Nesrine Malik
Sudan’s capital has been hollowed out and stripped for parts, its people trampled beneath a conflict that is far from over, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Zoe Cormack @zoecormack.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Model aeroplane, made out of USAID cooking oil tins www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
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Comfort Ero @comfortero.crisisgroup.org · 08/03/2025
South Sudan is slipping toward renewed conflict & political upheaval. Risks merging with war in Sudan. African heads of state with influence, esp Kenya, Ethiopia & South Africa should step in & calm alarming situation before hostilities escalate.  www.crisisgroup.org/africa/horn-...
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South Sudan on the Precipice of Renewed Full-blown War | Crisis Group
Tensions are running dangerously high after an opposition-linked militia overran an army base loyal to President Salva Kiir in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state. Regional leaders should urgently press Ki...
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Jason Mosley @jasonmosley.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
This looks like a fascinating new book from Nicki Kindersley, just published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social. New Sudans: Wartime Intellectual Histories in Khartoum doi.org/10.1017/9781... (on Cambridge Core, if you have library access)
Over a million southern Sudanese people fled to Sudan’s capital Khartoum during the wars and famines of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. This book is an intellectual history of these war-displaced working people’s political organising and critical theory during a long conflict. It explores how these people thought through their circumstances, tried to build potential political communities, and imagined possible futures. Based on ten years of research in South Sudan, using personal stories, private archives, songs, poetry, photograph albums, self-written histories, jokes, and new handmade textbooks, New Sudans follows its idealists’ and pragmatists’ variously radical, conservative, and creative projects across two decades on the peripheries of a hostile city. Through everyday theories of Blackness, freedom, and education in a long civil war, Nicki Kindersley opens up new possibilities in postcolonial intellectual histories of the working class in Africa.
Nicki Kindersley is Senior Lecturer in African History in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion at Cardiff University. She was previously a Harry F. Guggenheim Research Fellow at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, and holds a PhD from Durham University.Cover of New Sudans by Nicki Kindersley
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Zoe Cormack @zoecormack.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
View of where I spent the weekend - would you believe me if I sent it was work? Really it was
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Zoe Cormack @zoecormack.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Am I losing my grip. Every time I see the word ‘museum’ I panic it’s spelled wrong. Musuem.
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
🚨 JOBS KLAXON Thrilled to announce we're hiring @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Music Dept: Anthropologist/ethnographer of popular music in the Global South and/or diasporas. Job details below. Deadline 16 Feb 25. Please circulate! #anthropology #music #musicology www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO459/l...
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Lecturer in the Anthropology of Music at King's College London
Apply for the Lecturer in the Anthropology of Music role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Just published: preliminary survey of "A colonial-era ‘Strategic Village’ in Kiambicho Forest, Kenya". Traces of British colonial human rights abuses during the Mau Mau Rebellion (1952-60) journals.uclpress.co.uk/ai/article/i... 🏺🇰🇪
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A colonial-era ‘Strategic Village’ in Kiambicho Forest, Kenya
Villagisation – the forcible removal of rural populations into internment camp-like settlements – was a policy of counterinsurgency and social engineering employed by the British colonial government i...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Please spread the word as we have opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships which enable researchers to work for two years at a UK institution. If you fancy being away from your country right now this could be an option! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...
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International Fellowships 2025
The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for three years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
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Loot and Plunder @andrewheavens.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Another lootplunder review in four posts Anyone interested in loot, plunder, museums, Ethiopia, empire - anyone following this feed in other words - should read @zoecormack.bsky.social's article "The British Museum and the Abyssinian Campaign, 1867–8" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... ... 1/4
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The British Museum and the Abyssinian Campaign, 1867–8
In 1867–8, the British Museum sent a staff member on the Abyssinian Campaign. Richard Holmes, an assistant in the Manuscript Department, was embedded in the military invasion and looted important and...
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Horus the Elder 𓅃𓅨𓂋 ♿ @horusofnekhen.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I'm actively looking for work! I would like to stay in the UK museums & heritage sector, or adjacent. I am open to employment or freelance work, suited to my experience in curation, archaeology & public engagement. For a summary of my experience so far: www.linkedin.com/in/horusofne...
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Zoe Cormack @zoecormack.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
‘Can the British Museum survive its omni-crisis?’ www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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‘The ghosts are everywhere’: can the British Museum survive its omni-crisis?
Beset by colonial controversy, difficult finances and the discovery of a thief on the inside, Britain’s most visited museum is in deep trouble. Can it restore its reputation?
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Zoe Cormack @zoecormack.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Back on my bike and cycled to the station today, for the first time since my emergency surgery in May. Weirdly big step forward. I felt physically well enough but couldn’t face any risk
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Zoe Cormack @zoecormack.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I’m incomprehensible after a day of scanning. May have to delete and repost.
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
#SudanArmedForces issues rare condemnation of 'excesses' committed 'individually' in Al Gezira state, after a spate of lynchings, targeting people from Kanabi - villages where Darfurian farmworkers live. What lies behind this horror? / x.com/hash_sudan/s...
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Zoe Cormack @zoecormack.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Thank you @hisjournalha.bsky.social - it’s been wonderful to work with you on this publications. Its been several years of research and writing to bring this together. I hope to continue many conversations…
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Zoe Cormack @zoecormack.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
New year, new social media.
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