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Last few days have been about total immersion in Indian natural textile dyeing techniques with Sylvia Houghteling for the Tomás Harris lecture series, discussing natural dyes, their techniques, temporality and socio-economic significance. Thanks @UCLHoA for organising!
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Images as History Seminar Series: Africa in the US Cold War Photographic Archive 📷
Dr Kimberly Schreiber hosts the second seminar of the series on photography and history in the Americas with Professor Darren Newbury 🇺🇸
🗓️3 Dec, 6–8pm
✨All welcome✨
ucl.ac.uk/americas/events/20…
Our first year MAT students replicated a Portuguese recipe to make a dye out of Brazilwood in yesterday’s Art and Science class with Dr Tea Ghigo🧪
🌟Our Head of Department, Professor Richard Taws, and our wonderful student ambassadors welcomed attendees on our @UCLSocHistSci Undergraduate Taster Day last Saturday!🌟
For this Research Seminar, we welcome Aaron M. Hyman (University of Basel) for a talk on 'Bloody Characters: Frans Francken and Teresa of Ávila in an Era of Witches' 💬
🗓️5 December 2024, 6-8 pm
📍IAS Forum
✨All welcome✨
ucl.ac.uk/art-history/events…
For this Research Seminar, we welcome Blake Stimson (University of Illinois Chicago) for a talk on 'A Very Strange Comparison'✨
Open to all!
🗓️28 November 2024, 6-8pm
📍IAS forum
ucl.ac.uk/art-history/events…
Join Professor Philip Schofield and our very own Professor Bob Mills as they explore the medieval cult of St. Wilgefortis, a legendary non-binary figure who challenges modern assumptions about medieval gender norms @UCLpress
📽️: shorturl.at/aMYV8
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Are you a UCL Social Science Mid-Career Researcher? If so, join our new Coordinating Group and develop an activity programme that will identify the needs and challenges encountered by mid-career researchers, and find ways to address them.
tinyurl.com/2r4z4tre @UCLResearch
Join us for the first Past Imperfect event this year with Professor Elina Gertsman (Case Western Reserve University) and Professor Bob Mills (UCL): Slow Learning, Slow Looking✨
🗓️25 November 2024, 6-8 pm
📍Room 102 (Sem 3), 20 Gordon Square
Book here: shorturl.at/eG9Mh
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. @UCL final year students & @UCLAlumni 🔊
Apply for a fully-funded Master’s programme in China Studies at Yenching Academy (@PKUYCA) of Peking University (@PKUYCA). 🇨🇳
Info session on Thu 14 Nov at 11 am (GMT): apply.yca.pku.edu.cn/detail?…
More details 👇
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Dr Kimberly Schreiber, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, hosts the first in a series of seminars on photography and history in the Americas: ‘Images as History Seminar Series: Form as Authority in the Photobooks of Helen Levit’ 📷
All welcome: shorturl.at/XxAPk
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From staging plays on the UCL portico to becoming an Oscar-nominated prosthetics designer! Learn about how the community @UCLHoA alum Suzi Battersby found at university led her to carve an unexpected career path. #UCLAlumni
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Vivek Gupta, ‘Hindustani Airs: Exhibiting Performance Culture at the Fitzwilliam Museum’✨
7 Nov 20245 - 6.30pm
Howard Assembly Room, Downing College, Cambridge
Students in Vivek’s module next term will be involved in this exhibition project.
Book here: shorturl.at/Gl1Hk
The deadline for the 2024 Oxford Art Journal Early Career Essay Prize approaches! Submit your research by Dec 1. The winning submission will be published in the journal & the author will receive £500 worth of free books and a year’s subscription to OAJ✨
shorturl.at/bR6aN
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📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣
There’s still time to send in your proposals for our #ForArtHistory2025 Annual Conference, which will be held at @UniOfYork with @ArtHistoryYork ✨
DEADLINE: Friday 1 November
👉: forarthistory.org.uk/confere…
#ArtHistory #VisualCultures #HistoryOfArt #CFP
Join exhibition curator and our Durning Professor in the History of Art, Tamar Garb, for an introduction to Portia Zvavahera: Zvakazarurwa 🖼️
🗓️7 November 2024, 1-1.45pm
📍Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge
✨Free entry, welcome to all✨
👉kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk/whats-…
After graduating with a BA from UCL History of Art in 2008, Suzi Battersby went on to become an Oscar-nominated prosthetics designer who has set up ‘Red Girl’, the first prosthetics studio solely founded by a woman✨
👉magazine.ucl.ac.uk/inspired-…
Event reminder for this Friday!💫
✨Join us for a CSCA Lecture with Amy Sillman✨
Sillman will articulate some of the ideas that animated the making of her exhibition ‘Oh, Clock!’ in Bern ⏰
🗓️25 October 2024, 5:00 pm–8:00 pm
📍IAS Forum
All welcome!
Find out more: shorturl.at/ultLL
Seeking submissions for a panel at the 2025 @forarthistory conference💻
We welcome papers exploring all facets of art after Turner - artistic responses, historiographic episodes, critical encounters, experimental genealogies.
Proposals due on 1 Nov 2024: shorturl.at/K184b
Session chairs: Nick Robbins, Richard Johns, and Jeremy Melius @yorkarthistory.
📷: Paul Pfeiffer, Morning After the Deluge, 2003. Video. Tate © Paul Pfeiffer



















