Alex Burchmore
@alexburchmore.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Art History and Curatorial Studies, Australian National University; author of New Export China (University of California Press, 2023) and Material Selves (Bloomsbury, 2024); scholar of things and people in motion
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Alex Burchmore
@alexburchmore.bsky.social
· Nov 27
Gotta do what the man says... 😅 I've got two art history books to sell you:
NEW EXPORT CHINA (@ucpress.bsky.social, 2023) - www.ucpress.edu/books/new-ex...
MATERIAL SELVES (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, 2024) - www.bloomsbury.com/au/material-...
Perfect gifts for the art lovers in your life! 🎅🏼
NEW EXPORT CHINA (@ucpress.bsky.social, 2023) - www.ucpress.edu/books/new-ex...
MATERIAL SELVES (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, 2024) - www.bloomsbury.com/au/material-...
Perfect gifts for the art lovers in your life! 🎅🏼
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The Conversation is hiring a new video commissioning editor. Come join a great team doing fun and meaningful work! jobs.theconversation.com/jobs/4931169...
Video Commissioning Editor Job at The Conversation AU/NZ in Melbourne, Australia
Apply for THE CONVERSATION AU/NZ Video Commissioning Editor Job in Melbourne, Australia with Compensation: $90,000
jobs.theconversation.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:14 AM
The Conversation is hiring a new video commissioning editor. Come join a great team doing fun and meaningful work! jobs.theconversation.com/jobs/4931169...
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Still not set on your artsy read to kick start 2026? We’re delighted to share we are currently offering 40% OFF our entire roster of titles, both trade and academic. Available until 31st January 2026.
Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/01...
Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/01...
January 29, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Still not set on your artsy read to kick start 2026? We’re delighted to share we are currently offering 40% OFF our entire roster of titles, both trade and academic. Available until 31st January 2026.
Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/01...
Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/01...
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"Wikipedia is free to use, is extremely participatory and aims for a high degree of transparency in its content." I donate monthly to Wikipedia and I encourage others to do so. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Wikipedia is needed now more than ever, 25 years on
The online encyclopedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem. Researchers should help to nourish it.
www.nature.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:10 AM
"Wikipedia is free to use, is extremely participatory and aims for a high degree of transparency in its content." I donate monthly to Wikipedia and I encourage others to do so. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Quarterly reminder that if you'd like to pitch an "Off the Page" review for @historyaustralia.bsky.social (e.g. a review of an exhibition, podcast, series or movie), I'm your guy*!
*gender-neutral
*gender-neutral
January 29, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Quarterly reminder that if you'd like to pitch an "Off the Page" review for @historyaustralia.bsky.social (e.g. a review of an exhibition, podcast, series or movie), I'm your guy*!
*gender-neutral
*gender-neutral
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Associate Professor Gina Salapata explores ancient stories of snakes and their cups that link them to gods, demi-goddesses, heroes, sorceresses and pharmacology. 🐍 humanities.org.au/power-of-the...
January 29, 2026 at 4:26 AM
Associate Professor Gina Salapata explores ancient stories of snakes and their cups that link them to gods, demi-goddesses, heroes, sorceresses and pharmacology. 🐍 humanities.org.au/power-of-the...
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Publication alert! 🚨
“An (un) Ordinary Farmhouse near Tamworth: Refuge and Danger in the Family Home” has been published by the Royal Australian Historical Society.
I talk about gothic literature, family violence and how even unremarkable houses can be important
www.rahs.org.au/history-maga...
“An (un) Ordinary Farmhouse near Tamworth: Refuge and Danger in the Family Home” has been published by the Royal Australian Historical Society.
I talk about gothic literature, family violence and how even unremarkable houses can be important
www.rahs.org.au/history-maga...
January 27, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Publication alert! 🚨
“An (un) Ordinary Farmhouse near Tamworth: Refuge and Danger in the Family Home” has been published by the Royal Australian Historical Society.
I talk about gothic literature, family violence and how even unremarkable houses can be important
www.rahs.org.au/history-maga...
“An (un) Ordinary Farmhouse near Tamworth: Refuge and Danger in the Family Home” has been published by the Royal Australian Historical Society.
I talk about gothic literature, family violence and how even unremarkable houses can be important
www.rahs.org.au/history-maga...
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ICYMI: Our 2026 Call for Papers for both our thirteenth volume and our conference is out! Postgraduate students encouraged to participate!
#medievalsky #earlymodernsky #historysky #academicsky
#medievalsky #earlymodernsky #historysky #academicsky
2026 Ceræ Call For Papers
We are pleased to announce that the theme for Volume 13 of Ceræ, as well as for our 3rd annual online Conference, is Fame and Fortune. We invite submissions to both the conference and the journal on this theme. Fame and fortune are slippery things. They can be welcome or…
We are pleased to announce that the theme for Volume 13 of Ceræ, as well as for our 3rd annual online Conference, is Fame and Fortune. We invite submissions to both the conference and the journal on this theme. Fame and fortune are slippery things. They can be welcome or…
2026 Ceræ Call For Papers
We are pleased to announce that the theme for Volume 13 of Ceræ, as well as for our 3rd annual online Conference, is Fame and Fortune. We invite submissions to both the conference and the journal on this theme. Fame and fortune are slippery things. They can be welcome or ironic, tangible or out of reach. Fame could be the due of the martyred saint; fortune could be a punishment, as when the hapless cleric in the Marian
ceraejournal.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:25 AM
ICYMI: Our 2026 Call for Papers for both our thirteenth volume and our conference is out! Postgraduate students encouraged to participate!
#medievalsky #earlymodernsky #historysky #academicsky
#medievalsky #earlymodernsky #historysky #academicsky
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On Lewis Carroll’s birthday, a look at a Warburg Library copy of 'Through the Looking-Glass'.
This 1897 edition features Aby Warburg’s bookplate, linking it to his original collection, from which today’s Library grew.
#LewisCarroll #LibraryBook #RareBooks #Library
This 1897 edition features Aby Warburg’s bookplate, linking it to his original collection, from which today’s Library grew.
#LewisCarroll #LibraryBook #RareBooks #Library
January 27, 2026 at 11:28 AM
On Lewis Carroll’s birthday, a look at a Warburg Library copy of 'Through the Looking-Glass'.
This 1897 edition features Aby Warburg’s bookplate, linking it to his original collection, from which today’s Library grew.
#LewisCarroll #LibraryBook #RareBooks #Library
This 1897 edition features Aby Warburg’s bookplate, linking it to his original collection, from which today’s Library grew.
#LewisCarroll #LibraryBook #RareBooks #Library
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It's real! 🥲😱🥰
January 27, 2026 at 11:30 AM
It's real! 🥲😱🥰
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Coming soon! My article on Queen Anne’s wardrobe has been accepted into the Journal for #18thC studies.
In it I provide a qualitative & quantitative overview of her extensive wardrobe accounts (including makers & suppliers) & the ways that fashion influenced her representational strategies!
In it I provide a qualitative & quantitative overview of her extensive wardrobe accounts (including makers & suppliers) & the ways that fashion influenced her representational strategies!
January 26, 2026 at 4:04 AM
Coming soon! My article on Queen Anne’s wardrobe has been accepted into the Journal for #18thC studies.
In it I provide a qualitative & quantitative overview of her extensive wardrobe accounts (including makers & suppliers) & the ways that fashion influenced her representational strategies!
In it I provide a qualitative & quantitative overview of her extensive wardrobe accounts (including makers & suppliers) & the ways that fashion influenced her representational strategies!
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“What is the meaning of life? That was all - a simple question...”
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, English writer, born #OTD 1882; Woolf’s most autobiographical novel, with dust jacket designed by her sister Vanessa Bell, published 1927.
British Library, London
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, English writer, born #OTD 1882; Woolf’s most autobiographical novel, with dust jacket designed by her sister Vanessa Bell, published 1927.
British Library, London
January 25, 2026 at 6:12 AM
“What is the meaning of life? That was all - a simple question...”
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, English writer, born #OTD 1882; Woolf’s most autobiographical novel, with dust jacket designed by her sister Vanessa Bell, published 1927.
British Library, London
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, English writer, born #OTD 1882; Woolf’s most autobiographical novel, with dust jacket designed by her sister Vanessa Bell, published 1927.
British Library, London
Such a pleasure to chat this morning with Kim Huynh for ABC Canberra Sunday Brunch about my review for @aunz.theconversation.com of "Our Story: Aboriginal-Chinese People in Australia," at the National Museum of Australia until this Tuesday 27 Jan! 📻
Listen from 2:50 to hear our conversation 👇🏼
Listen from 2:50 to hear our conversation 👇🏼
Sunday Brunch - ABC listen
Tuck into a tasty and nourishing feast of locally grown stories on Sunday.
www.abc.net.au
January 25, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Such a pleasure to chat this morning with Kim Huynh for ABC Canberra Sunday Brunch about my review for @aunz.theconversation.com of "Our Story: Aboriginal-Chinese People in Australia," at the National Museum of Australia until this Tuesday 27 Jan! 📻
Listen from 2:50 to hear our conversation 👇🏼
Listen from 2:50 to hear our conversation 👇🏼
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A number of Meissen animal figures, photos I took last year at the Zwinger in Dresden. Made during the 1730s and intended for Augustus the Strong's Japanese Palace. Several are also in Boston's MFA and the Met and elsewhere. Amazing.
January 24, 2026 at 12:24 PM
A number of Meissen animal figures, photos I took last year at the Zwinger in Dresden. Made during the 1730s and intended for Augustus the Strong's Japanese Palace. Several are also in Boston's MFA and the Met and elsewhere. Amazing.
Tune in to ABC Canberra this Sunday (25 Jan) at 10am to hear me share some more thoughts on this incredible exhibition in conversation with the brilliant Kim Huynh! 📻
#ArtSky #Canberra #Museums
#ArtSky #Canberra #Museums
My review in @aunz.theconversation.com of Zhou Xiaoping's brilliant exhibition "Our Story: Aboriginal-Chinese People in Australia" at the National Museum of Australia 👇🏼
"Our Story celebrates the complex layering of culture as a lived experience of multiple connections"
#ArtSky #Canberra #Museums
"Our Story celebrates the complex layering of culture as a lived experience of multiple connections"
#ArtSky #Canberra #Museums
Tracing the long history of Aboriginal-Chinese people in Australia, through archives and art
Our Story: Aboriginal Chinese People at the National Museum of Australia brings together contemporary art, personal reflections and archival photographs
theconversation.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Really pleased to share this excerpt from my book New Export China: Translations Across Time and Place in Contemporary Chinese Porcelain Art (@ucpress.bsky.social, 2023), featured in Garland Magazine 👇🏼
📖 #BookSky #AcademicSky #Art #Ceramics #China 🏺
📖 #BookSky #AcademicSky #Art #Ceramics #China 🏺
Beyond the kiln: Geng Xue and the new porcelain aesthetic | Garland Magazine
Alex Burchmore navigates beyond mere clay and glaze, uncovering a "porcelain aesthetic" where ancient kilns meet the shimmering, sensory worlds of contemporary animation and performance.
garlandmag.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Really pleased to share this excerpt from my book New Export China: Translations Across Time and Place in Contemporary Chinese Porcelain Art (@ucpress.bsky.social, 2023), featured in Garland Magazine 👇🏼
📖 #BookSky #AcademicSky #Art #Ceramics #China 🏺
📖 #BookSky #AcademicSky #Art #Ceramics #China 🏺
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All this talk of the supposed benefits of AI for drug research, writing, art, music, and more. But with reports suggesting $1.5 trillion or more of investment in AI in the coming years, imagine directly investing a trillion dollars in medical research, writers, artists and musicians.
January 22, 2026 at 2:44 AM
All this talk of the supposed benefits of AI for drug research, writing, art, music, and more. But with reports suggesting $1.5 trillion or more of investment in AI in the coming years, imagine directly investing a trillion dollars in medical research, writers, artists and musicians.
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The first paperback copy of my book Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology just arrived! Available on the 15th March from @cornellupress.bsky.social: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
January 21, 2026 at 11:34 AM
The first paperback copy of my book Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology just arrived! Available on the 15th March from @cornellupress.bsky.social: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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There’s valuable information recorded in Chinese on Tasmania’s old Chinese headstones that is gradually disappearing, like on Claude Nam Shing’s headstone in Cornelian Bay Cemetery. I’ve worked out some of the characters, but not all of them. Any thoughts, clever people? 🗃️ #EverdayHeritage
January 21, 2026 at 7:46 AM
There’s valuable information recorded in Chinese on Tasmania’s old Chinese headstones that is gradually disappearing, like on Claude Nam Shing’s headstone in Cornelian Bay Cemetery. I’ve worked out some of the characters, but not all of them. Any thoughts, clever people? 🗃️ #EverdayHeritage
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Margolis reviews Moore et al's Fringe to Famous: Cultural Production in Australia After the Creative Industries (Bloomsbury).
www.bloomsbury.com/au/fringe-to...
www.bloomsbury.com/au/fringe-to...
January 19, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Margolis reviews Moore et al's Fringe to Famous: Cultural Production in Australia After the Creative Industries (Bloomsbury).
www.bloomsbury.com/au/fringe-to...
www.bloomsbury.com/au/fringe-to...
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I am the book reviews editor for @jich.bsky.social and always looking for new review pitches. If you’d like to review a recently published book on imperial, colonial or Commonwealth history (broadly defined), please get in touch: evan dot smith at adelaide dot edu dot au. Authors, get in touch too!
January 19, 2026 at 12:32 PM
I am the book reviews editor for @jich.bsky.social and always looking for new review pitches. If you’d like to review a recently published book on imperial, colonial or Commonwealth history (broadly defined), please get in touch: evan dot smith at adelaide dot edu dot au. Authors, get in touch too!
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Another step closer to publication of our new book with the release of the cover on the Allen & Unwin website.
The First Inventors: How people shaped a continent
Billy Griffiths, Larissa Behrendt & Sean Ulm
www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/...
The First Inventors: How people shaped a continent
Billy Griffiths, Larissa Behrendt & Sean Ulm
www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/...
January 19, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Another step closer to publication of our new book with the release of the cover on the Allen & Unwin website.
The First Inventors: How people shaped a continent
Billy Griffiths, Larissa Behrendt & Sean Ulm
www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/...
The First Inventors: How people shaped a continent
Billy Griffiths, Larissa Behrendt & Sean Ulm
www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/...
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Our Story: Aboriginal Chinese People at the National Museum of Australia brings together contemporary art, personal reflections and archival photographs
Tracing the long history of Aboriginal-Chinese people in Australia, through archives and art
theconversation.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Our Story: Aboriginal Chinese People at the National Museum of Australia brings together contemporary art, personal reflections and archival photographs
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Oooh good question for historians and archaeologists... what's the oldest thing you've accidentally been injured by?
I've cut myself with numerous flint flakes and implements ranging from 6000-3500 years old) - I'm sure someone can outdo that...
I've cut myself with numerous flint flakes and implements ranging from 6000-3500 years old) - I'm sure someone can outdo that...
The hazards of archival work
Today I got a papercut on my finger from a glossy magazine from the 1960s while scanning it
Today I got a papercut on my finger from a glossy magazine from the 1960s while scanning it
January 19, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Oooh good question for historians and archaeologists... what's the oldest thing you've accidentally been injured by?
I've cut myself with numerous flint flakes and implements ranging from 6000-3500 years old) - I'm sure someone can outdo that...
I've cut myself with numerous flint flakes and implements ranging from 6000-3500 years old) - I'm sure someone can outdo that...
My review in @aunz.theconversation.com of Zhou Xiaoping's brilliant exhibition "Our Story: Aboriginal-Chinese People in Australia" at the National Museum of Australia 👇🏼
"Our Story celebrates the complex layering of culture as a lived experience of multiple connections"
#ArtSky #Canberra #Museums
"Our Story celebrates the complex layering of culture as a lived experience of multiple connections"
#ArtSky #Canberra #Museums
Tracing the long history of Aboriginal-Chinese people in Australia, through archives and art
Our Story: Aboriginal Chinese People at the National Museum of Australia brings together contemporary art, personal reflections and archival photographs
theconversation.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:13 AM
My review in @aunz.theconversation.com of Zhou Xiaoping's brilliant exhibition "Our Story: Aboriginal-Chinese People in Australia" at the National Museum of Australia 👇🏼
"Our Story celebrates the complex layering of culture as a lived experience of multiple connections"
#ArtSky #Canberra #Museums
"Our Story celebrates the complex layering of culture as a lived experience of multiple connections"
#ArtSky #Canberra #Museums