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📢 Black Researchers Symposium - Easter
📅 Monday, 29th May 2025
⏰ 5:00–7:00 PM
📍Student Services Centre
🔗 Submit a proposal! (DEADLINE: Thursday, May 15): forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
RSVP: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
More info: www.blackadvisory.hub.cam.ac.uk/postgraduate-symposium
📅 Monday, 29th May 2025
⏰ 5:00–7:00 PM
📍Student Services Centre
🔗 Submit a proposal! (DEADLINE: Thursday, May 15): forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
RSVP: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
More info: www.blackadvisory.hub.cam.ac.uk/postgraduate-symposium
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Now open ⚽️
Explore how football fanzines have defined the beautiful game in Voice of the Fans, a free exhibition co-produced with Leeds Libraries, at Leeds Central Library until 10 August 2025.
Discover 60 years of fan-made media: bit.ly/BLVoicesOfTh...
🎥 Cole Robinson
Explore how football fanzines have defined the beautiful game in Voice of the Fans, a free exhibition co-produced with Leeds Libraries, at Leeds Central Library until 10 August 2025.
Discover 60 years of fan-made media: bit.ly/BLVoicesOfTh...
🎥 Cole Robinson
May 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Now open ⚽️
Explore how football fanzines have defined the beautiful game in Voice of the Fans, a free exhibition co-produced with Leeds Libraries, at Leeds Central Library until 10 August 2025.
Discover 60 years of fan-made media: bit.ly/BLVoicesOfTh...
🎥 Cole Robinson
Explore how football fanzines have defined the beautiful game in Voice of the Fans, a free exhibition co-produced with Leeds Libraries, at Leeds Central Library until 10 August 2025.
Discover 60 years of fan-made media: bit.ly/BLVoicesOfTh...
🎥 Cole Robinson
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📢Bookings for our 2025 conference are now open!
⏰7-9th July 2025
🏢Black Country Living Museum, Dudley
🗣️Biggest gathering of social & cultural historians in the UK
👉Book online here: socialhistory.org.uk/membership/a...
🗃️ History Humanities
⏰7-9th July 2025
🏢Black Country Living Museum, Dudley
🗣️Biggest gathering of social & cultural historians in the UK
👉Book online here: socialhistory.org.uk/membership/a...
🗃️ History Humanities
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March 17, 2025 at 10:06 AM
📢Bookings for our 2025 conference are now open!
⏰7-9th July 2025
🏢Black Country Living Museum, Dudley
🗣️Biggest gathering of social & cultural historians in the UK
👉Book online here: socialhistory.org.uk/membership/a...
🗃️ History Humanities
⏰7-9th July 2025
🏢Black Country Living Museum, Dudley
🗣️Biggest gathering of social & cultural historians in the UK
👉Book online here: socialhistory.org.uk/membership/a...
🗃️ History Humanities
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📢AUTHOR EVENT: Join Andrew Preston, Professor of American History @camhistory.bsky.social, as he discusses his new book 'Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security.'
📆29 May 6-7pm
🏢Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge
📲 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/total-defe...
@harvardpress.bsky.social
📆29 May 6-7pm
🏢Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge
📲 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/total-defe...
@harvardpress.bsky.social
Total Defense - Andrew Preston, at Heffers Bookshop
Join us on the 29th of May as Andrew Preston discusses his new book 'Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security.'
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May 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
📢AUTHOR EVENT: Join Andrew Preston, Professor of American History @camhistory.bsky.social, as he discusses his new book 'Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security.'
📆29 May 6-7pm
🏢Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge
📲 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/total-defe...
@harvardpress.bsky.social
📆29 May 6-7pm
🏢Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge
📲 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/total-defe...
@harvardpress.bsky.social
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Registration is now OPEN for our conference 'Plants and People'! Please sign up for attendance and workshops through our website: sites.google.com/view/plants-...
Thanks to @sshmedicine.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social & the Material Culture Forum for their generous assistance.
Thanks to @sshmedicine.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social & the Material Culture Forum for their generous assistance.
Plants and People
Conference Details
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May 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Registration is now OPEN for our conference 'Plants and People'! Please sign up for attendance and workshops through our website: sites.google.com/view/plants-...
Thanks to @sshmedicine.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social & the Material Culture Forum for their generous assistance.
Thanks to @sshmedicine.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social & the Material Culture Forum for their generous assistance.
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Sur le cinéma qui filment l’enfance, on parle souvent des 400 coups, la guerre des boutons, les goonies ou home alone etc. Mais si je devais un recommandé un prioritaire ça serait Rue-cases-negre d’Euzhan Palcy, le film est dispo en VOD.
May 13, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Sur le cinéma qui filment l’enfance, on parle souvent des 400 coups, la guerre des boutons, les goonies ou home alone etc. Mais si je devais un recommandé un prioritaire ça serait Rue-cases-negre d’Euzhan Palcy, le film est dispo en VOD.
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Ireland joins the scrum: 'The plan envisages deploying roving academic talent scouts who will offer potential recruits attractive packages, with the Irish government contributing up to half of the salaries offered by Ireland’s third-level institutions.'
Ireland hopes to entice academics as US becomes ‘a cold place for free thinkers’
Proposed scheme involves talent scouts offering attractive packages to tempt academics and lecturers from abroad
www.theguardian.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Ireland joins the scrum: 'The plan envisages deploying roving academic talent scouts who will offer potential recruits attractive packages, with the Irish government contributing up to half of the salaries offered by Ireland’s third-level institutions.'
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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume.
Me: Archives are not a minute-by-minute recording of everything that ever happened, and nor are they neutral; they are the result of choices. Archival silences abound, and the silences often have more to teach us than the documents themselves.
Me: Archives are not a minute-by-minute recording of everything that ever happened, and nor are they neutral; they are the result of choices. Archival silences abound, and the silences often have more to teach us than the documents themselves.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume.
Classicist: why yes, that was the age of gold, when folks free from care lived out their lives in gentle leisure. The earth too was free from harm, not touched by a rake nor wounded by any plows, but gave everything of her own accord.
Classicist: why yes, that was the age of gold, when folks free from care lived out their lives in gentle leisure. The earth too was free from harm, not touched by a rake nor wounded by any plows, but gave everything of her own accord.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Egyptologist: why yes, that’s the Fourth Intermediate Period, when I labored without Ma’at…
Egyptologist: why yes, that’s the Fourth Intermediate Period, when I labored without Ma’at…
May 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume.
Me: Archives are not a minute-by-minute recording of everything that ever happened, and nor are they neutral; they are the result of choices. Archival silences abound, and the silences often have more to teach us than the documents themselves.
Me: Archives are not a minute-by-minute recording of everything that ever happened, and nor are they neutral; they are the result of choices. Archival silences abound, and the silences often have more to teach us than the documents themselves.
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Unearthed: The Power of Gardening is now open! 🌱
Discover botanical treasures, medieval manuscripts, contemporary artworks and the stories of the remarkable people and plants that shape our gardens today.
Book now: bit.ly/BLUnearthed
Members go free
Discover botanical treasures, medieval manuscripts, contemporary artworks and the stories of the remarkable people and plants that shape our gardens today.
Book now: bit.ly/BLUnearthed
Members go free
May 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Unearthed: The Power of Gardening is now open! 🌱
Discover botanical treasures, medieval manuscripts, contemporary artworks and the stories of the remarkable people and plants that shape our gardens today.
Book now: bit.ly/BLUnearthed
Members go free
Discover botanical treasures, medieval manuscripts, contemporary artworks and the stories of the remarkable people and plants that shape our gardens today.
Book now: bit.ly/BLUnearthed
Members go free
📢 Black Researchers Symposium - Easter
📅 Monday, 29th May 2025
⏰ 5:00–7:00 PM
📍Student Services Centre
🔗 Submit a proposal! (DEADLINE: Thursday, May 15): forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
RSVP: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
More info: www.blackadvisory.hub.cam.ac.uk/postgraduate-symposium
📅 Monday, 29th May 2025
⏰ 5:00–7:00 PM
📍Student Services Centre
🔗 Submit a proposal! (DEADLINE: Thursday, May 15): forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
RSVP: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
More info: www.blackadvisory.hub.cam.ac.uk/postgraduate-symposium
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May 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
📢 Black Researchers Symposium - Easter
📅 Monday, 29th May 2025
⏰ 5:00–7:00 PM
📍Student Services Centre
🔗 Submit a proposal! (DEADLINE: Thursday, May 15): forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
RSVP: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
More info: www.blackadvisory.hub.cam.ac.uk/postgraduate-symposium
📅 Monday, 29th May 2025
⏰ 5:00–7:00 PM
📍Student Services Centre
🔗 Submit a proposal! (DEADLINE: Thursday, May 15): forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
RSVP: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
More info: www.blackadvisory.hub.cam.ac.uk/postgraduate-symposium
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So excited to announce our conference on Gardens & Empires, with @englishheritage.bsky.social and the @britishlibrary.bsky.social 27-28 June 2025, in person/online. Fantastic global speakers and panellists. Do come! Tickets £15-£40 in person; £5-£15 online. events.bl.uk/events/garde...
Gardens and Empires | British Library
The histories of plants and gardens are deeply entangled with the histories of empires. This conference investigates the impacts of these global connection
events.bl.uk
April 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
So excited to announce our conference on Gardens & Empires, with @englishheritage.bsky.social and the @britishlibrary.bsky.social 27-28 June 2025, in person/online. Fantastic global speakers and panellists. Do come! Tickets £15-£40 in person; £5-£15 online. events.bl.uk/events/garde...
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Have a read of our recent article 'Anthropology and Settler Nationalisms in the Art of Emily Carr, Irma Stern, and Margaret Preston' by Martin Crevier: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Anthropology and Settler Nationalisms in the Art of Emily Carr, Irma Stern, and Margaret Preston
South African Irma Stern (1894–1966), Canadian Emily Carr (1871–1945), and Australian Margaret Preston (1875–1963) all attained iconic status as artists in their respective countries. Early apprais...
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April 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Have a read of our recent article 'Anthropology and Settler Nationalisms in the Art of Emily Carr, Irma Stern, and Margaret Preston' by Martin Crevier: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
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Attacks on the modern state are intensifying globally. Join Stephen Hanson & @jeffkopstein.bsky.social to discuss their book on how to defend modern government against those who seek to destroy it. @dziblatt.bsky.social
🗓️4/8, 4pm
🔗https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/04/the-assault-on-the-state
🗓️4/8, 4pm
🔗https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/04/the-assault-on-the-state
April 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Attacks on the modern state are intensifying globally. Join Stephen Hanson & @jeffkopstein.bsky.social to discuss their book on how to defend modern government against those who seek to destroy it. @dziblatt.bsky.social
🗓️4/8, 4pm
🔗https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/04/the-assault-on-the-state
🗓️4/8, 4pm
🔗https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/04/the-assault-on-the-state
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🎨 Join us at the Art for a Better World exhibition reception
Come and visit an exhibition of cartoons on social challenges from international artists on the first floor of the ARB until 11 April
The reception takes place on Friday 28 March from 5-7pm
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Come and visit an exhibition of cartoons on social challenges from international artists on the first floor of the ARB until 11 April
The reception takes place on Friday 28 March from 5-7pm
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March 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🎨 Join us at the Art for a Better World exhibition reception
Come and visit an exhibition of cartoons on social challenges from international artists on the first floor of the ARB until 11 April
The reception takes place on Friday 28 March from 5-7pm
buff.ly/jgwNmvR
Come and visit an exhibition of cartoons on social challenges from international artists on the first floor of the ARB until 11 April
The reception takes place on Friday 28 March from 5-7pm
buff.ly/jgwNmvR
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Join the Global History Lab for the launch of two books that challenge traditional narratives in global history and research.
📔 Global History Dialogues: Border-Crossing
📔 The Right to Research
11 March 13:30-15:30 UK time, online & in-person
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📔 Global History Dialogues: Border-Crossing
📔 The Right to Research
11 March 13:30-15:30 UK time, online & in-person
buff.ly/vuJQmAR
March 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Join the Global History Lab for the launch of two books that challenge traditional narratives in global history and research.
📔 Global History Dialogues: Border-Crossing
📔 The Right to Research
11 March 13:30-15:30 UK time, online & in-person
buff.ly/vuJQmAR
📔 Global History Dialogues: Border-Crossing
📔 The Right to Research
11 March 13:30-15:30 UK time, online & in-person
buff.ly/vuJQmAR
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Want to know more about an ERC-funded #residency programme for #science #journalists?
Discover all the details during an online information session:
📅 10 March
🕑 14:00 CET
📝 Register 👉
Discover all the details during an online information session:
📅 10 March
🕑 14:00 CET
📝 Register 👉
FRONTIERS Info Day | 10 Mar 2025
Date: 10 March 2025 Time: 14:00 (CET) Duration: 1 hour Agenda Presentation of the FRONTIERS Residency Program Overview of the program's FAQs Q&A session The event will be recorded and live-streamed…
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March 7, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Want to know more about an ERC-funded #residency programme for #science #journalists?
Discover all the details during an online information session:
📅 10 March
🕑 14:00 CET
📝 Register 👉
Discover all the details during an online information session:
📅 10 March
🕑 14:00 CET
📝 Register 👉
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✍️ What makes a ‘good’ ethnographic poem, sonic essay or work of fiction? How can we evaluate multimodal ethnographic outputs?
‘Ethnographic expressions’ draws together ethnographers and multimodal practitioners to explore these questions
🗓️ Join us on 25-26 March
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/45745
‘Ethnographic expressions’ draws together ethnographers and multimodal practitioners to explore these questions
🗓️ Join us on 25-26 March
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/45745
Ethnographic Expressions: Evaluating multimodal forms - CRASSH
CRASSH workshop
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk
March 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
✍️ What makes a ‘good’ ethnographic poem, sonic essay or work of fiction? How can we evaluate multimodal ethnographic outputs?
‘Ethnographic expressions’ draws together ethnographers and multimodal practitioners to explore these questions
🗓️ Join us on 25-26 March
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/45745
‘Ethnographic expressions’ draws together ethnographers and multimodal practitioners to explore these questions
🗓️ Join us on 25-26 March
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/45745
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"I’ve returned again and again to this composition to remind myself of the importance of remaining reflective and centered even as—or perhaps most especially when—life feels impossibly hard to navigate."
A Triptych as Compass
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons's triptych Red Composition illuminates paths forward through reflection and spiritual guidance
gty.art
March 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
"I’ve returned again and again to this composition to remind myself of the importance of remaining reflective and centered even as—or perhaps most especially when—life feels impossibly hard to navigate."
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These fellows are transforming their communities, defending homelands and waters, developing solutions for regenerative and sustainable futures, and revitalizing Indigenous languages, governance, ceremonies and ways of being.
To learn more about each Changemaker, read our blog: ndnco.cc/2426cmb
To learn more about each Changemaker, read our blog: ndnco.cc/2426cmb
March 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
These fellows are transforming their communities, defending homelands and waters, developing solutions for regenerative and sustainable futures, and revitalizing Indigenous languages, governance, ceremonies and ways of being.
To learn more about each Changemaker, read our blog: ndnco.cc/2426cmb
To learn more about each Changemaker, read our blog: ndnco.cc/2426cmb
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Across The Margin : The Podcast explores the cultural tending of trees and forests and Traditional (Indigenous) Ecological Knowledge (TEK) with the author of Forged By Fire, Dr. Lee Klinger: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... @osirispod.bsky.social @suddenoaklife.bsky.social #ForgedByFire #Trees
Episode 205: Forged By Fire with Lee Klinger
Podcast Episode · Across the Margin: The Podcast · 03/05/2025 · 39m
podcasts.apple.com
March 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Across The Margin : The Podcast explores the cultural tending of trees and forests and Traditional (Indigenous) Ecological Knowledge (TEK) with the author of Forged By Fire, Dr. Lee Klinger: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... @osirispod.bsky.social @suddenoaklife.bsky.social #ForgedByFire #Trees
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The launch of Laura Leon Llerena's 'Launching Reading the Illegible: Indigenous Writing and the Limits of Colonial Hegemony in the Andes' is at Owengate from 3-4.30pm today.
uapress.arizona.edu/book/reading...
uapress.arizona.edu/book/reading...
March 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The launch of Laura Leon Llerena's 'Launching Reading the Illegible: Indigenous Writing and the Limits of Colonial Hegemony in the Andes' is at Owengate from 3-4.30pm today.
uapress.arizona.edu/book/reading...
uapress.arizona.edu/book/reading...
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A Brazilian samba star says goodbye: ‘I’ve fought a lot, but I also think we need to live’
Neguinho da Beija-Flor, 75, is the most recognisable voice in Rio de Janeiro’s elite carnival league and has led 50 consecutive parades for the same school
Neguinho da Beija-Flor, 75, is the most recognisable voice in Rio de Janeiro’s elite carnival league and has led 50 consecutive parades for the same school
A Brazilian samba star says goodbye: ‘I’ve fought a lot, but I also think we need to live’
Neguinho da Beija-Flor, 75, is the most recognisable voice in Rio de Janeiro’s elite carnival league and has led 50 consecutive parades for the same school
www.theguardian.com
March 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
A Brazilian samba star says goodbye: ‘I’ve fought a lot, but I also think we need to live’
Neguinho da Beija-Flor, 75, is the most recognisable voice in Rio de Janeiro’s elite carnival league and has led 50 consecutive parades for the same school
Neguinho da Beija-Flor, 75, is the most recognisable voice in Rio de Janeiro’s elite carnival league and has led 50 consecutive parades for the same school
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If you missed our conversation with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social, @jfernandez1202.bsky.social, Sarah Haley, Robin D.G. Kelley, Barbara Ransby, & Robyn Spencer-Antoine about Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism, you can watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoDJ...
Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism
YouTube video by Haymarket Books
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March 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
If you missed our conversation with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social, @jfernandez1202.bsky.social, Sarah Haley, Robin D.G. Kelley, Barbara Ransby, & Robyn Spencer-Antoine about Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism, you can watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoDJ...
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Mickalene Thomas is bringing the glam to motorsport
The artist’s wrap design for a McLaren racing car is set to turn heads on the track
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The artist’s wrap design for a McLaren racing car is set to turn heads on the track
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March 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Mickalene Thomas is bringing the glam to motorsport
The artist’s wrap design for a McLaren racing car is set to turn heads on the track
buff.ly/g8BXY08
The artist’s wrap design for a McLaren racing car is set to turn heads on the track
buff.ly/g8BXY08