Christina Riggs
@christinajriggs.bsky.social
Writer and historian: photograpy, art, archives, museums, colonialism (Egypt, Sudan). Tango dancer, Italophile, Chair in History of Visual Culture @durhamhistory.bsky.social. Author of Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century. https://christinariggs.com
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The History Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for an Assistant Professor in the History of the Modern Middle East. Areas of specialization are open. Please share! - careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... #History #Historians
Details - Asst Professor U of M | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
careers.umass.edu
November 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The History Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for an Assistant Professor in the History of the Modern Middle East. Areas of specialization are open. Please share! - careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... #History #Historians
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Our next online research seminar in Photographic Cultures & Heritage will be on 27 Nov, 5.30 pm UK time, with Pippa Oldfield and Tom Allbeson, who will discuss "Peace Photographies". Free and open to all, register here! photographichistory.wordpress.com/autumn-2025-2/ #photohist
Autumn 2025 #2
Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage Pippa Oldfield Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK Tom Allbeson Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Peace Photographies: Rethinking Photo…
photographichistory.wordpress.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Our next online research seminar in Photographic Cultures & Heritage will be on 27 Nov, 5.30 pm UK time, with Pippa Oldfield and Tom Allbeson, who will discuss "Peace Photographies". Free and open to all, register here! photographichistory.wordpress.com/autumn-2025-2/ #photohist
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Today's #Museum30 prompt is photograph 📸
Discover photography on Art UK 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/art-terms/photography
'Self-Portrait with Vivex One-Shot Camera' by Madame Yevonde (1893–1975) © National Portrait Gallery, London.
Discover photography on Art UK 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/art-terms/photography
'Self-Portrait with Vivex One-Shot Camera' by Madame Yevonde (1893–1975) © National Portrait Gallery, London.
November 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Today's #Museum30 prompt is photograph 📸
Discover photography on Art UK 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/art-terms/photography
'Self-Portrait with Vivex One-Shot Camera' by Madame Yevonde (1893–1975) © National Portrait Gallery, London.
Discover photography on Art UK 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/art-terms/photography
'Self-Portrait with Vivex One-Shot Camera' by Madame Yevonde (1893–1975) © National Portrait Gallery, London.
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There’s a petition countering proposals to close the Film Studies programme at the University of Leicester. Read more here c.org/WfcP6tX6gG
Stop the Closure of Film Studies at Uni of Leicester
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
c.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
There’s a petition countering proposals to close the Film Studies programme at the University of Leicester. Read more here c.org/WfcP6tX6gG
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The Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies seminar series will start next term at Birkbeck.
The topic will be Collaborative Archaeologies in (Post)Conflict Contexts. All very welcome!
The topic will be Collaborative Archaeologies in (Post)Conflict Contexts. All very welcome!
November 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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This is worth a read: New discussion of "Conservative Public History" with a series of case-studies just out in the journal International Public History #skystorians
Conservative Public History: Special Section Introduction
www.degruyterbrill.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:56 AM
This is worth a read: New discussion of "Conservative Public History" with a series of case-studies just out in the journal International Public History #skystorians
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Show you stand together with refugees.
From the 5-7 Dec we’re asking you to put up a poster to show you stand for hope not hostility.
Let's fill our communities with this message of unity.
Order your posters now actionnetwork.org/forms/order-...
From the 5-7 Dec we’re asking you to put up a poster to show you stand for hope not hostility.
Let's fill our communities with this message of unity.
Order your posters now actionnetwork.org/forms/order-...
November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Show you stand together with refugees.
From the 5-7 Dec we’re asking you to put up a poster to show you stand for hope not hostility.
Let's fill our communities with this message of unity.
Order your posters now actionnetwork.org/forms/order-...
From the 5-7 Dec we’re asking you to put up a poster to show you stand for hope not hostility.
Let's fill our communities with this message of unity.
Order your posters now actionnetwork.org/forms/order-...
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Was a delight to appear on @empirepoduk.bsky.social with @willdalrymple.bsky.social & @anitaanand.bsky.social- available to listen now…
⏰NEW EPISODE OUT TODAY⏰
Austen and Brontë: Unmasking Slavery Heiresses
@willdalrymple.bsky.social and @anitaanand.bsky.social are joined by Dr Miranda Kauffman, to discuss the often-ignored connections between these famous authors and slavery heiresses.
Austen and Brontë: Unmasking Slavery Heiresses
@willdalrymple.bsky.social and @anitaanand.bsky.social are joined by Dr Miranda Kauffman, to discuss the often-ignored connections between these famous authors and slavery heiresses.
November 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Was a delight to appear on @empirepoduk.bsky.social with @willdalrymple.bsky.social & @anitaanand.bsky.social- available to listen now…
What is your favourite song about the rain? (Always a good question in the UK…)
November 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
What is your favourite song about the rain? (Always a good question in the UK…)
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Honoured to be hosting the incredible Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social next month at LSE - join us for this important lecture on December 3
What do neoliberalism, US aid, and Gulf land grabs have to do with hunger in Sudan?
@nisrinelamin.bsky.social and @sarasalem.bsky.social will join us to discuss the politics of hunger in Sudan
🗓️ 3 Dec | 6.30pm
🎟️ register to join us in-person or online
#LSEEvents #Sudan
@nisrinelamin.bsky.social and @sarasalem.bsky.social will join us to discuss the politics of hunger in Sudan
🗓️ 3 Dec | 6.30pm
🎟️ register to join us in-person or online
#LSEEvents #Sudan
The politics of hunger in Sudan | Nisrin Elamin
6.30pm Weds 3 Dec | Nisrin Elamin | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE
lse.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Honoured to be hosting the incredible Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social next month at LSE - join us for this important lecture on December 3
If you're lucky enough to be in Italy next week, go to the 'Women in Photography' conference at the Brera, Milan. Amazing programme at link below (all in English), organized by Linda Bertelli, Nicoletta Leonardi and the Fotografiste project team. 🗃️📷📸 Livestream will be announced on IG @fotografiste_
Activities
Conference Program: Women in Photography: Practitioners, Labourers, Entrepreneurs in a Global Perspective (1839-1939)
20-21 November 2025
www.fotografiste.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
If you're lucky enough to be in Italy next week, go to the 'Women in Photography' conference at the Brera, Milan. Amazing programme at link below (all in English), organized by Linda Bertelli, Nicoletta Leonardi and the Fotografiste project team. 🗃️📷📸 Livestream will be announced on IG @fotografiste_
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Here is another petition I would rather not have to sign.
Help protect Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester!
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c.org/2g4WxGSwmX
Help protect Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester!
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c.org/2g4WxGSwmX
We Can Make an Impact.
Save Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester
c.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Here is another petition I would rather not have to sign.
Help protect Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester!
👇👇👇
c.org/2g4WxGSwmX
Help protect Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester!
👇👇👇
c.org/2g4WxGSwmX
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I asked about this, and one of our excellent librarians discovered that in fact AI summaries/"Research Assistant" can be switched off at the level of the library. Something to request. support.proquest.com/s/article/Eb...
November 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I asked about this, and one of our excellent librarians discovered that in fact AI summaries/"Research Assistant" can be switched off at the level of the library. Something to request. support.proquest.com/s/article/Eb...
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Sharing the Sudan issue of Transition Magazine with you with essays, analysis and art work by Sudanese writers and artists.
transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/home/current...
transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/home/current...
Current Issue – Transition Magazine
transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Sharing the Sudan issue of Transition Magazine with you with essays, analysis and art work by Sudanese writers and artists.
transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/home/current...
transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/home/current...
Photography fans might want to check out this vintage exhibition poster sale from @sidegallery.bsky.social in Newcastle - some great photographers and themes, including Martin Chambi, Berenice Abbott, the 1984-5 Miners' Strike, and much more... 📷📸 Profits support the Amberside Trust.
POSTER SALE
ORIGINAL EXHIBITION & FILM POSTERS FROM THE SIDE ARCHIVE. BUY TWO OR MORE POSTERS AND GET 25% OFF YOUR POSTER ORDER.
shop.amber-online.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Photography fans might want to check out this vintage exhibition poster sale from @sidegallery.bsky.social in Newcastle - some great photographers and themes, including Martin Chambi, Berenice Abbott, the 1984-5 Miners' Strike, and much more... 📷📸 Profits support the Amberside Trust.
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There's a £2.5k prize offered for a piece of writing (1000-1500 words) on #sculpture by an early career scholar, deadline 4 May 2026, all the details here so please circulate widely
www.burlington.org.uk/jobs-noticeb...
www.burlington.org.uk/jobs-noticeb...
November 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
There's a £2.5k prize offered for a piece of writing (1000-1500 words) on #sculpture by an early career scholar, deadline 4 May 2026, all the details here so please circulate widely
www.burlington.org.uk/jobs-noticeb...
www.burlington.org.uk/jobs-noticeb...
This V&A one-day conference is devoted to the Lumiere company's Autochrome, an early C20 colour technology that yielded fragile but luminous three-colour glass transparencies.
Monday, Dec 1st, in person or online, programme and ticketing info on link below. 📜📷📸🗃️ plus digitisation and conservation
Monday, Dec 1st, in person or online, programme and ticketing info on link below. 📜📷📸🗃️ plus digitisation and conservation
Fragile Colours: Perceiving and Experiencing Autochromes (In-Person) - Conferences and study days at
V&A South Kensington · V&A
Focusing on the historic early colour photography process the Autochrome Lumière, this conference explores the research and results of the PERCEIVE project, seeking new ways to understand, exhibit, an...
www.vam.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This V&A one-day conference is devoted to the Lumiere company's Autochrome, an early C20 colour technology that yielded fragile but luminous three-colour glass transparencies.
Monday, Dec 1st, in person or online, programme and ticketing info on link below. 📜📷📸🗃️ plus digitisation and conservation
Monday, Dec 1st, in person or online, programme and ticketing info on link below. 📜📷📸🗃️ plus digitisation and conservation
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New publication out, “creative political geography” in the De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography, generously and gently edited by Cordelia Freeman and Sydney Calkin.
degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1…
( not open access but happy to send a pdf copy)
degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1…
( not open access but happy to send a pdf copy)
https://degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1…
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
New publication out, “creative political geography” in the De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography, generously and gently edited by Cordelia Freeman and Sydney Calkin.
degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1…
( not open access but happy to send a pdf copy)
degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1…
( not open access but happy to send a pdf copy)
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Please sign to protest the closure of Modern Languages programmes at Nottingham.
Solidarity with affected colleagues and students in Modern Languages and other departments.
👇👇👇
c.org/xYPmDLcXBn
Solidarity with affected colleagues and students in Modern Languages and other departments.
👇👇👇
c.org/xYPmDLcXBn
c.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Please sign to protest the closure of Modern Languages programmes at Nottingham.
Solidarity with affected colleagues and students in Modern Languages and other departments.
👇👇👇
c.org/xYPmDLcXBn
Solidarity with affected colleagues and students in Modern Languages and other departments.
👇👇👇
c.org/xYPmDLcXBn
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Photographica vol. 11 titled "Blinded by the light: Flashes and Revelations" is out! It was great to edit it with Eliane de Larminat.
Stellar contributions! Open access here: journals.openedition.org/photographic.... Launch: Vevey, Camera Museum, Nov 20, 6.30PM
Stellar contributions! Open access here: journals.openedition.org/photographic.... Launch: Vevey, Camera Museum, Nov 20, 6.30PM
journals.openedition.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Photographica vol. 11 titled "Blinded by the light: Flashes and Revelations" is out! It was great to edit it with Eliane de Larminat.
Stellar contributions! Open access here: journals.openedition.org/photographic.... Launch: Vevey, Camera Museum, Nov 20, 6.30PM
Stellar contributions! Open access here: journals.openedition.org/photographic.... Launch: Vevey, Camera Museum, Nov 20, 6.30PM
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Sharing again the next online seminar, this time linking our website! empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk/2025/11/07/o... While consent always feature in conversations on ethics, how it can be applied or rethought in historical contexts leads to more questions than answers, as we'll see!
Online Seminar: ETHICS AND CONSENT IN MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY – The Ethics of Medical Photography Network
empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Sharing again the next online seminar, this time linking our website! empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk/2025/11/07/o... While consent always feature in conversations on ethics, how it can be applied or rethought in historical contexts leads to more questions than answers, as we'll see!
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Heartbroken to share the news that recruitment to Undergraduate Music courses at the University of Nottingham has been suspended.
Please do contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to support us.
Please do contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to support us.
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Heartbroken to share the news that recruitment to Undergraduate Music courses at the University of Nottingham has been suspended.
Please do contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to support us.
Please do contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to support us.
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Nice to make the cover of the latest Literary Review for my piece on the enormous new Poems of Seamus Heaney. It's free to read here: literaryreview.co.uk/the-pen-the-...
Jeremy Noel-Tod - The Pen & the Spade
Jeremy Noel-Tod: The Pen & the Spade - The Poems of Seamus Heaney by Rosie Lavan, Bernard O’Donoghue and Matthew Hollis (edd.)
literaryreview.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Nice to make the cover of the latest Literary Review for my piece on the enormous new Poems of Seamus Heaney. It's free to read here: literaryreview.co.uk/the-pen-the-...