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Craig Clunas
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art historian, Aberdonian
https://www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-craig-clunas
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/craig-clunas-FBA/
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Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social · Sep 30
Coming (quite) soon
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We are still accepting applications to the JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Overseas Researchers 2026. Awards are for a period of between 12 months minimum to 24 months maximum. Find out more and apply: https://bit.ly/3WQ14Jw
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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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...
November 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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I was the recipient of the Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship to Women's History at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk in 2023 - and can't recommend this fellowship enough. An amazing place to research, read and write. Deadline 28th Nov 2025 for applications #womenshist
sarahknott.bsky.social Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 14d
ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
craigclunas.bsky.social
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...
November 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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qiaoj.bsky.social
On #RemembranceDay, my yearly reminder that an estimated 140,000 Chinese men were sent to labour in Europe amidst hefty war casualties, and linking to what remains one of the most touching life stories I've had the privilege to research for @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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lace edged silk cushion cover, delicately embroidered with floral patterns and measuring about two feet long and wide, the piece features a calligraphed dedication in Chinese and, at its centre, a watercolour painting reading “Memories from Péronne” in French.
November 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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"Ecce Homo" de Caravaggio se expone de nuevo en el Museo del Prado www.museodelprado.es/actualidad/n...
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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a new small post on 柏舟 ("Cypress Boat") from the Book of Songs (c 600 BCE).

My heart is not a mirror
To reflect what others will

My heart is not a stone
It cannot be rolled

My heart is not a mat
It cannot be folded away

我心匪鑑 不可以茹
我心匪石 不可轉也
我心匪席 不可卷也

#everynightapoem chowleen.substack.com
My heart is not a stone. How to say "I would prefer not to," from three millenia ago. - image is a film still of two stones, from Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) CHOWLEEN.SUBSTACK.COM
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Household Daoist ritual groups of Hunyuan county, Shanxi
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Daoists of Hunyuan, Shanxi
The connection of the Yanggao Daoists with the temple Daoism of Hengshan may be spurious, but household Daoists in Hunyuan county-town at the foot of the mountain have their own traditions. Our vis…
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November 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Thought for the day:

On Bluesky, it's "nice" to "Like", but it's (more) effective to Repost. Be effective. (You can also be nice).
Bluesky logo: the 4 wings of a blue butterfly against a grey backgroound.
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social
HOA Research Seminar Series 2025

(Sponsored by the June and Simon Li Foundation)

'Art History and Projective Tests'

Whitney Davis

Wed 5pm Nov 12

Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College

@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @lincoln.ox.ac.uk

www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/histor...
History of Art Research Seminar Series 2025
Art History and Projective Tests
www.hoa.ox.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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HOA Research Seminar Series 2025

'Critical (Ms.) Fortune: A Feminist History of the Italian Renaissance?'

Maria H. Loh

Tue 5pm Nov 11

Cinema, The Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities

@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @cuny.edu @ox.ac.uk

Find out more here:
www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/histor...
History of Art Research Seminar Series 2025
Critical (Ms.) Fortune: A Feminist History of the Italian Renaissance?
www.hoa.ox.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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christinajriggs.bsky.social
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
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
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Fragment https://collections.artsmia.org/art/15789/
Fragment of rim of bowl. Greyish porcellanous body, thin crackled glaze of grey-blue with reddish tint near rim. One of 22 fragments of Kuan(Imperial) ware found at Black Turtle Hill. See not 36.10.1
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: Wang Tao 王韜 (1828–1897), translator, traveller, writer. Together with James Legge (1815–1897), he translated The #ChineseClassics. Living in #Oxford from 1867 to 1870, he recorded his impressions about places he visited in and along the way to #Europe.
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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yes but can the Chinese security service hold up all the buses for twenty minutes and then make three come along at once?
UK investigates whether buses made in China can be turned off from afar
Investigation comes after Norway found Yutong vehicles could be ‘stopped or rendered inoperable’ by Chinese company
www.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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On advance access: "Hegemony, Hunting and Human Trophies in the East Asian War of 1592–1598"

by Rebekah Clements (Autonomous University of Barcelona)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...
Hegemony, Hunting and Human Trophies in the East Asian War of 1592–1598*
Abstract. On the eve of his invasion of Korea that launched the Imjin War (1592–8), the Japanese military hegemon, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, held a spectacular h
doi.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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March 1969, Chen Wanli and his wife committed suicide at home. They were among the persecuted intellectuals in the Cultural Revolution. My latest paper traces Chen’s career from medicine, photography, archaeology to the museum, showing precarity and resilience of museum professionals in 20-C China.
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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#Onthisday in 1918, just days before end of #WW1, French poet Apollinaire (weakened by a shrapnel wound) died in the Spanish flu epidemic. Later that year Calligrammes: Poems of Peace & War was published, a collection of his concrete/visual poems publicdomainreview.org/collection/a... #OTD
November 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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I’m pleased to share that my article “Making Maoshan Great Again: Religious Rhetoric and Popular Mobilisation from Late Qing to Republican China (1864–1937)” has just been published! Open Access: mdpi.com/3142096 via
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Making Maoshan Great Again: Religious Rhetoric and Popular Mobilisation from Late Qing to Republican China (1864–1937)
This study investigates how religious rhetoric and popular mobilisation contributed to the preservation and propagation of Daoist traditions at the mountain Maoshan 茅山 from late Qing to Republican Chi...
mdpi.com
January 21, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Oooh really looking forward to this press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Politics of Common Reading
Examines the transformation of vernacular knowledge during a pivotal period of modern Chinese history, 1894 to 1954.   What did common readers read in the midst of the revolutions that punctuated Chin...
press.uchicago.edu
November 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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jobs.thebookseller.com
New Job: Marketing and Advertising Executive - The Burlington Magazine
City: London

More here ⬇️ jobs.thebookseller.com/career/28399... #PublishingJobs #JobsInBooks
Marketing and Advertising Executive - The Burlington Magazine - London
Marketing and Advertising Executive - The Burlington Magazine - Publisher - Marketing, Sales - £31-£35K depending on experience
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November 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Call for nominations: @chinabooksreview.com is now seeking submissions for the 2025 Baifang Schell Book Prize, which will be awarded to one work of nonfiction and one of literature. Nomination deadline is December 15.
Nominations Open for 2025 Baifang Schell Book Prize | China Books Review
Our book prize returns in its second year, celebrating exceptional books on or from China and the Sinophone world. Nominate now!
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November 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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I don't remember if Follow Friday is a thing here - but follow Postcard from the Past - the juxtaposition of often bland imagery but intriguing snapshots of lives from just one sentence is hauntology at its purest. Or is that surrealism?
pastpostcard.bsky.social Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 4d
Wasn't it funny Pat coming round when she did?
November 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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We have had a fabulous start for the kickstarter for printed versions of the Rhynie big book, but we need MORE! Please support our project by buying yourself a printed copy of the Rhynie monograph! You have till 6th December to do so!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...
‘Rhynie, A Powerful Place of Pictland’: Printed Version
An opportunity to be part of history. Help us print a nationally important book that will transform our understanding of the Picts.
www.kickstarter.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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forarthistory.org.uk
Ways of Seeing, the AAH’s annual one-day conference for A-Level students and teachers is unique in its focus of bringing together students and teachers of History of Art and Art, Craft and Design.

📆Sat 22 Nov
📍The National Gallery, Sainsbury Wing Theatre
🎟️ https://loom.ly/D388Q7A
November 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM