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We are delighted to announce Esther da Costa Meyer as the Slade Professor of Fine Art for Hilary Term 2026! We look forward to sharing her series 'Urban Change and Representation' with you all!

www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/slade-lectures

@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @stjohnsox.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
We are finishing our 2025 History of Art Research Seminar Series with the brilliant talk, 'Everywhen: Photography and Indigeneity' by Professor Geoffrey Batchen

🗓️5pm Wed 26 November 2025
🏢Oakeshott Room @lincoln.ox.ac.uk

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

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History of Art Research Seminar Series 2025
Everywhen: Photography and Indigeneity
www.hoa.ox.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
💡Opportunity for an advanced doctoral student or early career researcher to gain experience as a Research Assistant for an exhibition at @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social
on the visual and material culture of the Global Renaissance

Application Deadline: 9 Dec 2025

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Research Assistant in Global Renaissance Studies
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November 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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A glimpse inside last week's private view of 'Theatres of Time: Glory, Decay, and Imagination in Piranesi’s Rome.' 🎨

The exhibition runs until 29 November 2025, and a guided tour is available on Wednesday 26 November at 4.30pm.

www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/eve...
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Careers Development: Working in the Art Market 🧑‍🎨

Join us for a free webinar offering an overview of art market careers and providing insights into the sector, from art galleries to auction houses and art fairs

📆 Sat 6 Dec, 10.30 am (online)
🎟️ Free, booking essential: https://loom.ly/woBdCtE
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

'New directions in the study of ivories from the Islamic world: A talk and handling session'
Mariam Rosser-Owen (V&A) & Ashley Coutu (Pitt Rivers)
5pm Nov 20 🗓️
Khalili Research Center 🏢
(Co-sponsored by the Khalili Research Center)

www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/mediev...
Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
New directions in the study of ivories from the Islamic world: A talk and handling session
www.hoa.ox.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
HOA Research Seminar Series 2025

'The Natural History of Style: Specimens, Albums, and the History of Art in Early Modern Japan'
Kris Kersy
5pm Nov 19 🗓️
Oakeshott Room @lincoln.ox.ac.uk
(Sponsored by the June and Simon Li Foundation)

www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/histor...

@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social
History of Art Research Seminar Series 2025
The Natural History of Style: Specimens, Albums, and the History of Art in Early Modern Japan
www.hoa.ox.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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As creators of educational, religious and charitable institutions, women of means found ways to circumvent the patriarchal power structures of medieval society.

Read more from @torchoxford.bsky.social's Dr Rachel Delman ⬇️
Medieval women’s legacies live on in Britain’s towns and cities
As creators of educational, religious and charitable institutions, women of means found ways to circumvent the patriarchal power structures of medieval society.
theconversation.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

'Abstract Figures and Bodily Change: Giving Form to Unseen Things in Late Medieval England'

Carly Boxer (Bucknell University)

Thu 5pm Nov 13

Riverside Lecture Theatre, St Catherine’s College

www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/mediev...

@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social
Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
Abstract Figures and Bodily Change: Giving Form to Unseen Things in Late Medieval England
www.hoa.ox.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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
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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Join us this week for our free half term weaving activity! Test out your weaving skills on the looms which will be on the First Floor Balcony & add your strands to our collaborative weave project. Wednesday 29 & Thursday 30 October, 1-4pm. All welcome, just drop in & have a go!
October 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The Challenge of Historical Distance

6-7 Nov 2025 🗓️

International Conference held in Florence to honour the scholarship of Professor Gervase Rosser

Register online or in-person: www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/article/the-...

@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
History of Art Research Seminar Series 2025

'Gold Rush, Congo Style: Gustav Klimt’s Marble Mosaic Frieze in the Palais Stoclet'

Deborah Silverman

5pm October 29

Cinema, The Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities

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

www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/histor...
History of Art Research Seminar Series 2025
Gold Rush, Congo Style: Gustav Klimt’s Marble Mosaic Frieze in the Palais Stoclet
www.hoa.ox.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Congratulations to our very own Professor Nancy Thebaut for her brilliant work in curating 'Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages' @metcloisters.bsky.social

Read the @nytimes.com article on it below!

Running from 17 Oct 2025 – 29 Mar 2026

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/a...
Looking at Sexuality With a Medieval Sensibility
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
HOA Research Seminar Series 2025

Tudor Liveliness? Discovering Vividness in Post-Reformation England

Christina Faraday

5pm October 22 🗓️

Cinema, The Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities

www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/histor...

@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social
History of Art Research Seminar Series 2025
Tudor Liveliness? Discovering Vividness in Post-Reformation England
www.hoa.ox.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Today we are delighted to launch the new Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, a one-of-a-kind space where academia and culture will intersect to create something extraordinary. Read more: humanities.web.ox.ac.uk/article/step...
September 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
We are delighted to announce Esther da Costa Meyer as the Slade Professor of Fine Art for Hilary Term 2026! We look forward to sharing her series 'Urban Change and Representation' with you all!

www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/slade-lectures

@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @stjohnsox.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
August 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Congratulations to 1st year student Ophelia Lanfranchi, winner of this year's Reaktion Books Prize for her brilliant essay on a work by British artist Prunella Clough in Oxford's Ashmolean Museum. @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
@ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Don't forget to BOOK YOUR PLACE for Image & Object!

2-5pm Thu 26 June
Department of History of Art, Littlegate House

Click through to the Department of History of Art website below to find out more and BOOK YOUR PLACE

www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/image-...

@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
June 23, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Tomorrow!
BORDERZONES
2-6pm
Rose Garden Room, Worcester College
University of Oxford

www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/terra-...

Convened by Erin Pauwels
Participants: Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Maggie M. Cao, Jessica L. Horton, Delia Solomons, Allison Stagg

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June 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Congratulations to Vibe Nielsen, Academic Visitor at the Department of History of Art, for being elected Member of the Young Academy at the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters!

youngacademy.dk/en/velkommen...

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June 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
2025 Terra Foundation for American Art Study Day
www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/terra-...

Tue 24 June | 2-6pm in the Rose Garden Room, Worcester College, University of Oxford

Convened by Erin Pauwels
Participants: Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Maggie M. Cao, Jessica L. Horton, Delia Solomons, Allison Stagg
June 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM