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-...

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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

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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
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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-...

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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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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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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

History of Art Study Day
Image & Object: Reproduction

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

Visit below and Book your place!
www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/image-...

Speakers:
Geoffrey Batchen, Geraldine Johnson, Brigid von Preussen, Vibe Nielsen, Paul Taylor

June and Simon Li Lecture in the History of Art

Vera Mensura
Dimensional Realism in Medieval Manuscripts

Professor Aden Kumler (University of Basel)

17:00 Wednesday 11th June 2025
Location: Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College

More info: www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/vera-m...

Tomorrow - 5pm Thu 8th May
Lincoln College, Oxford

June and Simon Li Lecture in the History of Art
On Painting Everything:
Japanese Art in the Early Modern Information Age

Prof Chelsea Foxwell, University of Chicago

Find out more: www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/june-a...

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Have a look at this new book on Photo Archives co-edited by our very own Geraldine Johnson and History of Art alum Deborah Schultz. It also includes a contribution by Geoff Batchen!

www.routledge.com/Photo-Archiv...

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UNSETTLED GROUND
30 APR
5pm
Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre, Worcester College
Free admission

Join us as Prof Erin Pauwels starts her fascinating Terra Lectures with 'Backdrops as Middle Ground: Photographic Portraiture as a Site of Indigenous Resistance'

Find out more www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/terra-...

Another public talk as part of our Summer programme! 🌻☀️

On Painting Everything:
Japanese Art in the Early Modern Information Age
Prof Chelsea Foxwell, University of Chicago

5pm, 8 May
Lincoln College, Oxford
Free and open to all

www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/june-a...

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🗓️Make a note for the 2025 Terra Lectures in American Art!

Unsettled Ground: Western Landscapes, Indigenous Sovereignty and the Spaces of US Photography

Prof Erin Pauwels (Terra Foundation Visiting Professor of American Art)

Free & open to all

Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre, Worcester College
5-6pm

Thank you, Professor Beate Fricke for such an inspirational series of lectures this year! As this year's Slade Professor of Fine Art, Beate delivered the fascinating series 'Gaps' at @stjohnsox.bsky.social.

Watch now: www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/slade-lectures

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