Richard Taws
@richardtaws.bsky.social
18th/19th-century visual culture, history, politics, technology. prof and head of dept @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social
https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/20767-richard-taws
https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/20767-richard-taws
Reposted by Richard Taws
Join us for the Past Imperfect seminar with Jack Hartnell (Head of Research, National Gallery, London) discussing his new book Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image 🩹📚
In conversation with Bob Mills followed by Q&A 💬
Signed and discounted copies available!
👉https://shorturl.at/amiRW
In conversation with Bob Mills followed by Q&A 💬
Signed and discounted copies available!
👉https://shorturl.at/amiRW
Past Imperfect Book Launch: Jack Hartnell
Please join the Past Imperfect seminar to hear Jack Hartnell reflect on his new book Wound Man: the Many Lives of a Surgical Image.
shorturl.at
November 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Join us for the Past Imperfect seminar with Jack Hartnell (Head of Research, National Gallery, London) discussing his new book Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image 🩹📚
In conversation with Bob Mills followed by Q&A 💬
Signed and discounted copies available!
👉https://shorturl.at/amiRW
In conversation with Bob Mills followed by Q&A 💬
Signed and discounted copies available!
👉https://shorturl.at/amiRW
👇👇👇
We are delighted to announce that Kader Attia will deliver this year’s Nikos Stangos Lecture, titled “The Body/Gaze: A Territory to Be Reappropriated.”
🗓️ 20 November 2025, 18:15–20:30
📍 B40, Darwin Lecture Theatre (Reception to follow)
👉 Book your free place: shorturl.at/0Rhh1
🗓️ 20 November 2025, 18:15–20:30
📍 B40, Darwin Lecture Theatre (Reception to follow)
👉 Book your free place: shorturl.at/0Rhh1
Nikos Stangos Memorial Lecture 2025: Kader Attia
UCL History of Art is delighted to announce that Kader Attia will deliver this year’s Nikos Stangos Lecture, titled “The Body/Gaze: A Territory to Be Reappropriated.”
shorturl.at
October 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
👇👇👇
Reposted by Richard Taws
New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:
Check out Edward Gillin (@ucl.ac.uk)’s review of @richardtaws.bsky.social (@uclhistoryofart.bsky.social)’s book _Time Machines: Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France_, pub 2025 @mitpress.bsky.social
Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
Check out Edward Gillin (@ucl.ac.uk)’s review of @richardtaws.bsky.social (@uclhistoryofart.bsky.social)’s book _Time Machines: Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France_, pub 2025 @mitpress.bsky.social
Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:
Check out Edward Gillin (@ucl.ac.uk)’s review of @richardtaws.bsky.social (@uclhistoryofart.bsky.social)’s book _Time Machines: Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France_, pub 2025 @mitpress.bsky.social
Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
Check out Edward Gillin (@ucl.ac.uk)’s review of @richardtaws.bsky.social (@uclhistoryofart.bsky.social)’s book _Time Machines: Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France_, pub 2025 @mitpress.bsky.social
Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
Stellar new issue of Oxford Art Journal in honour of @carscott.bsky.social feat. essays by Alex Potts, Thomas Hughes, Steve Edwards, Katie Scott, Clare Pettitt, Jeremy Melius, Susan Siegfried, Keren Rosa Hammerschlag, T.J.Clark…and of course Caroline herself! academic.oup.com/oaj/issue/48/1
Volume 48 Issue 1 | Oxford Art Journal | Oxford Academic
Publishes innovative critical work in art history from Antiquity to contemporary art practice, with a commitment to the political analysis of visual art and material representation from a variety of t...
academic.oup.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Stellar new issue of Oxford Art Journal in honour of @carscott.bsky.social feat. essays by Alex Potts, Thomas Hughes, Steve Edwards, Katie Scott, Clare Pettitt, Jeremy Melius, Susan Siegfried, Keren Rosa Hammerschlag, T.J.Clark…and of course Caroline herself! academic.oup.com/oaj/issue/48/1
Reposted by Richard Taws
On Thursday 2nd October (5.15pm GMT), I am giving a research paper, hosted by HannahHalliwell of University of Edinburgh. It’s online and I believe anyone can register to attend. All welcome!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/history-of...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/history-of...
History of Art Research Seminar Series | Dr Francesca Berry
Atelier-Chambre and Chambre: The Sexual Politics of Intimiste Space
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
On Thursday 2nd October (5.15pm GMT), I am giving a research paper, hosted by HannahHalliwell of University of Edinburgh. It’s online and I believe anyone can register to attend. All welcome!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/history-of...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/history-of...
Reposted by Richard Taws
As part of the Art History Festival 2025, the Association for Art History is hosting a standout series of special in-person events in London. They’re all free, but make sure you book.
August 29, 2025 at 11:01 AM
As part of the Art History Festival 2025, the Association for Art History is hosting a standout series of special in-person events in London. They’re all free, but make sure you book.
Reposted by Richard Taws
Reposted by Richard Taws
Our map of cold spots in provision of humanities and social sciences courses and student numbers across the UK has been updated with the data for the 2023/24 academic year. Explore for yourself here: buff.ly/2x7yE5K
May 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Our map of cold spots in provision of humanities and social sciences courses and student numbers across the UK has been updated with the data for the 2023/24 academic year. Explore for yourself here: buff.ly/2x7yE5K
Next week! www.ucl.ac.uk/history/even...
Displacement and the French Revolution
This interdisciplinary workshop brings together historians, historical geographers, literary scholars and art historians working on the theme of "displacement" in and around the French Revolution.
www.ucl.ac.uk
May 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Next week! www.ucl.ac.uk/history/even...
Reposted by Richard Taws
say it again:
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university.
University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
A must read
May 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
say it again:
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
Thank you Kirsten Tambling for this first review of 'Time Machines'! @mitpress.bsky.social
‘The telegraph could become an instrument of harmony, at a time when misinterpretation was rife and dangerous’ – Kirsten Tambling reads Richard Taws’ lively account of long-distance communication in France after the Revolution buff.ly/TvIhiER
The art of long-distance communication | Apollo Magazine
The invention of the telegraph in a fractured post-Revolutionary France collapsed time and space, changing visual culture for ever, writes Kirsten Tambling
www.apollo-magazine.com
April 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Thank you Kirsten Tambling for this first review of 'Time Machines'! @mitpress.bsky.social
👇👇👇
⏳ Deadline approaching! Just under one week left to apply for this amazing role in Art & Material Cultures of Britain (1650–1900) at UCL🏛️🌍
We are hiring a full time Lecturer (Grade 8, £52,762-£62,035) or Associate Professor (Grade 9, £67,341-£73,142) in Art & Material Cultures of Britain (c.1650-1900), exploring its global and colonial contexts 🏛️✨
📍 London | 📆 Start: 1 Sept 2025
📝 Apply by: 22 April 2025 shorturl.at/K4zlr
📍 London | 📆 Start: 1 Sept 2025
📝 Apply by: 22 April 2025 shorturl.at/K4zlr
April 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
👇👇👇
Reposted by Richard Taws
Not at all concerning to learn that Universities UK are partnering with a company to sell an AI product that offers automated feedback on student work. Who needs staff?
April 13, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Not at all concerning to learn that Universities UK are partnering with a company to sell an AI product that offers automated feedback on student work. Who needs staff?
Reposted by Richard Taws
Sometimes it feels like my whole career has been a chain of gatherings where UK & US academics trade stories of the particular kinds of stress & grief & short-sightedness that shadow our work. I want better for all of us.
The UK car industry contributes £22bn to the economy and employs c 35k people.
Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much.
Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.
Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much.
Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.
"My choice in these volatile times is backing British brilliance," says Keir Starmer, who promises to deliver "British cars for British workers"
April 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Sometimes it feels like my whole career has been a chain of gatherings where UK & US academics trade stories of the particular kinds of stress & grief & short-sightedness that shadow our work. I want better for all of us.
Reposted by Richard Taws
Yes, but how close?
March 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Yes, but how close?
👇👇👇
Lecturer/Associate Professor in Art and Material Cultures of Britain, c.1650-1900: a permanent post in UCL's History of Art Department. Includes British art and material culture in its global and colonial contexts. Standard teaching & research contract. 22 April.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
March 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
👇👇👇
Reposted by Richard Taws
A great day to recall that on March 18, 1871, the great experiment of the Paris Commune began. All remains possible.
March 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
A great day to recall that on March 18, 1871, the great experiment of the Paris Commune began. All remains possible.
Great opportunity for a funded p/t MA with us plus curatorial assistantship in collaboration with Tate Britain. Pls share!
Tate Britain is offering an entry-level opportunity for a Curatorial Assistant, supported by the Rosenberg Memorial Fund, along with a part-time MA in History of Art in collaboration with UCL! 🌟
📍 London
💼 Full-time, 36 months
💸 £26,652 per annum
📅 Apply by 29 March 2025
👉 shorturl.at/LFlRY 👈
📍 London
💼 Full-time, 36 months
💸 £26,652 per annum
📅 Apply by 29 March 2025
👉 shorturl.at/LFlRY 👈
March 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Great opportunity for a funded p/t MA with us plus curatorial assistantship in collaboration with Tate Britain. Pls share!
Reposted by Richard Taws
Ghost dog. Atget, "Galerie Vivienne, 2ème arrondissement, Paris" Eugène Atget, collection of the Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris.
March 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Ghost dog. Atget, "Galerie Vivienne, 2ème arrondissement, Paris" Eugène Atget, collection of the Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris.
Reposted by Richard Taws
Just heard the sad news that this weird and beautiful brutalist home at the University of York is scheduled for demolition. Part of the university's ongoing attempts to disavow its own modernist heritage. c20society.org.uk/building-of-...
March 10, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Just heard the sad news that this weird and beautiful brutalist home at the University of York is scheduled for demolition. Part of the university's ongoing attempts to disavow its own modernist heritage. c20society.org.uk/building-of-...
Reposted by Richard Taws
I’m a professor at a public university, a proud union member, and a fierce believer in the value of a humanities education for my students. I felt every word of this essay by Peter Civiello in my bones. READ IT. SHARE IT. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello
So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...
www.nplusonemag.com
March 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I’m a professor at a public university, a proud union member, and a fierce believer in the value of a humanities education for my students. I felt every word of this essay by Peter Civiello in my bones. READ IT. SHARE IT. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Reposted by Richard Taws
‘there is now a worry that REF2029 will enable a different injustice: that institutions can hold onto the outputs of staff they have sacked, while making it harder for them to gain new academic employment because they are no longer linked to the work they created.’
This must be changed.
This must be changed.
REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association : Please read this important joint letter we have written (on behalf of us, our chair @jennyrichards.bsky.social ) along with @ies-sas.bsky.social & @univeng.bsky.social
englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...
englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...
REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association
We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.
englishassociation.ac.uk
March 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
‘there is now a worry that REF2029 will enable a different injustice: that institutions can hold onto the outputs of staff they have sacked, while making it harder for them to gain new academic employment because they are no longer linked to the work they created.’
This must be changed.
This must be changed.
Reposted by Richard Taws
University College London's art museum, home to works by Paula Rego and J.M.W Turner, secures temporary home after academics protest
buff.ly/JiV3b0F
buff.ly/JiV3b0F
March 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
University College London's art museum, home to works by Paula Rego and J.M.W Turner, secures temporary home after academics protest
buff.ly/JiV3b0F
buff.ly/JiV3b0F
Reposted by Richard Taws
Celebrate the launch of @richardtaws.bsky.social 'Time Machines: Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France' with us! 📖
We'll be joined by Prof. Sanja Perovic (KCL) to explore coded messages in art & the impact of telegraphy on public space.
📅 24 March, 6-8pm
👉 Sign up: shorturl.at/LhjpP 👈
We'll be joined by Prof. Sanja Perovic (KCL) to explore coded messages in art & the impact of telegraphy on public space.
📅 24 March, 6-8pm
👉 Sign up: shorturl.at/LhjpP 👈
Book launch: Time Machines: Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France
Join us at UCL History of Art’s Past Imperfect Seminar for an evening of discussion to celebrate the publication of Prof Richard Taws’ Time Machines: Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France (M...
shorturl.at
March 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Celebrate the launch of @richardtaws.bsky.social 'Time Machines: Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France' with us! 📖
We'll be joined by Prof. Sanja Perovic (KCL) to explore coded messages in art & the impact of telegraphy on public space.
📅 24 March, 6-8pm
👉 Sign up: shorturl.at/LhjpP 👈
We'll be joined by Prof. Sanja Perovic (KCL) to explore coded messages in art & the impact of telegraphy on public space.
📅 24 March, 6-8pm
👉 Sign up: shorturl.at/LhjpP 👈
Reposted by Richard Taws
IAS Conference: Audiences, Publics, Experience: Rethinking Music Reception
6-7 March, UCL
Drawing together musicology, anthropology, psychology as well as sound, media, and cultural studies, the conference aims to progress foundational research on music reception today.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
6-7 March, UCL
Drawing together musicology, anthropology, psychology as well as sound, media, and cultural studies, the conference aims to progress foundational research on music reception today.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
IAS Conference: Audiences, Publics, Experience: Rethinking Music Reception
Drawing together musicology, anthropology, psychology as well as sound, media, and cultural studies, the conference aims to progress foundational research on music reception today.
www.ucl.ac.uk
February 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
IAS Conference: Audiences, Publics, Experience: Rethinking Music Reception
6-7 March, UCL
Drawing together musicology, anthropology, psychology as well as sound, media, and cultural studies, the conference aims to progress foundational research on music reception today.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
6-7 March, UCL
Drawing together musicology, anthropology, psychology as well as sound, media, and cultural studies, the conference aims to progress foundational research on music reception today.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...