Just a few days left - keep those abstracts coming in for the Museum Microhistories Symposium! Closing date 1 December.

Book now for #MUSEUM #MICROHISTORIES symposium organized by MGHG University of Leeds 26 Jan 2024, 11am–4.30pm GMT Programme: mghg.info/microprogramme Tickets: mghg.info/tickets Attend in-person or online RHUL GeoHumanities Kew Gardens Library and Archives MEG

Appreciating the company of this excellent biography of William Burrell by Dr Isobel C MacDonald and Martin Bellamy on my train journey this morning. Hoping to get to Glasgow this year to see The Burrell Collection for the first time.

We are thrilled to ring in 2024 with a new publication 🥳: "Introducing VISU: Vagueness, Incompleteness, Subjectivity, and Uncertainty in Art Provenance Data" by Fabio Mariani. #digitalprovenance #VISU #Vagueness #Incompleteness #Subjectivity #Uncertainty #COMHUM2022 1/3

CFP: Women of Science in Quebec , A Symposium proposing to readdress the contributions of women to scientific disciplines in Quebec, (1765-1918). Submit 250-words abstract, a 150-words bio, your name, e-mail address, title, and institution to: [email protected]

Why I welcome new attention on #MuseumDocumentation, and why backlog is not a dirty word: museumsassociation.org/museums-journa…

Really looking forward to Rose Yavneh Taylor's lecture tomorrow evening. Rose's lecture is being charied by Louise de Mello, Head of the Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research at the British Museum. Registration is still open - please do join us! British Museum

This is Berlin today. Calling for resistance against the Far Right. All around Germany, people took to the streets in the last days. History tells us: We cannot wait until it is too late and Fascists are in power. We have to stand up to them. NOW.

Had such an inspiring day at TU Darmstadt. Thank you for having me Julianne Nyhan and Nadezhda Povroznik and to Jaap Geraerts for coming!

It's been such a joy to work with the stupendous Cara Krmpotich on this edited volume Collections Management as Critical Museum Practice, out later summer with UCL Press uclpress.co.uk/products/240135

From cabinets of curiosities to contemporary debates for decolonising & curating the museum, this 6-week course traces the history of museums.Join me & wonderful guest speakers incl Subhadra Das Dr Isobel C MacDonald Jacques Schuhmacher Simon Sladen Dr Misha Ewen Brendan Cormier Olivia Horsfall Turner

Join us on Feb 15, 2024, 6:00 pm (GMT), 7:00pm (CET) for a Zoom lecture by Dr. Phillip Grimberg on 'Mapping the Empire...' Delve into the socio-cultural world of collectors in early Qing China, chaired by Dr. Kat Szabó. Link: …hehistoryofcollecting.wildapricot.org/event-5535379

Delighted to be contributing a talk on my research on the British Museum collection to this fantastic programme (V&A Academy's History of Museums 1550-2024) led by the brilliant Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth There are still spaces going, please do join us if you can! vam.ac.uk/event/kBEkY7V5…

JOB: Post-Doc Position on Knowledge Representation and Museum Collections (Leiden University) artmarketstudies.org/job-post-doc-p…

I am curating a series of online talks that brings together artists and scholars working with colonial archives. We will be discussing the 'Archive as Material' on 6 and 7 March, and 'Archive as Institution' on 13 and 14 March. Do help to share! eventbrite.sg/e/archive-of-o…

I'm excited to share that the Victoria and Albert Museum and University College London are offering a fully funded Collaborative Doctoral Studentship on the provenance of the V&A's Asia Collection. For more information: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Pleased to share this funded PhD opportunity through the AHRC CDP scheme, with University of Reading and British Museum. Please apply and/or share! linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a…

Can't wait to read this! Congratulations Tullia Fraser Agnes Sung and Benjamin Chisea

Looking forward to teaching in our new BA program

Collections Management as Critical Museum Practice is released into the world today! Free & Open Access from UCL Press Cara Krmpotich & I have been working with a stellar group of contributors 👇 Read our work here: uclpress.co.uk/products/240135