Israel knows it can commit war crimes with impunity. That is why it has launched its largest assault on the West Bank since 2002. We are witnessing the total erasure of Palestine - and our government is shamefully complicit. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

And it's LIVE!!! With our new Swatch Search, you can explore our collection of #textiles swatches (and a few larger items), either by historic textile name (if they were labeled) or by attributes like color, pattern, process, weave structure, and fiber. dutchtextiletrade.org/projects/swatc…

Ya está en acceso abierto la 1ª historia de la literatura de #Filipinas en español que abarca desde las relaciones del S. XVI hasta los escritores hispanofilipinos aún en activo: un gran esfuerzo colectivo. routledge.com/9781032246321 Routledge Books DigiPhiLit #Philippines

NEW FELLOWSHIP: The Institute is delighted to announce a new Fellowship aimed at artists and creative practitioners of Palestinian heritage. The Artist at Risk Fellowship will support an artist to spend 2 months as a Visiting Fellow at IASH in May/June/July 2025. 🇵🇸

Very excited to share the CfP for our Association for Art History session 'How was it made? How interdisciplinary collaborations in Material Culture Studies and Art History can unlock new avenues of knowledge'

Jonathan Square fashioningtheself.bsky.social will be one of the speakers for Connecting Threads launch event next month! Please join us online or in London!

A snippet from our Connecting Threads symposium V&A last week! A joyful celebration of textiles, fashion and south-to-south connections! Thank you Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom! #madras #southindia #Caribbean

JOB VACANCIES We are seeking to recruit a Curator of Textiles & a Textile Conservator to work with our extensive textile collections. These exciting two 3-year posts are funded by The Clothworkers' Company & will work jointly with Ashmolean Museum. Grade 6: £33,832. bit.ly/3Ys6mws

There’s a new Sew What? Podcast episode out today! It’s all about the needlework of enslaved, freed, and free Black girls, and especially about stitching from enslaved girls in the Caribbean, with art historian Sarah Brokenborough. Listen to it here: buzzsprout.com/1075825/episod…

“If you are a party to the immiseration and the evisceration of life in Palestine, people in this country cannot be free, because this is part of creating a new baseline for human suffering.” Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor at Palestine Festival of Literature today.

Watch Professor Nizam Mamode break down as he tells International Development Committee about the systematic & persistent targeting of civilians by Israeli drones immediately after they drop bombs on areas of civilian population living in tents. Thanks to Sarah Champion's words as he composes himself.

Phd opportunity in African archaeology coastal Mozambique (historical, material analysis). 3 years funding + poss 6-12 months more. Visa & NHS surcharge covered McDonald Institute Cambridge International Entangled PhD Scholarship at University of Cambridge jobs.ac.uk/job/DKR174/mcd…

In this week's The New Yorker: My profile of Ganesh Devy, who assembled the first Indian survey of languages in a century, and who now lives in Dharwad as a protest against forces who will kill writers and impose religions and languages [1] newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Review of our Connecting Threads event on the British Library Untold Lives blog

If it wasn't clear to you before, I hope it's clear to you now: from the ICC to the WTO, international law is respected only when it protects the interests of the global North.

Great conference happening in Edinburgh on 'Material Scotland' in honour of our colleague Stana Nenadic! Abstracts accepted till January 31st.

Breaking: The Lancet has just published a study which found that Gaza death toll was *underreported by 41%* (as of Jun) due to Israel’s attacks on healthcare & disruption to record keeping. This study suggests that the current death toll is 76,820 instead of MoH’s current 46k no