Christina Riggs

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Writer: history, photograpy, art, archives, museums. Italophile, tango dancer, and professor of history & visual culture, Durham University, UK. Author of Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century (Atlantic 2021) https://christinariggs.com

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An insightful interview with @zenakamash.bsky.social, including an extract from her new book, Heritage and Healing in Syria and Iraq, out now from Manchester UP. 🗃️📜🏺 #menasky www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4609...

Zena Kamash, Heritage and Healing in Syria and Iraq (New Texts Out Now)www.jadaliyya.com A big question! One of the main motivations was as a process of healing for myself. I am British Iraqi and have lived alongside PTSD for many years. Conflict in Iraq has been a long-term source of sad...

Still time to register for this free online workshop tomorrow, Friday, July 12th (9.45am - 4 pm in UK): public engagement, #photography, and inclusive approaches to curation - from the Museum Dialogues network at the University of Sunderland. 📜📷 northeastphoto.net/project/muse...

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Latest guest blog for our “emotions in museum work” RSE funded collaboration. David Hingley reflects on the emotions of front of house work. museumemotion.stir.ac.uk?p=248

Guest Blog - 'Speaking for ourselves, or our institutions?' | New futures of care: Investigating emotionally laden work in museumsmuseumemotion.stir.ac.uk

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Winners last night of The Charity Awards 2024, in the Education and Training category, the Migration Museum. Now in Lewisham, but fundraising for a permanent home in the City of London, and still calling out racism: www.lbbonline.com/news/migrati...

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I wrote this because I'm fed up with archaeological and heritage adventurism: williamcarruthers.wordpress.com/2024/07/09/a...

Abroad, Againwilliamcarruthers.wordpress.com Nicky Reeves (Curator of Scientific and Medical Collections at the Hunterian in Glasgow) has just written an excellent blog post on ‘Fragments, relics and remembering’. Amongst other things, he stress...

Online event this Thursday, July 11th, 6-7 pm (UK) via the Glasgow School of Art. Memory and Preservation: Revisiting Black Women's Photo Archives, with curator and PhD researcher Pelumi Odubanjo, in conversation with Beulah Ezeugo. 🗃️📜📷 #photography #archives www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/memory-and...

Memory and Preservation: Revisiting Black Women's Photo Archiveswww.eventbrite.co.uk In this online talk, curator and PhD researcher Pelumi Odubanjo will present her research into photographic archives.

Thoughtful blog by @nickyrvs.bsky.social on all the broken pieces museums contain, and why they matter. Useful journal links embedded. The Hunterian's 'Curating Discomfort' project gives me hope that museums can change – for the better. 🗃️📜 #histsci #histSTM #museums hunterian.blog/fragments-re...

Fragments, relics and remembering | The Hunterian Bloghunterian.blog On the 200th anniversary of the birth of Lord Kelvin, Nicky Reeves reflects on relics and broken things in The Hunterian's collections.

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#législatives2024 #France Siamo tutti antifascisti

Yes, you can tango just about anywhere in Turin (and in totally inappropriate shoes, as I’ve just discovered).

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Since the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social's conference's final programme is out, I can now engage in some shameless self-promotion. Please come and see/hear my paper 'Incarcerating the Crisis: Prisons, Race, & Fascism in Britain, c. 1970s' at 14:30-16:00 on Monday, 8 July 2024. #SHS2024

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I am v excited that First World War Studies has published this excellent article on Eritrea #fwwhist - also of interest to Italianists perspectives like this on the Horn of Africa can really enrich how we think about what a global history of war actually means www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Difficult Years: Eritrea and the Impact of the Great War (1914–1922)www.tandfonline.com This article investigates the economic and social situation of Eritrea from 1914 to 1922. Despite its distance from the battlefields, the impact that the Great War had on the country was significan...

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NEW POST: This week's thematic round-up of reading and listening recommendations, covering contested histories of political ideas; the coming Labour government; bordering practices; and animation and cinema. All reposts much appreciated. X #skystorians 🗃️ #polisky #filmsky

Stop, Look, and Listen #26academicbubble.substack.com A round-up of what I have been reading and listening to this past week.

One thing that keeps me busy in Italy: tracking how long white Italian men speak at public events without ever being interrupted. Even when speaking in other languages. Even when a woman of colour has top billing. Makes academic board meetings in UK seem like feminist protest marches in comparison.

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Looking forward to attending the inaugural conference of the International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (INCSA) in Durham, 10-12 July 2024. My Keynote is on "The Naked Pharaohs: Decolonizing the Nineteenth Century." in-csa.com/conference-d...

2024 Conference Durham – International Nineteenth-Century Studies Associationin-csa.com The Nineteenth Century Today: Interdisciplinary, International, IntertemporalJuly 10-12, 2024University, Durham, UKIn-person and online The conference includes over 300 papers, including two keynotes,...

Tight deadline (July 17th) for this 2-year visual culture, film/media, or art history Career Development Fellowship in the School of Modern Arts and Languages at Durham University - which is full of nice people! #ECR 📜🗃️📷 #ArtHistory #academicsky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DIM456/c...

Career Development Fellow in Visual Studies at Durham Universitywww.jobs.ac.uk Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Career Development Fellow in Visual Studies on jobs.ac.uk!

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Today is the first official day of our AHRC network The Ethics of Medical Photography: Past, Present and Future! First activities will be announced very soon, if you want to be added to the email list let me know! #photohist #histmed #medhums #ethics

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Five more years of data on BME under-representation in UK university History as a discipline released today by Royal Historical Society, following on from the 2018 report:

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Returned from conferences & research trips to find my copy of ‘The Truth About Empire’ with essays by several historians (incl. me) challenging modern-day apologia for empire with insights from their research. Pictures of cover + my essay & some of my personal favourite lines.

🗃️📜 This book sounds fascinating: preview in thread. Ever since I moved to northeast England, a coal mining region, I haven't been able to un-see the deep relationships between mining, industry, chemistry, and visual culture - good to know I'm not the only one!

I'm excited to share that today is the official publication date for my new book, Van Gogh and the End of Nature, from Yale University Press, which more firmly grounds Van Gogh within the industrial era in which he lived & worked (thread) yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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Those interested in repatriation may be familiar with the NAGPRA database. Still posting it as it's very user-friendly and incredibly important. Excellent for the classroom as well for any region. Below is the database related to Texas, which I am working on.: projects.propublica.org/repatriation...

Texas Repatriation Records — The Repatriation Projectprojects.propublica.org Find out which museums and universities have Native American remains taken from Texas using our database..

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Three disquieting muses (Sylvia Plath, Giorgio de Chirico, and, yes, Friedrich Nietzsche) and two beautiful cities (Ferrara and Turin) in this month's blog. What links a poem, a painting, and a philosopher? 🇮🇹 #lit #art christinariggs.com/2024/06/23/a...

Art and the ‘inquietante’christinariggs.com I must have been about 13 or 14 years old when I first saw Sylvia Plath's name and photograph peering out of a high school literature textbook where only one hand was required to count off the women p...

Sir William Luce Visiting Fellowship, to spend spring term (April-June 2025) at Durham University, UK. MENA focus, preference for Gulf, Iran, Sudan, South Sudan. Includes grant + college meals/accommodation. Deadline Oct 1st. Non-academics welcome, too. 🗃️📜 #menasky www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

William Luce Fellowship - Durham Universitywww.durham.ac.uk

Job: Assistant editor, working with the great team at History Today magazine. Deadline July 9th. Salary, well, not great, especially for London, but you probably expected that. 🗃️ www.historytoday.com/jobs

Jobs at History Todaywww.historytoday.com

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Always happy to make this offer: if you are or you know someone who’d like to work in journalism and comes from a background underrepresented in the media, feel free to email me for a coffee at FT HQ/online chat: [email protected]. Please reskeet (or whatever it is we do here)

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Delighted to share this Art UK curation on the theme of The Roads to Rome, created with @lagoonii.bsky.social to tie into the release of my new book: artuk.org/discover/cur...

The Roads to Rome: A History | Art UK artuk.org Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK. Featuring over 300,000 artworks by over 50,000 artists.

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Given that the FT has devoted rather a lot of column space today to James Cracknell, here for balance is an introduction to the Labour candidate battling him for Colchester, ace historian and sociology professor Pam Cox:

Colchester election candidate Pam Cox on why she wants to be your MPwww.gazette-news.co.uk If the pollsters are as certain as they claim to be about the outcome of next month’s General Election, then Pam Cox would make history in more…

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This came out yesterday, for those with ££££ to spare. A brilliant line up of authors & subjects: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Three job openings at Amber Collection (Side Gallery) in Newcastle, NE England: project archivist, curatorial assistant, and curator/creative director. Fixed term, and salaries aren't huge - but a chance to shape the future of this important #photography space. 📜📷 www.amber-online.com/latest-news/