#mertola#alentejo#portugal I finally got to see the beautiful Igreja Matriz of Mértola, which used to be an Islamic mosque, an early Christian church, and a Roman temple.
The School of Art History now has an Athena Swan Silver award for Gender Equality! @uniofstandrews.bsky.social#AthenaSwan#GenderEquality I'm so proud of all the work we have done together!
The School is proud to be the first School in the Faculty of Arts and Divinity to be a recipient of an Athena Swan UK Gender Equality Silver Award. For more information:
Next Monday I'm giving a talk at the African Ivories Research Network at the University of Lisbon and online! Thanks to organisers Carlos Almeida, Luís Afonso, and José da Silva Horta. @arthistorysta.bsky.social
Next week I'm in Oxford to give the first paper in the 'Early Modern Art and Material Culture' series of the Iberian History Seminar - I'm honoured and excited! Thanks to organisers Giuseppe Marcocci and Sylvia Alvares-Correa iberianhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/home
Thursday 13th February! Join us in Sandy's Bar, St Andrews from 5pm-6:30pm for a series of 5 minutes talks about Queer History from University of St Andrews students and lecturers! More info below!
The Dutch education budget will still be “disastrous” for universities, sector leaders said, despite a reduction to the sweeping cuts proposed earlier this year
Looking forward to this conference in Seville this week: ‘Asia y las Rutas de la Imagen’. With papers by the fabulous Hugo Crespo, Elsje Van Kessel, Stephanie Porras & many more.
My paper explores the contribution of Goan artists to the arts of early modern Old Goa. www.us.es/eventos/agen...
Surprise encounter with a 17C painting of a naval battle between Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch ships in front of Pernambuco in... the breakfast room of conference hotel! More coffee, anyone? #seville#bluestorians#skystorians#blueskyarthistory
So excited to travel to Seville tomorrow. I'm giving a paper about maritime travel, spirituality, and insurance and talking about this dramatic painting by André Reinoso, 1619, Igreja de S. Roque, Lisbon, at the CIRIMA ASIA conference: geografiaehistoria.ucm.es/file/program...
