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Sarah Churchill, PhD
@sarahchurchill.bsky.social
Historian of modern and contemporary art, architecture and photography. Passionate about social housing. I have some thoughts...
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Programme and registration is now available for the 35th Irish Conference of Historians - Inner Lives and Outer Realities.
@maynoothuniversity.ie, 12-13 September.

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August 20, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Will #housingcrisis kill #irishart? Read more in my essay below with art and interviews with Sean Hillen, Aideen Barry and Spicebag.

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August 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
euppublishingblog.com/2025/07/31/w... new blog at the EUP! Cover art: Sean Hillen, featuring also @aideenbarry.bsky.social and Spicebag. Thanks also to editors @emilymfg.bsky.social and Emma Radley
Will Housing Crisis Kill the Irish Art Scene? - Edinburgh University Press Blog
How is Ireland’s housing crisis shaping Irish art today? Sarah Churchill asks contemporary Irish artists Aideen Barry and Spicebag for their thoughts.
euppublishingblog.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Excited to have contributed to this special issue of the Irish University Review (IUR 55.1), co-edited by @emilymfg.bsky.social and Dr Emma Radley — Irish Studies: Beyond the Text now available www.euppublishing.com/toc/iur/55/1

Cover features photocollage by Seán Hillen. #irishart #irishstudies
Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - iur: Vol 55, No 1
www.euppublishing.com
May 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
So I have no path to full time teaching but disgraced chancellor Cheng gets a tenured teaching job?! In case anyone is wondering why higher education is so expensive, I suggest you look at the leadership packages cuz it sure as hell ain’t my adjuncting salary.
April 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
My welcoming committee…
April 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The power of photography meets an absolutely disgraceful episode in our history…
April 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Fri, April 18: The concept of social housing has been gaining momentum. Join us for a half-day event @gsd.harvard.edu to discuss new efforts to create high-quality, permanently affordable housing that emphasizes inclusion and gives residents more control over their homes.

mailchi.mp/harvard/apri...
March 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
These are the days your humanities education warned you about.
March 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Doing my own small part to examine global housing crisis. Thanks to @sourcephoto.bsky.social for their coverage and thanks to @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social for their generous support of the research. Photograph of the Divis Flats is by the incredible Judah Passow. #housingcrisis #socialhousing
February 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Thinking on #housingcrisis - have we abandoned the community for the Home Depot?! Great insight @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
February 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Public lecture at UConn (Aust 103) Thurs. 2/20, 12:30pm: “Suburban Gothic: the Haunted Home in Contemporary Irish Photography” - join me! I’ll be chatting about some incredible works, like this one, “Possession” (2011) by @aideenbarry.bsky.social

#contemporaryart #irishart
February 17, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This new timeline sucks.
February 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
This looks like a great issue and hey, I'm in the news section! (Special thanks to Susanna Galbraith!) #Irishphotography
cover reveal time... Issue 117 'WHICH IRELAND?' (Winter 2024/25) is now available to pre-order. You can find out about everything that's in this issue and read the editorial at www.source.ie
February 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Super Sunday? I’m rooting for Ireland for #sixnations and Kendrick Lamar for the #superbowl2025.
February 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Shout out to @worksinprogress.bsky.social for their latest on homelessness: ‘people don’t become homeless when they run out of money, they become homeless when they run out of relationships.’ Interesting read!
Why housing shortages cause homelessness
It's not just about rents - it's also about the rooms friends and family can't afford to share
www.worksinprogress.news
January 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Sabbatical vibes…
January 19, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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"Race, Politics & Irish America" bit.ly/3XKj0nn made Boston Irish Mag's latest "Bookshelf" page! @bostonirish.bsky.social irishboston.org/TravelCultur...
January 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Chosen solitude may be the most significant social fact of our age, @dkthomp.bsky.social writes. The emergence of the anti-social century is changing childhood social development, our physical infrastructure, and even our relationship to reality.
The Anti-Social Century
Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.
www.theatlantic.com
January 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
After WWII, many countries tried to build for community connection. Yet the upper classes in many instances chose the isolation of the suburbs and social housing became the working-class slum. Loved how this article addresses architecture as part of this massive shift away from community.
The Anti-Social Century
Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
It's out! My article, "The Education of Hope. Ernst Bloch and the Utopian Psychogeographies of Contemporary Afrofuturism," is now available as part of the 2024 Bloch Almanach, available for purchase:

www.aisthesis.de/Bloch-Almana...
Bloch-Almanach 36 / 2024
Periodikum des Ernst-Bloch-Zentrums der Stadt Ludwigshafen Herausgegeben von Immacolata Amodeo und Veronika Dyks
www.aisthesis.de
January 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM