Alex Burchmore
@alexburchmore.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Art History and Curatorial Studies, Australian National University; author of New Export China (University of California Press, 2023) and Material Selves (Bloomsbury, 2024); scholar of things and people in motion
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Author copies of Material Selves have just arrived and they look so good!😍

You can pick up a copy of your own now at www.bloomsbury.com/au/material-...

Or, alternatively, at one of the stockists listed on my website: alexburchmore.com/material-sel...

Keep reading for more info on what's inside 👇🏽🧵
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rcolesworthy.bsky.social
Very cool books with very cool covers bombardment because we all need a little beauty and brilliance, surely
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jdmccafferty.bsky.social
The "Vienna" model or sample book, c. 1410-20. An aid for workshops and travelling artists so that they had a stock of motifs & shapes. Silverpoint drawing on paper, maple wood, leather. Dimensions: 9.5 cm × 9 cm. A small thing. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
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levostregc.bsky.social
Peacehammer 40K: Paintinge litel miniatures of gardeneres, sculptors, academics. Trimminge hedges. Makinge friendes.
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chinarhyming.bsky.social
The 13-storey Liuhe Pagoda (Six Harmonies Pagoda) at dusk, c.1925, Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, by Charles H Kragh. located at the foot of Yuelun Hill, facing the Qiantang River, originally constructed in 970, but rebuilt a few times since. Interestingly a pagoda that also served as a lighthouse.
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wombatscholar.bsky.social
Our Lancet viewpoint, 'Bioethics for the Planet', seems ever more timely. Caring for humans and all life forms demands we care also for the planet. Viewable with registration
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#climate #planetaryhealth #globalhealth #STS #ethics
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londonmikmaq.bsky.social
A portfolio or envelope case made of birchbark and dyed porcupine quills by a talented Mi’kmaw artist around c.1910 and featuring the traditional 8-pointed star— I love this object. Relatedly, it‘s Mi’kmaq Treaty Day!
A portfolio case with an ornate design made of porcupine quills, including the traditional Mi’kmaw star design.
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georginaemw.bsky.social
Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social
alexburchmore.bsky.social
I always wonder how they feel about us carefully collecting their poops 😅
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londonmikmaq.bsky.social
An amazing headband made of dyed porcupine quills by an Indigenous person in the Great Lakes region around 1760. It is in such remarkable condition because it was kept in a Scottish castle for 250 years.
A headband with ornate patterns made of porcupine quillwork
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artinsociety.bsky.social
Sometimes, homely objects from the past are far more evocative than possessions of the powerful rich ~ here, from Egypt 1,400 years ago, this design on a child’s linen tunic, woven with pink, blue & green ducks, flower petals & central animal face collections.mfa.org/objects/70038
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jonpiccini.bsky.social
The NLA has digitized heaps of PNG parliamentary debates, including from the colonial legislative council (1951-63) and house of assembly (64-75). Keyword searchable too. www.library.gov.au/news-media/p...
Papua New Guinea: 50 years of Independence | National Library of Australia (NLA)
Explore parliamentary debates relating to the Independence of Papua New Guinea.
www.library.gov.au
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alicektg.bsky.social
Always like to see an accessible archive, but maintaining it isn't free. How long until a "purely financial decision" to shutter the digital archive too?
Meanjin archive to be ‘made available for free’ | Books+Publishing
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alexburchmore.bsky.social
Really looking forward to contributing next Thursday to the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre's Global Encounters Network Seminar Series - online and open to all!

📌 Out of the Melting Pot, into the Garden? Aboriginal-Chinese-Australian Artistic Encounters

🕰️ Thursday 18 September, 6-7pm AEST
Alex Burchmore – Out of the Melting Pot, into the Garden? Aboriginal-Chinese-Australian Artistic Encounters
www.monash.edu
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circa-candace.bsky.social
You can read about our super fun exhibition 'Kerameikos' at Sydney Uni - Chau Chak Wing Museum in the latest Journal of Australian Ceramics. Exhibition extended until 2 Feb 2026! 🏺🏛️📜
search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3...
Kerameikos: The potters' quarter
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yunxie.bsky.social
Best surprise after a long trip back: my article got picked for journal cover!🥳
“Three centuries of Chinese printing in the Netherlands”, in Yearbook for Dutch Book History, 32/2025
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jessicaalice.bsky.social
“Literary journals have never been a commercial enterprise, they have been a cultural enterprise ... To talk about the ‘problem’ of Meanjin as being a commercial one is to disavow the purpose of a university.” @sophtree.bsky.social
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liamsims.bsky.social
A sinuous floral border in the Kelmscott Chaucer, printed in William Morris’s workshop in 1896. One of 13 copies printed on vellum. Given to @theulspeccoll.bsky.social in 1916 by John Charrington (1856-1939), Honorary Keeper of Prints at the Fitzwilliam Museum. CUL Sel.1.16.
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sarcher.bsky.social
One of my favorite digital collections is that of the Museum of Royal Worcester. You can explore their ceramics collection and their archive, which holds treasures like these pages from a 1930s pattern book with heavenly designs for Art Deco style floral china: www.museumofroyalworcester.org
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nickfeik.bsky.social
It’s ludicrous and insulting to suggest that the richest university in Australia can’t afford the two part-time wages to run Meanjin.
Also: did they even try to save it? Donation drive? Philanthropic efforts? Offering it to another institution?
No.
The university council shut it down intentionally.
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shineslike.bsky.social
All right, putting it out into the world… if anyone back in Australia has hot tips on a job for a museum studies professor who loves teaching and public programs and has leadership and strategic thinking skills, I’d love to hear them. Holding on here, but longing to be back in Oz.
alexburchmore.bsky.social
"Meanjin isn't just a magazine, but an important cultural institution [that] provoked national conversation for the best part of a century ... ensuring Australia could speak to itself – critically, insistently, sometimes uncomfortably"

Another cultural institution on the managerial chopping block 🤬
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levostregc.bsky.social
To all who wryte storyes & poemes, to everyone who doth wryte scriptes & screenplayes, to those who make art of all kyndes, and to those who designe and performe yn daunse, and theatre -- thanke yow. Whethir you make for a few friendes or an audience of millions, thanke yow. You helpe us all.
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jessiewhchen.bsky.social
Surprise publication day! Earlier than anticipated, you can now read my #firstbook (digital version in #openaccess) or order a printed copy through the link. Official announcement and info on book presentation event coming soon!

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#NatHist, #HistNatHist, #flowers
Everlasting Flowers between the Pages
"Everlasting Flowers between the Pages" published on 28 Aug 2025 by Brill.
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