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Dr Amanda Sciampacone

@asciampacone.bsky.social

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Lecturer at The Open University. Art Historian interested in 19thC to 20thC British art and visual culture, disease, climate, empire, and air pollution, as well as museum studies and the legacies of empire in collections.

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Dr Amanda Sciampacone @asciampacone.bsky.social · 2d

For anyone working on decolonizing art history, please apply for the session I’m co-convening with Rina Ayra, Claire Moran, and Ceren Özpınar for @forarthistory.org.uk’s 2026 annual conference. CFP deadline is 2 Nov 2025: forarthistory.org.uk/decolonising...

Decolonising Art History - Continuing the Conversation - For Art History

The AAH’s dedicated resource portal on antiracism and decolonial approaches, established in 2020 during the global pandemic in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, represents a key milestone in...

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Dr Amanda Sciampacone @asciampacone.bsky.social · 2d

Check out the call for papers for @forarthistory.org.uk‘s 2026 Annual Conference. What a fantastic list of sessions!

Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk · 9d

Call for Papers: Association for Art History 2026 Annual Conference

Next year’s Art History conference will be held 8-10 April 2026 in collaboration with the History of Art department at the University of Cambridge. ⬇️

Dr Amanda Sciampacone @asciampacone.bsky.social · 6d

The @rgsibg.bsky.social is currently holding Impossible Measures, an amazing exhibition of Kristina Chan’s work inspired by historic instruments in their collection. Thank you @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social for the invite to the opening. Looking forward to reading your essay in the catalogue.

View of the entrance to the gallery, with the poster for the exhibition on left and stairs leading up to the gallery with artworks hanging on the wall on the right.

Cover of the accompanying exhibition catalogue Kristina Chan: Habitable Climes.

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Dr Amanda Sciampacone @asciampacone.bsky.social · 6d

It was very nice to meet you in person too. Yes, let’s connect soon.

Dr Amanda Sciampacone @asciampacone.bsky.social · 8d

Attended a fantastic talk by @daisyhunguk.bsky.social yesterday evening about her new book I Am Not A Tourist: Conversations on Being British Chinese. Very much looking forward to reading it!

Daisy speaking with a microphone in her hands as she stands in front of a screen with the introduction slide for her talk.

The cover of Daisy’s book I Am Not a Tourist: Conversations on Being British Chinese.

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Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social · Jun 24

Are you working in #VisualMedicalHumanities with a specific focus on art, anatomy and medicine? The BMJ Medical Humanities has just released this CFP for articles on "visuality in medical practice and history". Looking forward to seeing how this moves the field forward!

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Topic Collection: Visual Medical Humanities | Medical Humanities

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Dr Amanda Sciampacone @asciampacone.bsky.social · May 13

With @amyjanebarnes.bsky.social and Veronica Davies, our Objects, Collections and Museums Research Group table is all set up for the @openarc.bsky.social festival. Looking forward to showcasing our work today!

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · Feb 2

Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.

Trudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goods

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Amy Ryall @amyryall.bsky.social · Jan 28

And numerous academic related, professional services jobs too.

The effect on the towns and cities that are losing all of these jobs (academic and academic related) will be immeasurable. Universities are amongst the major employers in many places.

The knock-on will cause even more job losses.

Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Jan 28

1,000 academic jobs gone in a week. And that's just the start. Britain - the stupid country.

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Dr Amanda Sciampacone @asciampacone.bsky.social · Nov 23

Spent a day at the British Museum immersed in their Hew Locke: what have we here? & Silk Roads exhibitions. Both are fantastic! The former critically explores the museum’s close ties to the British empire & the latter showcases the extensive connections btwn Asia, Africa, & Europe in 500-1000 CE.

Opening wall text of the exhibition next to a video of the artist Hew Locke explaining the exhibition.

A view of artworks in display cases in the Hew Locke exhibition.

A view of the Dunhuang section of the Silk Roads exhibition, showing artworks on display.

A view of metal and ceramic vessels and statuettes in a display case in the Silk Roads exhibition.

Dr Amanda Sciampacone @asciampacone.bsky.social · Nov 18

Please can you add me as well.

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