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DH2026 | X/Twitter (@DH2026_Daejeon) @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social · 1d

🎉The wait is over!
CFP submissions for #DH2026 are NOW OPEN!
⏰ Deadline: December 8, 2025 (23:59 KST)
🌏 Join us in Daejeon, South Korea
📝 Submit now: www.conftool.pro/dh2026/
We look forward to your innovative contributions to digital humanities!
🔄Please share widely!
#ADHO

DH2026 Daejeon - ConfTool Pro - Login

Log in to your account to access your submitted contributions and view the results of the reviewing process, and - upon registration for participation - view your registration and payment details. …

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 15d

The Getty Research Journal is seeking submissions for a special issue titled “Artistic Exchanges between the Eastern Bloc and Northern Africa during the Global Cold War.”

Prospective authors are encouraged to submit by October 30, 2025. Apply: gty.art/4mPsjyN

Horizontal color photograph of a gray and black MacBook laptop. The laptop screen shows the Getty Research Journal cover, Number 20, 2025. The main image depicts a person through illustration. There are two hands resting on the laptop keyboard.

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 15d

Applications are open for 3-month residencies at the Getty Conservation Institute in the Conservation Guest Scholars Program for those bringing new knowledge and fresh perspectives to the field of conservation.

Learn more and apply by October 1, 2025: gty.art/476sfGn

Three people in conversation in the library stacks. The woman on the left wears an orange top and scarf while holding an open book. There is a man in black in the middle and the another person to the right with the back of their head towards the camera.

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 15d

Applications are open for the 2026–27 Getty Scholars Program at the Villa, themed "The Classical World in Context: Religious Experience in Antiquity."

Apply by October 1, 2025. Read more about the theme, scholars program, and grant details: gty.art/4287IOv

Promotional image for the Getty Scholars Program at the Villa, for the 2026–27 grant year. The theme is "The Classical World in Context: Religious Experience in Antiquity." Applications due October 1, 2025. The graphic includes a photograph of an alabaster and gold statuette of Artemis of Ephesus from 100-200 CE.

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 15d

For researchers seeking a short-term grant—including undergraduates—the Getty Library is offering partial support for travel to Los Angeles to use the Getty Research Institute's collections.

Apply by October 1, 2025: gty.art/4mvU8f9

A full-color photograph of library research grantees working in the Special Collections Reading Room. There are four individuals pictured with two at a desk on the left side of a table and two on the right side of the table. Three are sitting down at the desk while a woman in the back left is standing flipping through the pages of a book. The man next to her on the bottom left uses a magnifying glass to look at a black-and-white illustration. The man on the bottom right wears bright royal blue gloves while smiling looking at a piece of paper. The person at the top right writes with a pencil in their right hand while wearing a baby blue pullover sweater.

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 15d

Applications are open for the 2026–27 Getty Research Institute Scholars Program for proposals on the topic of Provenance, including the history of collecting, the study of the art market, and more.

Deadline is October 1, 2025. Learn more and apply: gty.art/46AKWQC

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Ian S. Pumpkins @icpetrie.bsky.social · 28d

JOB: TT Assistant Professor, History, Binghamton University

Maritime/Global Asia

East Asia, Central Asia, South/Southeast Asia, and/or the Indian Ocean

possible focus on the histories of environment, technology, medicine, or migration
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · Sep 8

In it, we explore funding patterns, with a view of where the field of art history has been heading for the past few decades. Plus an invitation to other programs with funding data to join us in putting together a bigger picture of the landscape of support for art history and related fields.

Matt Westerby @qwesterby.bsky.social · Sep 8

Applications for fellowships in art history at many institutions are open this fall. Read a short blog post at HistPhil that I wrote with @nancyum.bsky.social on "Taking the Long View: Gauging the Impact of Residential Fellowships in Art History over the Decades." histphil.org/2025/09/08/t...

Taking the Long View: Gauging the Impact of Residential Fellowships in Art History over the Decades

Editors’ Note: Nancy Um and Matthew Westerby introduce findings from the Scholars Data Project, hosted by the Association of Research Institutes in Art History, on residential fellowships spo…

Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · Aug 29

Thank you for including me in your syllabus!!

Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · Aug 26

Beirut in LA!

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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · Aug 25

Postdoc Opportunity!

Dr. Anna Grasskamp at Oslo seeks a postdoctoral fellow specializing in the early modern Philippines to investigate the artistic use and visual representation of geographical, geological, botanical, zoological, and climatic resources in Eurasia.

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship associated with the ERC-funded project "ECOART" (284675) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship associated with the ERC-funded project "ECOART" (284675), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · Aug 13

Need a midweek pick me up? We have the remedy!

Discover new tunes hand selected by the artists of our exhibition $3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives.

gty.art/QueerPlaylist

Here and Queer: A Playlist

Artist featured in $3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives share songs to accompany the exhibition

Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · Aug 12

Lots of Binghamton energy at the NNI seminar!

Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · Aug 12

Looking forward to presenting in the NNI Seminar in October - my paper explores the legacy of Margrieta van Varick (d. 1695 in New York), Red Sea piracy, the trafficking of enslaved captives from Madagascar, and the flow of Islamic coins to colonial North America (all in one essay!)

deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · Aug 12

As promised, the NNI Seminar schedule is here! Visit www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/sch... for all of the details. Please remember that we're happy to see you whenever it fits into your schedule to attend.

NNI Scholars' Seminar :: New Netherland Institute

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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · Aug 4

Take a look at the born digital book too: www.sup.org/books/litera...

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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · Jul 28

Resharing yet again- please encourage your provenance/history of collecting colleagues, museum friends, and pre/post doc students to explore this #provenance theme and to consider applying! I truly cannot wait to see what facets of provenance in all of its forms come together for this scholar year.

Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · Jun 11

Ecstatic that next year’s annual Getty Scholars Program theme will be #Provenance. Please share with all of your friends and colleagues looking at the long lives of objects, the art market, and everything in between.

www.getty.edu/projects/get...

Annual Theme: Provenance
In recent years the study of provenance has expanded in urgency and scope, in line with the art historical turn toward the lives of objects, and also in response to evolving debates regarding the ownership of art. Relevant to all periods and areas of art production, provenance research brings to light fundamental questions about who may lay claim to art and how objects transform as they change hands, collections, and exhibition venues. Increasingly available information on broken chains of ownership caused by theft, illicit trade, and historical looting have fueled restitution debates and ignited questions about the ethics of collecting in climates of conflict or asymmetries of power. Digitization and databases have also opened up the interdisciplinary possibilities of provenance research and laid the ground for art restitution efforts and other forms of reparation.
For the 2026–2027 year, the Getty Scholars Program invites innovative proposals for projects that explore provenance and adjacent research areas, including but not limited to the history of collecting, the study of the art market, and broader explorations around the ownership of art objects. The scholar cohort will be invited to examine and critique the arena of provenance studies while also envisioning its future, situated between the practices and demands of source communities, art historians, museums, and the market. Applicants are invited to propose projects, either individual or collaborative, that reflect upon the ownership, transfer, and movement of art objects from all world regions and time periods.
For this year, the Getty Scholars Program aims to link scholars with Getty resources and researchers and foster a lively community around the study of provenance—an increasingly significant domain of art historical and curatorial practice that centers the histories of both objects and people. While in residence, scholars will have the opportunity to delve into the Getty Resea…

Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · Jul 18

Research, Engagement and Outreach Specialist

Cultivate community and user relations for two important digital resources, the Getty Provenance Index and the Getty Vocabularies jobs-getty.icims.com/jobs/4596/re... 3/3

Jobs (Getty Trust)

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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · Jul 18

Research Associate Position for the Getty Scholars Program

Contribute to a lively international community of interdisciplinary scholars in residence: jobs-getty.icims.com/jobs/4627/re... 2/3

Jobs (Getty Trust)

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Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · Jul 18

Two open positions in the Division of Research and Knowledge Creation at the Getty Research Institute.

Both opportunities are ideal for early career professionals who wish to advance the study of art history and cultural heritage! Please circulate to potential candidates! 1/3

View of a white modernist building with a rounded facade, overlooking green hills, a view of the Pacific Ocean in the background.

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · Jul 16

Ann Philbin is awarded the 2025 Getty Prize! Philbin chose @npr.org for the Getty Prize's accompanying $500,000 pay-it-forward grant.

The funds will be split between @npr.org , @kcrw.com , and @laist.com. Read full announcement: gty.art/3Ir9q6N

Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · Jul 16

Are you interested in learning more about computational provenance research? This workshop held in Germany in December 2025 offers the perfect opportunity to work directly with leaders in the field. Funding is also available!

Perfect for art historians, curators and digital humanists!

ArtHist @arthist-net.bsky.social · Jul 15

CFP: Coding Provenance (Lüneburg, 18-21 Dec 25)

https://arthist.net/archive/50373

Coding Provenance (Lüneburg, 18-21 Dec 25)

Bárbara Romero Ferrón. Leuphana University, Universitätsallee 1, 21335 Lüneburg, Germany, 18.–21.12.2025, Eingabeschluss : 24.08.2025

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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · Jul 14

🧵(5) An example of a fāʼidah in the collection of Aboubacar Ben Said Library, bearing direct witness to the period of European Atlantic slavery as seen from the African perspective: hmml.org/stories/post...

Postscript — A Fāʼidah

“Along with the direct physical resistance to this unjust trade, the text shows...”

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · Jul 9

Artist Cai Guo-Qiang has used gunpowder in his work for many years.

His studio approached Getty asked how they could preserve the color of the pyrotechnic powders used in the fireworks displays. How Getty conservators tackled this question: gty.art/3IeG1wx

Two figures in a lab look over a series of prints with different colors on them. Text overlayed reads: "How to preserve art made from gunpowder. Read full story getty.edu/news

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Diane Zorich @dzorich.bsky.social · Jul 10

For the Getty's Thomas & Barbara Gaetghens lecture, Heghnar Watenpaugh uses the Zeytun Gospels' canon tables to explore "connections between art and genocide, how sacred items become artworks in museums, & how communities & art institutions can work..toward justice." www.linkedin.com/posts/j.-pau...

The Fragment and the Whole

In the aftermath of the Armenian genocide, one medieval manuscript’s extraordinary journey

Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · Jul 5

Amazing thread that introduces important figures in the field of climate science, lots of interesting people working on oceans and marine environments. Great advocacy for advanced researchers, with terrific photos. Thanks for taking the time to do this @davidho.bsky.social

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · May 23

If you’re a climate/energy person, I will take your portrait pro bono.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · May 23

After far too many years, I've got myself a new Guardian byline pic, very kindly taken pro bono by Nick Bowring. It was getting like The Picture of Dorian Gray in reverse.
Embrace the ravages of time!