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History of Art, University of Oxford @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social · Aug 7

We are delighted to announce Esther da Costa Meyer as the Slade Professor of Fine Art for Hilary Term 2026! We look forward to sharing her series 'Urban Change and Representation' with you all!

www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/slade-lectures

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History of Art, University of Oxford @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social · Aug 7

Wadham College appoints Dr Marko Ilić as new Fellow and Tutor in History of Art!!

@wadhamcollege.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/news/wadham-...

Wadham appoints Dr Marko Ilić as new Fellow and Tutor in History of Art

Wadham is pleased to announce that Dr Marko Ilić will be joining the College on October 1 as our new Fellow and Tutor in History of Art.

www.wadham.ox.ac.uk

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History of Art, University of Oxford @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social · Jul 7

Congratulations to 1st year student Ophelia Lanfranchi, winner of this year's Reaktion Books Prize for her brilliant essay on a work by British artist Prunella Clough in Oxford's Ashmolean Museum. @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
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© Estate of Prunella Clough. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2025

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History of Art, University of Oxford @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social · Jun 23

Don't forget to BOOK YOUR PLACE for Image & Object!

2-5pm Thu 26 June
Department of History of Art, Littlegate House

Click through to the Department of History of Art website below to find out more and BOOK YOUR PLACE

www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/image-...

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History of Art, University of Oxford @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social · Jun 23

Tomorrow!
BORDERZONES
2-6pm
Rose Garden Room, Worcester College
University of Oxford

www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/terra-...

Convened by Erin Pauwels
Participants: Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Maggie M. Cao, Jessica L. Horton, Delia Solomons, Allison Stagg

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History of Art, University of Oxford @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social · Jun 16

Congratulations to Vibe Nielsen, Academic Visitor at the Department of History of Art, for being elected Member of the Young Academy at the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters!

youngacademy.dk/en/velkommen...

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History of Art, University of Oxford @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social · Jun 16

2025 Terra Foundation for American Art Study Day
www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/terra-...

Tue 24 June | 2-6pm in the Rose Garden Room, Worcester College, University of Oxford

Convened by Erin Pauwels
Participants: Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Maggie M. Cao, Jessica L. Horton, Delia Solomons, Allison Stagg

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History of Art, University of Oxford @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social · Jun 16

History of Art Study Day
Image & Object: Reproduction

2 - 5pm | Thu 26 June
Location: Department of History of Art, Littlegate House

Visit below and Book your place!
www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/image-...

Speakers:
Geoffrey Batchen, Geraldine Johnson, Brigid von Preussen, Vibe Nielsen, Paul Taylor

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History of Art, University of Oxford @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social · Jun 9

Watch the final Terra Lecture in American Art here!

'Indigenous Pictorialism: Richard Throssel’s Portrait of Apsáalooke Nation'

Thank you Professor Erin Pauwels for such an inspiring and engaging series!

www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/2025-t...

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2025 Terra Lectures in American Art: UNSETTLED GROUND

'Indigenous Pictorialism'

www.hoa.ox.ac.uk

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History of Art, University of Oxford @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social · Jun 9

June and Simon Li Lecture in the History of Art

Vera Mensura
Dimensional Realism in Medieval Manuscripts

Professor Aden Kumler (University of Basel)

17:00 Wednesday 11th June 2025
Location: Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College

More info: www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/vera-m...

Image: Matthew Paris, Liber Additamentorum: London, British Library, Cotton MS Nero D I, f. 146v

History of Art, University of Oxford @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social · Jun 9

UNSETTLED GROUND

Watch the penultimate Terra Lecture in American Art by Prof Erin Pauwels

'Performing the Wild West: Staging Indigeneity in Photography and Theatre'

www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/2025-t...

2025 Terra Lectures in American Art: UNSETTLED GROUND

'Performing the Wild West'

www.hoa.ox.ac.uk

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History of Art, University of Oxford @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social · May 20

Read about the 2024 Laurence Binyon Prize winner's trip to Tokyo in our blog!

HOA | BLG
The Laurence Binyon Prize: Tokyo Through the Lens

hoa.web.ox.ac.uk/the-laurence...

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The Laurence Binyon Prize: Tokyo Through the Lens

By Damon Zuber, MSt in History of Art & Visual Culture (2024)

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History of Art, University of Oxford @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social · May 20

Congratulations to Cora Gilroy-Ware for her brilliant work in co-curating 'Entangled Pasts, 1768–now. Art, Colonialism and Change' at @royalacademyarts.bsky.social !🎉

Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social · May 16

Congratuations to all, this was a great show, co-curated by @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social's Cora Gilroy-Ware

Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk · May 16

Congratulations to 🔸 Entangled Pasts: 1768-now, at Royal Academy of Arts, which was Highly Commended.

Dorothy Price (Courtauld Institute of Art). Along with Cora Gilmore-Ware (@UniversityofOxford) Esther Chadwick (Courtauld Institute of Art)

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History of Art, University of Oxford @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social · May 20

We are looking forward to seeing you at Prof Erin Pauwels' penultimate Terra Lecture in American Art tomorrow, 5pm at Worcester College, Oxford!

More info: www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/2025-t...

🎞️ Catch-up on last week's lecture here: www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/2025-t...

@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social

2025 Terra Lectures in American Art: UNSETTLED GROUND

'Performing the Wild West'

www.hoa.ox.ac.uk

History of Art, University of Oxford @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social · May 14

Prof Erin Pauwels' second Terra Lecture in American Art later today!

'Settler Realism and the Diorama Aesthetic: John K. Hillers’ Puebloan Survey Photographs'

17:00 Wednesday 14th May
Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre, Worcester College

www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/2025-t...

@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social

2025 Terra Lectures in American Art: UNSETTLED GROUND

'Survey Photographs and "Settler Realism"'

www.hoa.ox.ac.uk

History of Art, University of Oxford @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social · May 12

Catch-up with Prof Erin Pauwels' fascinating first Terra Lecture before her second one at 5pm on Wed 14th May at Worcester College!

We look forward to seeing you there!

www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/terra-...

2025 Terra Lectures in American Art: UNSETTLED GROUND

'Backdrops as Middle Ground'

www.hoa.ox.ac.uk

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History of Art, University of Oxford @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social · May 7

Tomorrow - 5pm Thu 8th May
Lincoln College, Oxford

June and Simon Li Lecture in the History of Art
On Painting Everything:
Japanese Art in the Early Modern Information Age

Prof Chelsea Foxwell, University of Chicago

Find out more: www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/june-a...

@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social

Picture credit: Hover Fly and Early Spring flowers, page from the Drawings (hanshita-e) for a Three-Volume Picturebook, possibly The Great Picture Book of Everything, c. 1820s-40s, ink on paper, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1998.670.1-3

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History of Art, University of Oxford @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social · Apr 30

We look forward to welcoming you to the first of this year's Terra Lectures in American Art today!

Prof Erin Pauwels presents 'Backdrops as Middle Ground: Photographic Portraiture as a Site of Indigenous Resistance' 5pm
Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre
Worcester College

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History of Art, University of Oxford @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social · Apr 24

UNSETTLED GROUND
30 APR
5pm
Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre, Worcester College
Free admission

Join us as Prof Erin Pauwels starts her fascinating Terra Lectures with 'Backdrops as Middle Ground: Photographic Portraiture as a Site of Indigenous Resistance'

Find out more www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/terra-...

Sarony Studio, New York City Awé Kúalawaachish [Apsáalooke 1795-1877], photographed 1873 Courtesy Special Collections, Harvard Fine Arts Library

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History of Art, University of Oxford @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social · Apr 30

Have a look at this new book on Photo Archives co-edited by our very own Geraldine Johnson and History of Art alum Deborah Schultz. It also includes a contribution by Geoff Batchen!

www.routledge.com/Photo-Archiv...

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History of Art, University of Oxford @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social · Apr 24

1 MAY: Special Lecture & Reception

Join us @lincoln.ox.ac.uk for Prof JP Park's lecture on his recent publication 'The Forger’s Creed: Reinventing Art History in Early Modern China' 📖

5pm at Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College, Oxford

www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/the-fo...

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The Forger’s Creed: Reinventing Art History in Early Modern China

Special Lecture & Reception: Publication Celebration

www.hoa.ox.ac.uk

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History of Art, University of Oxford @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social · Apr 24

UNSETTLED GROUND
30 APR
5pm
Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre, Worcester College
Free admission

Join us as Prof Erin Pauwels starts her fascinating Terra Lectures with 'Backdrops as Middle Ground: Photographic Portraiture as a Site of Indigenous Resistance'

Find out more www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/terra-...

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · Apr 24

EVENT: Sheldonian Series - Truth

📆 13 May
🕠 5:30- 6:30pm
🎟️ Oxford staff and students only

Join the Vice-Chancellor to hear from panellists debating the limits and challenges to truth today.

The series aims to promote freedom of speech and inclusive inquiry within the collegiate University.

Promotional poster for the University of Oxford's Sheldonian Series titled "Truth," featuring a painted ceiling with dynamic and colorful figures, scheduled for Tuesday, 13 May, from 5:30 to 6:45 PM.

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · Apr 23

🐉 Happy St George's Day!

The Warburg Library is a treasure trove for exploring the legend of St George and the dragon - from ancient myths beside Aby Warburg’s Schlangenritual, to Renaissance masterpieces by Dürer, Uccello, and Raphael.

#StGeorgesDay #Dragons #ArtHistory

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History of Art, University of Oxford @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social · Apr 23

Another public talk as part of our Summer programme! 🌻☀️

On Painting Everything:
Japanese Art in the Early Modern Information Age
Prof Chelsea Foxwell, University of Chicago

5pm, 8 May
Lincoln College, Oxford
Free and open to all

www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/june-a...

@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social

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Lincoln College, University of Oxford @lincoln.ox.ac.uk · Apr 16

Join us at Lincoln College for a special lecture & reception celebrating 'The Forger’s Creed' by Prof. J.P. Park - a groundbreaking new book that looks at how forgery shaped the canon of early modern Chinese art. @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social

🗓 Thurs 1 May, 5pm

🔗 More info: bit.ly/43NJWJi

Cover of "The Forger’s Creed: Reinventing Art History in Early Modern China" by J.P. Park. The black background features five traditional Chinese landscape paintings in various shapes, arranged around a central circular image. The title appears in orange and gold serif text at the top, with the author’s name at the bottom.

Event invitation graphic on an orange background featuring the book cover of "The Forger’s Creed: Reinventing Art History in Early Modern China" by J.P. Park. Text reads: "You are cordially invited to a special lecture & reception celebrating the publication of The Forger’s Creed by J.P. Park. 5pm Thursday 1st May, Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College, Oxford." Logos of Lincoln College, University of Oxford, and the Department of History of Art are included.

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