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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · Aug 26

New issue of the Journal of the History of Collection Vol. 37, No. 2 (2025) academic.oup.com/jhc/issue/37/2 @oupprimary.bsky.social @m-azzolini.bsky.social @ana0dias.bsky.social @sarahchurchill.bsky.social

Volume 37 Issue 2 | Journal of the History of Collections | Oxford Academic

Publishes contributions on all aspects of collecting activity, including the contents of collections, the processes which initiated their formation, and the circumstances of the collectors themselves.

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Irish Committee of Historical Sciences - ICHS @irishhistorians.bsky.social · Aug 20

Programme and registration is now available for the 35th Irish Conference of Historians - Inner Lives and Outer Realities.
@maynoothuniversity.ie, 12-13 September.

Please share widely.

Irish Committee of Historical Sciences - ICHS @irishhistorians.bsky.social · Aug 13

We are delighted to release the full conference programme for the 35th Irish Conference of Historians. Full details and registration available here: www.eventbrite.com/e/35th-irish...

35th Irish Conference of Historians - Inner Lives and Outer Realities

The 35th annual Irish conference of historians hosted by the Irish Committee of Historical Sciences & Maynooth University Dept. of History

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Sarah Churchill, PhD @sarahchurchill.bsky.social · Aug 20

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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Sarah Churchill, PhD @sarahchurchill.bsky.social · Aug 4

#housingcrisis #irishart

Sarah Churchill, PhD @sarahchurchill.bsky.social · Aug 4

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.

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Sarah Churchill, PhD @sarahchurchill.bsky.social · May 29

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

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Sarah Churchill, PhD @sarahchurchill.bsky.social · May 19

Appreciate the author acknowledging that this is a problem in multiple industries. Academia has taken a page from Walmart’s book in recent years. Many adjuncts have more in common with Walmart employees than w. FT faculty peers. All labor is skilled. No-one deserves to have this labor exploited.

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Sarah Churchill, PhD @sarahchurchill.bsky.social · Apr 29

Slow clap for CSCU corruption.

Terrence Cheng, embattled CSCU head, to be stripped of leadership position

Under an agreement, Cheng will be moved to a new job, "strategic advisor to the Board of Regents," the board announced Monday. His contract will not be renewed next year.

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Sarah Churchill, PhD @sarahchurchill.bsky.social · Apr 29

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.

Sarah Churchill, PhD @sarahchurchill.bsky.social · Apr 26

My welcoming committee…

A red front door of a brick building in which a small black and white cat sits inside the screen door looking out

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Sarah Churchill, PhD @sarahchurchill.bsky.social · Apr 14

The power of photography meets an absolutely disgraceful episode in our history…

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Apr 14

U.S. Marines killed 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, and documented the aftermath. For years, the military tried to keep the photos from the public.

The Haditha Massacre Photos That the Military Didn’t Want the World to See

When U.S. Marines killed twenty-four people in an Iraqi town, they also recorded the aftermath of their actions. For years, the military tried to keep these photos from the public.

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Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social · Mar 31

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...

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Sarah Churchill, PhD @sarahchurchill.bsky.social · Mar 25

That’s it. I do science now.

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Sarah Churchill, PhD @sarahchurchill.bsky.social · Mar 7

This is actually a lovely idea! We should all wander into public places and share our treats - it’s really rough out here!

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Sarah Churchill, PhD @sarahchurchill.bsky.social · Mar 6

Thanks for sharing! A neighbor here in Fairfield, CT sold their house and land and now we have TEN of these monstrosities where just one farmhouse used to be. Could easily fit 2 or 3 families in each single-family house. This kind of development only exacerbates our affordability crisis.

Sarah Churchill, PhD @sarahchurchill.bsky.social · Mar 1

These are the days your humanities education warned you about.

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Sarah Churchill, PhD @sarahchurchill.bsky.social · Feb 27

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

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Sarah Churchill, PhD @sarahchurchill.bsky.social · Feb 20

Really looking forward to reading - enjoyed the Atlantic article enormously. Congrats!!

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Sarah Churchill, PhD @sarahchurchill.bsky.social · Feb 19

This some Orwell BULLSHIT

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Sarah Churchill, PhD @sarahchurchill.bsky.social · Feb 18

special thanks to @maryburke.bsky.social for the invitation!

Sarah Churchill, PhD @sarahchurchill.bsky.social · Feb 18

Thinking on #housingcrisis - have we abandoned the community for the Home Depot?! Great insight @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Sarah Churchill, PhD @sarahchurchill.bsky.social · Feb 17

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

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Sarah Churchill, PhD @sarahchurchill.bsky.social · Feb 16

This new timeline sucks.

Sarah Churchill, PhD @sarahchurchill.bsky.social · Feb 12

This looks like a great issue and hey, I'm in the news section! (Special thanks to Susanna Galbraith!) #Irishphotography

SOURCE Photographic Review @sourcephoto.bsky.social · Feb 11

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

Sarah Churchill, PhD @sarahchurchill.bsky.social · Feb 9

Super Sunday? I’m rooting for Ireland for #sixnations and Kendrick Lamar for the #superbowl2025.

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