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UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social · 21h

🎬 Join Past Imperfect for Dawson City: Frozen Time (2017, dir. Bill Morrison) + intro by Dr Kirsty Sinclair Dootson.

🗓 20 Oct 2025 | 18:00–20:30

📍 Pool Street Cinema, UCL East, London

💬 Screening, discussion + reception - all welcome!

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Film Screening: Dawson City: Frozen Time (2017)

Join Past Imperfect for a screening of Dawson City: Frozen Time (2017, dir. Bill Morrison)

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UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social · 13d

We’re thrilled to kick off our Research Seminar series with Dr Sarah Grandin (The Courtauld) on Chardin and the Oeconomie of Painting ✨

Join us to explore the material worlds behind Chardin’s famously “mute” pictures.

🗓 9 Oct 2025 | 17:30–19:30
📍 IAS, Seminar Room 20

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Chardin and the Oeconomie of Painting

For this Research Seminar, we welcome Dr Sarah Grandin (The Courtauld Institute of Art) for a talk on ‘Chardin and the Oeconomie of Painting’.

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UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social · 20d

✨ First CSCA event of the year! ✨

We’re thrilled to launch African American Artists Performing for the Camera After 1970: Against Transparency by Martyna Ewa Majewska 📖

📅 08 Oct 2024 | 17:30–19:30
📍 Room 106, Gordon House
🌟 All welcome!

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Book Launch: African American Artists Performing for the Camera After 1970: Against Transparency

We’re excited to begin this year’s CSCA events with a special book launch: African American Artists Performing for the Camera After 1970: Against Transparency by Martyna Ewa Majewska.

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UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social · 27d

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨

Seeking an Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in the MSc Conservation of Contemporary Art & Media to join our team at UCL East.

🕒 Working Pattern: Part-time, on site
💷 Salary: £43,981–£52,586
📄 Contract: Fixed-term (12 months)
⏰ Closing date: 12/10/25

👉 Apply now: shorturl.at/57NCS

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UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social · Jul 21

Exciting news! 🎉

We’re now accepting applications for Postdoctoral Fellowships starting in September 2026.

👉Find out more and apply here: shorturl.at/c8WIW

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UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social · Jun 4

📚 Book Launch: The Aesthetics of Resistance Vol. III

🗓 24 June | 5:30–8pm

Celebrate the final volume of Peter Weiss’s masterpiece in English!

🎬 Film screening + talk w/ translator Joel Scott & Prof. Frederic Schwartz (UCL)

📍 Free and open to all: shorturl.at/AVhWs

CSCA Book Launch: Peter Weiss' The Aesthetics of Resistance Vol.III

To mark the long-awaited English translation of the final volume of The Aesthetics of Resistance, the CSCA will hold a screening and discussion between the novel’s English translator Joel Scott and Pr...

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UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social · Jun 2

Join us on 12 June (6-7pm) to explore how pandemic remnants - from posters to memorials -shape how we remember a crisis that hasn’t truly ended 🦠

Speakers:
🗣 Dr Clara de Massol (King’s College London)
🗣 Elsa Perryman Owens (UCL)

🔗 Free and open to all. Book your free place: shorturl.at/P2vFJ

Remnants of Catastrophe: The Materiality and Memorialisation of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Described by some as a ‘paradigmatic example of an Anthropocene disease’ (Antó et al.), COVID-19 presented the world with a catastrophe that, whilst itself was invisible, bore massive material consequ...

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UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social · May 27

💥 Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures at The Hepworth is her biggest show in 25+ years. Curated by Laura Smith, with a new bio via Thames & Hudson.

Proud of PhD student Philomena Epps for contributing an essay on the body, fetishism & the grotesque!

📍 From our CSCA visit to The Hepworth Wakefield.

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UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social · May 21

⚠️ This event has been postponed and a new date is yet to be confirmed ⚠️

UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social · May 7

We’re excited to welcome Avigail Moss, Associate Lecturer at the University of Kent’s Paris School of Arts and Culture, for a talk titled “Collective Disquiet: Tangibility, Transit, Time.” 💬

📆22 May 2025, 5:30–7:30pm
📍Seminar Room 20, South Wing

✨All welcome!✨

👉Find out more: shorturl.at/oqCBq

Collective disquiet: tangibility, transit, time

For this Research Seminar, we welcome Avigail Moss, for a talk on 'Collective disquiet: tangibility, transit, time'

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UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social · May 21

🎨 Dive into the world of Art History with our EDI student journalist, Mayuko Yamaguchi, as she chats with Colin Zhongping Mao – PhD candidate at UCL – about his research on the evolution of Chinese Socialist Realism🖌️

👉 Read the full interview: shorturl.at/DRJx2

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UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social · May 16

🌀 The Other Transatlantic – Dr. Abigail Winograd
📅 19 May | 17:30 – 18:30
📍UCL East or online

🎤 Artists’ Panel – Rie Nakajima, Hannah Perry, Bao Rong & Pip Laurenson
📅 21 May | 16:00 – 17:30
📍UCL East

⚡ Electric Dreams – Dr. Valentina Ravaglia
📅 22 May | 17:30 – 18:30
📍UCL East

UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social · May 16

Join us for a series of free public events exploring kinetic and media art, held alongside the workshop Movers and Shakers: Strategies in the Conservation of Kinetic Art, organised by the UCL’s MSc Conservation of Contemporary Art and Media, Getty Conservation Institute and Tate!✨

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Movers and Shakers: Public Program

In conjunction with the workshop 'Movers and Shakers: Strategies in the Conservation of Kinetic Art'organised by the UCL’s MSc Conservation of Contemporary Art and Media, Getty Conservation Institute ...

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UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social · May 12

📘 Book Launch | Soviet Factography – Reality Without Realism by Devin Fore

Join us for a talk + conversation on Soviet avant-garde time politics with Steven Edwards & Stephanie Schwartz 💬

🗓 22 May, 5:30–7:30PM | Free & open to all

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Book launch: Soviet Factography - Reality Without Realism by Devin Fore

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UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social · May 9

Images as History Seminar: A Letter to Laos 📷

Dr Stephanie Schwartz (UCL) on Allan Sekula’s A Short Film for Laos and war, narrative, and Southeast Asia.

📅 15 May, 6–8PM

🎟 Open to all – book here:

www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/eve...

#ArtHistory #Photography #Laos #AllanSekula

Images as History Seminar: A Letter to Laos: Allan Sekula’s Postscript

A seminar series on photography and history in the Americas

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UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social · May 7

We’re excited to welcome Avigail Moss, Associate Lecturer at the University of Kent’s Paris School of Arts and Culture, for a talk titled “Collective Disquiet: Tangibility, Transit, Time.” 💬

📆22 May 2025, 5:30–7:30pm
📍Seminar Room 20, South Wing

✨All welcome!✨

👉Find out more: shorturl.at/oqCBq

Collective disquiet: tangibility, transit, time

For this Research Seminar, we welcome Avigail Moss, for a talk on 'Collective disquiet: tangibility, transit, time'

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UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social · Apr 16

Kaitlin Fritz, our alumna, EdTech Entrepeneur and award-winning enterprise educator, delivers the Explore Your Entrepreneurial Idea Programme: “Each session, we have interactive activities, so it really bridges the gap between educational and practical entrepreneurship.” 💡

UCL Innovation & Enterprise @uclenterprise.bsky.social · Apr 3

The Explore programme, run by UCL Innovation & Enterprise, is a 6-week programme that helps you start to turn an idea or passion into a viable business.

UCL Student Storyteller Zoë Dahse came along to speak to some of students who participated: bit.ly/3XKBVRD

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UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social · Apr 16

⏳ Deadline approaching! Just under one week left to apply for this amazing role in Art & Material Cultures of Britain (1650–1900) at UCL🏛️🌍

UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social · Apr 4

We are hiring a full time Lecturer (Grade 8, £52,762-£62,035) or Associate Professor (Grade 9, £67,341-£73,142) in Art & Material Cultures of Britain (c.1650-1900), exploring its global and colonial contexts 🏛️✨

📍 London | 📆 Start: 1 Sept 2025

📝 Apply by: 22 April 2025 shorturl.at/K4zlr

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UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social · Apr 15

Join us on 22 May, 5:30–6:30PM for a talk by Dr. Valentina Ravaglia, lead curator, on 'Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet', now at Tate Modern until 1 June 2025.

📍 UCL East Lecture Theatre, Marshgate
🍷 Reception to follow
👋 Free and all welcome!

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Electric Dreams | Tate Modern

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UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social · Apr 10

Last week in Paris, artist Thomas Hirschhorn welcomed UCL History of Art MA students to his studio for an inspiring visit alongside Mignon Nixon, Nicholas Robbins, and Stephanie Schwartz ✨

Theme of the day: What can we learn from art history? 🖼️

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UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social · Apr 4

We are hiring a full time Lecturer (Grade 8, £52,762-£62,035) or Associate Professor (Grade 9, £67,341-£73,142) in Art & Material Cultures of Britain (c.1650-1900), exploring its global and colonial contexts 🏛️✨

📍 London | 📆 Start: 1 Sept 2025

📝 Apply by: 22 April 2025 shorturl.at/K4zlr

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UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social · Mar 25

✨ Annual Tomás Harris Lecture Series ✨

Join us as Sylvia Houghteling, Associate Professor of History of Art at Bryn Mawr College, unravels the rich stories woven into the textiles of early modern South and Southeast Asia🧵

📅 6-8 May 2025

🔗 Find out more and book your place(s): shorturl.at/7m1ow 👈

Tomás Harris Lecture 2025: Sylvia Houghteling

Lecture Series: Textiles and Time in Early Modern South and Southeast Asia

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UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social · Mar 18

✨Meet Mayuko Yamaguchi, one ofour EDI Student Journalist for 2025/26! ✍️

Mayuko’s first review is up – diving into Ainu Stories, a captivating virtual exhibition at #JapanHouse London 🎌

👉Check out her thoughts and reflections on this incredible cultural journey: shorturl.at/N1OuE 💭

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UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social · Mar 18

🎬✨ Join us for an unforgettable evening at The Past Imperfect Seminar's grand finale on May 1st! We'll be screening the 2023 Italian film La Chimera (dir. Alice Rohrwacher), a gripping tale of tomb-raiders in 1980s Italy. ⏳💀

👉 This is a free event, open to all - sign up here: shorturl.at/QUyR4 👈

UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social · Mar 13

Tate Britain is offering an entry-level opportunity for a Curatorial Assistant, supported by the Rosenberg Memorial Fund, along with a part-time MA in History of Art in collaboration with UCL! 🌟
📍 London
💼 Full-time, 36 months
💸 £26,652 per annum
📅 Apply by 29 March 2025

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UCL History of Art @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social · Mar 5

Celebrate the launch of @richardtaws.bsky.social 'Time Machines: Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France' with us! 📖

We'll be joined by Prof. Sanja Perovic (KCL) to explore coded messages in art & the impact of telegraphy on public space.

📅 24 March, 6-8pm

👉 Sign up: shorturl.at/LhjpP 👈

Book launch: Time Machines: Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France

Join us at UCL History of Art’s Past Imperfect Seminar for an evening of discussion to celebrate the publication of Prof Richard Taws’ Time Machines: Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France (M...

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