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Dr Amanda Sciampacone

@asciampacone.bsky.social

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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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...

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...

07.10.2025 11:23 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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

06.10.2025 15:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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.

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.

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

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.

02.10.2025 14:21 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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

02.10.2025 12:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Daisy speaking with a microphone in her hands as she stands in front of a screen with the introduction slide for her talk.

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.

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

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!

30.09.2025 12:09 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Topic Collection: Visual Medical Humanities | Medical Humanities

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!

mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...

24.06.2025 07:07 — 👍 28    🔁 22    💬 0    📌 0
Table and display board with maps.

Table and display board with maps.

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!

13.05.2025 08:58 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
Trudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goods
YouTube video by CBC News Trudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goods

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.

02.02.2025 04:38 — 👍 7254    🔁 4275    💬 185    📌 459

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.

28.01.2025 16:55 — 👍 39    🔁 19    💬 2    📌 0
Opening wall text of the exhibition next to a video of the artist Hew Locke explaining the exhibition.

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 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 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.

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

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.

23.11.2024 17:41 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Please can you add me as well.

18.11.2024 11:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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