Stirling Maxwell Centre

Book Tales: Storytelling through the lives of readers past and present The University of Glasgow and The Mitchell Library invite you to explore the rich and historical life of books in a series of engaging Being Human Festival events in November.

Books tell stories beyond the text 📚

Join Dr Shanti Graheli of @uofgartshums.bsky.social & the Mitchell Library's Susan Taylor at a Books “Antiques” Roadshow at The Mitchell Library, part of a series of events for Being Human Festival.

Drop in, bring a book and share its story

📷 Martin Shields

Emblematically How-to in Vienna Every three years, in the height of summer, scholars from around the world come together to exchange ideas and explore new directions in emblem studies. This year’s conference, organized as always by ...

Earlier this summer, project members Billy Grove and @luisgomes.bsky.social introduced our project at the 13th Society for Emblem Studies conference in Vienna. Read more here:

howtobook.hypotheses.org/4453

#howto #emblems #conference

Aritmetiqve facile (1588)

New on our #blog: @jamesafox.bsky.social explores the unique #marginalia in a one-of-a-kind 16th-century French arithmetic book from the Herzog August Bibliothek 📖🇩🇪🧮

Read more here: howtobook.hypotheses.org/4415

#bookhistory #rarebooks #knowledge #mathematics

The #SESVienna2025 conference concluding paper, ‘Our fragile planet hanging by a thread’, by Peter Megyeši.

Thinking ahead for all.

Dr Pedro Germano Leal’s inaugural paper as the Peter Davies Lectureship in Text/Image Studies at the @uofglasgow.bsky.social.

Welcome, Pedro!

It's official! Delighted to congratulate Prof Alison Adams as the new President of the Society for Emblem Studies.

Much gratitude to outgoing President Prof Michael Bath for his sterling guidance and indefatigable support.

Bonis auspiciis incipiendum!
www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/alciato/embl...

Straight up in the 13th international conference of the Society for Emblem Studies, with the terrific José Julio García Arranz and Ingrid Hoppel on a ‘Private Collection of Editions of Herman Hugo’s Pia Deaideria’.

With an adjoining exhibition (with original copies from the collection).

It has started, the long awaited triennial international conference of the Society for Emblem Studies. With Professor Laurence (Billy) Grove delivering the opening plenary.

Looking forward to a fruitful week on all things emblems, old and new friends.

emblemstudies2025.univie.ac.at

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'The "Look" of the Gods: Court Dress and Fashion in a Masquerade', by Isabel Alba Nieva, on a festival to mark a royal marriage in (1680). With images from Filippo Biffi, Dissegno della mascherata fatta in Lodi, 1680 (@uofglasgowasc.bsky.social, SM 1304)
www.artes-exhibition.digital/the-look-of-...

Torre Farfán’s Fiestas de Sevilla: a Journey with Stirling Maxwell, by Hilary Macartney (@uofgartshums.bsky.social and @uofgsmc.bsky.social), on a festival book, the event, and its collector.
www.artes-exhibition.digital/fiestas-de-s...

🧵KHM-Theatermuseum shortlisted for ICOM Sustainable Development Practice Award for its digital exhibition "ART-ES. From real life into the world of art" (www.artes-exhibition.digital/exhibition/)
Congratulations! We're delighted to be associated to the project (links in comments).

Lecturer in Islamic Studies (R&T) at University of Glasgow Apply for the Lecturer in Islamic Studies (R&T) role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

Lecturer in Islamic Studies (R&T)
University of Glasgow - College of Arts & Humanities - School of Critical Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMO607/l...

Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature at University of Glasgow Searching for an academic job? Explore this Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature
University of Glasgow - College of Arts & Humanities - School of Critical Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMO644/l...

MA Funding The Warburg Institute has a range of full fee MA bursaries available to both home/EU and international students.

Thinking about applying for one of our MA courses?

Don't miss out on funding – the Peltz and American Friends of the Warburg fellowships close on 25 April!

Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/studying/fun...

#ArtHistory #CulturalHistory

I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising an open ended lectureship in Early Modern English Literature at Glasgow. Details here, and please share:

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Celebrating Hispanic Collections at University of Glasgow Listen to researchers and collection experts deliver short talks on the range of rich Hispanic collections across the University of Glasgow

Honestly excited about this. Hilary Macartney and I will be talking about illustrated books from Iberia and the Spanish Habsburg World in the Stirling Maxwell Collection. Come and meet this incredible archive!
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@uofgsmc.bsky.social @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social

We’re on. Two solitudes in Canada across genres, concepts, identities, and challenges therein.
With Chris Reyna-Chikuma.

Concluding our Stirling Maxwell Centre Spring 2025 Seminar series:
Chris Reyns-Chikuma (@ualberta.bsky.social) on 'Comics world/s in Canada: beyond the two solitudes'.
Expanding the Canadian concept of the “two solitudes” (Hugh MacLennan, 1945).
In-person and online.
www.gla.ac.uk/events/listi...