Stephanie O'Rourke

Headed to Binghamton this week to talk through material from my new book! 🤓

CFP for our panel at the Association for Art History's annual conference in Cambridge. We welcome a wide range of approaches to the topic! Proposals due 2nd November.

forarthistory.org.uk/landscapes-o...

Oh -- I can't wait to read this, Daniel!

Gustave Lester and I are co-editing a special issue of Media+Environment on Critical Minerals and Media Technologies. Send us your abstracts by November 15! @mediaenviron.bsky.social

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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...

Just wait until he finds out you don't need page numbers for book chapters any more!!

Exterior view of Armstrong Building, Newcastle University, red brick, neo-Gothic-ish architecture with many windows.

Newcastle University staff invited to a ‘Doodling for Wellbeing’ session (‘Let your pen dance across the page' in 'a perfect escape from the everyday hustle and bustle'. Invites sent on same day 153 academics were informed of their location in 'redundancy pools', with 38 redundancies planned. 1/2

Exam board prep today, and as usual it's one part academic judgement to three parts "The oodlified scripts have been uploaded to a password-protected polycule on FlipWangle. If you haven't set up 5FA on your uniSnork account you can simply repuffer via Blarg. The helpdesk will reopen on Wednesday."

I'll be trying out new material for my keynote "Romantic Shock and Industrial Catastrophe" at the Sorbonne next week. The line up of papers looks great!

I'll be trying out new material for my keynote "Romantic Shock and Industrial Catastrophe" at the Sorbonne next week. The line up of papers looks great!

[COLL] 16-17.05.25 / Sorbonne
Romantic Shock and Surprise
org. London-Paris Romanticism Seminar avec le concours de @sorbonne-universite.fr, de l'université de Lille, de @qmul.ac.uk et de la @sera-romantic.bsky.social
keynote: Christopher Miller, @sorourke25.bsky.social & Marc Porée

This is a gorgeous and urgent book!!!!!!!!!

Right back at you -- I've already pre-ordered your book. I can't wait!

Unfortunately not, but hopefully something more widely available will come of the project later

Aw shucks!

The Geological Imagination in the Long Nineteenth Century | The Huntington Exploring the historical origins of extraction and the growing field of Geoaesthetics, this conference queries how artists mined the geological imagination during this period. Presentations will respo...

Really looking forward to hearing the amazing papers at our conference 'The Geological Imagination in the Long Nineteenth Century' (Huntington, LA)

the series finale of America is....wild

All this doom ain’t gonna scroll itself

Students and faculty colleagues are being kidnapped from University campuses. Undocumented and documented students are not safe. Trans students, queer students, students of color are not safe. Faculty and students who engage in legally protected speech against genocide are not safe. How will Georgetown protect our students and colleagues? Where does the University stand? What should a University be, in a time of crisis? I turn things over now to xxxxxxx in the School of Foreign Service. Here is xxxX.

I said this at 12 PM and by the evening I learned that my colleague had been kidnapped

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Have just learned that a new name for “rough draft” is “sloppy copy”, and I, once again, stand in appreciative aw at the ever-evolving beauty of Language 😍

I'll know I've assimilated into UK culture when I can put down 2-3 pints at the airport at 5 am. I'm not there yet.

QMCECS BSECS Early Career Visiting Fellowship 2025 for C18 research in London

QMCECS BSECS Early Career Visiting Fellowship 2025. An award to conduct C18 research in London (£500 for travel and living, and accommodation at QMUL's Mile End campus (£400). More info, small print, and application form here: tinyurl.com/pxxwxt3w. Deadline for applications: 31 March 2025.

*On Wonder*!

Free to download, free to read for a few more days until 27 Feb 2025!

Thank you for sharing a&nd thank you for welcoming my little wonder book!

#C18L
#18thcentury

@cambridgeup.bsky.social

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The Long Shadow Of Colonial Science | NOEMA Museums and gardens must become spaces that help us learn not only about biological life and human history, but also the colonialist and capitalist logic that still governs our everyday lives.

This week my students are reading @pocoeco.bsky.social 's great piece on museums and colonial science alongside Park and Daston's book on 'wonder'

www.noemamag.com/the-long-sha...

John Martin and Romantic Extraction The early nineteenth-century artist John Martin bore witness to a rapidly carbonising Britain. Although he is most famous for his dramatic portrayals of epic, historical…

Looking forward to speaking about all things John Martin, sewage systems, and coal mine ventilation at the PMC in London on January 22nd!

www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/for...

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Should have noted -- that final landscape (1813) is by Jenny Prinssay, also from Guadeloupe. To my knowledge the first French Caribbean woman to exhibit at the Paris Salon

Remarkable Guillaume Lethière show at the Louvre right now. Son of a white plantation owner and an enslaved woman of mixed race, Lethière was one of the most successful artists in early 19th-c France. Through the show a larger community of Caribbean artists in Paris comes into view as well.

this looks super interesting!

CFP: Romantic Shock and Surprise

Sorbonne Université, Paris, Friday 16 – Saturday 17 May 2025

full call here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5530