@sorourke25.bsky.social
Art Historian 'Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction 1780-1820' (Chicago 2025) 'Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism' (Cambridge 2021) extraction and its visual cultures, dog videos, unions, knowledge systems, 19th-century literature
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BOOK LAUNCH AND PANEL DISCUSSION
Stephanie O'Rourke, Susan Siegfried, John Tresch
19 March 2026, Courtauld
courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/pic...
tomorrow!
CFP: Race, Law and Empire
I will message you!
Happy to sidebar about this Devin if it's proving tricky! Many of the big US museums have permissive CC policies. Failing that, I'm not above sourcing things from Wikimedia. I avoid for-profit licensing agents like Scala etc. Just be sure you know the DPI and dimensions your press wants!
Race is not a biological category: challenging this misconception will help tackle racism in healthcare.
A nice little article by my excellent colleague Jasmeen Kanwal.
doi: doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
Keynotes by Jeremy Davies and Stephanie O’Rourke! 🤩🌿
CFP - Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750-1850 (University of Manchester)
This is such a great topic and will make for a fascinating conference--please spread the word!
www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/11/cfp-...
oh, thank you Claire!! I'd love to know what you think...
oh thank you, Nathan! that's so kind of you to say
PSA if you use the code HOLIDAY25, you can get 30% off of @sorourke25.bsky.social’s incredibly smart, gorgeously illustrated new book—do it! 🌿🎉💥
Heading to Copenhagen this week to ask the question "What is a forest?" with colleagues from the project Norwegian Wood: Extraction landscapes, art and visual culture in Denmark and Norway 1730 to 1860 🌲✂️
artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/calendar/202...
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
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!
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!!
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!
