Richard Taws

Visual Culture and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Individually and collectively, the essays in this cross-disciplinary collection explore the impact of the revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars on European visual culture, from the outbreak of the pan-Eur...

Katie Hornstein's 'Picturing War in France' might also be worth a look. Also, Sue Walker had a Charlet-related essay in this book www.routledge.com/Visual-Cultu...

There was also a good Charlet expo at La Roche-sur-Yon in 2008, with a useful catalogue. La Combe’s 1856 biography is still a key source, too, and well worth a read.

I love Charlet! We have a great collection of his prints at UCL, and I use them quite a bit for teaching—some years back there was an exhibition here, which Sue Walker (who Jann mentioned) was involved in organising--i was on her committee and have her contact details, if you want to get in touch

Google battling ‘fox infestation’ on roof of £1bn London office Foxes have ‘begun to dig burrows’ in soil of rooftop garden at the as yet unopened King’s Cross headquarters

London foxes 👌

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A map of the UK, overlaid with a heat map that displays 'cold spots' where there is a lack of provision of social sciences and humanities higher education courses.

A map of the UK overlaid with colour coded circles that show the concentration of student numbers across different regions.

A line chart showing changes in student numbers over time.

Our map of cold spots in provision of humanities and social sciences courses and student numbers across the UK has been updated with the data for the 2023/24 academic year. Explore for yourself here: buff.ly/2x7yE5K

Displacement and the French Revolution This interdisciplinary workshop brings together historians, historical geographers, literary scholars and art historians working on the theme of "displacement" in and around the French Revolution.

Next week! www.ucl.ac.uk/history/even...

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Thank you Kirsten Tambling for this first review of 'Time Machines'! @mitpress.bsky.social

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LinkedIn promoted post about Universities UK's partnership with a firm called Studiosity, who are offering universities a free trial of their "AI for learning (not corrections), for formative feedback at scale)".

Text from the announcement which says the AI technology "means all students can benefit from personalised formative feedback in minutes, including guidance on how they can demonstrably improve their own work and critical thinking skills. Actionable insight is accessible to faculty and leaders, revealing the scale of engagement with support, cohorts requiring intervention, and measurable learning progress."

Not at all concerning to learn that Universities UK are partnering with a company to sell an AI product that offers automated feedback on student work. Who needs staff?

Sometimes it feels like my whole career has been a chain of gatherings where UK & US academics trade stories of the particular kinds of stress & grief & short-sightedness that shadow our work. I want better for all of us.

Yes, but how close?

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A great day to recall that on March 18, 1871, the great experiment of the Paris Commune began. All remains possible.

Great opportunity for a funded p/t MA with us plus curatorial assistantship in collaboration with Tate Britain. Pls share!

Atget's "Galerie Vivienne, 2eme ar., Paris": a black and white photograph circa 1907 of the arcades of Galerie Vivienne in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris. THe image is of a long glass covered passage with stores on either side. The image includes ghostly traces of a woman and a dog, who moved out of the image during its long exposure.

Ghost dog. Atget, "Galerie Vivienne, 2ème arrondissement, Paris" Eugène Atget, collection of the Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris.

Just heard the sad news that this weird and beautiful brutalist home at the University of York is scheduled for demolition. Part of the university's ongoing attempts to disavow its own modernist heritage. c20society.org.uk/building-of-...

Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...

I’m a professor at a public university, a proud union member, and a fierce believer in the value of a humanities education for my students. I felt every word of this essay by Peter Civiello in my bones. READ IT. SHARE IT. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

‘there is now a worry that REF2029 will enable a different injustice: that institutions can hold onto the outputs of staff they have sacked, while making it harder for them to gain new academic employment because they are no longer linked to the work they created.’

This must be changed.

University College London's art museum, home to works by Paula Rego and J.M.W Turner, secures temporary home after academics protest

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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...

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 👈

IAS Conference: Audiences, Publics, Experience: Rethinking Music Reception Drawing together musicology, anthropology, psychology as well as sound, media, and cultural studies, the conference aims to progress foundational research on music reception today.

IAS Conference: Audiences, Publics, Experience: Rethinking Music Reception
6-7 March, UCL
Drawing together musicology, anthropology, psychology as well as sound, media, and cultural studies, the conference aims to progress foundational research on music reception today.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The book now has a cover! (And some very kind blurbs by @ayates.bsky.social & @andydenninghist.bsky.social)

Check it out if you want to learn about how the French made the balloon into one of the quintessential artifacts of fin-de-siècle modernity.

More info at mitpress.mit.edu/978026254980...

Black and white poster featuring a Black woman sat down in the centre. The event is the Elsa Vl Goveia Memorial Speaker Series with a talk called Crop Over by Professor Dame Sonia Boyce.

Join us for an evening with Professor Dame Sonia Boyce, award-winning artist & academic, as she presents “Crop Over: A Talk” - exploring Caribbean carnival traditions, resistance, and legacies of British slavery 💬

🌟Open to all🌟

👉Register here: shorturl.at/0p4cZ%F0%9F%...

screenshot from a journal article's image silverwear Peter Schindler. Regensburger Silberfund photographic series, plate 17 (R21–R42), 1869. Albumen print, photograph 8 3/8 × 6 3/4 in. (21.3 × 17 cm); cardboard support 18 3/4 × 12 1/2 in. (47.6 × 31.8 cm). Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna (inv. KI 4442- 9) from: Allison Stielau, "The 1869 Regensburger Silberfund: A Seventeenth-Century Hoard of Silver," Metropolitan Museum Journal 58 (2023), 34-58.

Our next seminar is Allison Stielau (@uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social) on "Treasure Hoards in the Thirty Years' War"

10 March, 5:30 (UK), @ihr.bsky.social & Zoom
All welcome! Register for link: www.history.ac.uk/events/treas... #EarlyModern #Skystorians
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Hello from CAA--all books are 20% off! @mitpress.bsky.social

View down a well lit railway platform with a sleeper train alongside

Now here's an attractive CFP: Railway Aesthetics: Experiencing Locomotion across Media and Cultures. Takes place ON THE TRAIN Vienna-Bucharest-Istanbul, 10-13 September 2025. Deadline for submissions: May 2, 2025 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/...

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University of St Andrews - School of Art History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU715/l...

The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts | Letters Letters: Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley, and Dr Ronan McLaverty-Head and another letter writer comment on cuts at Ca...

The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts

Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley

www.theguardian.com/education/20...