School of Art History

🎉🎓The School would like to congratulate all our wonderful students who graduated at this week’s Winter Graduation ceremony. The weather was mixed but spirits were not dampened!

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Well done all! #EverToExcel

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ICOM, launches its new publication, 'The Museum Definition Handbook: Words Inspiring Action', co-authored by the School of Art History's Bruno Brulon Soares.
'The Museum Definition Handbook' addresses and analyses each term that appears within the definition.
👉 icom.museum/.../publicat...

'Invisible Loot: Maritime Warfare and Circulating Objects in Hugo Grotius’s De Jure Praedae' in 'Early Modern Low Countries' (9: 2, 2025). @elsjevankessel.bsky.social rethinks early modern looting – its theory, its practice, and its place in the violence of war.

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Call for Papers: In Her Words.
21 November 2025
Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, 19 June 2025

For more info: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/art-history/...

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Award News!!!

The School of Art History–led Shared Island Stories research project has been announced as the winner of the inaugural International Council of Museums (ICOM) Award for Sustainable Development Practice in Museums.

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Call for Papers: In Her Words.
21 November 2025
Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, 19 June 2025

For more info: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/art-history/...

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Thinking about studying Art History or History of Photography at the University of St Andrews?

Join us for an Online Postgraduate Visiting Day on 24th November.

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Art History Research Lecture given by Professor Victoria Horne on Wednesday 12 November 2025, 4pm, School 3. All welcome!

See poster for more details.

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Publication news: The School's Dr Ruth Ezra extends the book metaphor in this text exploring the use of mica in contemporary art, outlining the social, economic, and cultural histories of mica, from its extraction to its transformation: espaceartactuel.com/en/produit/1...

An exhibition by our colleague Dr Shona Kallestrup, on Queen Marie of Romania, was the subject of a documentary on Romanian national television last week: Ora regelui: Maria a Romaniei, Regina-artista.

You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCuU...

Thursday 25th November: Curators in Conversation

Niamh Finlay: Curating the Climate Crisis: Waters Rising at Perth Museum

4.00pm. School 2, St Salvator's Quad, St Andrews

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The 'Journal of Islamic Art and Architecture' promotes the study of art and architecture from across the Islamic world in its widest sense, embracing a broad chronological scope from the 7th to the 19th century.

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Major new journal devoted to Islamic art history announced: 'Journal of Islamic Art and Architecture'.

Conceived and founded by Prof. Robert Hillenbrand, with Richard McClary, Francesca Leoni and Yusen Yu as editors.

For more info: www.euppublishing.com/toc/jiaa/1/1-2

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Wednesday 5 November, 4pm, School 3.

Professor Markus Ritter: Portraiture in Medieval Islamic Art: Type, Individuality, and Visual Commentary in Thirteenth-Century Book Painting

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It's quiz time! This time we're getting a little spooky 👻🎃

Take our Halloween quiz, if you dare 👉 https://3081ca794b59.quillforms.app/forms/art-quiz-halloween

🧑‍🎨 William Blake (1757–1827) 📷 Tate

13 November at 4 pm in School II.

Dr Tom Schofield, Reader in Digital Arts & Cultures, @newcastleuni.bsky.social on 'Heritage Data Imaginaries: Fabulation against Machinic Hallucination'.

Event organised & supported by the Institute for Museums, Heritage & Society.

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30 October at 17-18:30 CET (16-17:30 UK time)

Online forum/public workshop on Waste and Reuse - Ecologies of Premodern Art.

Francesca Borgo & Ruth Ezra @uniofstandrews.bsky.social) will lead the Q&A.

For link contact Maurice Saß (maurice.sass@alanus.edu) & Hui Luan Tran (hl.tran@uni-mainz.de)

No. 1 in UK for Art History. Guardian University Guide 2026 and The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/art-history/... & www.st-andrews.ac.uk/art-history/...

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Today is Trafalgar Day, marking the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar 🚢

Test your naval and maritime knowledge with our quiz 👉 https://3081ca794b59.quillforms.app/forms/art-quiz-naval-and-maritime-history/

'The Battle of Trafalgar' by J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851). 📷 Royal Museums Greenwich

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It's time for the Friday art quiz with School of Art History 💡🎨

This week is themed around Black British artists 👉 https://3081ca794b59.quillforms.app/forms/art-quiz-black-history-month/ #BlackHistoryMonth

'Standing Figure with African Masks' by Claudette Johnson (b.1959) © the artist. 📷 Tate

The University of St Andrews has once again claimed the top spot in Scotland and secured its place among the UK’s leading higher education institutions, ranking in the top four nationally in The Complete University Guide 2026.

For more info: www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/courses/deta...

The School is proud to be the first School in the Faculty of Arts and Divinity to be a recipient of an Athena Swan UK Gender Equality Silver Award. For more information:

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The History of Scottish Design in Six Objects - In partnership with the University of St Andrews A brand new online course with the University of St Andrews and V&A Dundee

Book now! Fully online, flexible, short course in collaboration with @vadundee.bsky.social !

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St Andrews Medical Humanities Network Inaugural Symposium: Conference Review Islay Shelbourne reports from the inaugural symposium of the newly established Medical Humanities Network at the University of St Andrews.

In January 2025, Dr Emily Hanson & Dr Billy Rough delivered a paper on 'Phenomenal Bodies: Exploring Disability in Scottish Academic Collections' at the St Andrews Medical Humanities Inaugural Symposium. Read more about the symposium here: thepolyphony.org/2025/04/16/s...
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Coming soon! All welcome!

Friday April 11, 11am-1pm, Old Union Diner, St Andrews.
African and African Diaspora Printmaking in Scotland: an art and research sharing workshop, convened by St Andrews Centre for Contemporary Art

Back to the studio for a little filming for our exciting @vadundee.bsky.social online short course @arthistorysta.bsky.social

In the meantime, explore other online short courses offered by the University at: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/online...

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