Happy birthday Søren Kierkegaard. We can feel the flames.

Maybe it’s finally time for me to see if Oxford Academic will team up to get these made.

This pastel dream is the original of one of Jean-Etienne Liotard’s most famous compositions. It was this work that he took to the French court of Versailles to advertise his abilities as a pastellist.

🚨 Discover more of our Stories: rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories

Applications for the 2025 National Library Scholarships and Asia Study Grants are now open!

Expand your research at the National Library: brnw.ch/21wJpR6

Soon to find its place back on the roof of #NotreDame …
For the moment, they are in Normandy with their master ornemental roofers. Paying them a visit today!

🌟 Exciting PhD opportunity! @UCL & V&A are offering a fully funded doctoral studentship on the provenance of the V&A's Asia Collection. Open to home & international applicants. Start Oct 2024. Apply by 19 May 🎓🔍 tinyurl.com/3rdt5try
#PhD #DigitalHumanities #Provenance

📢Call for proposals 📢

Cultural History of Asian Art

Series Editors: Sussan Babaie and Stephen Whiteman The Courtauld

Full call 👉courtauld.ac.uk/wp-content/upl…

Please share 🙌 #AsianArt #CFP #TheCourtauld

I'm excited to invite you to my Princeton University farewell conference on May 13-14, 2024. We'll discuss important topics like animal liberation, poverty, and bioethics. The event is free and open to everyone, but registration is required. All panel discussions will be…

A beautiful tribute by Ann Curthoys to her cherished friend Lyndall Ryan, one of Australia's most significant historians who will also be remembered as a generous colleague, teacher & collaborator, and as an inspirational feminist. Vale.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Remembering the wonderful life of a truly trailblazing historian, Lyndall Ryan. Activist, femocrat, academic, she made a huge contribution to Indigenous history, most recently with the massacre map. What a huge loss.

A carbonised scroll has reportedly been scanned to reveal the burial place of #Plato . It's in the Academy, as thought, but specifically in a garden near the shrine to the Muses. Also suggests Plato's capture took place c.12-15 years earlier than we thought
greekreporter.com/2024/04/23/loc…

We are sold out for in person tickets for V&A and National Trust Public Country House conference, but there are still spaces available online and for free! vam.ac.uk/blog/projects/…

Our 51st annual meeting will take place Feb. 6-8, 2025 in Savannah, GA. SEASECS 2025’s theme is 'The Past is Still Present: Reclaiming the
Eighteenth Century.” Panel proposals due 5/17/24 to [email protected]. Follow link for more: seasecs.org/2025-conference

The cherry tree in Studley Royal deer park is in full blossom. This tree is special, it is at least 325 years old and thought to be one of the oldest cherry trees in the country. #BlossomWatch National Trust

In honour of Kant's 300th birthday, here he is doodled fighting Epicurus behind Simone de Beauvoir

Who Owns The Moon? 🌕

Tune in to 3rrrfm from 9am on Tuesday to hear British philosopher Professor A C Grayling #FBPE #Reform #Rejoin #FBPR speak in-depth with host Amy Mullins🎙 about his new book on this big and urgent question for humanity.

Stream live online at rrr.org.au or 📻 102.7FM

Incredible new frescoes unearthed in Pompeii! The first fateful meeting of the Spartan princess Helen and the Trojan shepherd-prince Paris – who is accompanied by his delightful herding dog (seemingly a Molossian hound) who looks quite unimpressed by the whole proceeding!

COMING SOON! Two new books in the Illuminating Women Artists series: #LouiseMoillon (1610-1696) and #SofonisbaAnguissola (c.1532–1625)...
Publishing April 15th, find out more and pre-order at wwww.lundhumphries.com
Co-published with Getty Publications in North America

We are delighted to share the CFP for this year's ASFS conference, Global French Studies: Transnational, Transcultural, and Transdisciplinary Perspectives, to be held at The University of Melbourne, 11-13 December 2024.

Abstracts due 17 June 2024: australiansocietyforfrenchstudies.com/events/asfs-co…

If you're a Humanities academic in Britain, there are now only a handful of safe havens: Oxbridge, LSE, Edinburgh and a few others. Elsewhere, probably about a third of posts - maybe rather more - will simply vanish. (1/2) theguardian.com/education/2024…