As May 4th begins in Beijing/drawing attention this again/has a guest post by me & reading list on youth movements around the world & through time w/ old works like Gitlin on the ‘60s in the US & Liz Perry & my volume on China’s ‘89 + new works like last year’s book by Vincent Bevins

A fire broke out in the auditorium of Minglun Campus of Henan University last night, and the incident has now become a hot topic.
The cause of the accident is under investigation.
Completed in 1934, it is a modern building that combines Chinese and Western styles.——

Our term card for Trinity Term 2024 is out now! If you're in Oxford and interested in Asian history, come join us at our in-person/online hybrid sessions in the Lucina Ho Room at the Oxford China Centre at 5pm in Weeks 3 (Thurs, online only), 6 (Weds), 7 (Tues), and 8 (Weds)!

Book launch: Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation. SOAS 5.00, 31 May. The editors will be there & a handful of contributors. I'll play a very small part indeed talking about my chapter for a few minutes #Sappho 's Younger Brother
Big congrats to editors!

Coming soon Ashmolean Museum (got my eye in with the National Gallery jigsaw first)

#Chine 🇨🇳 Un incendie s'est déclaré hier soir dans le grand auditorium de l'Université du Henan. Cet auditorium est une relique culturelle d'importance nationale, achevée en 1934, combinant les styles chinois et occidental. Personne n’a été piégé
✒️ China in Pictures

“Manchu studies – 2024” call for the first international conference

Deadline: July 20, 2024.

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Ivy-leaved toadflax growing on an #Oxford wall💜
Its 17th century name was ‘Oxford ivy' or 'Oxford weed’ because it was thought to have arrived from Italy via the packaging of a marble statue destined for an Oxford college garden.
#FavouriteFlowerFact
#FlowersOnFriday

I've just received the copies of my edited book, 'The Craft of Oblivion'. It's such a great joy to see this project come to fruition after so much effort! My most sincere gratitude to SUNY Press as well as to all the wonderful scholars who accepted to contribute a chapter.

Announcing three paid internships aimed at new researchers who will work on specially tailored projects which are specifically intended to enhance their professional and intellectual development. buff.ly/3wk3x5m Deadline 31/05/24 at 11.59PM #Internship #DigitalHumanities

Tao Yuanming's Return Home clevelandart.org/art/1982.152

🌟 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

Happy Birthday Athanasius Kircher! (2 May 1602-27 November 1680)

June and Simon Li Lecture

The Harlem Renaissance and the Histories of Modern Art

Dr Denise Murrell
Merryl H. and James S. Tisch Curator at Large, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

9 May 5pm
The Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College
Lincoln College Oxford

hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/june-and…

I chair the acquisitions meeting of Reaktion Books, an independent publisher. We're open to unsolicited book proposals: history, art, music, film, food, animal studies and any great indefinable non-fiction book ideas you might have. Check out the list and get in touch.

Mid-career research is a tough time balancing management & teaching. So I'm pleased we're giving The British Academy Mid-career Fellowships to 44 scholars to free them up for research ranging from monetary history to TS Eliot’s engagement with Beethoven thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/the-briti…

2024 Terra Lectures in American Art
Dr Johanna Gosse

American Ground: Edward Kienholz’s 'The Non-War Memorial' (1970) and the Inland Northwest

8 May 5pm
Worcester College
Free admission
Followed by a drinks reception

hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/2024-ter…

terraamart Worcester College, Oxford

(1/3) Excited to announce the preliminary programme is now available & registration is open for the upcoming #courtstudies conf. (22-24.8.2024). Please join us for what promises to be a diverse, interdisciplinary & engaging programme. Open for in-person & virtual participation.

📣 Call for Papers 📣 

For our Doctoral & Early Career Research Network’s #SummerSymposium on ‘Agents of Change’ - open to all #PHDs & #ECRs  in the arts, humanities & museum sector. 

🔸 CFP deadline: 24 May
🔸 Symposium: 28 June
🔸 Location: Liverpool John Moores University

👉 forarthistory.org.uk/events/cfp-aah…

📢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