NEW PERSPECTIVES ON BOTANICAL GARDENS - weekend programme of talks Oxford Continuing Education with The Gardens Trust 31/5-2/6/24 Speakers inc: India Cole Clare Hickman Sharon Willoughby Lindsay Sekulowicz Sara Louise Edwards Caroline Cornish Details: conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/botani… Kew Science Kew Gardens Library and Archives

Opening 6pm Thursday 25 April: PAPER CUTS: Art, Bureaucracy, and Silenced Histories in Colonial India. Free wine reception with Indian canapés — book now: bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_…

Great coverage of yesterdays ceremony in today’s The Guardian - well done to all colleagues who were involved Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

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'The thing is, though, I’m not afraid of anybody now. When that many powerful people are that angry with you, after a while you start to think: this can’t be about me personally, it’s about what I represent to them.'

A must-read from Corinne Fowler!

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

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On 13 May, I'll be speaking about the global origins of the sciences Royal Institution. Do come along!

Details below:
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Cambridge History Cambridge HPS Magdalene College

This looks like a great opportunity for an ECR looking to work in museums and heritage! Durham University Durham Archaeology are hiring a Career Development Fellow in Museums and Heritage - FT for just over 3 years.

Closing date: 27 May
jobs.ac.uk/job/DHD930/car…

Great to see the final product at last!
Big thanks to Alex Wright and the team at CUP, and to all the colleagues who gave advice and commentary. (It's also the official publication day in the UK).

Royal Institution 2 Year Postdoctoral Freer Fellowship in History & Philosophy of Science!

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📢 We University of Southampton are looking for TWO new permanent lecturers in Digital Media to join our School of Humanities at University of Southampton, focused on AI, with scope to develop our BA in Film, TV and Digital Media.
📋Deadline 1 May.
Details ➡️ jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

More news of academic redundancies, being reported in the student press at UCL -- up to 12 people losing jobs in the history department.
cheesegratermagazine.org/2024/04/08/the…

This compelling book about 15 Colonial Thefts : A guide to Looted African Heritage in Museums is now available for pre-orders. I have a co_authored chapter together with some amazing colleagues:

plutobooks.com/9780745349534/…

My piece on what I think is a mental health crisis in academia seems to have caused a bit of a stir. So here it is again, do have a read: voicesofacademia.com/2024/04/05/its…

Stolen vs ‘looted’

“The museum has been relentless in recovering artefacts stolen from its collection but it has only agreed to ‘loan’ items that were historically looted.” Dr Nathan Bossoh

scroll.in/article/106609… via Scroll.in

The problem with 'cultural Christianity' - my latest for Premier Christianity premierchristianity.com/columnists/ric…

Dawkins: ‘It [Christianity] seems to me to be a fundamentally decent religion’

Still following this very closely…

Here is my talk last week given at the TheFaradayInstitute now online!

'Science, Religion and the Material Turn: Exploring Global Potentials through Museum Collections'

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In our latest Conversation article, Dr Nathan Bossoh says while the British Museum celebrates recovered items in its new exhibition, it has 'refused to return' items in its collection back to countries of origin.

Read it here👇
theconversation.com/rediscovering-…

Anna Lou Walker School of Humanities at University of Southampton

My piece on the British Museum has just been published in The Conversation! How long can the BM last? 🙃

Rediscovering Gems: British Museum exhibition exposes hypocrisy of new loan agreements for looted objects theconversation.com/rediscovering-… via The Conversation