Jill Burke
@profjill_burke
‘Deceptively breezy’ (art) history. How to Be a Renaissance Woman - Radio 4 Book of the Week, NYT Book Editors’ Pick, Waterstones Book of 2023.
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Join us for our next AFFECTIVE ARTEFACTS with amazing
Susan Flavin (@tcddublin), Understanding Early Modern Intoxication: An Interdisciplinary Approach
24 April, 4pm, Sam Alex, A112
Rachel Winchcombe Sasha Handley
John Rylands Research Institute and Library School of Arts, Languages and Culture European Research Council (ERC)
So excited to go to Stratford Literary Festival to talk about historical beauty, cosmetics, body image and how women dealt with all that stuff in the past. I'll be chatting with Virginia Nicholson (whose book is enviably *fabulous*). Catch us on 2 May at 2pm.
stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/events/virgini…
Today’s Stratford Literary Festival author highlight is a double bill for Jill Burke and Virginia Nicholson for their talk on The Agony of Being Beautiful!! These are two fantastic non-fiction books looking at beauty rituals from history. Pick up your copies today 📚
Me (Francesca*!) in the Times Higher Education writing about the implications for UK Art History of the UK Research and Innovation proposal to require, from 2026, most books submitted to REF to be published open access.
Association for Art History
.Royal Historical Society welcomes applications to join us as Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members or PGR Members.
Next closing date is 27 May. More on Fellowship / Membership and the benefits of joining the Society are available here: bit.ly/45lOzr0 #twitterstorians
Submissions due by May 31 for this Symposium at the University of Edinburgh in October 2024. ow.ly/YCH450Rcrs0 #RenTwitter #earlymodern The University of Edinburgh
Are you a member of academic teaching staff at a university where arts/culture courses are being cut? Would like to hear from you. Drop me an email summarising what's being cut, impact & a contact number & will try to get back to you. Drop me a line at: [email protected]
thx
Very happy to be giving a talk and sharing Renaissance cosmetics at this very cool event Gawthorpe Hall on 14th May - about 17th-century textiles, dress and portraits. Burnley here I come! Click the link for the programme and info about travel funding:
britishportraits.org.uk/events/17th-ce…
'How To Be A Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity' is a compelling new book by Jill Burke that offers fascinating insights into the world of 16th-century women’s lives. Pegasus Books Jill Burke
dailyartmagazine.com/how-to-be-a-re…
We've opened the call for our The British Academy The Leverhulme Trust
small grants scheme offering £10k. We receive so many good applications so awards will be allocated randomly between those applications that meet our quality threshold. Spread the word!
thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-lev…
The jaw-dropping mess of UK higher education is starkly revealed by a series of news stories all on the Times Higher Education website in the last week or so:
1.) There are job cuts right across the sector (44 universities and counting): timeshighereducation.com/news/portsmout…
*Deep breath*... Since it's Professors' role to lead, this week I've written about the vexed topic of academic mental health (and my own mental health) for Voices of Academia. The gloom through which the sector is trudging is palpable: voicesofacademia.com/2024/04/05/its…
People need to read The Great White Bard - where it is explained how complaints about casting are not really rooted in faithfulness to original practice but rather it is their racism and sense of entitlement to a writer that actually belongs to everyone. shop.shakespearesglobe.com/products/great…
Material culture, public archaeology and public classics are some of the specialties we're looking for within this scheme #twitterstorians #classicstwitter