Historian of early modern global connections and objects
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2 Sep 2024
Join us for an event on the history of Madras textiles in India and the Caribbean at the @V_and_A on October 11th! We will be launching @connectthreads project website with a great line-up of speakers. Join us in London or online:
vam.ac.uk/event/YGVBDZm3qD/c…
vam.ac.uk/event/8dwdoL5wRD/c…
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10 Jan 2025
Breaking: The Lancet has just published a study which found that Gaza death toll was *underreported by 41%* (as of Jun) due to Israel’s attacks on healthcare & disruption to record keeping.
This study suggests that the current death toll is 76,820 instead of MoH’s current 46k no
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9 Jan 2025
Great conference happening in Edinburgh on 'Material Scotland' in honour of our colleague Stana Nenadic! Abstracts accepted till January 31st.
7 Jan 2025
CFP: Material Scotland, Stana Nenadic Memorial Conference, 15-16 May 2025, Uni. of Edinburgh. Celebrating the career of Prof Nenadic (1954-2024) papers invited on Scottish material & visual cultural history. Deadline for proposals 31 Jan. ECR & PG particularly welcome.
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25 Nov 2024
If it wasn't clear to you before, I hope it's clear to you now: from the ICC to the WTO, international law is respected only when it protects the interests of the global North.
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The Connecting Threads project explores the cultural and textile history of 18th-century Madras textiles, their production in South India, and their interwoven link with the Caribbean.
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Meha Priyadarshini retweeted
17 Nov 2024
Phd opportunity in African archaeology coastal Mozambique (historical, material analysis). 3 years funding poss 6-12 months more. Visa & NHS surcharge covered
McDonald Institute Cambridge International Entangled PhD Scholarship at University of Cambridge jobs.ac.uk/job/DKR174/mcdona…
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18 Nov 2024
In this week's @NewYorker: My profile of Ganesh Devy, who assembled the first Indian survey of languages in a century, and who now lives in Dharwad as a protest against forces who will kill writers and impose religions and languages [1]
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Meha Priyadarshini retweeted
12 Nov 2024
Watch Professor Nizam Mamode break down as he tells @CommonsIDC about the systematic & persistent targeting of civilians by Israeli drones immediately after they drop bombs on areas of civilian population living in tents. Thanks to @SarahChampionMP's words as he composes himself.
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Meha Priyadarshini retweeted
11 Nov 2024
“If you are a party to the immiseration and the evisceration of life in Palestine, people in this country cannot be free, because this is part of creating a new baseline for human suffering.” @KeeangaYamahtta at @PalFest today.
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Meha Priyadarshini retweeted
24 Oct 2024
There’s a new @sewwhatpodcast episode out today! It’s all about the needlework of enslaved, freed, and free Black girls, and especially about stitching from enslaved girls in the Caribbean, with art historian Sarah Brokenborough. Listen to it here: buzzsprout.com/1075825/episo…
24 Oct 2024
Hello! We have a new episode out today and it’s an interview with wonderful PhD student Sarah Brokenborough about the needlework of enslaved girls in the Caribbean. It’s a fantastic chat. As always, listen on your favourite podcast app or here: buzzsprout.com/1075825/episo…
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Meha Priyadarshini retweeted
18 Oct 2024
JOB VACANCIES We are seeking to recruit a Curator of Textiles & a Textile Conservator to work with our extensive textile collections. These exciting two 3-year posts are funded by @ClothworkersCo & will work jointly with @AshmoleanMuseum. Grade 6: £33,832. bit.ly/3Ys6mws
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15 Oct 2024
A snippet from our @connectthreads symposium @V_and_A last week! A joyful celebration of textiles, fashion and south-to-south connections! Thank you @FashioningSelf! #madras #southindia #Caribbean
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12 Sep 2024
Very excited to share the CfP for our @forarthistory session
'How was it made? How interdisciplinary collaborations in Material Culture Studies and Art History can unlock new avenues of knowledge'
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12 Sep 2024
Jonathan Square @FashioningSelf will be one of the speakers for @connectthreads launch event next month! Please join us online or in London!
This madras headwrap, now housed in the permanent collection of @LaStateMuseum, was worn by Mary Franklin, an enslaved woman referred to as "Pinkie" by the donor's grandmother Marion Hoey Stem. Following the Civil War, Franklin remained with the donor's grandmother, and the headwrap was preserved, ostensibly as a memento of her imagined loyalty. Crafted from red, yellow, and green woven madras, the headwrap features two selvedge ends and two machine-stitched ends. I will explore the history of this headwrap anf similar objects in my upcoming talk on madras at the @connectthreads symposium at the V&A on October 11: vam.ac.uk/.../connecting-thr…...
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11 Sep 2024
NEW FELLOWSHIP:
The Institute is delighted to announce a new Fellowship aimed at artists and creative practitioners of Palestinian heritage. The Artist at Risk Fellowship will support an artist to spend 2 months as a Visiting Fellow at IASH in May/June/July 2025. 🇵🇸
ALT Edinburgh seen from Salisbury Crags: a cityscape with setting sun
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Meha Priyadarshini retweeted
6 Sep 2024
Ya está en acceso abierto la 1ª historia de la literatura de #Filipinas en español que abarca desde las relaciones del S. XVI hasta los escritores hispanofilipinos aún en activo: un gran esfuerzo colectivo.
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@routledgebooks @DigiPhiLit #Philippines
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2 Sep 2024
Join us for an event on the history of Madras textiles in India and the Caribbean at the @V_and_A on October 11th! We will be launching @connectthreads project website with a great line-up of speakers. Join us in London or online:
vam.ac.uk/event/YGVBDZm3qD/c…
vam.ac.uk/event/8dwdoL5wRD/c…
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Help us get out the word @NancyUm1 @marselykehoe @stylesquared @SallyTuckett @desha_osborne @themadrasqueen @CreateCaribbean @HCAatEdinburgh @EdGlobalHistory @H_Mat_Culture @Textilisnet
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Meha Priyadarshini retweeted
29 Aug 2024
And it's LIVE!!! With our new Swatch Search, you can explore our collection of #textiles swatches (and a few larger items), either by historic textile name (if they were labeled) or by attributes like color, pattern, process, weave structure, and fiber. dutchtextiletrade.org/projec…
12 Aug 2024
We’re excited to share a new app to explore trade textiles! Hoping to publish very soon - watch this space!!!
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Meha Priyadarshini retweeted
29 Aug 2024
Israel knows it can commit war crimes with impunity.
That is why it has launched its largest assault on the West Bank since 2002.
We are witnessing the total erasure of Palestine - and our government is shamefully complicit.
End all arms sales to Israel, now.
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