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SHERA @sheraart.bsky.social · 2h

✨Radek Przedpelski, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland): Creolizing/Kinkifying the “Oriental Baroque”: Tatar Nomadism and a Preposterous History of Polish Contemporary Art

SHERA @sheraart.bsky.social · 2h

✨Julia Stachura, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland): Rhizomatic Sisterhoods: Fiber, Folk, and the Decolonial Feminine in Contemporary Art

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SHERA @sheraart.bsky.social · 2h

✨Katarzyna Cytlak, Nicolaus Copernicus University (Poland): Depicting the Past Futures: An Artistic Engagement with Post-Colonial and Post-Authoritarian Context

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SHERA @sheraart.bsky.social · 2h

Thursday, October 23, 10:45am to 12:30pm EDT, Virtual Convention, VR11

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SHERA @sheraart.bsky.social · 2h

SHERA-sponsored Cosmo-panel @aseees.bsky.social #aseees25 is next Thursday! 💫Cosmologies, Affects, Allyships: Decolonial Resonances in Polish Contemporary Art, feat. Katarzyna Cytlak, Julia Stachura, Radek Przedpelski. Discussant: Ksenya Gurshtein, chair: @kjezowska.bsky.social

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SHERA @sheraart.bsky.social · 5h

An update 🛎️ : Next Thursday, @staneklukasz.bsky.social will talk about gifting of architecture. October 23, NEW TIME 📆 📆 📆 1:00-2:15pm NY time, online. Register www.eventbrite.com/e/the-gift-s...

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ArtHist @arthist-net.bsky.social · 9h

JOB: Tenure-Track Professorship in the History of Architecture, New York City

https://arthist.net/archive/50904

Tenure-Track Professorship in the History of Architecture, New York City

Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen. Fine Arts of New York University, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.12.2025, apply.interfolio.com/175115

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SHERA @sheraart.bsky.social · 16h

If you wish to attend, please let us know by filling in this form by Wednesday, October 22: forms.gle/XCccongLypy4...

SHERA ASEEES - 11/21 Hillwood Museum Visit - RSVP

For all SHERA members attending ASEEES this year: please submit this form by Wednesday, October 22 if you would like to join a guided tour and object demonstration at the Hillwood Museum on Friday, No...

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SHERA @sheraart.bsky.social · 16h

If you are planning to attend @aseees.bsky.social
#ASEEES25 next month, you may want to join a guided tour and object-handling session at the Hillwood Museum organised by SHERA, 21 Nov, 3.00-5.00pm. Hillwood holds one of the most comprehensive collections of Russian art outside of Russia.

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ArtHist @arthist-net.bsky.social · 6d

ANN: Eco-critical Approaches to Art History (online, 12 Nov 25)

https://arthist.net/archive/50823

Eco-critical Approaches to Art History (online, 12 Nov 25)

Sophie Page. Online, 12.11.2025, www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/anthropocenes-histories-eco-critical-approaches-to-art-history-tickets-1780185896939

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ArtHist @arthist-net.bsky.social · 12d

CFP: Folk Cultures in the Long 20th Century (Brno, 18-19 Jun 26)

https://arthist.net/archive/50773

Folk Cultures in the Long 20th Century (Brno, 18-19 Jun 26)

Julia Secklehner. Masaryk University, Brno, 18.–19.06.2026, Eingabeschluss : 19.12.2025

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ArtHist @arthist-net.bsky.social · 11d

CFP: Diffractions, Issue 12: The Many Faces of (Self-)Censorship

https://arthist.net/archive/50780

Diffractions, Issue 12: The Many Faces of (Self-)Censorship

DIFFRACTIONS. Eingabeschluss : 15.11.2025, revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/diffractions/

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 11d

This upcoming symposium at CAS in Oslo on "Radical Reuse: Aesthetics, Scale, and Limits", organized by Ingrid Halland and Kjetil Fallan, looks fantastic. I'll be there! #envhum #envhist

Radical Reuse: Aesthetics, Scale, and Limits | CAS

Provisional Programme (subject to change) 09:00Welcome by Ingrid Halland (Associate Professor at University of Bergen, NO)Part I – Aesthetics (histories) 09:30-09:50Grace Lees-Maffei (Professor of Des...

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SHERA @sheraart.bsky.social · 15d

As part of the SHERA 30th Anniversary Lecture Series, we are thrilled to host a lecture by @staneklukasz.bsky.social "The Gift: Spaces of Global Socialism and Their Afterlives". October 23, 12:00-1:15pm NY time, online.
Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-gift-s...

The Gift: Spaces of Global Socialism and Their Afterlives

SHERA 30th Anniversary Lecture Series: Lecture by Łukasz Stanek

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SHERA @sheraart.bsky.social · 15d

SHERA is currently seeking self-nominations and nominations for the President-Elect (Jan 2026–Jan 2029). For more information, visit www.shera-art.org/about-shera/.... To apply, please email a bio and a statement to [email protected] by Nov 28. Voting will take place in early Dec.

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The Society of Historians of Eastern European, Eurasian and Russian Art and Architecture

www.shera-art.org

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ArtHist @arthist-net.bsky.social · 22d

STIP: 2026-2027 Fellowships at I Tatti

https://arthist.net/archive/50687

2026-2027 Fellowships at I Tatti

Amanda Smith. I Tatti, Florence, Italy

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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut @khiflorenz.bsky.social · 22d

📢CALL FOR PAPERS 📢

Urban Histories in Motion. Cartographic, Artistic, and Historiographical Representations of the City within Early Modern Intellectual Networks (Session at the EAUH 2026 Conference)

Barcelona, 2-5 September 2026

🚨Deadline: 22 October 2025

➡️ t1p.de/8n1y8

Call for Papers & Applications

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 22d

The Getty Research Journal is seeking submissions for a special issue titled “Artistic Exchanges between the Eastern Bloc and Northern Africa during the Global Cold War.”

Prospective authors are encouraged to submit by October 30, 2025. Apply: gty.art/4mPsjyN

Horizontal color photograph of a gray and black MacBook laptop. The laptop screen shows the Getty Research Journal cover, Number 20, 2025. The main image depicts a person through illustration. There are two hands resting on the laptop keyboard.

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ArtHist @arthist-net.bsky.social · Sep 13

CFP: DocTalks, Fall/Spring 2025/26 (online, 1 Nov 25-30 Jun 26)

https://arthist.net/archive/50589

DocTalks, Fall/Spring 2025/26 (online, 1 Nov 25-30 Jun 26)

DocTalks. Online, 01.11.2025–30.06.2026, Eingabeschluss : 26.09.2025

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ArtHist @arthist-net.bsky.social · Sep 12

CFP: Reframing the Museum. Decolonial Practices (Warsaw, 13-14 Nov 25)

https://arthist.net/archive/50567

Reframing the Museum. Decolonial Practices (Warsaw, 13-14 Nov 25)

Magdalena Wróblewska. State Ethnographic Museum, Warsaw, 13.–14.11.2025, Eingabeschluss : 22.09.2025

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