Stirling Maxwell Centre
@uofgsmc.bsky.social
Fostering an unrivalled tradition of scholarship in the field of text/image interaction, building primarily, but not uniquely, on the Stirling Maxwell Collection (University of Glasgow Library).
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Pinned
It has started, the long awaited triennial international conference of the Society for Emblem Studies. With Professor Laurence (Billy) Grove delivering the opening plenary.
Looking forward to a fruitful week on all things emblems, old and new friends.
emblemstudies2025.univie.ac.at
Looking forward to a fruitful week on all things emblems, old and new friends.
emblemstudies2025.univie.ac.at
Lucy Havard (@caiuscollege.bsky.social) on Early Modern household compilations for the preservation of the body. Putting the surgeon’s word into practical context…
@howtobooks.bsky.social
@uofgartshums.bsky.social
@howtobooks.bsky.social
@uofgartshums.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Lucy Havard (@caiuscollege.bsky.social) on Early Modern household compilations for the preservation of the body. Putting the surgeon’s word into practical context…
@howtobooks.bsky.social
@uofgartshums.bsky.social
@howtobooks.bsky.social
@uofgartshums.bsky.social
James Fox (@uofgsmc.bsky.social) on Sammelbände as curation of household how-to knowledge.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
James Fox (@uofgsmc.bsky.social) on Sammelbände as curation of household how-to knowledge.
The second meeting of the Take me and Make it Happen project on how-to books is about to start. Excellent hosting by the Herzog August Bibliothek, with an exciting programme ahead. Kudos to Prof Laurence Grove, attending online from San Diego (with the time difference, that’s commitment!).
November 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The second meeting of the Take me and Make it Happen project on how-to books is about to start. Excellent hosting by the Herzog August Bibliothek, with an exciting programme ahead. Kudos to Prof Laurence Grove, attending online from San Diego (with the time difference, that’s commitment!).
Alina Lange and Stefan Laube speak of their work on the how-to book research project (howtobook.eu), a Stirling Maxwell Centre and Herzog August Bibliothek collaboration funded by DFG and the AHRC.
@howtobooks.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social @dfg.de @ukri.org @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social
@howtobooks.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social @dfg.de @ukri.org @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Alina Lange and Stefan Laube speak of their work on the how-to book research project (howtobook.eu), a Stirling Maxwell Centre and Herzog August Bibliothek collaboration funded by DFG and the AHRC.
@howtobooks.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social @dfg.de @ukri.org @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social
@howtobooks.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social @dfg.de @ukri.org @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social
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Books tell stories beyond the text 📚
Join Dr Shanti Graheli of @uofgartshums.bsky.social & the Mitchell Library's Susan Taylor at a Books “Antiques” Roadshow at The Mitchell Library, part of a series of events for Being Human Festival.
Drop in, bring a book and share its story
📷 Martin Shields
Join Dr Shanti Graheli of @uofgartshums.bsky.social & the Mitchell Library's Susan Taylor at a Books “Antiques” Roadshow at The Mitchell Library, part of a series of events for Being Human Festival.
Drop in, bring a book and share its story
📷 Martin Shields
Book Tales: Storytelling through the lives of readers past and present
The University of Glasgow and The Mitchell Library invite you to explore the rich and historical life of books in a series of engaging Being Human Festival events in November.
www.gla.ac.uk
October 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Books tell stories beyond the text 📚
Join Dr Shanti Graheli of @uofgartshums.bsky.social & the Mitchell Library's Susan Taylor at a Books “Antiques” Roadshow at The Mitchell Library, part of a series of events for Being Human Festival.
Drop in, bring a book and share its story
📷 Martin Shields
Join Dr Shanti Graheli of @uofgartshums.bsky.social & the Mitchell Library's Susan Taylor at a Books “Antiques” Roadshow at The Mitchell Library, part of a series of events for Being Human Festival.
Drop in, bring a book and share its story
📷 Martin Shields
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Earlier this summer, project members Billy Grove and @luisgomes.bsky.social introduced our project at the 13th Society for Emblem Studies conference in Vienna. Read more here:
howtobook.hypotheses.org/4453
#howto #emblems #conference
howtobook.hypotheses.org/4453
#howto #emblems #conference
Emblematically How-to in Vienna
Every three years, in the height of summer, scholars from around the world come together to exchange ideas and explore new directions in emblem studies. This year’s conference, organized as always by ...
howtobook.hypotheses.org
September 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Earlier this summer, project members Billy Grove and @luisgomes.bsky.social introduced our project at the 13th Society for Emblem Studies conference in Vienna. Read more here:
howtobook.hypotheses.org/4453
#howto #emblems #conference
howtobook.hypotheses.org/4453
#howto #emblems #conference
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New on our #blog: @jamesafox.bsky.social explores the unique #marginalia in a one-of-a-kind 16th-century French arithmetic book from the Herzog August Bibliothek 📖🇩🇪🧮
Read more here: howtobook.hypotheses.org/4415
#bookhistory #rarebooks #knowledge #mathematics
Read more here: howtobook.hypotheses.org/4415
#bookhistory #rarebooks #knowledge #mathematics
September 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
New on our #blog: @jamesafox.bsky.social explores the unique #marginalia in a one-of-a-kind 16th-century French arithmetic book from the Herzog August Bibliothek 📖🇩🇪🧮
Read more here: howtobook.hypotheses.org/4415
#bookhistory #rarebooks #knowledge #mathematics
Read more here: howtobook.hypotheses.org/4415
#bookhistory #rarebooks #knowledge #mathematics
The #SESVienna2025 conference concluding paper, ‘Our fragile planet hanging by a thread’, by Peter Megyeši.
Thinking ahead for all.
Thinking ahead for all.
August 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The #SESVienna2025 conference concluding paper, ‘Our fragile planet hanging by a thread’, by Peter Megyeši.
Thinking ahead for all.
Thinking ahead for all.
Dr Pedro Germano Leal’s inaugural paper as the Peter Davies Lectureship in Text/Image Studies at the @uofglasgow.bsky.social.
Welcome, Pedro!
Welcome, Pedro!
August 1, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Dr Pedro Germano Leal’s inaugural paper as the Peter Davies Lectureship in Text/Image Studies at the @uofglasgow.bsky.social.
Welcome, Pedro!
Welcome, Pedro!
It's official! Delighted to congratulate Prof Alison Adams as the new President of the Society for Emblem Studies.
Much gratitude to outgoing President Prof Michael Bath for his sterling guidance and indefatigable support.
Bonis auspiciis incipiendum!
www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/alciato/embl...
Much gratitude to outgoing President Prof Michael Bath for his sterling guidance and indefatigable support.
Bonis auspiciis incipiendum!
www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/alciato/embl...
July 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
It's official! Delighted to congratulate Prof Alison Adams as the new President of the Society for Emblem Studies.
Much gratitude to outgoing President Prof Michael Bath for his sterling guidance and indefatigable support.
Bonis auspiciis incipiendum!
www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/alciato/embl...
Much gratitude to outgoing President Prof Michael Bath for his sterling guidance and indefatigable support.
Bonis auspiciis incipiendum!
www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/alciato/embl...
Straight up in the 13th international conference of the Society for Emblem Studies, with the terrific José Julio García Arranz and Ingrid Hoppel on a ‘Private Collection of Editions of Herman Hugo’s Pia Deaideria’.
With an adjoining exhibition (with original copies from the collection).
With an adjoining exhibition (with original copies from the collection).
July 28, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Straight up in the 13th international conference of the Society for Emblem Studies, with the terrific José Julio García Arranz and Ingrid Hoppel on a ‘Private Collection of Editions of Herman Hugo’s Pia Deaideria’.
With an adjoining exhibition (with original copies from the collection).
With an adjoining exhibition (with original copies from the collection).
It has started, the long awaited triennial international conference of the Society for Emblem Studies. With Professor Laurence (Billy) Grove delivering the opening plenary.
Looking forward to a fruitful week on all things emblems, old and new friends.
emblemstudies2025.univie.ac.at
Looking forward to a fruitful week on all things emblems, old and new friends.
emblemstudies2025.univie.ac.at
July 28, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It has started, the long awaited triennial international conference of the Society for Emblem Studies. With Professor Laurence (Billy) Grove delivering the opening plenary.
Looking forward to a fruitful week on all things emblems, old and new friends.
emblemstudies2025.univie.ac.at
Looking forward to a fruitful week on all things emblems, old and new friends.
emblemstudies2025.univie.ac.at
🧵KHM-Theatermuseum shortlisted for ICOM Sustainable Development Practice Award for its digital exhibition "ART-ES. From real life into the world of art" (www.artes-exhibition.digital/exhibition/)
Congratulations! We're delighted to be associated to the project (links in comments).
Congratulations! We're delighted to be associated to the project (links in comments).
July 25, 2025 at 12:09 PM
🧵KHM-Theatermuseum shortlisted for ICOM Sustainable Development Practice Award for its digital exhibition "ART-ES. From real life into the world of art" (www.artes-exhibition.digital/exhibition/)
Congratulations! We're delighted to be associated to the project (links in comments).
Congratulations! We're delighted to be associated to the project (links in comments).
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Lecturer in Islamic Studies (R&T)
University of Glasgow - College of Arts & Humanities - School of Critical Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMO607/l...
University of Glasgow - College of Arts & Humanities - School of Critical Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMO607/l...
Lecturer in Islamic Studies (R&T) at University of Glasgow
Apply for the Lecturer in Islamic Studies (R&T) role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
www.jobs.ac.uk
April 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Lecturer in Islamic Studies (R&T)
University of Glasgow - College of Arts & Humanities - School of Critical Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMO607/l...
University of Glasgow - College of Arts & Humanities - School of Critical Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMO607/l...
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Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature
University of Glasgow - College of Arts & Humanities - School of Critical Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMO644/l...
University of Glasgow - College of Arts & Humanities - School of Critical Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMO644/l...
Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature at University of Glasgow
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April 5, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature
University of Glasgow - College of Arts & Humanities - School of Critical Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMO644/l...
University of Glasgow - College of Arts & Humanities - School of Critical Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMO644/l...
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Thinking about applying for one of our MA courses?
Don't miss out on funding – the Peltz and American Friends of the Warburg fellowships close on 25 April!
Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/studying/fun...
#ArtHistory #CulturalHistory
Don't miss out on funding – the Peltz and American Friends of the Warburg fellowships close on 25 April!
Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/studying/fun...
#ArtHistory #CulturalHistory
MA Funding
The Warburg Institute has a range of full fee MA bursaries available to both home/EU and international students.
warburg.sas.ac.uk
April 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Thinking about applying for one of our MA courses?
Don't miss out on funding – the Peltz and American Friends of the Warburg fellowships close on 25 April!
Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/studying/fun...
#ArtHistory #CulturalHistory
Don't miss out on funding – the Peltz and American Friends of the Warburg fellowships close on 25 April!
Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/studying/fun...
#ArtHistory #CulturalHistory
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I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising an open ended lectureship in Early Modern English Literature at Glasgow. Details here, and please share:
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature (R&T)
College of Arts & HumanitiesSchool of Critical Studies Lecturer in Early Modern English LiteratureVacancy Ref: 170953Salary, Grade 7 / 8, £40,497 - £45,413 / £49,559 - £57,422 per annum The...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk
April 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising an open ended lectureship in Early Modern English Literature at Glasgow. Details here, and please share:
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
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Honestly excited about this. Hilary Macartney and I will be talking about illustrated books from Iberia and the Spanish Habsburg World in the Stirling Maxwell Collection. Come and meet this incredible archive!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1300545629...
@uofgsmc.bsky.social @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1300545629...
@uofgsmc.bsky.social @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social
Celebrating Hispanic Collections at University of Glasgow
Listen to researchers and collection experts deliver short talks on the range of rich Hispanic collections across the University of Glasgow
www.eventbrite.co.uk
April 2, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Honestly excited about this. Hilary Macartney and I will be talking about illustrated books from Iberia and the Spanish Habsburg World in the Stirling Maxwell Collection. Come and meet this incredible archive!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1300545629...
@uofgsmc.bsky.social @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1300545629...
@uofgsmc.bsky.social @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social
We’re on. Two solitudes in Canada across genres, concepts, identities, and challenges therein.
With Chris Reyna-Chikuma.
With Chris Reyna-Chikuma.
March 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
We’re on. Two solitudes in Canada across genres, concepts, identities, and challenges therein.
With Chris Reyna-Chikuma.
With Chris Reyna-Chikuma.
Concluding our Stirling Maxwell Centre Spring 2025 Seminar series:
Chris Reyns-Chikuma (@ualberta.bsky.social) on 'Comics world/s in Canada: beyond the two solitudes'.
Expanding the Canadian concept of the “two solitudes” (Hugh MacLennan, 1945).
In-person and online.
www.gla.ac.uk/events/listi...
Chris Reyns-Chikuma (@ualberta.bsky.social) on 'Comics world/s in Canada: beyond the two solitudes'.
Expanding the Canadian concept of the “two solitudes” (Hugh MacLennan, 1945).
In-person and online.
www.gla.ac.uk/events/listi...
March 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Concluding our Stirling Maxwell Centre Spring 2025 Seminar series:
Chris Reyns-Chikuma (@ualberta.bsky.social) on 'Comics world/s in Canada: beyond the two solitudes'.
Expanding the Canadian concept of the “two solitudes” (Hugh MacLennan, 1945).
In-person and online.
www.gla.ac.uk/events/listi...
Chris Reyns-Chikuma (@ualberta.bsky.social) on 'Comics world/s in Canada: beyond the two solitudes'.
Expanding the Canadian concept of the “two solitudes” (Hugh MacLennan, 1945).
In-person and online.
www.gla.ac.uk/events/listi...