If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:

This is an incredible honour. And BAVS was fantastic -- an inspiring few days talks and conversations that fill me with hope for the future of the field.

Marie Léger-St-Jean@marielsj.bsky.social · 3w ago

The 2026 @bavs-uk.bsky.social-Rosemary Mitchell Prize for a second monograph goes to @sorourke25.bsky.social! 👏 The monograph started as a book about time so—don't worry—you can change topics midway through a project! Also, if the book you wanna cite doesn't exist, maybe 🫵 should ✍️ it! #BAVS2026

We were treated to a fantastic fly-through of the book from @sorourke25.bsky.social , including a generous name check for @nathankhensley.bsky.social, whose own book was one of the runners up for the prize. I like the RSVP Colby Lecture model, but this was a great send off for #BAVS2026.

Marie Léger-St-Jean@marielsj.bsky.social · 3w ago

The 2026 @bavs-uk.bsky.social-Rosemary Mitchell Prize for a second monograph goes to @sorourke25.bsky.social! 👏 The monograph started as a book about time so—don't worry—you can change topics midway through a project! Also, if the book you wanna cite doesn't exist, maybe 🫵 should ✍️ it! #BAVS2026

The 2026 @bavs-uk.bsky.social-Rosemary Mitchell Prize for a second monograph goes to @sorourke25.bsky.social! 👏 The monograph started as a book about time so—don't worry—you can change topics midway through a project! Also, if the book you wanna cite doesn't exist, maybe 🫵 should ✍️ it! #BAVS2026

Nathan K. Hensley@nathankhensley.bsky.social · last yr.

in other words, everyone should preorder @sorourke25.bsky.social's forthcoming book immediately! it is so smart & the parts I got to read are absolutely brilliant

I am late to see this but grateful nonetheless for this interesting review of my book!

H-Net Reviews@hnetreviews.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New book review: Vandertop on O'Rourke, Stephanie: _Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction: Europe and Its Colonial Networks, 1780–1850_. University of Chicago Press, 2025. Published by H-Environment. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20154019

New book review: Vandertop on O'Rourke, Stephanie: _Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction: Europe and Its Colonial Networks, 1780–1850_. University of Chicago Press, 2025. Published by H-Environment. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20154019

For all your agitable lighting needs 🥰

eavesdropping on a couple of english lit academics in st. john, i overheard confirmation of what is surely going to be the biggest literary news story of the year

From our latest issue on 'Romantic Shock and Surprise': 'Romantic Shock and Industrial Catastrophe' by Stephanie O'Rourke (@arthistorysta.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social). 🔓 Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2025-69-5/

Ok, side-thread: What have you read recently that's beautifully written? For me: @nathankhensley.bsky.social's Action Without Hope, @sorourke25.bsky.social's Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction, Mathelinda Nabugodi's The Trembling Hand.

Annemarie McLaren@amclarenhistory.bsky.social · 3mo ago

-reading new or even old work that’s also beautifully written - listening to a great colleague present (bonus for fab structure) - marking the work of curious undergrads - office hour chats with engaged students - going on the journey with research students - & listening to Empire podcast!!

CFP on art history and the question of 'genre'! Oxford, 6 Aug 2026. Proposals due 31st May. www.seh.ox.ac.uk/events/paint...

PUT A CORGI ON THE MONEY YOU COWARDS

Heather Stewart@guardianheather.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Culture war latest: the Bank of England has announced that after a public consultation, to which it received 44,000 responses, the next new banknotes will feature native wildlife. Tories: "It is deeply depressing that under Lab our national heroes are considered too 'divisive' to be on bank notes."

BOOK LAUNCH AND PANEL DISCUSSION Stephanie O'Rourke, Susan Siegfried, John Tresch 19 March 2026, Courtauld courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/pic...

Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction

Join author Stephanie O'Rourke for a panel discussion with professors John Tresch and Susan Siegfried to mark the launch of O'Rourke's major new book, Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction: Euro...

courtauld.ac.uk

tomorrow!

CFP: Race, Law and Empire

Race is not a biological category: challenging this misconception will help tackle racism in healthcare. A nice little article by my excellent colleague Jasmeen Kanwal. doi: doi.org/10.1136/bmj....

Race is not a biological category: challenging this misconception will help tackle racism in healthcare

Healthcare professionals must reject flawed racial generalisations, writes Jasmeen Kanwal Institutional racism in healthcare has received increased coverage in recent years, including in The BMJ ’s ...

doi.org

Keynotes by Jeremy Davies and Stephanie O’Rourke! 🤩🌿

Stephanie O'Rourke@sorourke25.bsky.social · 7mo ago

CFP - Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750-1850 (University of Manchester) This is such a great topic and will make for a fascinating conference--please spread the word! www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/11/cfp-...

CFP - Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750-1850 (University of Manchester) This is such a great topic and will make for a fascinating conference--please spread the word! www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/11/cfp-...

PSA if you use the code HOLIDAY25, you can get 30% off of @sorourke25.bsky.social’s incredibly smart, gorgeously illustrated new book—do it! 🌿🎉💥

Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction

O’Rourke argues that artistic representations played a pivotal role in shaping how people thought about the natural world during the Industrial Revolution.   In the late eighteenth and early nineteent...

press.uchicago.edu

Heading to Copenhagen this week to ask the question "What is a forest?" with colleagues from the project Norwegian Wood: Extraction landscapes, art and visual culture in Denmark and Norway 1730 to 1860 🌲✂️ artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/calendar/202...

Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”

Headed to Binghamton this week to talk through material from my new book! 🤓

CFP for our panel at the Association for Art History's annual conference in Cambridge. We welcome a wide range of approaches to the topic! Proposals due 2nd November. forarthistory.org.uk/landscapes-o...

For anyone working on decolonizing art history, please apply for the session I’m co-convening with Rina Ayra, Claire Moran, and Ceren Özpınar for @forarthistory.org.uk’s 2026 annual conference. CFP deadline is 2 Nov 2025: forarthistory.org.uk/decolonising...

Newcastle University staff invited to a ‘Doodling for Wellbeing’ session (‘Let your pen dance across the page' in 'a perfect escape from the everyday hustle and bustle'. Invites sent on same day 153 academics were informed of their location in 'redundancy pools', with 38 redundancies planned. 1/2

Exam board prep today, and as usual it's one part academic judgement to three parts "The oodlified scripts have been uploaded to a password-protected polycule on FlipWangle. If you haven't set up 5FA on your uniSnork account you can simply repuffer via Blarg. The helpdesk will reopen on Wednesday."

I'll be trying out new material for my keynote "Romantic Shock and Industrial Catastrophe" at the Sorbonne next week. The line up of papers looks great!

CECILLE@cecille-ulille.bsky.social · last yr.

[COLL] 16-17.05.25 / Sorbonne Romantic Shock and Surprise org. London-Paris Romanticism Seminar avec le concours de @sorbonne-universite.fr, de l'université de Lille, de @qmul.ac.uk et de la @sera-romantic.bsky.social keynote: Christopher Miller, @sorourke25.bsky.social & Marc Porée

I'll be trying out new material for my keynote "Romantic Shock and Industrial Catastrophe" at the Sorbonne next week. The line up of papers looks great!

CECILLE@cecille-ulille.bsky.social · last yr.

[COLL] 16-17.05.25 / Sorbonne Romantic Shock and Surprise org. London-Paris Romanticism Seminar avec le concours de @sorbonne-universite.fr, de l'université de Lille, de @qmul.ac.uk et de la @sera-romantic.bsky.social keynote: Christopher Miller, @sorourke25.bsky.social & Marc Porée

[COLL] 16-17.05.25 / Sorbonne Romantic Shock and Surprise org. London-Paris Romanticism Seminar avec le concours de @sorbonne-universite.fr, de l'université de Lille, de @qmul.ac.uk et de la @sera-romantic.bsky.social keynote: Christopher Miller, @sorourke25.bsky.social & Marc Porée