Ashmolean Academic Engagement

"I have tried … to paint trees as tho’ they were human beings" (Paul Nash) We hope to treat human beings as if they were trees: slow-growing, in need of space and time and a nurturing surrounding ecosystem, every one full of latent majesty.

@lauravarnam @UnivOxford Always a pleasure to see y’all. Thank you for coming.

Huge thanks as ever to Jim Harris @AshmoleanUEP for having us for a class on late medieval religious objects at the Ashmolean this afternoon! Pilgrimage badges, devotional ivories, a wonderful chalice, and more! 🤩 Always a pleasure to bring my @UnivOxford students over!

14 brilliant GPs, Carracci, Michelangelo, Dürer, John Wesley, Emperor Augustus and Sophia Schutz. Tremendous afternoon thinking through questions of body, identity, personhood and perception. Also laughing. Many thanks to @AndrewSchuman for setting it all up.

Good for us @UniofOxford and congratulations to @WestLondonMan

Great job for early career academic with expertise in Old and Middle English - here, at my College, Lady Margaret Hall - please share! lmh.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/c9…

The #EloquentThings course at @AshmoleanMuseum this week drew together @oxsocsci DPhils from @school_of_arch @OxfordDeptofEd @OxfordCSLS and @oxford_anthro, to learn about the principles and practice of object-based teaching. And they were absolutely outstanding.

@Walsh_e_Patrick @ChattoBooks @ScribnerBooks @vintagebooks @AshmoleanMuseum @AshmoleanPress @pew_literary @AshLearning @Waterstones @LauraCummingArt We feel that our colleagues at @OxfordModLangs and @TAYOxford should get a little credit here since they hosted this excellent @AshmoleanMuseum event in their lecture theatre.

Laura Cumming (spot her arm) speaking in the dark at the Ashmolean Museum last night about the detail of a Fabritius painting and her inspirations for THUNDERCLAP.

A great pleasure yesterday to welcome 1st year rabbinical students from @LeoBaeckCollege, looking at marriage rings from 15th-century Venice and Transylvania, and Rembrandt’s Hebrew Bible stories including these 4 images for Rabbi Menasseh Ben Israel’s ‘Piedras Gloriosas’ of 1655

So good to meet up with the team from #LifeWorthLiving @sheffielduni this afternoon. Thanks for coming to @UniofOxford Looking forward to collaborating with on exploring university pedagogy as a way into the big, existential questions. Come on!

Quality thread from our friends at @HSMOxford

Brilliant event coming to @AshmoleanMuseum next Tuesday, 21st May, 4.30pm. Register now and come and meet the #LifeWorthLiving team from @sheffielduni eventbrite.co.uk/e/life-worth-l…

Colossal fun at @TORCHOxford yesterday morning, giving an ECR workshop on object-based teaching and learning with the (drum roll…) AWARD WINNING #HeritagePathways team. Thank you for having us.

It really is a treat! And, equally, it was a treat to look at Turner, Girtin, teapots and hair relics with @CCCOxfordAccess @engfac students this morning.

@Geodiverse @rachel_delman @AlicePurk Amen to that.

Huge congratulations @rachel_delman and @AlicePurk - you do such fantastic work for heritage in Oxford

Come and be our colleague! @AshmoleanMuseum needs a new Public Engagement with Research Coordinator. It’s a permanent, 0.8 fte role at Oxford grade 5. Get in! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

We’re off. Again. It is exciting. DPhil researcher Connie Sjodin leads us in thinking about tattooing and all its surrounding discourses of race, class, history, colonialism… We start with Pio Abad in conversation with Anthony Gardner of @TheRuskin ashmolean.org/exhibition/ash…

Delighted to be at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia this afternoon, to talk about object-based teaching at @AshmoleanMuseum

@DrHanWill Booked!

If you're in London on 10 May, come and hear the incredible RA artists Cornelia Parker and Christopher Le Brun chat with me and Katie Scott about "artists' things". It's a conversation in lieu of a book launch for our new book, also called "Artists' Things".

Brief update to say what a gigantic pleasure that was. Thank you to @MaggsBros for their warm hospitality and to @AdamSmy36314691 for inviting us. Great book. Tremendous evening.

Up London this evening, to celebrate the publication of ‘The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives’, by our friend and colleague Prof. Adam Smyth. @BalliolOxford @engfac @TORCHOxford @OxHumanities @AdamSmy36314691