Writer and historian: photography, art, archives, museums, colonialism (Egypt, Sudan). Chair in the History of Visual Culture @durhamhistory.bsky.social. Author of Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century. https://christinariggs.com
Christina Riggs
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For those looking for some longer historical context about white supremacist politics in Northern Ireland, I heartily recommend Daniel Geary’s chapter in this fantastic edited collection:
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526147073/
Global white nationalism - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Global white nationalism by Daniel Geary
Keynote lecture of the student-led Public History seminar on June 16.
Writer, Film-maker and Art Historian Nana Oforiatta Ayim will talk in the context of "Public History in Global Perspectives". The whole seminar is online
www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even...
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It is. Perfect timing as I attempt to finish writing an article on events linked to the Tutankhamun centenary, whose failure to move Egyptology forward is in part due to what this piece describes. And in part due to structural racism in Western Egyptology.🏺📜🗃️
Every word.
Art UK
In Paris and at a loose end this afternoon? Come for some Commune chat @sorbonnenouvelle.bsky.social, 4pm 🙌
My new book is out! "Art of Divination: A Visual History". An original exploration of global divination traditions across time, and 240 colour images from around the world.
This was heart-breaking to listen to as a parent of a child who still gets scared of certain things despite only having experienced the very beginning of this war. My heart goes out to all the parents having to care for their traumatized children.
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Christina Riggs
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Delighted to unveil the schedule for The Cultures of Early Television, a conference on 2 + 3 July in London.
The gathering focuses on television before the Second World War in Britain, continental Europe, the United States and the Soviet Union.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-cultures...
Christina Riggs
Evening light after a good writing day #CountyDurham
Podcast Episode · The Documentary Podcast · June 9 · 28m
Having spent the day, much like every other day at present, listening to journalists and broadcasters restate unsubstantiated claims, and elide the fact of difference with a trigger for racist violence, here are simple rules even Chris Mason might grasp. ⬇️
