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Michelle Foot

@M__Foot

Art Historian, Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Art, Tea Drinker Research interests in Modern Spiritualism, Occulture, Celtic Revival and Scottish Art

eca.ed.ac.uk/history-of-art/michelle-foot
Joined February 2017
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📝 CALL FOR PAPERS 📝 Submissions open for SSAH Art and Text study days held 6-7 February 2025 in partnership with @natlibscot. Key topics for papers: Art inspired by literature, critical writing, artists' books & archives, among others! Deadline to submit: 25 October 5pm.
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🍀 Scotland's Celtic Renascence tomorrow 7pm, as part of @forarthistory #ArtHistoryFestival2024. 🧚🏻‍♀️ This online event will explore the Celtic revival in 19th cent Scotland & its links to European symbolism, theosophy & the occult. Book for free here: eventbrite.com/e/scotlands-c…
Scotland’s Celtic Renascence – Local, National and International

Scotland’s Celtic Renascence – Local, National and International

Scottish Society for Art History in association with the AAH Art History Festival 2024

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📝 CALL FOR PAPERS 📝 Marking the 40th anniversary of the foundation of SSAH, our 2024 study days will focus on the last 40 years of Scottish art history and look ahead to the future. Deadline to submit proposals is 11 December. More info here: ssahistory.wordpress.com/stu…
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🚨 Less than four weeks until the extended deadline for Victorian Events proposals. If you want to join the fun in Stirling next year, get your proposals in by 1st December.
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Next up in our Research Seminar Series 18/05 at 17:15pm > Dr Keava McMillan on "Suffragettes, Saints, and Sprites: Reimagining Identities in Greengate Close" The event is chaired by Dr Michelle Foot and can be attended in person and via Zoom. To register: bit.ly/3Ob5IPq
Black and white illustration showing a page-like figure in medieval looking dress, with another figure in a long flowing dress juxtaposed in the background. The image is framed by ornate columns and text that reads Vera L Holme at top, and O Freedom Beautiful Beyond Compare Thy Kingdom is Established at bottom.

ALT Black and white illustration showing a page-like figure in medieval looking dress, with another figure in a long flowing dress juxtaposed in the background. The image is framed by ornate columns and text that reads Vera L Holme at top, and O Freedom Beautiful Beyond Compare Thy Kingdom is Established at bottom.

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🧵 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ✍️ Our next seminar, "From Revival to Renaissance", will take place at 4pm (UK time) on Friday November 5th. To attend, you just need to register at the following link -- but please see the other tweets in this thread for important information 👇 zoom.us/webinar/register/971… 1/8
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Please join us on 27 October at  13:30-14:45 (GMT) for our next research seminar with Hannah Halliwell, 'Dangers, Desires and Disease: The Morphine Addict in Late Nineteenth-Century French Visual Culture'. For details see: eventbrite.co.uk/o/history-o…
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📣Call for Papers!📣 We’re excited to announce our first symposium. In January 2022 we co-organising an online conference with @CourtauldRes, dedicated to ‘Northern Ireland’s Feminist and Queer Art Histories’ Proposals are due on 1st December 2021: bit.ly/30ltkK9
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CFP for an interdisciplinary conference on religious, spiritualist, and occult explorations in Irish literature, from the 19th century to the present. Deadline for submissions 7 November 2021. Conference 7-8 Jan 2022. irishlitspirituality.wordpre…
Religion, Spiritualism, and Occultism in Irish Literature

Religion, Spiritualism, and Occultism in Irish Literature

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Scottish art historians — please help! I’m trying to find the artist behind this art — I know she was active in Scotland in 1940-60s, designed sets for Christine Orr’s play ‘Pearl for James’, & exhibited at the Scottish Society of Women Artists in 1966, but I don’t know her name!
Image from Charlotte Lauder (@checkpointchaz)
Image from Charlotte Lauder (@checkpointchaz)
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The opening @ScotRevival event takes place on Tuesday, 10 August, starting at 2pm (UK time). We'll discuss what revival means, in various contexts, with our great speakers, Dr Alex Thomson, Dr Corey Gibson, Charlotte Lauder & Dr Michelle Foot. Sign up! 👇 zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_…
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🎉😀Confirmed yeses from our contributors mean that @M__Foot & I can officially announce that we’ve signed a contract with @Arts_Routledge for our edited volume ‘Art, Music & Mysticism at the Fin de Siècle:Seeing & Hearing the Beyond.’ Wouldn’t the Delville make a great cover?
Image from Dr. Corrinne Chong (@AntsyArtsy)
Image from Dr. Corrinne Chong (@AntsyArtsy)
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The programme for our 20th annual conference is now available and it looks great! We hope to see you in Amiens from 7-9 October 🤞sfeecorpus.sciencesconf.org/…
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I will be giving a paper on esoteric themes in John Calvin and their implications on reformation studies at this.
Rejected Religion (@RejectedReligio) profile pictureRejected Religion@RejectedReligio5 Jul 2021
Upcoming conference online & hosted by @RitmanLibrary & @HHP_Amsterdam
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Groam House Museum is delighted to introduce a new website dedicated to the work of George Bain (1881-1968) and the application of the Celtic style across contemporary art, craft and design. georgebain.groamhouse.org.uk #internationaldayofcelticart
Digital archive and online community sharing the creativity of Celtic art.

Digital archive and online community sharing the creativity of Celtic art.

This website gives free access to The George Bain Collection and provides a platform for artists and craftspeople to share and discuss work inspired by the Celtic style.

georgebain.groamhouse.org.uk
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'Joan Eardley & Catterline': Panel Discussion Weds 30 June, 5.30-6.30pm 🎟️ To coincide with the #ScotModern display, an expert panel will explore Eardley’s relationship to place in her artwork made in the Aberdeenshire village. Book your free tickets: bit.ly/2SvkRQW
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Our project’s first event, a talk in late June on ‘Spiritualism, Photography, and the Search for Ectoplasm’ by award-winning photographer @seance_book, is now open for registration! For more info & to book click here: mediaofmediumship.stir.ac.uk…
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Efram Sera-Shriar 👻 (@dreframss.bsky.social) (@DrEframSS) profile pictureEfram Sera-Shriar 👻 (@dreframss.bsky.social)@DrEframSS24 May 2021
We are very excited to be hosting with @sciencemuseum the following event: "Spiritualism, Photography and the Search for Ectoplasm", presented by the fabulous @seance_book for @MediaMediumship To register: zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_… #HistSTEM #HPS #Occult #Folklore #photography
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Art UK@artukdotorg19 May 2021
🔓 Art Unlocked is an online talk series brought to you by Art UK in collaboration with @BloombergDotOrg At 5.30pm BST on Wed 2nd June, join @AbdnArtMuseums Lead Curator Madeline Ward for an exploration of notable works from the collection Free tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/art-unloc…
Photograph of a museum at dusk. The building is a classical style in the front with a contemporary metal structure appearing on top of it

ALT Photograph of a museum at dusk. The building is a classical style in the front with a contemporary metal structure appearing on top of it

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More than £1m of treasured artefacts - including gold rosary beads carried by Mary Queen of Scots to her execution - have been stolen from Arundel Castle in West Sussex bbc.in/3vhwY2e

Arundel Castle: Mary Queen of Scots rosary beads stolen in raid

More than £1m of gold and silver historical artefacts were taken in the burglary on Friday night.

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Today is the hundredth anniversary of Joan Eardley’s birth. To mark this occasion, we've produced a special 3-part audio series in celebration of the artist’s life and work. 🎉 Episode 1, 'Painting Catterline and the sea', is available now: bit.ly/3yfoTNr #Eardley100
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