@SebAMarshall

Leverhulme ECR Fellow, University of St Andrews | interested in landscape, classicism and Orientalism in 19th c. British visual culture

 Cambridge, England
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Joined July 2020
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Interested in Greek Studies in Scotland? To mark 130 years since Antonios Jannaris was employed to teach post-classical and modern Greek at St Andrews, Anna Coopey and I have arranged a series of events to celebrate current work at the University and beyond! See here for details:
St Andrews Classics@StA_ClassicsOct 14
"St Andrews Greek Week" 📆 24 - 27 November Join us for a poetry recital, film screening, play performance, workshop, keynote and roundtable, all celebrating Greek culture. View info and book for workshop/keynote: standrewsclassics.wordpress.… Free events: #AllWelcome #SaveTheDates
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For all interested in landscape and representations of Greece and the Ottoman Empire in the long 19th century, there's still time to apply to this conference I'm running with Alexandra Solovyev at St Andrews University in June 2027! See the CFP here: networks.h-net.org/group/ann…
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"The travels of Edward Falkener: a Victorian architect in Ottoman Anatolia" (Sebastian Marshall) 🔗 Read #OpenAccess article: doi.org/10.1017/S00035815251… #Travel

THE TRAVELS OF EDWARD FALKENER: A VICTORIAN ARCHITECT IN OTTOMAN ANATOLIA | The Antiquaries Journal...

THE TRAVELS OF EDWARD FALKENER: A VICTORIAN ARCHITECT IN OTTOMAN ANATOLIA - Volume 105

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In April 2026, Alexandra Solovyev and I are hosting a panel at the Association for Art History's Annual Conference in Cambridge. If you're interested in visual representations of Eastern Mediterranean landscapes between 1750-1920, check out this cfp! forarthistory.org.uk/environ…

Environmental Approaches to the Eastern Mediterranean Landscape, 1750-1920 - For Art History

For centuries, the territories of the eastern Mediterranean were home to the ethnically, religiously, and culturally diverse communities that comprised the Ottoman Empire. These territories simulta...

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Very pleased to receive the latest print copy of the Sculpture Journal, Vol. 3, No. 3, featuring my article 'Relief in the Round: Terracotta classicism and the Homeric friezes of Ickworth House'.
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If you're interested in neoclassical architecture, the Grand Tour, and the affordances of relief sculpture, check out the following: liverpooluniversitypress.co.…

Relief in the round: terracotta classicism and the Homeric friezes of Ickworth House | Sculpture...

A growing body of work examines the British elite’s engagement with sculpture in the long eighteenth century, focusing especially on free-standing works. This article adopts a different angle by...

liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
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Delighted to see my first print chapter discussing Greece in Victorian book illustration in this new volume assembled by the wonderful @REVICTO1 team!
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For those interested, check out 'Christopher Wordsworth's Greece: Popular Topography from the Ilustrated Serial to the Gift Book' in Victorians and Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters (eds Mitsi & Despotopoulou)
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🎊We are over the moon that @DrMatthewEvans & Dr @SebAMarshall two of this year’s BSA studentship holders, have been awarded @LeverhulmeTrust Early Career Fellowships for the next 3 years! Congratulations, Matt & Seb! Συγχαρητήρια, καλή αρχή! 🎉 📸 Matt, Seb & Rachel Phillips
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This week I had the fortune to begin a new role as the School of Advanced Study's inaugural William St Clair Fellow. Over the next five months I'll be spending more time in London researching the history of Mediterranean garrison libraries. Do get in touch if this is of interest!
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The Fellowship presents a welcome, uncommon opportunity for ECRs whose reseach contributes to the work of the Institutes of Classical Studies, English Studies, and Language Cultures, and Societies. The cross-disciplinary scope reflects St Clair's own wide-ranging interests...
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...from British literary culture to the history of travel and archaeology in Greece. On which more anon over the next few months!
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If you're interested in landscape, photography, or the history of travel to Greece, sign up to hear me talk about a new project I've recently begun in Athens this evening!
The British School at Athens@BSAthens16 Apr 2024
📢 Event Reminder! Next week's UHS will be given by our Cary Student Sebastian Marshall, on photographs from the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies image collection (view on BSA Digital Collections). Register now! bsa.ac.uk/events/sebastian-m…
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Registration now open for #ILO2023 @THEcastleexpert and I have a fantastic set of presenters lined up, featuring an interdisciplinary range of topics from Plato to Australian middle fantasy with plenty of medieval and other material in between. #ClassicsTwitter #MedievalTwitter
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Interested in the power of images to create iconic but reductive ideas about the Mediterranean? Check out this blog giving an outline of the conference which I'll be speaking at about reconstructions of ancient cityscapes from 1pm today!
The Warburg Institute@Warburg_News17 Jun 2022
"An image sticks, a map orients people, and the reception and historiography of the Mediterranean is filled with images that made and re-made its history through time." Read this blog by @Eva___Mol: warburg.sas.ac.uk/blog/imagi… #Mediterranean #VisualHistory
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Pushed forward now to 12:45 :) Still time to sign up for the zoom. Conference begins at midday!
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Interested in how architectural reconstructions have a complex and pervasive influence on our image of the past and conceptions of the Mediterranean? Sign up for this fab interdisciplinary conference 20-21st June (I'll be presenting on the first day!)
The Warburg Institute@Warburg_News27 May 2022
An Imagined Past: Architectural Reconstructions and Geographical Imaginations in the Making of Mediterranean History Conference dates: 20 & 21 June 2022 Book your spot: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/con… #twitterstorians
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@SebAMarshall @Cambridge_Uni will be joining @AisikMaiti in panel one of our upcoming symposium on Thursday 16 June. Don’t miss his paper on illustrations in Edward Falkener’s work. Register for free eventbrite.com/e/33814992452… #l19thc #conference #online #PGR #ECR
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We are excited to announce that our upcoming online #PGR #ECR long nineteenth century symposium will feature presentations from @AisikMaiti @AcademicMeeple @SebAMarshall and @PhillipsJulia Registration now open 👍 eventbrite.com/e/33814992452…
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