Emma Martin

Many congratulations!!!

Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...

If you want to hear more about this research I’m speaking @lghgseminar.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social this Tuesday!

If you are in London it would be great to see some familiar faces, or you can join on-line.

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Thanks so much Stefan!

Thanks so much for sharing. The editorial team were just amazing to work with and I’m so grateful they saw merit in this research.

It means everything to publish the first account of the Toshakhana with @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social

The study shows how Toshakhana bureaucracy created indifference to diplomatic gifts which then led to the erasure of provenance and anonymised objects in museum collections

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बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head”

An #OtherEverests #ConfluenceCollective exhibition in Kalimpong 21-27 February 2026 shorturl.at/YrbVv

Lost archives & hidden histories of Indigenous high-altitude workers from the 1920s & 1930s.

@tibetcurator.bsky.social @ruthgamble.bsky.social

Call for papers closes in 2 weeks time!

TIBETAN GIFT-GIVING, BRITISH INDIFFERENCE, AND THE ERASURE OF PROVENANCE IN COLONIAL INDIA* Abstract. In 1913, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet dispatched a lavish diplomatic gift to the viceroy of India. However, upon its arrival the colonial a

New on advance access: "Tibetan Gift-Giving, British Indifference, and the Erasure of Provenance in Colonial India"

by @tibetcurator.bsky.social (@uomsalc.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

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📣 Call for Papers 📣

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I am pleased to announce a #CfPs for the upcoming international
conference on Museums and Dissidence at @officialuom.bsky.social

Scan the QR code for further details.

#Museums
#Dissidence
#PoliticalDisagreement
#Conference
#MuseumActivism

The latest OPEN ACCESS volume of Museum Worlds has been published! View the TOC for Vol. 13 here: bit.ly/47Gl3zG

Featuring research by:
@jordankistler.bsky.social
@tattersdill.bsky.social
@clairewintle.bsky.social
@fengschoeneweiss.bsky.social
@mnystudio.bsky.social
@tibetcurator.bsky.social

Book cover showing pots with paint in various colours.

It highlights novel ways that Tibetan & Himalayan worlds can be made relevant beyond their local contexts. Edited by @tibetcurator.bsky.social @trineb.bsky.social and @wiselange.bsky.social
Available in #openaccess at doi.org/10.11588/has...

The result of a wonderful cooperation is online now. @tibetcurator.bsky.social @trineb.bsky.social We are happy to share the good news, please enjoy our publication AMONG TIBETAN MATERIALITIES @hasp-hd.bsky.social
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Our latest case of #transnationalrepression: a young Chinese woman studying in France has disappeared some seven weeks ago while on a trip to visit her family in Hunan province.

She is an editor for the digital platform “Chinese Youth Stand for Tibet” (CYST)
www.tibetanreview.net/chinese-intl...

My students were bitterly disappointed when after a brief moment of thinking the new trustee was lip-sync Tom Holland they realised it wasn’t.

Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees in limbo after deportation from US Human rights experts voice alarm as refugees expelled by the US, not welcomed by Bhutan and rejected by Nepal

Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees in limbo after deportation from US

Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

This is the text of the presidential order affecting the Smithsonian. It targets its ‘anti-American ideology’.

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There is still time to submit your abstract! Deadline 3 March, details: www.mghg.info/forthcoming-...

Why is the purple segment is so small? My personal pie chart must be closer to 50-55%

Battle for Tibet FRONTLINE investigates China’s rule over Tibet.

PBS FRONTLINE investigates China’s rule over Tibet. With footage from inside the region, the documentary examines how the Communist regime controls Tibet’s Buddhist population, and the battle over the succession of its spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

Recrutement des enseignants-chercheurs 2025 | École Pratique des Hautes Études Liste des postes ouverts au concours à l'EPHE - PSL. Campagne 2025.

🚨 Buddhist Studies Job Opening🚨

Full Professorship in Buddhist Modernisms @ EPHE-PSL in Paris. "Open to scholars working on modern developments in Buddhism since the 19th c. w/ grounding in an Asian region incl. Tibet, Mongolia, & Himalaya. Teaching in French."

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Reports: Monastics Expelled from Larung Gar Buddhist Academy - Buddhistdoor Global Recent media reports indicate that more than a thousand male and female Tibetan monastic have been expelled from Larung Gar Buddhist Academy.

BDG news: Reports: Monastics Expelled from Larung Gar Buddhist Academy

Read here: tinyurl.com/4ptv4e52

#buddhism #tibetanbuddhism #vajrayana #tibet #china #sichuan #larunggar #buddhistmonks #buddhistnuns #buddhisteducation

‘Woke’ National Trust SLAMMED for 'Head of Inclusivity' job - 40k a year for THREE days a week, huge pension, 32 days off and more The ultra-progressive institution saw membership drop last year as it pursued various woke policies including mandatory vegan food quotas in cafes and slavery reports

If you’d like to apply for this job at our ‘ultra-progressive institution’ please visit the National Trust Jobs website. NB our member retention has remained higher than average throughout the cost of living crisis and visits & donations have increased. www.gbnews.com/news/nationa...

Call for papers for the 14 March 2025 IHR British History in the Long 18th Century seminar. Short (5 minute) presentations by new and and new-ish PhDs students on their doctoral research. Contact brendan.tam@warwick.ac.uk for details and to submit an abstract. Hybrid format, so you don't need to be in London.

New and new-ish PhD students working on British history in the 'long' 18th century: come tell our friendly seminar about your research in our 14 March 2025 Lightening Talks. Our seminar is hybrid so you don't need to be in London (or indeed the UK) to participate. Details below and in the Alt text.

Call for Papers “Grounded Futures: The Poetics and Politics of Soil in a Changing World” Call for Papers: “Grounded Futures: The Poetics and Politics of Soil in a Changing World”Rich with past histories of abundance and scarcity, composed of cycles of death and regeneration…

Are you researching, thinking, or writing about soil, dirt, earth, dust or other close relatives? Please help spread this CFP seeking interdisciplinary soil engagements, including novel theoretical and empirical approaches as well as creative/artistic work @newformations.bsky.social

CALL FOR PAPERS

Come and speak at our workshop! Curzon, Contacts & Contexts: Engaging with Imperial Histories at Kedleston Hall - University of Derby 19-20 June
Supported by the @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social and organised by Oliver Godsmark, @charjoyjohnson.bsky.social & myself

Please share widely!

Britain told to give India back artefacts in lieu of £52trn in reparations Oxfam report says wealth extracted from India between 1765 and 1900 would be a sum large enough to ‘carpet the surface area of London in £50 notes almost four times over’

Well, that's definitely going in my colonialism in Asia lecture next week!

#SouthAsiaSky
#India

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How Tourism Trapped Tibet The region is becoming a theme park for the Chinese nation.

She complained that life in Hangzhou was stressful and competitive. “But today I am Drolma,” she said, “a #Tibetan girl who is free and joyful and lives without care.”

@jbher.bsky.social @foreignpolicy.com

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