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Second “explainer” piece here www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
(3/3) From this first overview of the situation for over 20 years, it’s clear that it’s time for DCMS to review its failed historic Guidance, and introduce regulation for the retention of human tissue in legacy colonial collections.
Full story >> www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
(2/3) it’s with mixed feelings that we now share these shocking details of the scale and depth of enduring violence, posthumous abuse, secrecy, neglect, and silence about over a quarter of a million human remains in over 250 UK museums. (That’s a higher number than the population of Southampton.)
This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)
There are lots of phases of development ahead but for now please sign up to get our occasional mailings, send us your events for our calendar, and watch this space!
One last update from this very busy March so far…
A project @hannahmstrommen.bsky.social and I have been cooking for a while has gone live at biblereception.com 🎉
Growing out of our methods reading group, BRIM is going to be a one stop hub for all things Bible and reception.
🎟️ The event, like the exhibition, is open to the public as well as students and colleagues from across the University, so please feel free to share this with anyone who may be interested.
📅 We hope you'll be able to join us on 16th March to celebrate the project launch and hear from the artist, Sarah Lightman and her long-time collaborator @dawnllewellyn.bsky.social - book your free ticket at tinyurl.com/BibWomen
💻 In addition, the corresponding webpage is also now live at tinyurl.com/biblicalbodies, where you can view the paintings in the exhibition, and listen to a range of excellent audio responses by colleagues, students, friends and alumni of @uomsalc.bsky.social and @uomhums.bsky.social
🖼️ As part of the @uomreligion.bsky.social Centre for Biblical Studies’ CIDRAL funded programme of events entitled Encountering Biblical Bodies, we are so pleased to host works from artist Sarah Lightman in collaboration with @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social
A poster advertising the event with Sarah’s painting “the Madonna of Hampstead”
📣 Yesterday, Holly Morse and I were thrilled to install Encountering Biblical Bodies: Sarah Lightman's Biblical Women in the Glass Corridor Gallery at The University of Manchester.
UMRI - (Re) Constructing a Biblical Woman: Art, History, and the Many Faces of Mary Magdalene (Siobhán Jolley siobhan.jolley@manchester.ac.uk)
A prosthetic eye and a 3D printed replica of a sculpture of John Wesley.
Last week I presented at an interdisciplinary seminar about faces as part of the UMRI 2025 project ‘Challenging the Impossible’.Definitely the most eclectic lineup I’ve been a part of!
multifacetedresearch.wordpress.com/2025/09/20/f...
"Like all the muscles in the body, if we do not use them, if we do not move them, they die. The brain needs to be used, so our intelligence must also be exercised a little so as not to lose this capacity.”
New from @asapjournal.bsky.social and Maryanne Saunders asapjournal.com/node/from-th...
Paid opportunity for students!! Return to your old school/college to chat about your experiences of studying at Manchester. manchester-religions-and-theology.blogspot.com/2026/02/paid...
Sad to read of the death of Teresa de Lauretis. She’ll rightly be remembered for her pioneering work on queer theory, but her writing on cinema in particular has been a gift. May she rest in peace.
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Programme of events for the Religion and Theology Research Seminar, Spring semester 2026. Get in touch with us for more info.
If you didn't know already, pre-orders for my second book, Esther Keeps the Score, are live! @scmpress.bsky.social
scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...
A small square book with pink binding that says Saints and The National Gallery on the cover.
The title page, with my name
📣 New Book Day! 📣
Delighted to share a sneak peek at Saints, my new picture book for grown ups. She’s a beauty, written with everyone who‘s ever wandered round the NG with me in mind
Coming this June to the NG shop and online, but available for preorder now:
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9781857...
📣BNTS 2026 will take place in Maynooth this August and the Call for Papers is now live.
📅You can submit until 13th April - please tell your friends, colleagues, and casual acquaintances!
bnts.org.uk/bnts-call-fo...
Lecturers in Biblical Studies have been awarded a Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies Grant for the project "Encountering Biblical Bodies". Holly Morse & @siobhanjolley.bsky.social are working with colleagues across @uomsalc.bsky.social to host an exhibition & and symposium. Watch this space!
A screenshot of the URC’s HMD post which includes antisemitic tropes.
As well as reporting the post, can I suggest those who are rightly appalled by this post from the URC contact them directly: urc.org.uk/contact-us/
Samuel Hildebrandt and I have the honour of presenting this year’s Peake Lecture on Saturday 21st March. We’ll be looking at Miriam and Mary Magdalene in the Bible and reception.
Free and open to all - book via www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/peake-trus... and tell your friends/enemies.
Please share widely! 3-year Postdoc in Early Christian Studies. Deadline: 8 March. Let me know if you have any questions or want to nominate a colleague.
(Re)alignment: rethinking familial ties in the visual arts Call for proposals for Colloquium 28 May 2026 Expanding our understanding of family, community and what binds us together requires us to look beyond conventional definitions and documented histories.
Psyched that the CfP for Maryanne Saunders’ NG colloquium, exploring expansive ideas about familial ties as represented in art, is now live!
www.nationalgallery.org.uk/research/sem...
Abstracts up to 300 words with a short bio due by Monday 26 January 2026.
Please share widely!
It’s a busy time of year to have it!
Title Slide for week three - Sacred Stories: Saints in Art
Wrapped up my National Gallery short course on Saints this week. It’s been such a joy, and I love that more than 350 people want to learn about holy pictures on a Wednesday afternoon.
