First up is Alisha Ma @alisha-ma.bsky.social (LSE) on Aesthetic Experience and Colonial Wolrdmaking in Queen Mary II's Collection Spaces at Hampton Court Palace and Kensington Palace 1689-94. A very pery pertinent topic during a certain royal visit across a certain pond. 2/x

We're about to start this year's British History in the Long 18th-century annual PhD Lightening Talks. Live posting once we are under way in case you're keen to know what's happening in our field. 1/x

the line-up for my two-part #asecs2026 panel coming up next month on ‘Colonial Worldmaking in Eighteenth-Century European Spaces, Ideologies, and Imaginations’! very excited to chair and for the undoubtedly fantastic dialogues that will be generated from them!

A list of stories about women and womanhood throughout history, in honour of International Women’s Day from PhD students in the Department (Alisha Ma, Arianna Parisi, Yasmin Getirana, Javiera Manzi, Francesca Mascanzoni, and Victoria Jones), and Professor Joanna Lewis. #internationalwomensday #lse

One of our incoming PhD candidates, Alisha Ma, is set to chair a panel at the ASECS 2026 Annual Meeting: “Colonial Worldmaking in Eighteenth-Century European Spaces, Ideologies, and Imaginations” and the deadline to submit abstracts is 22 September 2025. asecs.org/sessions2026... #history #LSE

#CfP: Submissions are now open for my panel, “Colonial Worldmaking in Eighteenth-Century European Spaces, Ideologies, and Imaginations” at the #ASECS 2026 Annual Meeting! Deadline: 22 September 2025 For the full abstract and submission details, visit asecs.org/2026-annual-meeting/

The College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference is the largest meeting of art historians, artists, curators, and visual arts professionals. Full info and abstract submission here: caa.confex.com/caa/2026/web... #conference #art #history

#CAA114 CfP: My session, entitled ‘Hybridity, Adaptability, and Exchange During the Long Eighteenth Century: Producing Global Aesthetics in Decorative Art and Design’, is now accepting submissions until 29 Aug! Full abstract and submission details can be found here: caa.confex.com/caa/2026/web...

going to the ANOM for the first time from 3-7 feb! if anyone working on french colonial settlements in the indian ocean, enslavement, resistance, & racialization in the 17th to 18th centuries will also be there at that time and/or has any tips on navigating the archive, please let me know!