Looking forward to a few days attending the #CA2025 hosted this year by our very own University of St Andrews. Come and see Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis, me and our speakers discuss pedagogical approaches to the reception of classical material culture. With a bonus session at our collections!

Earlier this week, lecturers from the School of Art History and curators from @vadundee.bsky.social were filmed by @uniofstandrews.bsky.social Digital Media team for an exciting new project: 'The Story of Scottish Design in Six Objects'! For more information: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/art-history/...

This is how I spent part of my morning today! Standing in front of stunning works and talking about Robert Adam! 😍

First signs of spring in the garden

I am delighted that I will be part of this team. One of my projects for the next few months!

A collab with History Lab+, @socialhistsoc.bsky.social and History UK!? 🤩 See below for our #cfp for the conference 'Teaching in a Time of Crisis'! Deadline is 17th January 2025. We look forward to reading your abstracts!

Today is my viva anniversary. 16 years ago I left my then 2 months old baby to spend two hours defending the work I had spent 4 years writing. Here he is celebrating.

Surely this is not the most comfortable position #researchdog

Christmas at our house is signalled every year by the smell of the melomakarona baking. These Greek Christmas biscuits are a labour of love; they always make me slow down and savour the time I spent making them.

Now we are getting there !

Out of office almost on but not quite....

Quite excited about this workshop tomorrow. I will be talking about an attempt to establish a British Institute of Archaeology in Turkey in the 1930s as part of the Scottish excavation of the Great Palace of Byzantine Emperors.

A fleeting visit to London to attend an ArtUK roundtable discussion at the Royal Academy on their new project The Superpower of Looking, which aims to enhance visual literacy skills at primary schools. I had the pleasure to share the table and ideas with artists such as Cornelia Parker.

First weekend this semester that I feel I don't need to work to catch up with everything so I spent a nice lazy morning walking around town and picking these books to bring home and read. It feels such a luxury!

Took the students to Edinburgh today and spent some time in the portrait gallery looking closely at two of my favourite paintings by Pietro Fabris (Neapolitan interiors, Grand Tour, fencing, concerts, antiquities, pottery...)

I think I enjoyed the Thyssen-Bornemisza more than any other one in Madrid

Escaped Scotland this week for a trip to Madrid. So much art