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On Tuesday, February 24 at noon EST, Maeve Diepenbrock and Ana Orobio Pinzon (both in this year’s graduating MA class) will showcase research projects that they worked on last summer for the Furniture History Society and British and Irish Furniture Makers Online. The free online seminar will present insights from recent research projects which examined particular aspects of the furniture and interiors at three important English estates: Raby Castle, Chatsworth House, and the Buccleuch Estate. Please join in to learn more about Maeve and Ana’s work!

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This Instagram post made me cheer for Jesse Merandy (director of Digital Humanities / Digital Exhibitions), Julie Fuller (manager, Digital Humanities / Digital Exhibitions), Emma Cormack (associate curator), and Laura Grey (art director): “There are OK online exhibitions, and there are exceptional ones. Bard Graduate Center’s Viollet-le-Duc exhibition is definitely in the latter category. I learned so much, enjoyed wonderful drawings I’d have never got to see otherwise, and all on a lazy train ride home. Bard Graduate Center, thank you. If only all museums took online exhibition making as seriously.” Go team, such beautiful work!

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Kudos to the students planning BGC’s first Graduate Student Symposium in twelve years! One of the goals of this year’s symposium is to encourage cross-disciplinary research between NYC-based graduate students and scholars, so please spread the word among colleagues at other institutions. The deadline for submissions is February 27 and the symposium will be held May 1.

BGC is accepting applications for its fellowship programs. Visiting Fellowship applications are due March 1 and Fields of the Future Fellowship applications are due April 15. Please share with colleagues at other institutions who might be interested!

Call for Submissions: Rachel Pickman (MA ’15) has recently been promoted to co-editor-in-chief of Endeavour, a journal dedicated to the history and philosophy of science. She welcomes pitches from members of the BGC community whose work touches on the history of science or scientific objects for full-length research articles, book or exhibition reviews, or short articles (including studies of interesting objects or archival finds) for Endeavour’s “In Vivo” section. Recently the journal has featured pieces on Vesalian skeletal imagery in an early modern Indian cemetery; the use of X-ray machines to police the bodies of South African diamond miners; and gendered histories of botany and agriculture.