James Donaldson

PhD Candidate @UQ_History, Taking Antiquities in WW1 - | Manager/Curator @UQAntiquities | Tweets my own

[James Donaldson @cairojim]

Research has started on our first WW1 souvenir antiquities! If you know about a collection of antiquities associated with the First World War, I'd love to hear from you - particularly QLD based collections this year. Contact details for the project below, or @ me here!

[UQ Antiquities Museum @UQAntiquities]

Do you know about a collection of antiquities brought back as souvenirs from the First World War? If so, the Antiquities Museum's First World War Antiquities Project would love to hear from you! Get in touch via the project website: https://t.co/eLuuL5s7wW

[Res_Australes: Ancient World Studies, Australasia @res_australes]

Oct 20 Brisbane (in person, UQ, 11.30am) #QFAAIA Sunday Function: James Donaldson (@cairojim @UQAntiquities), Reverend W.M.Woods and the Archaeology of the Sinai & Palestine Campaign [1915-18]. Book $ https://t.co/7mBWERKKQY

[Res_Australes: Ancient World Studies, Australasia @res_australes]

#exhibition Sept 7-Oct 20 "Objective Subjective" - a collaboration between the New England Regional Art Museum and University of New England’s Museum of Antiquities co-curated by @AlinaKozlovski (UNE), Belinda Hungerford (NERAM) & Bronwyn Hopwood (UNE) https://t.co/gEKASmRD0d

[James Donaldson @cairojim]

@sarabmohr @lrsiddall at @ProjectCANZ may be able to assist for Australian and Aotearoa/New Zealand collections. We only have dealer purchased items at @UQAntiquities.

[Res_Australes: Ancient World Studies, Australasia @res_australes]

Registration open: #MAARC Mediterranean Archaeology Australasian Research Community Fourth Annual Meeting - online + free from Macquarie - July 17th-19th - https://t.co/BEFiTTA3eJ @maarc_research

[Res_Australes: Ancient World Studies, Australasia @res_australes]

June 14 Brisbane (@UQ_News, 443 Michie Blg, 2pm) History Seminar (progress review): James Donaldson (@cairojim @UQAntiquities) “By next mail I am sending you the following genuine articles”: Australians as antiquities “collectors” in the First World War https://t.co/6P66koBnpd

[Res_Australes: Ancient World Studies, Australasia @res_australes]

#CFP Teaching Antiquity with Material Culture - August 3rd - Macquarie Uni @mq_dha @ACANSMQ. Keynotes: A/Prof Clare Rowan (@ancient_tokens, Warwick) & A/Prof Gwynaeth McIntyre (@OtagoClassics). Abstracts/EOI to [email protected] (see previous X for Aug 2nd MQ conference CFP)

[Res_Australes: Ancient World Studies, Australasia @res_australes]

June 2 Brisbane (@UQ_News UQ, 2pm) Friends of Antiquity: James Donaldson (@cairojim @UQAntiquities), How the Antiquities Museum got its pots – recent cases and new directions at the RD Milns Antiquities Museum. Register $ https://t.co/PJlJFPjLbQ

[Res_Australes: Ancient World Studies, Australasia @res_australes]

Today in Brisbane, May 19th, Amelia Brown @UQ_News is talking at Panayiri on famous Olympic victory (2pm):

[Res_Australes: Ancient World Studies, Australasia @res_australes]

May 24 Brisbane (UQ, 6-8pm) @UQAntiquities RD Milns Antiquities Museum Event: ‘Wondrous Machines In Conversation: The Appeal of Wondrous Machines’ https://t.co/M8vRd48L6C Registration required

[James Donaldson @cairojim]

@fkhmichael Michael! I thought I saw you this week but was rushing off to my next meeting. I'm sorry now I didn't stop to check and chat abotu these! They have just been published in Meditarch (https://t.co/FUvVQTUFA7) with full provenance checks having taken place. Hope to chat soon!

[Malcolm Choat @malfy_c]

The @MacquarieMuseum is advertising a full time permanent Operations assistant position! Come join our history and archaeology community in @mq_dha in the Faculty of Arts @Macquarie_Uni!

[Falastin Flip @TOliveFern]

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[MAARC Med Arch Australasian Research Community @maarc_research]

Very happy to announce dates for the 4th Annual Mediterranean Archaeology Australian Research Community (MAARC) Conference

Tuesday 16th – Friday 19th July 2024, hosted by the Department of History and Archaeology, Macquarie University @Macquarie_Uni @mq_dha

#MAARC2024

[InQueensland @InQldMedia]

The success of the Griffith Film School means the university is on the brink of closing its art museum to make more room for film students – and not everyone is happy about that.
#visualart
https://t.co/e3207Y4UU6

[James Donaldson @cairojim]

Griffith University Art Museum is being considered for closure. Big impacts on student learning and next generation of visual artists & museum professionals in QLD. Info: https://t.co/N47iHz0jB5; https://t.co/p7xyMTa3r6 Feedback by 15/12 to [email protected] @umac_icom

[InQueensland @InQldMedia]

The success of the Griffith Film School means the university is on the brink of closing its art museum to make more room for film students – and not everyone is happy about that.
#visualart
https://t.co/e3207Y4UU6

[James Donaldson @cairojim]

Unfortunately, I've not seen any photographs of the Melbourne display of the mosaic to be able to check (do any exist?) All of the guides and images produced and reproduced from 1919 to its display in Canberra after 1941 are from the illustration tradition.

[James Donaldson @cairojim]

Did the @AWMemorial lose part of the #ShellalMosaic? Illustrations taken before its removal show the hind quarters of a dog in the 5th position of the mosiac's 4th row, but this roundel is missing from the surviving mosaic.

[James Donaldson @cairojim]

(Source: AWM315/748/003/026 01B, pp 80-) Whether this piece was still part of the mosaic when it was taken to Australia, or was destroyed in the process of removal like significant other sections is difficult to tell from this one source.