Killian Colm Quigley
@killian_quigley
irish-nebraskan on Aboriginal land. research fellow @ IHSS, @ACUeduandarts ~ honorary postdoc @sei_sydney ~ ocean, aesthetics, poetics. walker, swimmer, diver.
"When the Whales and Seals Are Gone: Verne, Toussenel, and the Brave New Ocean," for @verafibisan and @murrayrachel89's Blue Extinction in Literature, Art, and Culture, is here. 🐳🦭🪼 link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…


“If Democrats want to build a better future, they must stop treating Black women as an afterthought,” Patrice Peck writes. “What’s best for us isn’t just good politics, it’s good for America.” Read: nyti.ms/4fVv7Yg
Shipwrecks, Pirates, and Oceanic Memories | Creative Clunes 22-23 March 2025 @killian_quigley @thehistoriann tickets.clunesbooktown.com.au/Events/Shipwre…
On Olive Heffernan's *The High Seas,* for @AustBookReview australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/cur…
"Submarine Museums," for @FelicityPicken and @EmmaWaterton1's Shores, Surfaces, and Depths, out now. 🪸🤿⚓️🎨 routledge.com/Shores-Surface…


#NEWonSRB: What does it mean to think of the sea as alive with meaning? @killian_quigley takes on James Bradley’s challenge to think more deeply about the ocean not only as an object of ecological concern, but also a site of ethical and imaginative renewal.buff.ly/404P61J
Excited to share this event, which emerges from my research into the V&A's Animal Products Collection, and looks towards ways of thinking, making & curating with the more-than-human. 14 Nov @V_and_A, generously supported by @LeverhulmeTrust & @lborolondon vam.ac.uk/event/ON1bqVYn…
Animal Products: Intersections of More-Than-Human Design and Display I am ridiculously excited for this event, and I hope you'll consider coming along. Nov 14, @V_and_A, in-person and online. Congratulations and gratitude to @syperek for all of it. vam.ac.uk/event/ON1bqVYn…
Looking forward, with nervous excitement, to "Liquid Antiquities, Liquid Mobilities," @ouranu, October 29th, where I will briefly speak--on 18th c. receptions of classical "water poetry"--but mostly listen. 🌊✍️🫧 slll.cass.anu.edu.au/events/liquid-…

New article up in Open Cultural Studies on how art institutions can manage living botanical sculptures and installations (while also allowing for multispecies collaboration and soiled gallery contaminations) 🌱 degruyter.com/document/doi/1…
📣Blue Extinction will be out in November! 🦭🌊🦪🐋🪼 A true labour of love with @verafibisan, feat. brilliant contributions from @stevermentz, Stacy Alaimo, @oquays, @RickDeVos, @IvryHenry and many others. You can preorder here: link.springer.com/book/978303169… @asleuki @ShefAnimals
Our 2024 issue of Reef in Review is out and downloadable now on our website! australiancoralreefsociety.org/library/reefin…
"A Call For Humanities at the Seabed" edgeeffects.net/seabed-humanit… via @edgeeffectsmag "...Imagining alternative seabed futures to those of exploitation and destruction may require us to diversify our starting points".
Critical Approaches to the Australian Blue Humanities has arrived. It's a privilege to have been gathered here. Congrats and thanks to @Dr_MaxNewlands and @claireghansen. 🤿


Read our new volume "Writing from the Water: New Perspectives: New Perspectives in Indian Ocean Art Histories" with essays written by the participants in the Indian Ocean Exchanges program! indianoceanexchanges.com/toc/
Job: continuing, full-time lecturer (level B) at @ACUmedia's Strathfield, NSW campus. candidate.aurion.cloud/acu/production…