Interested in ancient Western Asian masculinities? Remember to submit your abstracts by the 15th of December to take part in the workshop 'Shaping Men, Shaping Worlds: Masculinities in Ancient Western Asia'! t.ly/Dm3qN #History

📢 The 4th instalment of our 'Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School' is coming up! Apply by 14 December, and join us in #Helsinki, June 2026! More information at: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg... @anee-helsinki.bsky.social @helsinki.fi

Our data paper on the Prosobab networks is now online. Of course #openaccess with the very efficient @up_johd: doi.org/10.5334/johd... #babylonia #1milleniumBC #SNA #mesopotamia

I am looking to fill a postdoctoral position on my research project Understanding Epidemics in Ancient Mesopotamia for a Near or Middle Eastern Archaeologist for 26 months on full time from February 2026. Deadline is 16th of November. Read more and apply through employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho....

Join us for another (hybrid) AMME Seminar this Thursday (23.10.25, at 16:15-18:00 EEST)! Session theme: Writing History in the Ancient World Speakers: - Johannes Bach - Jasmin Lukkari Abstracts & more info at: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg... @helsinki.fi @anee-helsinki.bsky.social #AMMEseminar

Great chance for researchers affiliated to a Swedish university to get a one-year scholarship to HCAS in Nordic Fellowship Program, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond: www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-...

Join us for another (hybrid) AMME Seminar this Thursday (25.09.25), 16:15-18:00 EEST)! Session theme: Science and the Social Lives of Ancient Materials Speakers: - Takehiro Miki - Marta Lorenzon More info at: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg... @helsinki.fi @anee-helsinki.bsky.social #AMMEseminar

On Tuesday, Research Council of Finland granted me Academy research fellow funding for four years to continue my core research in a project called ”Unseen Languages in Language Identification”: tiedejatutkimus.fi/fi/results/f...

Great opportunity to work at NVIC in Cairo with lovely people! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

UPDATE: Remote participation is possible for the upcoming workshop on the origins of Emesal, June 25. Join us from anywhere via Zoom! helsinki.zoom.us/j/69440740797 Learn more about this event here: The Origins of Emesal Workshop www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...

“The last three to four months has been the biggest flood of antiquities trafficking I have ever seen, from any country, ever.” ://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/08/looted-from-syria-sold-on-facebook-antiquities-smuggling-surges-after-fall-of-assad?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Big changes to the ERC funding schemes! Note the new eligibility criteria from 2027 on: 📌 Starting Grant: 0-10 y post-PhD 📌 Consolidator Grant: 5-15 y post-PhD erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Next provenance question: Is there any way to verify if a specific artifact was once a part of the Foroughi Collection? Are there any comprehensive catalogs or databases available?

Are you curious about ancient #Assyrian or #Mesopotamian religions? Thanks to the Assyrian Cultural Foundation's Assyrian Renaissance lecture series, you can check out my thoughts on the topic here: youtu.be/vC9AbeNEU1I?... #Assyriology #Ancient #History

Provenance researchers, does anyone have any information on the Austrian art collector Alfred Antonin Juritzky-Warberg (1887-1961)? (sometimes called "Prince Jurisky" or "Juva") Specifically, did he collect ancient art in any quantity and from which sources?

The Origins of Emesal Join us for a workshop exploring the origins of Emesal, a variant of Sumerian. This event brings together experts from digital, linguistic, philological, and archaeological disciplines to unravel the mysteries of Emesal. www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg... #Emesal #Sumerian

The Finnish Network for the Study of the Ancient World supports colleagues at Macquarie University.

Dissolution of the Office of Digital Humanities is confirmed. #DigitalHumanities

Check out the latest #openaccess article from my Zenon project⤵️ doi.org/10.1515/opar... Published in the #OpenArchaelogy special issue on 'Network Perspectives in the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East', edited by M.G. Micale, H. Dawson & A. Lahelma @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

🎉 We are excited to announce our new blog series, WORK-ing Thoughts, where we’ll bring you insights from our researchers as they share their unique perspectives, research journeys, and methodologies. 📅 The first post launches next week! #workit #ERCAdG #universityofhelsinki #blog

Kone Foundation aims to strengthen research cooperation between the global South and North by launching a new programme to support Global South researchers' visits to the @hcas.bsky.social The invitational fellowship programme is intended for researchers in the social sciences and humanities.

Behold the 📢 #CfP for the next #ConnectedPast event ⤵️ and at connectedpast.net. Submit your abstract by 15 March 2025, and join us in beautiful #Coimbra in September! #ConnectedPast2025 Organised by Joel Santos, Tânia Casimiro, Ricardo Costeira da Silva, and Carlos Faísca.

Understanding Women in Mesopotamia: Interview with Dr. Saana Svärd - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrjY...

@martalorenzon.bsky.social and I are running a fun session at this years' WAC-10 in Darwin Australia! Share widely with anyone who might be interested! #architecture #builtenvironment #networks

Wow...checking my notes 🧐 and yup, we aren't in the 1920s anymore so why is @thetimes.com still using these types of colonial tropes "hunting for lost pharaohs" and "Brit makes find of the century" and the completely inappropriate images of unwrapped human remains www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

⚠️job alert⚠️ Four year postdoc in Bergen, Norway on ancient studies and religion. Find full details about the position at the link below. The deadline is 17th March www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Did you know that ancient mud bricks hold the secrets of civilizations long gone? These humble materials built cities thousands of years ago, preserving snapshots of daily life. They’re proof that innovation doesn’t need to be complex to change the world. #Archaeology #History #MudBrick

A good summary by Seth Sanders in ASOR Today about the origins of the alphabet: anetoday.org/sanders-inve...

Join us for the next (hybrid) #AMMEseminar – on approaches into ancient labor - Tuesday 17.12.24! Speakers: - Ville Vuolanto - Jason Silverman Abstracts & more info at: helsinki.fi/en/researchg... @helsinkiuni.bsky.social

The UN “calls upon actors in the art market—including auction houses, museums, art dealers, and collectors—to take a proactive stance in ensuring the provenance of cultural objects…” the demand side of the illicit trade has often been overlooked. theantiquitiescoalition.org/acs-deborah-...

New research uses computational linguistics to map words for emotion used alongside words for body parts in cuneiform texts from 934-612 BCE. Fascinating method and findings. Where in the body did people feel or express fear, joy, pride, sadness, shame, and more? www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Do you use networks or network analysis in research about the ancient Near East? Consider contributing to this exciting open access edited volume! We're interested in hearing about all research using networks: archaeological, socio-historical, or lexical! Deadline is 1st March 2024.

Applications for the Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School at the University of Copenhagen are open! This is a great course for introducing digital Assyriological research (including data cleaning, GIS, Python, and networks). Deadline is 31st March. ccrs.ku.dk/education/am...

Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History is back! Join us in the Revival Bash on 5 April 2024! Purple is the color and feminism and intellectual history is the first topic of our new workshop series. Please spread the word & enjoy Women's Day! www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...

🚨 I'm looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher in #digitalhumanities for my upcoming ERC-funded project on #multimodality. This is a fixed-term position for 36 months based at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Please share the announcement widely!

Still looking for a post-doc for my ERC project – a little over one week to go before the deadline!

We are hiring a doctoral researcher for 3-4 yrs full-time in Helsinki to work on “The Presence of Classics in Early Modern Book History”. Range of possible backgrounds is wide. MECANO is a great setup & Margherita Fantoli also supervises! DL 15.3.. Spread the word! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Scholars needing to access ESTC while the British Library interface is down have reached out. In response, we've developed a simple browser tool. It is not public due to data restrictions, but if you need it for research, please send an email. Feel free to spread the word.

Reminder to new users here: Buying ancient objects from the art market is almost always ethically questionable. Don't contribute to looting, site destruction and trafficking. Instead, advocate for museums and other collections to do proper provenance research.

I'm looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher in human computation (crowdsourcing) and/or knowledge representation (graphs) for my upcoming ERC project! This position requires a background in computer science, digital humanities or a related field. Please repost or tell a friend! 🙇‍♂️

Please, help save the teaching of classical archaeology at the University of Helsinki by signing this petition! Egyptology, Assyriology, and many other small disciplines have already been disbanded. www.adressit.com/antiikin_mat...

Great News for DH Enthusiasts! Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon makes its annual orbit around the sun, returning as #DHH24 @CLARINERIC & @DARIAHeu summer school. Thus we are once again able to subsidise international participants. More soon: www.helsinki.fi/en/digital-h...

Would you like to work alongside me at Tampere University? We’re looking for a professor (assistant, associate or full) of English linguistics! Please share widely! And apply if you’d like to spend your winters in a snow wonderland like the one in this photo :) tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...

Automatic Language Identification in Texts by @tosaja.bsky.social et al. is now out.