Can embodied cognition help us overcome the conventional mind/body bias? By focusing on the doer rather than on what was done, Wendrich proposes a chaîne opératoire approach to rediscover the ancient Egyptian body as an active, sensory participant in its environment. #EgyptologyInDialogue

How did the ancient Egyptians conceptualise nakedness? Through texts from a wide range of genres and across two millennia, Serova analyses lexemes related to this semantic field. She uses [EXPOSURE] as a case study to demonstrate how semantic networks can be visualised. #EgyptologyInDialogue

How do foreign goddesses change when they are imported into the Egyptian pantheon? @edwardscrivens.bsky.social uses Sørensen’s notion of gender negotiation to interpret the intersections of gender and foreignness in Egyptian representations of Qadesh, Astarte, and Anat. #EgyptologyInDialogue

Our PGR community event is always one of the highlights of the year! This time we had panels on PGR funding, academic posters and alternative career pathways. Thanks to the organisers and the speakers for such a stimulating discussion!

What is the relationship between kinship and bodies in ancient Egypt? Olabarria (yours truly!) shows that we cannot take our intuitive distinction between nature and nurture for granted and uses the notion of body worlds to shed light on the Egyptian category of ‘bodily son’. #EgyptologyInDialogue

Another wonderful Birmingham Egyptology Symposium this year! PhD students from all over the world came to Birmingham in person and virtually to share their exciting research with us. Thanks to my PGRs who keep working hard behind the scenes to make this possible. Pic from the poster session below.

Trying out Kudos as a feature of @degruyterbrill.bsky.social to communicate my research to a broader audience 🧠 Hope it inspires people to read it and think about ideological background of class and ontological distinctions in #ancientEgypt link.growkudos.com/1eqi0q439q8 #egyptology #archaeology

‘Preserving’ Egyptian Heritage: A Tale as Old as Time? Our hybrid Study Day unpacks historical efforts to preserve Egypt’s heritage as well as the concept of ‘preservation’, what has been preserved, for whom, and why. 📅 Saturday 27 June 2026 🎫 £15-£40 for #EESFest! ℹ️ www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/eve...

Can we use comparison to align ancient Egyptian body and image concepts more closely with current anthropological frameworks? #EgyptologyInDialogue

As much as I like Bluesky, I have a major gripe with it and that is that @ncrenic.bsky.social is not as active here. I need my daily dose of academic banter!

Did the ancient Egyptians really understand the human body as inherently fragmented? Di Biase-Dyson revisits the old Egyptological theory of the ‘fragmented body’ and the related framework of ‘aspective’ with a critical lens, exposing its underlying evolutionist and racist ideas.

The ancient Egyptians usually took great care in differentiating between men, women, and others, and some of them even sought to determine the quintessential question, is the child male or female?

Coming up on the 15th of May 2026 are the application deadlines for the following NINO grants: - Conference Subsidy - Incoming and Outgoing Mobility Grants - Visiting Research Fellowship For more information and applications, see buff.ly/N0COD2T. #ninoleiden

You're invited to our EES Fest throughout June! To celebrate the Society's history and look towards the future, we'll be hosting a festival of events before our premises transform into a new centre for Egyptian cultural heritage. ℹ️ www.ees.ac.uk/resource/ees...

What a privilege to have @profdanhicks.bsky.social and @corinnefowler.bsky.social with us at @unibirmingham.bsky.social today. It was a thought-provoking conversation about reshaping memory culture and staying with the fragments

What happens if we change the scale and specificity when posing questions about ancient Egyptian bodies? Bussmann discusses results of fieldwork at Zawyet Sultan with a focus on non-elite populations to explore questions of social and physical relatedness. #EgyptologyInDialogue

This free in-person event with @profdanhicks.bsky.social and @corinnefowler.bsky.social is happening tomorrow! Join us in this conversation about memory, heritage, and colonialism

The question is not what an ancient Egyptian body is but, rather, what can an ancient Egyptian body do? In this commentary, @ojth.bsky.social explores the potential of archaeological and philosophical theories to redefine our understanding of ancient Egyptian bodies #EgyptologyInDialogue

What does it mean to be in dialogue? In what ways can Egyptology constructively engage with other disciplines? This introduction brings Egyptology in dialogue with archaeological and anthropological theory by presenting four key concepts, namely body worlds, relations, comparisons, and negotiation.

Check out the open access special issue of Interdisciplinary Egyptology, titled "Egyptology in dialogue: Historical bodies in relations, comparisons, and negotiations". #EgyptologyInDialogue journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/in...

I know it is tricky to keep track of announcements on here, so reposting in case anyone is interested!

Online Course: Sacred Landscapes of Ancient Egypt 📅 Starting TOMORROW ⏰ 6-7:30pm 🇬🇧 Steven Snape will present a series of key ancient Egyptian monuments which reflect a sophisticated merging of myth, the natural world, and innovative architecture. 🎫 www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/eve...

On Thursday May 7th, I'll be delivering the final lecture in @arf-ucb.bsky.social's Lecture Series on Disability in the Ancient Middle East and Mediterranean. I'll be aiming to give a concise overview on our evidences for disability in Ancient Egypt, and the interesting questions they give us. 1/2

Birmingham-based peeps, there are still tickets available for this in-person event organised by BRIHC at @unibirmingham.bsky.social! A unique opportunity to hear @profdanhicks.bsky.social reflect on his work on heritage, memory and conflict in conversation with @corinnefowler.bsky.social

With apologies to my non-Spanish speaking colleagues, this seminar on intersectionality is happening next week. Seminario online sobre enfoques interseccionales en arqueología funeraria del Reino Medio organizado por el IHAO, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Jueves, 23 de abril, 5pm (GMT-3)

Materiality and Historical Research: A Postgraduate Workshop. Monday 20 April 2026, 13:00-17:00. Short presentations by PhD candidates on a single object, or group of objects, that can demonstrate the importance of materiality in historical research. All are welcome to attend!

💥 I'm delighted to announce that I'll be giving the 2027 Haley Lecture for Art and Archaeology at Princeton University in March next year 🙏 watch this space for more details, and potentially some other US talks >> www.danhicks.uk/talks

I was lucky to attend the launch event for this special issue of CAJ earlier today. It will be an unmissable piece of scholarship for those of us working on relatedness. And it's open access!

I miraculously remembered my log in details for this app. Hello, friends, it's been a while! What did I miss?

Oooops, I did it again!

Back on this app while waiting for a delayed flight at the airport. It's the most wonderful time of the year, isn't it?

I was gutted when we missed out on tickets, but live streaming is the next best thing! Anybody else watching? #BlackSabbath #BackToTheBeginning

My students have done it again! Egyptology papers, camaraderie and plenty of doughnuts. What's not to like!?

Just back from a wonderful week at the NVIC in Cairo. Was it hot? Yes! Was it intense? Yes! Did we drink litres of homemade lemonade? Also yes!

I am trapped on a coach for two hours. Someone is watching the football without earphones. Someone is on TikTok without earphones. Someone is video calling their son without earphones. Someone has just started singing. Is this normal? Should I join in and blast Nile on my phone?

Back from a workshop on intersectionality organised by Romane Betbeze from @humboldtuni.bsky.social It is always a pleasure to see like-minded colleagues who keep trying to push through and help people up the hatch. Thanks @urosmatic.bsky.social for the most amazing keynote!

Friends, TOMORROW is your last chance to download this @cambridgeuparchaeo.bsky.social Element for free! cup.org/4iCMeQb

Have you seen that there is a new Cambridge Element in town? If you are interested in the practice of memory with a focus on materiality, performativity and embodiment, you can download this Element FOR FREE until April 8th www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Have you seen that there is a new Cambridge Element in town? If you are interested in the practice of memory with a focus on materiality, performativity and embodiment, you can download this Element FOR FREE until April 8th www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Join us today at 4pm (UK time) for a CAHA Research Seminar on microhistory by the wonderful Dr Claudia Näser from @ucl.ac.uk There is still time to register for the Zoom link www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/hist...

We're delighted to welcome Leire Olabarria, Ass Prof in Egyptology @unibirmingham.bsky.social, as Chair of @theees.bsky.social! Read how Leire plans to contribute to our mission, making #Egyptology more inclusive and expanding our activities in London and Cairo. ⁠ ℹ️ www.ees.ac.uk/resource/gre...

Massive thanks to colleagues from the @griffithinstitute.bsky.social for an archive tour filled with wonderful things! My students loved every minute of it.

I took my lovely students on a trip to Oxford today and they went straight for the Middle Kingdom stelae at the Ashmolean. I wonder who they get this from 😇

What a privilege to have Dan-el Padilla Peralta with us in Birmingham giving not one but TWO lectures! It was an opportunity to reflect on the need for a more inclusive and critical approach to the ancient world

Seminar starting in 3, 2, 1!

It is a great pleasure to announce that my book Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife is now available in Open Access: bit.ly/3Xn9HfB Please download, read, and share with anyone who might be interested in new ways of thinking about Egyptian religion.

My PhD students are all working very hard to organise the next Birmingham Egyptology Symposium in June. Please circulate widely! Submission form: shorturl.at/ACATz Deadline: 14 March 2025

Almost there!!!

Join us for a lecture on Amelia B. Edwards by @cgraves88.bsky.social next week with a response by @momoulton.bsky.social as part of LGBTQ+ History Month @unibirmingham.bsky.social Monday 10 February 2pm UK time. In person or register for zoom link below www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/lgbt-...

Checking out whether the grass is greener and the sky is bluer on the other side 😎