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 😎