In a burning world I choose to do socially relevant research. Ever since my PhD I devoted my career to #warstudies. This volume is a wake up call. War is not the answer. In the aftermath there is both precarity and hope. #archaeology #war Forthcoming 2026 www.oxbowbooks.com/979888857246...

Congrats to Daniel who will be presenting his awarded work in session 208 on ancient Egyptian settlements starting today at 14h CET and co-organized by Eva Calomino and myself. #archaeology #settlements #egypt

The #EAA2025 Book Prize is now being presented by Robin Skeates on behalf of the Book Prize Selection Committee. In the Academic Book Prize the joint winners are: "Heritage and Healing in Syria in Iraq" (2024) by Zena Kamash and published my Manchester University Press 1/

| EXPOSITION ARCHÉO-SEXISME | Cette année, le colloque de l' @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social a lieu en ligne ! Si vous êtes inscrit.e, vous pourrez y retrouver l'exposition Archéo-Sexisme dans sa version anglaise en libre accès du 2 au 6 septembre 2025. 🎉 #EAA2025

My paper on #Egyptomania in Balkan turbo folk, chalga and rap just came out last week and it’s already attracting media attention 🤓 @issegyptomania.bsky.social #ancientegypt #turbofolk #chalga #hiphop #rap eualive.net/pharaohs-and...

Grateful for the inclusion of our @springer volume into this chronicle! Many thanks to @antiquity.ac.uk #Archaeologists should neither romanticise nor orientalise the past, but attempt to be self-reflective as much as possible. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Supporters of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party threw flares and firecrackers at anti-government protesters in Novi Sad, prompting police to intervene to end the standoff, a major escalation of nine-month-long protests in Serbia. #protest #novisad #belgrade #serbia #police

How long do we have? #cixinliu #wanderingearth

My paper on #Egyptomania in Balkan #turbofolk, #chalga, pop and rap is now published! 📖 The paper was presented at ISSE conference last year in August while I was staying in Cairo on my way to Port Said to work on the Suez Canal heritage project. www.academia.edu/128734394/_I...

Der seit über zwei Jahren tobende Bürgerkrieg im #Sudan hat auch eine deutsche Vorgeschichte. @romandeckert.bsky.social über das langjährige militärische Engagement im #Sudan und die zwielichtigen Waffenexporte Deutschlands. 👇 www.rosalux.de/news/...

Questions for Egyptologists with excellent knowledge of francophone Egyptology. 1. Did someone publish anything on racism and scientific racism in francophone Egyptology? 2. Do you know any examples comparable to those of Morton, Nott and Gliddon, Petrie, Reisner, Breasted and later? Many thanks!

Invitation to my evening lecture at the Egyptology Department and Egyptian Museum of the University in Bonn in less than 2 weeks! I will present the first results of my ongoing research project at @college-uaruhr.bsky.social #egyptology #actor-network-theory #latour #archaeology #ancientegypt

How do temporality, gender, class, and familial interdependencies shape life trajectories in Germany and Pakistan? Learn more about cross-cultural life-course research in this hybrid workshop on 14 July. The complete programme is now available: www.college-uaruhr.de/news-events/...

Prof. Villegas of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and prof. Caruso of the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional have come to Serbia for a conference accompanied by their under aged children. They have been arrested at the airport on accusations of terrorism!!! www.elespectador.com/educacion/re...

“The Çatalhöyük evidence now shows that such male-centered practices were not an inherent characteristic of early agricultural societies.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Gimbutas really deserves a posthumous apology.

Incredibly important publication for all archaeologists and heritage scholars! #archaeology #heritage #diversity

For those who missed my ARCE NY chapter lecture in April, here is a video recording #ancientegypt #egyptology #streets #settlements #archaeology youtu.be/9d_x9rDO_r8?...

In Foucault’s footsteps at College de France #ancientegypt #egyptology #archaeology #gender

📖 “Bodies that Mattered. Ancient Egyptian Corporealities“ edited by Dina Serova and myself can now be pre ordered! #egyptology #archaeology #body #ancientegypt www.sidestone.com/books/bodies...

Proud to have the opportunity to be the panel member of the Book Prize committee of the @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social for another 3 years! The role gives me the opportunity to read some of the most inspiring research in world #archaeology! Looking forward to be reading new submissions!

Looking forward to yet another conference on #gender in ancient #Egypt, this time the organizers invited contributions inspired by French theory. My talk will deal with masculinity utilizing the materialist feminist ideas of Monique Wittig. #egyptology

Bronze Age leprosy hitched rides along ancient copper and pottery trade route. www.science.org/content/arti...

Banaler #Militarismus. Zunehmend prägt militärisches Denken und Handeln gesellschaftliche Strukturen, Debatten und Denkmuster. Wir werfen in unserem neuen Dossier einen kritischen Blick auf die Folgen dieser Entwicklung und fragen nach Alternativen. 👇 www.rosalux.de/milit...

Immer mehr Menschen in Serbien unterstützen Studentenproteste gegen Präsident Vučić. Am Sonntag gab es Kundgebungen im ganzen Land. Die Bevölkerung des Balkanlandes wehrt sich vor allem gegen Korruption.

Peste, lèpre... Des chercheurs scrutent les microbes du passé. www.sciencesetavenir.fr/sciences/pes...

Hello, Our paper on enamel proteins from Paranthropus robustus has finally been peer reviewed, please have a read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Paranthropus robustus has been puzzling scientists since its discovery in 1938 in South Africa, where a high number of fossils have been found.

💫 Happy how the project presentation was received today at the @college-uaruhr.bsky.social colloquium!Great discussion from which my work will surely profit and a nice kick off for our workshop next week!Registration until Friday 👇 www.college-uaruhr.de/news-events/...

#FellowFriday: Meet our Senior Fellow Uros Matic @urosmatic.bsky.social, an #archaeologist and Egyptologist at the University of Graz. He tells us more about his research project and what he finds interesting about the Ruhr region. 👉Complete Q&A on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/colleg...

This Mother’s Day, explore how mothers shaped humanity—from Lucy to Çatalhöyük. Celebrate the legacy of our earliest nurturers. Read more: worldofpaleoanthropology.org/2025/05/11/m... #Paleoanthropology #AncientMothers #HumanEvolution #MothersDay

New funding opportunity for postdoctoral researchers at the University Alliance Ruhr #UARuhr to realise international research trips: Mobility Grants by the Research Academy Ruhr 🌍

Our booklet on Gender stereotypes in archaeology has been downloaded or read online 13079 times! You can check out for free @sidestone.bsky.social and also look up for some other great books! #gender #archaeology www.sidestone.com/books/gender...

In a radio interview on DLF Kultur, junior professor Elena Beregow talks about her article on "shed theory" and new aesthetics in #trap music, published in the journal 'POP. Kultur und Kritik', and the emotional dimension of interacting with #AI chatbots. www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/absurder-rap...

📌 Our workshop poster is now decorating the hallway of my alma mater :) @uni-muenster.de It’s a hybrid event at @college-uaruhr.bsky.social and you can register here for free until 29th of May👇 #multisensory #archaeology #bronzeage #ironage #egyptology www.college-uaruhr.de/news-events/...

I am especially excited because I will open this conference, organized by Romane Betbeze, with a key note lecture on intersectionality and #gender studies in #Egyptology. @humboldtuni.bsky.social @humboldt-foundation.de

You can already register for the hybrid workshop on multisensory approaches to palaces in Bronze and Iron Ages! Program follows! #archaeology #bronzeage #ironage #egypt #neareast #aegean #multisensory #interdisciplinary #egyptology

And now we are featured in @archaeologymag.bsky.social ! Stuart Tyson Smith Sarah Schrader @jaredcarballo.bsky.social Thanks for great team work! #bioarchaeology #nubia #sudan #gender #labordivision #interdisciplinary archaeology.org/news/2025/04...

❤️ My first journey to the US was a dream coming true!Grateful to Nisha, Vatsal, Gregory, Janice, Gaia, Anthony, Leah, Robyn, Jonny, entire ARCE, the guests, Harvard university, Salmagundi club and Brown university for being such wonderful and caring hosts!!! See you in November in Boston at ASOR!

Our paper in Journal of Anthropological Archaeology got featured in @livescience.com ! #archaeology #ancientSudan #ancientEgypt #alleyesonSudan www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

So happy how the ARCE NY chapter lecture went! Grateful to ARCE and the Salmagundi club hosts. See you back in November 💫

Happy how my first ARCE NE chapter lecture went! The Q&A was inspiring and it was nice to meet Harvard university students and hear about their studies and research! Grateful to Nisha Kumar and the entire ARCE NE team! 💫

In less than an hour my first ARCE New England chapter lecture hosted by Harvard University and titled “Imperialism and Gender in New Kingdom Egypt: An Intertextual Approach to Texts and Iconography of Violence” will start 💫

See you in New York on 1st April! I will talking for ARCE NY Chapter at the Salmagundi Club, Smith Library. The topic of the lecture are ancient Egyptian streets and I will present insights from my ongoing research, including some published and unpublished results.

US colleagues! I will be giving a series of lectures in person as part of the ARCE initiative end of March and beginning of April. It is my first time in the US and I am quite excited!

No shortage of historians and geographers of science feature in this story www.theguardian.com/science/2025... #histsci

#pumpaj! Largest antigovernment protest in Belgrade in the last few months! And it’s only a warm up for even larger event planned for tomorrow! Serbian students are giving lessons in how to deal with corrupt politicians! Keep the pressure! (PUMPAJ in Serbian) #serbia #belgrade

🌍 What do the bones of the people buried at Abu Fatima, a Bronze Age Nubian cemetery (2500–1500 BCE), reveal about learned body techniques and social roles in Kerma society? #archaeology #Nubia #ancientSudan #Sudan 📖 Read the full article here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our tandem project has been featured on the website of the Ruhr University Bochum! #archaeology #actornetworktheory #ancientegypt @college-uaruhr.bsky.social www.archwiss.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/aw/news/akt0...

Serbian police is now arresting journalists.

So proud to be a part of such a great team! #humanities #socialsciences Follow this page for more information and updates on our research and outreach activities!