The SAAH Wednesday Seminar Team would like to invite everyone to our talk this Wednesday 21st May. Our speaker will be Dr Heather Keeble presenting ‘How to Get Ahead in Archaeology: Using Book Reviews to Build Communities and Careers in Nineteenth-Century British Archaeology’.

📚SAAH's BODY-POLITICS project have just published the first interdisciplinary study on pregnancy in the Viking Age. Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢Join us for our seminar on Wed 14th May at 5pm when Gabrielle Russo will be presenting: '"He brought justice to al-Shām after a stretch of corruption”: Local Leadership and Revitalisation in al-Buhturī’s (d.897) Poems for Khumārawayh (d.896)’. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/ap/t-59584e8...

👩‍🎓Ever wondered what you can do with a degree in Ancient History? 🎥Check out this YouTube video from one of our graduates Claire Jackson which explores how her degree helped her discover a passion for sharing history in innovative and accessible ways. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD8t...

👨‍🎓Join us for our research seminar at 4pm today, given by Dr Andriy Danylenko of Pace University, New York on 'The Slavic Slaves in al-Andalus & Ifrīqīyah: A Case of Linguistic Hybridization in the Late First Millennium'. 💻To join online: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/ap/t-59584e8...

📢We’re delighted to announce the Term 3 programme for the hybrid Wednesday Research Seminars at 5pm each week. 👇 We'll post the Teams link here before each seminar.

*PUBLIC LECTURE* On 30 April, Prof Andriy Danylenko (Pace University, NY) will be giving a public lecture on 'The Slavic Slaves in al-Andalus & Ifrīqīyah: A Case of Linguistic Hybridization in the Late First Millennium', hosted by the DoSSE project & the University of Leicester. Details below ⬇️

📻Tune in to hear our very own Dr Kathryn Tempest discuss the Gracchi and the fall of the Roman Republic on #BBC #Radio4 programme 'In Our Time' tomorrow morning: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

📢NEWSFLASH! We've joined forces with #TimeTeam @timeteam.bsky.social to profile student experience on their first fieldschool excavating a #Roman #villa in #Leicestershire. 🎥Tune in on Saturday at 7pm when the episode will air on Time Team's YouTube channel. (www.youtube.com/c/TimeTeamOf...).

Thurs 3 April 16:15 in the Meadows LT for our ArchSoc/OneHealth Archaeology seminar is @thehem.bsky.social@archanchistleic.bsky.social ‘Body-politics: Untold stories of broken bodies from Iron & Viking-age Scandinavia’ #medievalsky #Vikings #EdinArch #archaeology 🇩🇰🇸🇪🇳🇴 @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social ⚔️☠️

👩‍🎓Last week, our very own Dr Laura Basell gave a keynote lecture about the exciting fieldwork she directs on #Dartmoor Tor enclosures at the ‘Scales of Social, Environmental and Cultural Change in Past Societies’ conference at #Kiel University, Germany. #archaeology #neolithic #tors

🍰Yesterday was the annual Great Greek Monument Bake Off featuring edibles based on the content of Janie Masséglia's third-year module AH3082 Great Greek Monuments. 🏆Star Baker was Gen, with lemon & poppy seed 'Soul Cakes' inspired by the images of human souls on white ground lekythoi. Great work!

👑"...Since then people just know where Leicester is..." 👑 📆This week marks ten years since Richard III's reinterment at #Leicester Cathedral. 📰Read more about the Richard III effect in this #BBC article: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #archaeology #richardiii #universityofleicester

👨‍🎓Our very own Prof. Ben Jervis gave the keynote at a conference called 'Looking at things differently. New Materialist approaches in Archaeology' in Mainz, Germany last week. ❓He explored how the application of innovative theory can destabilise our perceptions of urban life in medieval England.

📢On 26th March at 5pm Prof. Cyprian Broodbank will deliver our Wednesday seminar on ‘Oued Beht (Morocco): New light on the later prehistoric dynamics of Mediterranean Africa’. Join online with the following link: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/ap/t-59584e8...

📢Check out PhD student Kayt Hawkin's article on the function of a range of vessels traditional identified as Roman infant feeding bottles in the journal 'Childhood in the Past'. 📷Image credit: Colchester & Ipswich Museums www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢This week Prof. Cyprian Broodbank will deliver our Wednesday seminar on ‘Oued Beht (Morocco): New light on the later prehistoric dynamics of Mediterranean Africa’. 🍰There will be cake at 4.30pm & the hybrid seminar will start at 5pm. Check out our Facebook page for the Teams link!

The Herodotus Helpline is delighted to share details of its spring/summer 2025 edition of talks! All talks are freely open to everybody. Just register at [email protected] #Herodotus @classicsforall.bsky.social @archanchistleic.bsky.social

🎉🎉🎉Congratulations to SAAH doctoral student Kai Francis who passed his piratical #PhD this month with minor corrections. 👨‍🎓His thesis explores how real campaigns against #pirates turned into the stuff of rhetoric within the discourse of Rome's emerging imperial power. 🎉🎉🎉 #romanpirates

📢The #Heritage Hub’s #Celebration of Heritage Event will take place on Sat. 22 March 2025 11am-4pm at Students’ Union (Percy Gee Building), University of #Leicester. 🏛Explore our campus heritage and collections and discover and celebrate the rich history and heritage of our city and region!

📣 Our work with Palestinian colleagues in monitoring heritage damage in #Gaza is mentioned as part of an article out in @theguardian.com:👇🏻 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social @arcdurham.bsky.social @archanchistleic.bsky.social

🎉We've just heard that the School have been ranked 40th in the world for Archaeology in the QS World University Rankings by Subject for 2025. Not only that, we've climbed 10 places in the rankings since last year! Well done everyone!🎉 www.topuniversities.com/university-s...

🎥For those of you who couldn't make it on the day, we've now uploaded a video to YouTube of the ceremony which renamed the home of Archaeology, Ancient History and Museum Studies as the Kathleen Kenyon Building. Check it out here: youtu.be/MzZRQTno2C0

📢Register now for an exciting workshop on the Global Levant during the Middle Ages to be held at UoL on 27th-28th March. The workshop is organised by Dr Carmen Ting in collaboration with the Council for British Research in the Levant. 💻For more information, visit: www.cbrl.ac.uk/event/global...

📢Our speaker at this week's Wednesday seminar will be Dr Gwendoline Maurer presenting ‘Reassessing Kura-Araxes pastoral practices and mobility in the Levant & Caucasus using zooarchaeology, ZooMS & stable isotope analysis’. 📚12th March @ 5pm George Porter LT A or online. See Facebook for the link!

Here's a few more images from our event on Friday where we renamed our building the Kathleen Kenyon Building in honour of a trailblazing archaeologist and #InternationalWomensDay. There were funny speeches, delicious cakes, amazing cartoons and beautiful banners galore!

📢Today, the home of our Schools of #Archaeology & Ancient History & Museum Studies has been renamed the Kathleen Kenyon Building, the first academic building on campus to be named after a woman. 🏛️ le.ac.uk/news/2025/fe... 📷 UCL Institute of Archaeology, CC BY 4.0 #InternationalWomensDay

❓Want to know more about ancient Mesopotamia? 👩‍🎓Take a fascinating trip there with Dr Selena Wisnom in her lecture on the Library of Ancient Wisdom which was given as part of the Literary Leicester Festival 2025: 💻https://soundcloud.com/artshumlaw/sets/literary-leicester-2025

🏰Recently, our 1st years visited Kenilworth Castle for a rather soggy fieldtrip to consolidate their study of #castles in the medieval and post medieval world. 🥧After looking at gatehouses, gardens and great halls they all went for a much needed warm pub lunch! #modulemonday #archaeology

📢Our research seminar this week will be delivered by Dr Lenore Thompson on 'Rethinking Indigenous copper use in the Pacific Northwest during the fur trade and colonial periods.' 🏛The seminar will be in George Porter LT A at 5pm. 💻For those attending online, the Teams link is on our Facebook page.

📢On April 28th, SAAH's Prof David Mattingly will give the Annual lecture for the Leicester Literature and Philosophical Society. He will reflect on how his view of the Roman empire has changed over the course of his career. 🎟For more info & to book: www.leicesterlitandphil.org.uk/event-5760241

.📢Our Research seminar this week will be delivered by Dr David Gange from the University of Birmingham presenting ‘Rowing into Memory: Traditional Boats and Cultural Revivals in the North Atlantic’. 💻The hybrid seminar begins at 5pm in George Porter LT A. For a Teams link, visit our Facebook page.

Dr Selena Wisnom is giving a talk as part of the Leicester Literary Festival to launch her new book: 'The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History'. The talk will be at UoL in Ken Edwards LT3. To book a free ticket visit: www.tickettailor.com/events/literaryleicester/1581016

This week's Wednesday seminar speaker is Dr Thomas Matthews Boehmer presenting ‘Nuptiality in the #Roman North: a new perspective’. The hybrid seminar will begin at 5pm (UK Time) - for a link see our Facebook page. For those attending in person, we are holding it in George Porter LT A! #archaeology

This week in Irchester Coin Club, we all learned how to clean and conserve our coin assemblage guided by world-class conservator Pieta Greaves. The students were machines and managed to clean nearly 300 coins in 2 hours. No one licked any of them! #roman #coinage #collaboration

👩‍🎓Last week, SAAH's Prof. Ruth Harris co-convened an international symposium in Jaffna, Sri Lanka on 'Rethinking Heritage: Conflict, reconciliation and agency'. The event discussed how heritage is used in post-conflict situations & how to address nationalist agendas in heritage. #heritage #srilanka

📢This week's hybrid research seminar at 5pm on 22nd Jan. will be given by Dr Emma L Baysal and Dr Sera Yelozer on 'Decolonial perspectives on Identity and Archaeology: a view from within Türkiye'. 🏛To join online: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/ap/t-59584e8...

📢We're hoping to create the #numismatists of the future by launching some mini-internships for campus-based students at UoL. 💰Up to 10 students will have the opportunity to work as a team to clean, record, analyse and publish #Roman coins discovered during our fieldschool at Irchester, Northants.

🍿 Prepare the popcorn. SAAH is going to be Time Team famous! 🔥Get cosy and tune in at 7pm tonight on YouTube to find out more about the short film we've been making with @timeteam.bsky.social about our first year fieldschool excavating a Roman villa last May. 🎥: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTCK...

🎥Catch up with what SAAH students have found while excavating at Irchester, Northamptonshire on BBC2's Digging for Britain in January 2025. Something to watch on those long, dark January nights!

🎉We are delighted to announce that SAAH's Rachel Crellin has won the TAG Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Archaeological Theory. This is a new prize that was first awarded to Colin Renfrew last year. This year the committee chose to reward someone actively shaping the field today.🏆🏆

📢Recently, SAAH have started sharing some 3D scans of the artefacts from our projects via the Sketchfab platform. 🔎The collection is currently modest but is rapidly growing! 💻Do check in from time to time to see what’s new! Link: sketchfab.com/saah-uol

🎉And here's Brodhie Molloy's winning #TRAC poster, fully deserving of the Lisa Lodwick award. 🏆Congratulations!

🎉🎉🎉Massive congratulations to SAAH's Brodhie Molloy who has been awarded the Lisa Lodwick Award for the best poster presented at the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference for her poster ‘Bodies in and out of archaeology’.🎉🎉🎉

🚀I think we need to up our social media game. I'll just get the students to convert the Materials Lab into a replica Hoth and who knows perhaps we have the remains of a Tuantuan in our animal bone collection...

📢For our last Wednesday seminar, ULAS will be exploring the results of our student fieldschools this year. 💻Join us in person or online on Wednesday 11th at 5pm - the Teams link is posted on our Facebook page!

📚 SAAH's Dan Stewart has contributed a chapter on the Hellenistic Peloponnese to the volume 'New perspectives on the Hellenistic Peloponnese' out in hard copy next week! Check it out!

🎉This afternoon we're celebrating the research of new staff in SAAH with an afternoon of quick fire presentations. 🔎So far, we've heard about Olduvai Gorge, Brutus' fake letters, medieval inventories and Roman watery deposits and there's still much more to come.

✨We're pleased to welcome Prof. David Wigg-Wolf to SAAH. 💰He has been awarded an Honorary Chair by UoL and will be contributing to teaching on Roman Germany & digital numismatics over the coming year, while also advising on the development of a major grant proposal on Roman coinage!

✨This could be an early Christmas present✨ 👨‍🎓 Here's a fantastic PhD opportunity researching the funerary landscape of Falerii Novi with the ICS, the BSR and UCL.👩‍🎓