Soms is het moeilijk uit te leggen waarom je van Amsterdam houdt. Maar toen ik gisteren een kroeg binnen wilde stappen om 21.15 en de barmedewerker de deur opendeed en op korzelige toon zei: 'is er iets???' wist ik het weer I🥰Amsterdam.
Poster titled BOYCOTT EAA-ATHENS, with a circle/slash crossing out the EAA 2026 Athens logo. This is an urgent call for all members of the archaeological community to join this boycott. Do not submit a session to the EAA until Eszter Banffy steps down as president of the EAA after her anti-democratic actions. There has been a concerted campaign of intimidation against individual members of the board, including large numbers of threatening and defamatory emails and individual participants, groups, and student volunteers have been intimidated. Even after close documentation of her shameful autocratic actions in the press and on social media, she refuses to step down. We cannot let this happen, this is not what we stand for as a community. Many departments and institutions already decided not to participate and submit sessions after it has become clear that the EAA has not resolved its issues. Do not submit a session until Banffy steps down. If you have already submitted a session, retract it.
BOYCOTT EAA-ATHENS 2026 🏺
This is not a BTC action but we are helping to disseminate this call, as the president of the EAA has shown great willingness for reprisals.
Please distribute widely, particularly to offline colleagues.
Opening soon! Exhibition I co-curated in Amsterdam on slavery in colonized Suriname and antiquity. www.allardpierson.nl/en/calendar/...
Response from the BDS-movement (Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel) on the EAA. If you are a member, go to the AMBM today and voice your opinion!
Archaeologists Against Apartheid urgent call for action! We are not anonymous. We are members of both the EAA&global archaeological community and more committed than ever to holding our representative organisations to account and anti-democratic influences.
aaaeaastatementseptember3rd.tiiny.site
Yeah great right, an 18 hour window of thinking that we showed a little bit of humanity towards thousands being murdered..
Board members of the EAA showed a bit of humanity towards a genocide and was shot down. Please reconsider your membership or attending, please speak up, please spread this:
blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
Coming (finally) with Oxford University Press this fall!
Working at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam this summer as co-curator on an exhibition about ancient and Transatlantic slavery. This is a sales contract of an enslaved; soul-crushing to see some of the objects we curate, but very grateful to be able to tell this story. More soon!
Our last of three keynotes revealed! 'Theory from below' by Masen Iwaisi, 'Just do Something' by Sadie Watson, and 'Fail Better' by Gabe Moshenska. Couldn't be happier about this line-up: great things come in three and TAG keynotes are multivocal. tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/keynote-s...
CALL FOR PAPERS! Proud to present our phenomenally creative, challenging, inspiring TAG session-programme! Hauntology, activism, river walks, Gaza, storytelling, development-led archaeology. In short: theory in action! (so submit a paper before August 1)
tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-...
Setting up the classroom for a slow archaeology & storytelling workshop. I used two prehistoric objects (at least for the students): rotary phone and an ammonite :) Some amazing myths were made!
And it only gets better from there :)
I loved it! It's a wild ride you will not regret
That's the sweetest compliment! And I do feel that the majority of my work is taken up by chasing phantoms of some sort..
I was asked to appear on BBC Uncanny to say something about Roman ghosts in York! It was fun, though they cut all critical and nuanced comments on ghost stories and archaeology. Reduced to 10 sec. 'here is an archaeologist who points out a Roman road, so the story must be true'😂 lesson learnt.
Text on image: Keynote speaker Mazen Iwaisi, Queen's University Belfast. Paper title: Theory from below: Family Museums as Spaces of Knowledge Production and Epistemological Resistance in Palestine Bio: Mazen Iwaisi is a Palestinian archaeologist whose work is focused on the geopolitics of Palestinian archaeology practice and theory. He has obtained his PhD from Queen's University Belfast on the concept of archaeo-politics in the making of the Palestinian National Spatial Plan —his research centres on archaeology and cultural heritage and how they relate to spatial and urban planning.
It's time to announce our first keynote speaker for this year's TAG: Dr Mazen Iwaisi!
He will be speaking on how local Palestinian communities in the West Bank embody theory in action through family-based museums! Check it out here: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/keynote-spea...
EXTENDED DEADLINE: Join over 300 archaeologists & cultural heritage workers worldwide. Sign the open letter to WAC, urging them to pledge no ties with apartheid Israel or its complicit institutions. WAC respected the boycott of apartheid South Africa in 1986. Why not now?
#Archaeology #🏺
A bullhorn on a circle background with the Ouse and Foss. Around the outside it says "Theory in Action TAG York 2025"
Uh oh...TAG York 2025 logo and theme just dropped!
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