Please sign the #petition to save the wonderful Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Östasiatiska museet, 远东博物馆) which holds - among many other things - material from the earliest scientific archaeological excavations ever to be conducted in #China kampanj.skiftet.org/medelhavsmus...
Den här veckan i Uppsala
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Cover image for edited volume 'Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic'. Depicts detail of a gilt bronze statue of a Roman woman. Pergola, Italy. c. 70-30 BCE.
Book description: In the Roman Republic, elite women were legally permitted to control substantial assets – and many demonstrably were in direct control of their wealth. They were also the mothers, wives and daughters of the politicians who built Rome's empire and, in a time of high mortality, could find themselves running households that did not contain adult men. This volume explores the political and social consequences of elite female wealth. It combines case studies of individual women, such as Licinia, wife of C. Gracchus, Mucia Tertia, Fulvia and Octavia Minor, with broader surveys of the institutional frameworks and social conventions that constrained and enabled women's wealth and its consequences. The book contributes to the recent upsurge of interest in re-evaluating the role of women in Republican Rome and will be invaluable for scholars and students alike.
Catherine Steel and I are thrilled to announce the publication of our edited volume 'Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic': www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...
@universitypress.cambridge.org
#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
Yhteishaku mielessä?
Haluatko oppia ymmärtämään maailmaa syvällisesti? Kehittää kriittistä ajattelua? Hankkia relevanttia kielitaitoa ja muita tulevaisuuden taitoja?
Lähde opiskelemaan antiikintutkimusta!
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#Call for #Applications: #HumanPast #SCAS #Fellowships 2027-28 for both #early-career and senior #interdisciplinary researchers. Deadline: 1 June 2026. More information on our web: shorturl.at/VAAfl #humanpast #opportunity #genetics #archaeology #linguistics #prehistory @haam-community.bsky.social
I morgon i Göteborg
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On 17 + 18 July, a conference organised by our "Urban ROOTS" subcluster will focus on "Dynamics of urbanity. Configurations of boundaries in pre-modern cities". If you are conducting research in this area and would like to submit your own contribution, you can do so until 28 February!
#CallForPapers
Teologinen tiedekunta hakee tuntiopettajia kreikan kesäkursseille 2026.
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Todellinen identiteettisi on paljastunut!
Abstract deadline approaching!
Tieteessä tapahtuu -lehden mainio juttu Suomen Rooman-instituutin merkityksestä (by @uulis.bsky.social). Koko juttu suositeltavaa luettavaa. Tähän lainaan jutusta vain itseäni, koska tietenkin: 1/2
I was supposed to write this earlier but I forgot. A blog post about my SCAS seminar.
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Määräaikainen tutkijatohtorin paikka haettavana Suomen Rooman-instituutissa.
Is #inequality the price of "development"?
Many economists have long been guided by the idea that as societies become more "developed" they become more unequal. Our new paper challenges this idea.
History is not a one-way street. #Archaeology 🧵(1/4)
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Ave on mukana Tieteiden yössä! Torstaina 22.1. klo 18.00 järjestettävässä tilaisuudessa kuullaan, miten leijonat, temppelien pyhät kissat ja nykypäivän katukissat ovat kulkeneet ihmisen rinnalla antiikista meidän aikoihimme. Mukana myös valokuvanäyttely Kyproksen katukissoista. Ks. ohjelma:
Professori Christer Bruunin uusi tieteellinen monografiajulkaisu 𝘖𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘢 – 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺, 𝘗𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘙𝘰𝘮𝘦’𝘴 𝘗𝘰𝘳𝘵: academic.oup.com/book/61735
Check out this post-doc in landscape #archaeology here in York! This looks like amazing chance to engage with an understudied region, and build up critical African datasets, which can be used to address a whole host of #sustainability challenges.
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
A short blog post on my forthcoming workshop "Dynamics of inequality in the Ancient Mediterranean"
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This could be largely avoided if no one was allowed to give papers in their native language 🙃
En valitettavasti. Tässä on niin paljon kaikenlaista ensi vuodelle, että ei vaan mahtunut ohjelmaan, vaikka kaikkea mielenkiintoista siellä olisi.
This could be the ending of my next grant application.
”The present age is marked by rapid changes, humanitarian crises and cultural transitions, and requires that we not only draw on ancient and new knowledge, but also search for a profound wisdom capable of preserving and passing on to future generations what is truly essential.”
Kirjoitin hieman antiikin - ja miksei muunkin - eriarvoisuuden tutkimisesta. #gini
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Call for papers: ”Dynamics of Inequality in the Ancient Mediterranean” workshop 22-23 October 2026, Helsinki
I’m organizing a workshop called ”Dynamics of Inequality in the Ancient Mediterranean” (22-23 October 2026, Helsinki)
Here’s the CfP:
