Alice Stevenson
@alicestevenson.bsky.social
Archaeologist that digs museums & archives. Professor of Museum Archaeology at UCL Institute of Archaeology. Co-editor Museum Anthropology
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📚 I’m thrilled to share that “Researching a Rigged Game: Digital Approaches to Tracing the Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects”, edited by @dremilinesmith.bsky.social and myself, is now published and available as Open Access via @springernature.com.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
📚 I’m thrilled to share that “Researching a Rigged Game: Digital Approaches to Tracing the Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects”, edited by @dremilinesmith.bsky.social and myself, is now published and available as Open Access via @springernature.com.
🔗https://lnkd.in/gBCv2KDH
🔗https://lnkd.in/gBCv2KDH
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We need to utterly transform how we protect our heritage: more funding for museums, more education and disrupting our equation of heritage with monetary value. This isn't a one off. From our fiekds to our museum cases, antiquities are seen as objects for personal acquisition and monetary gain.
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Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem
Police are investigating a burglary at St Fagans museum in the early hours of Monday morning.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 7:29 AM
We need to utterly transform how we protect our heritage: more funding for museums, more education and disrupting our equation of heritage with monetary value. This isn't a one off. From our fiekds to our museum cases, antiquities are seen as objects for personal acquisition and monetary gain.
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All eyes on her! Dismantling 'Egypt' in UK museums artuk.org/discover/sto...
September 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
All eyes on her! Dismantling 'Egypt' in UK museums artuk.org/discover/sto...
Interesting paper from former @uclarchaeology.bsky.social PhD researcher Dr Tian Tian on histories of Egyptological knowledge production in China 👇
In Late Qing (1840–1912) antiquarianism, historical accounts and ancient scripts were prioritised over all else.
This extended to the study of other cultures, with rubbings of ancient Egyptian monuments providing a unique perspective on Egyptology 2/2
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
This extended to the study of other cultures, with rubbings of ancient Egyptian monuments providing a unique perspective on Egyptology 2/2
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
June 25, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Interesting paper from former @uclarchaeology.bsky.social PhD researcher Dr Tian Tian on histories of Egyptological knowledge production in China 👇
“The last three to four months has been the biggest flood of antiquities trafficking I have ever seen, from any country, ever.”
://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/08/looted-from-syria-sold-on-facebook-antiquities-smuggling-surges-after-fall-of-assad?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/08/looted-from-syria-sold-on-facebook-antiquities-smuggling-surges-after-fall-of-assad?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Looted from Syria, sold on Facebook: antiquities smuggling surges after fall of Assad
Collapse of once-feared security apparatus, coupled with widespread poverty, has triggered a gold rush
www.theguardian.com
June 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
“The last three to four months has been the biggest flood of antiquities trafficking I have ever seen, from any country, ever.”
://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/08/looted-from-syria-sold-on-facebook-antiquities-smuggling-surges-after-fall-of-assad?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/08/looted-from-syria-sold-on-facebook-antiquities-smuggling-surges-after-fall-of-assad?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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SMA has responded to calls for changes to legislation and practice regarding human remains, by collaborating with several organisations to agree a joint statement on on the retention, display, and provision of access to human remains from British archaeological contexts. socmusarch.org.uk/news/
News | Society for Museum Archaeology
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May 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
SMA has responded to calls for changes to legislation and practice regarding human remains, by collaborating with several organisations to agree a joint statement on on the retention, display, and provision of access to human remains from British archaeological contexts. socmusarch.org.uk/news/
New exhibition now open @hornimanmuseum.bsky.social part of our @ukri.org AHRC project Mobilising Collections for Institutional Change
scenenow.com/ArtsAndCultu...
scenenow.com/ArtsAndCultu...
‘All Eyes on Her!’: Reclaiming Egyptian Womanhood in This London Show
This exhibition at Horniman Museum calls for the reclamation of Egyptian artefacts, as well as our narrative.
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May 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
New exhibition now open @hornimanmuseum.bsky.social part of our @ukri.org AHRC project Mobilising Collections for Institutional Change
scenenow.com/ArtsAndCultu...
scenenow.com/ArtsAndCultu...
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Chapter 1 introduces the excellent work of our collaborators and reflects on how and why Med archaeology collections were formed in the region. I hope that this volume encourages more reflection on the value of these heritages in dialogue with the First Nation's cultures of their new homelands. 📜🏺🏛
Out now! A collaborative volume that explores provenance, pedagogy, participatory programming and ethics for managing ancient Mediterranean collections in this region by #museum experts and researchers. 🏺📜🖼🏛
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
Mediterranean Collections in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand | Pers
This volume brings together academics and museum professionals responsible for ancient Mediterranean collections across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand to
www.taylorfrancis.com
May 9, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Chapter 1 introduces the excellent work of our collaborators and reflects on how and why Med archaeology collections were formed in the region. I hope that this volume encourages more reflection on the value of these heritages in dialogue with the First Nation's cultures of their new homelands. 📜🏺🏛
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@dremilinesmith.bsky.social and I give some of our thoughts on the provenance of lots offered at TEFAF this year hyperallergic.com/997650/champ...
Champagne, Caviar, and Provenance Gaps at TEFAF Maastricht
Despite efforts to improve vetting procedures, the persistence of vague ownership points to an industry still grappling with its past.
hyperallergic.com
March 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
@dremilinesmith.bsky.social and I give some of our thoughts on the provenance of lots offered at TEFAF this year hyperallergic.com/997650/champ...
And to his co-curator, @uclarchaeology.bsky.social museum studies graduate Trish Robert’s 👏🏻 well done both!
When a #millennial curates an Egyptology exhibition 🤘
Huge congratulations to Ben Hinson & team on the incredible #MakingEgypt exhibition at the Young V&A. Go see it!
www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/...
#Egypt #Museums #London
Huge congratulations to Ben Hinson & team on the incredible #MakingEgypt exhibition at the Young V&A. Go see it!
www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/...
#Egypt #Museums #London
February 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
And to his co-curator, @uclarchaeology.bsky.social museum studies graduate Trish Robert’s 👏🏻 well done both!
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The Museo Egizio (Egyptian Museum) in Turin has some really interesting collaborations with contemporary artists going on right now🏺https://www.museoegizio.it/en/explore/news/10584/
Ali Cherri and Sara Sallam: The First Contemporary Artists at the Museo Egizio
In light of its reflection on its role as a contemporary archaeological museum, the Museo Egizio, on the occasion of...
www.museoegizio.it
February 6, 2025 at 6:28 AM
The Museo Egizio (Egyptian Museum) in Turin has some really interesting collaborations with contemporary artists going on right now🏺https://www.museoegizio.it/en/explore/news/10584/
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UCL Press has just released War Essays, by Zainab Bahrani, the Edith Porada Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. It's open access, so download away!
@smh-historians.bsky.social
uclpress.co.uk/book/war-ess...
@smh-historians.bsky.social
uclpress.co.uk/book/war-ess...
War Essays
In this fascinating book, Zainab Bahrani charts the devastation, cultural cleansing and targeted erasure of Iraq’s past, and argues that the topics of archaeology, history and memory must be analysed ...
uclpress.co.uk
January 31, 2025 at 11:20 AM
UCL Press has just released War Essays, by Zainab Bahrani, the Edith Porada Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. It's open access, so download away!
@smh-historians.bsky.social
uclpress.co.uk/book/war-ess...
@smh-historians.bsky.social
uclpress.co.uk/book/war-ess...
Not just an open access book from @uclpress.bsky.social but also a lovely artefact! Got the physical copy today - colour pictures throughout & all. uclpress.co.uk/book/contemp...
January 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Not just an open access book from @uclpress.bsky.social but also a lovely artefact! Got the physical copy today - colour pictures throughout & all. uclpress.co.uk/book/contemp...
In which I question the oft-repeated claim that artistic intervention puts the past and present into dialogue. But which pasts? To what ends? Based on interviews with curators & artists, and reflections on not the end product but the process.
Congratulations to @alicestevenson.bsky.social ! Her #OpenAccess book Contemporary Art and the Display of Ancient Egypt published today. Read and download free at: ow.ly/Ciqp50U9bAH #AncientEgyptianArt #Curators
Contemporary Art and the Display of Ancient Egypt
Artistic interventions are now a popular means of delivering fresh perspectives on museum displays, including in galleries devoted to ancient Egypt. Installations are commonly said to put the past and...
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January 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
In which I question the oft-repeated claim that artistic intervention puts the past and present into dialogue. But which pasts? To what ends? Based on interviews with curators & artists, and reflections on not the end product but the process.
Publication day 🥳 one outcome from my @britishacademy.bsky.social mid-career Fellowship now OA & free to download 👇. uclpress.co.uk/book/contemp...
Contemporary Art and the Display of Ancient Egypt
Artistic interventions are now a popular means of delivering fresh perspectives on museum displays, including in galleries devoted to ancient Egypt. Installations are commonly said to put the past and...
uclpress.co.uk
January 16, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Publication day 🥳 one outcome from my @britishacademy.bsky.social mid-career Fellowship now OA & free to download 👇. uclpress.co.uk/book/contemp...
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Still time to apply. Join @nannonstevens.bsky.social and myself, addressing the record of the last Neanderthals in Britain.
Be part of a new era of research, testing assumptions and setting out a new agenda for discovery.
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Be part of a new era of research, testing assumptions and setting out a new agenda for discovery.
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Final call !! Apply for this funded PhD at University College London @UCLarchaeology.bsky.social on Establishing limits of Neanderthal presence in Britain.
Deadline 20th Jan 5pm Uk time
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/est...
Deadline 20th Jan 5pm Uk time
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/est...
January 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Still time to apply. Join @nannonstevens.bsky.social and myself, addressing the record of the last Neanderthals in Britain.
Be part of a new era of research, testing assumptions and setting out a new agenda for discovery.
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Be part of a new era of research, testing assumptions and setting out a new agenda for discovery.
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Sadly this is exactly the same experience I’ve had as a journal editor….
My very last issue (on ♿️) has now come out with BMJ Medical Humanities: I have stepped down from my role as Editor in Chief. There are a lot of factors—after 17 years editing two consecutive journals, it was time. But there’s more, and I feel we should talk about the climate of #academic publishing
January 15, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Sadly this is exactly the same experience I’ve had as a journal editor….
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New publication out today! 🏺🗃️
This is my argument for an economic history of heritage-making in African states over the past 40 years, and how this speaks to themes like sovereignty, commodification of tradition, and (of course) the idea of usable pasts >>
This is my argument for an economic history of heritage-making in African states over the past 40 years, and how this speaks to themes like sovereignty, commodification of tradition, and (of course) the idea of usable pasts >>
The Neoliberalisation of Heritage in Africa
Cambridge Core - Archaeology: General Interest - The Neoliberalisation of Heritage in Africa
www.cambridge.org
January 13, 2025 at 8:10 AM
New publication out today! 🏺🗃️
This is my argument for an economic history of heritage-making in African states over the past 40 years, and how this speaks to themes like sovereignty, commodification of tradition, and (of course) the idea of usable pasts >>
This is my argument for an economic history of heritage-making in African states over the past 40 years, and how this speaks to themes like sovereignty, commodification of tradition, and (of course) the idea of usable pasts >>
Thanks @coloursburntin.bsky.social for a great session. Lots of great projects, from @lisarandisi.bsky.social archaeological ephemera www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/proj... between object & archive, to
December 16, 2024 at 8:21 AM
Thanks @coloursburntin.bsky.social for a great session. Lots of great projects, from @lisarandisi.bsky.social archaeological ephemera www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/proj... between object & archive, to
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The story of Yusra, the Palestinian archaeologist, who discovered Tabun 1, the skull of a neanderthal, on Mount Carmel, has always stuck w/ me. I'm excited someone made a documentary about her. I hope it gets the support it needs. #archaeology #history
www.palestinefilminstitute.org/en/sheffield...
www.palestinefilminstitute.org/en/sheffield...
Yusra — Palestine Film Institute
After discovering a photo from the 1930s featuring an Arabic woman and a British archaeologist, director Salim Abu Jabal becomes intrigued: the Palestinian woman in the picture appears to have discove...
www.palestinefilminstitute.org
December 12, 2024 at 12:17 AM
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One day to go until @tag45.bsky.social
and our session 'Excavating the Collection'! Friday 13th starting at 14:00! Who's speaking you ask? More details below 👇
and our session 'Excavating the Collection'! Friday 13th starting at 14:00! Who's speaking you ask? More details below 👇
December 12, 2024 at 11:25 AM
One day to go until @tag45.bsky.social
and our session 'Excavating the Collection'! Friday 13th starting at 14:00! Who's speaking you ask? More details below 👇
and our session 'Excavating the Collection'! Friday 13th starting at 14:00! Who's speaking you ask? More details below 👇
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Counting down to @tag45.bsky.social ! I'm running the session 'Excavating the Collection: New Evolutions in the Archaeology of Museum Collections' this Friday 13th 14:00-16:30, and am so excited to be joined by
@alicestevenson.bsky.social
as discussant! For more info 👇
@alicestevenson.bsky.social
as discussant! For more info 👇
December 11, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Counting down to @tag45.bsky.social ! I'm running the session 'Excavating the Collection: New Evolutions in the Archaeology of Museum Collections' this Friday 13th 14:00-16:30, and am so excited to be joined by
@alicestevenson.bsky.social
as discussant! For more info 👇
@alicestevenson.bsky.social
as discussant! For more info 👇
Great to see this volume in the world. Edited vols like this take a lot of time & work so congrats to the editors (wrote my chapter while pregnant- now planning a 6th birthday party 🙃). Spotted a few other @uclarchaeology.bsky.social contributions too…
December 4, 2024 at 11:33 AM
Great to see this volume in the world. Edited vols like this take a lot of time & work so congrats to the editors (wrote my chapter while pregnant- now planning a 6th birthday party 🙃). Spotted a few other @uclarchaeology.bsky.social contributions too…
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[redoing this b/c my original post contained a wrong date!]
Interested in Victorian cultures of display or spectacle; collections; archives; exhibitions; museums; or galleries; or anything else related to EXHIBITING in literature, art, science, material culture, etc? Send us your abstract!
Interested in Victorian cultures of display or spectacle; collections; archives; exhibitions; museums; or galleries; or anything else related to EXHIBITING in literature, art, science, material culture, etc? Send us your abstract!
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The CFP for the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada's 2025 conference, EXHIBITING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, May 23-24 in Regina, Saskatchewan is up! Send us abstracts by Jan. 5. Travel grants available for students + underemployed/contingent faculty 👇
vsawc.org/events/
The CFP for the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada's 2025 conference, EXHIBITING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, May 23-24 in Regina, Saskatchewan is up! Send us abstracts by Jan. 5. Travel grants available for students + underemployed/contingent faculty 👇
vsawc.org/events/
VSAWC Conference 2025 – VSAWC
vsawc.org
November 29, 2024 at 2:27 PM
[redoing this b/c my original post contained a wrong date!]
Interested in Victorian cultures of display or spectacle; collections; archives; exhibitions; museums; or galleries; or anything else related to EXHIBITING in literature, art, science, material culture, etc? Send us your abstract!
Interested in Victorian cultures of display or spectacle; collections; archives; exhibitions; museums; or galleries; or anything else related to EXHIBITING in literature, art, science, material culture, etc? Send us your abstract!
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Yesterday, I went to the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology to do some research. (Thanks @lisarandisi.bsky.social).
Today is my daughter Emily's 10th birthday. What I found made me rethink what I know & understand how I feel.
Warning: mention of baby loss
www.debbiechallis.com/post/ephemer...
Today is my daughter Emily's 10th birthday. What I found made me rethink what I know & understand how I feel.
Warning: mention of baby loss
www.debbiechallis.com/post/ephemer...
Ephemera in the Archives: Beads, Babies and Bought
Rethinking what and how I know the past through an unexpected piece of ephemera in the archives of an Egyptian museum.
www.debbiechallis.com
November 26, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Yesterday, I went to the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology to do some research. (Thanks @lisarandisi.bsky.social).
Today is my daughter Emily's 10th birthday. What I found made me rethink what I know & understand how I feel.
Warning: mention of baby loss
www.debbiechallis.com/post/ephemer...
Today is my daughter Emily's 10th birthday. What I found made me rethink what I know & understand how I feel.
Warning: mention of baby loss
www.debbiechallis.com/post/ephemer...