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Artemis Papatheodorou
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Ottoman & Mediterranean history / History of archaeology

Marie Sklodowska Curie Global Fellow; Research project: Modern Mediterranean Archaeological Regimes in a Global Context (MMARe)

Co-editor: Bulletin of the History of Archaeology
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Brown Üniversitesi Profesörü Felipe Rojas’ın "Roma Döneminde Anadolu’nun Farklı Geçmişleri" adlı kitabı Türkçe olarak kitapçılarda!
Felipe Rojas’s book "The Pasts of Roman Anatolia” now available in Turkish!
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#MMARe #MSCA #HistoryOfArchaeology
The cover page of Professor Rojas's book in Turkish translation.
January 29, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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Hot off the press! “The Multiple Antiquities of Greek Modernity;” C. Avlami & M. Konaris (eds.)
... explores the multiple perceptions of Hellenic antiquity in modern Greece
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The cover page of the book "The Multiple Antiquities of Greek Modernity"
January 28, 2026 at 3:46 AM
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Photos getting digitised @skillitercentre.bsky.social & @newnhamcollege.bsky.social (U of Cambridge), bringing to light aspects of life in Republican Türkiye with an archaeological twist. Looking forward!
newn.cam.ac.uk/newnham-news...
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Collection-based Research in the Humanities Grant for the College Archives and the Skilliter Centre
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January 22, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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A @brismes.bsky.social online webinar on “What’s in an Archive? The Colonial and Anticolonial Afterlives of MENA Archives” - 27 January 2026
For more information and to register: www.brismes.ac.uk/events/outre...
#MMARe #MSCA #HistoryOfArchaeology
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What’s in an Archive? The Colonial and Anticolonial Afterlives of MENA Archives
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January 20, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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Do join our MESA 2026 panel!
CfA - The Politics of Antiquities Collecting: A Comparative Approach to the Sale and Export of Antiquities in the Middle East
Deadline: January 30, 2026
#MMARe #MSCA #HistoryOfArchaeology
Picture of our call for abstracts with all the details.
January 15, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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Summer School CfA - Imperial Seas: Space and Societies from the Adriatic to the Black Sea. Places of memory, heritage, material and immaterial traces
www.efa.gr/call-for-app...
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Call for applications – Imperial Seas – EFA
www.efa.gr
January 13, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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CfP – History of Austrian/Austro-Hungarian archaeology in the Balkans and the eastern Mediterranean, mid-19th to mid-20th centuries (21-22 September 2026)
Deadline: 15 February 2026
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#MMARe #MSCA #HistoryOfArchaeology
The detailed call for papers
January 8, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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CfA - Travellers in Ottoman Lands: Voyagers, Landscapes, Cultural Memories
Thessaloniki, 20-24 April 2027
With quite a few topics of interest for the #HistoryOfArchaeology…
Deadline: 15 November 2026
travellersinottomanlands.com/next-seminar/
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The call for abstracts for the Travellers in Ottoman lands seminar to be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2027
January 6, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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Happy New Year! Academic life is shaped by colleagues who sometimes become friends. My friend & colleague Dr Ceren Abi is editing a vital sourcebook on Ottoman cultural history: networks.h-net.org/group/announ... Would you contribute? Shared for reference. #MMARe #MSCA #HistoryOfArchaeology
Call for papers for a sourcebook on cultural heritage in the Ottoman Empire | H-Net
Call for papers for a sourcebook on cultural heritage in the Ottoman Empire Call for contributions: On Ottoman Objects: A Sourcebook for the Cultural Heritage of the Ottoman Peoples Editor: Ceren AbiP...
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December 31, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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As the year draws to a close, let’s remember the moments when we joyfully slid down the slope of research, the countless uphill walks, and the times of restless limbo. Research brings great satisfaction, but it is also an arduous path. May 2026 bring more ease and peace! #MMARe #MSCA
A view of Central Park in New York with children sliding down a snow-clad slope, near Harlem Meer. Photo by Artemis Papatheodorou
December 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Thank you, this is fascinating! Could you, please, share the source?
December 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Ok, the writing is not very good but the wishes are heartfelt! #MMARe #MSCA #HistoryofArchaeology
Columbia University after a recent snowfall.
December 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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An interview @lifomag.bsky.social with one of the first Greek women archaeologists, Semni Karouzou: lifo.gr/culture/arxa... (in Greek)
Interesting how she talks about Westerners in comparison to Greeks… What do you think?
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Η Σέμνη Καρούζου, κορυφαία Ελληνίδα αρχαιολόγος, μιλά στον Στάθη Τσαγκαρουσιάνο | LiFO
Σαν σήμερα πέθανε η σπουδαία αρχαιολόγος, σύζυγος του Χρήστου Καρούζου. Μαζί θεμελίωσαν το Εθνικό Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο. Η συνέντευξη, που δόθηκε στο σπίτι της στην οδό Δεινοκράτους στις 4 Ιανουαρίου 1...
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December 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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CfP - “Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions” Symposium (Istanbul, 13-14 April 2026), organized by the British International Research Institutes & Sabancı University
biaa.ac.uk/cfp-ottoman-...
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Call for Papers for the “Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions” Symposium, 13-14 April 2026 Istanbul, Türkiye |
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December 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Hot off the press! Check out the latest - open access - article by Maximilian Georg @bhajournal.bsky.social. Somewhere there, at the margins of the Mediterranean too, people were working on past remains... #MSCA #MMARe #HistoryOfArchaeology
bhajournal.bsky.social Bulletin of the History of Archaeology @bhajournal.bsky.social · Dec 11
New publication from the BHA! Check out Maximilian Georg on "The ‘New Romans,’ a Prestigious Museum, and a ‘Bosnian’ Identity: Archaeology and Colonialism in Austro-Hungarian Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1878–1918." Available #OpenAccess: archaeologybulletin.org/articles/10..... Abstract 👇

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ustria-Hungary ruled Bosnia and Herzegovina, which had previously been under the Ottomans, from 1878 to 1918, under circumstances often described as ‘colonial.’ Austro-Hungarian rule was accompanied by extensive archaeological activities. This paper investigates how that archaeology was colonial in its purpose and practice. The Austro-Hungarians regarded Bosnia-Herzegovina as an archaeological ‘El Dorado,’ largely inaccessible in Ottoman times. While their occupation opened it up, archaeological remains now had to be saved from modernisation works as well as the ‘ignorance’ and ‘vandalism’ of local inhabitants. The new government emphatically supported the collection and excavation of archaeological objects across Bosnia-Herzegovina. It decreed their protection, while encouraging subordinate authorities and private citizens to make and report discoveries. Moreover, it established a Provincial Museum in the capital of Sarajevo, which exhibited and published prehistoric and Roman remains, and medieval tombstones. The objects were to teach the population their supposed Bosnian, pro-Habsburg identity, legitimise the Austro-Hungarian rulers as the new Romans, and demonstrate to Europe and the world the success of Austria-Hungary’s ‘civilising mission’ in an ‘oriental’ country. This ‘civilising mission’ under military occupation was the strongest indicator of an Austro-Hungarian colonialism. The individual archaeologists, most of whom came from other parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, worked in that colonial situation, whether they supported it or not. Although their finds were not exported to the imperial capital of Vienna, and their archaeology openly relied on local assistance, the science of archaeology served the government as one of the non-violent tools for its soft-power style of rule.
December 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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4th workshop on Women in the Archaeology of Greece
CfP (31.12.2025) - Women Archaeologists and War
Organized by @efathenes.bsky.social and @britschoolathens.bsky.social on 9 & 10 March 2026
www.bsa.ac.uk/events/call-...
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British School at Athens : Call for papers – Women Archaeologists and War
4th workshop on Women in the Archaeology of Greece Call for papers – Women Archaeologists and War When: 09 & 10 March 2026 Where: EFA conference room | Didotou 6, Athens & British […]
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December 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Conference - coming up! Exploring Reuse - Egypt, Mediterranea and the East (10-12 December, IFAO)
www.ifao.egnet.net/recherche/ma...
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IFAO - Manifestations scientifiques
L’IFAO fait partie du Réseau des Écoles françaises à l’étranger; il a pour vocation l’étude des cultures qui se sont succédé en Égypte depuis la préhistoire jusqu’à l’époque moderne.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Coming up on December 8! Panel discussion on the Ottoman Aegean and antiquities @britschoolathens.bsky.social covering local communities, Ottoman officials, foreign diplomats & so much more: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/archa...
Happy to have been part of this project!
#MMARe #MSCA #HistoryOfArchaeology
William Barlett, Rhodes, with the channel between the Islands and Asia Minor (1836), Wikimedia Commons From the BSA announcement: https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/archaeology-in-the-ottoman-aegean-consuls-culture-commerce/?fbclid=IwY2xjawOb_NdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE3SzlyTVVFMEJudG54dE5tc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHrZSGVcsU0mDwsf5R221XlAHJtoBfDGGGFkkuGJb1ZaXsHZRbVgMvhnzFUdc_aem_xK4IlV-OWH1eVH7V3b2AKA
December 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Just made OA, the rich photo collection of Fahreddin (Türkkan) Pasha (1868-1948) also offers a glimpse into monuments protected under the Ottoman legislation on antiquities. Here, the Comnenian fortification walls in Trebizond/Trabzon/Trapezounta. #MMARe #MSCA #HistoryOfArchaeology #ircica
French text on photograph: Salut de Trébizonde. Murailles des Comnènes. Editeur: Théodore Stylianides. English translation: Greetings from Trebizonde. Walls of the Comnenes. Editor: Theodore Stylianides. Source: https://openaccess.ircica.org/items/21274ed8-5428-4377-ad09-78f19e9a7905 For the Fahreddin (Türkan) Pasha photographic collection more broadly, see: https://openaccess.ircica.org/communities/73322694-d203-46e2-accf-0e94f437bf81
December 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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#Thanksgiving: Three months into my #MMARe #MSCA fellowship, I look back with gratitude to the people who made it possible over the years: my family, teachers, university professors, administrators, directors, supervisors, funders, colleagues... I’m grateful to all of them!
A pink rose in a vase standing on a festive table. Photo by Artemis Papatheodorou, Thanksgiving Day, 27 November 2025.
November 28, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Smiley faces after our #HistoryOfArchaeology panel at the #MESA Annual Conference. With two of my co-panelists, Dr Ceren Abi (left) who works on WWI restitution & Dr Nilay Özlü (right) who presented on her cataloguing of Ottoman Archive docs from the Imperial Museum. Two great projects! #MMARe #MSCA
In the corridors of the Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference following our successful panel on the history of Ottoman archaeology. With Dr Ceren Abi (left) and Dr Nilay Özlü (right).
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Ready for the #MESA Annual Conference where I will present on the archaeological laws of the Ottoman Principality of Samos, in a wonderful panel on the #HistoryOfArchaeology. Did you know that Samos adopted laws on antiquities nearly 15 years before Constantinople? Do join us for more! #MMARe #MSCA
mesa1966.bsky.social Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) @mesa1966.bsky.social · Oct 10
Connect, learn, and grow at MESA 2025. Register now and don't miss out! mesana.org/annual-meeti...
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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On the occasion of the #GEM opening… Did you know that the Principality of Samos could boast of a 200-odd collection of Egyptian antiquities donated to its museum by the Gizah Museum in 1898? #MMARe looks into this fascinating story of an inter-Mediterranean export. #MSCA #HistoryOfArchaeology
The Egyptian collection of Abbas Hilmi at the Old Museum in the Pythagoreion Highschool, Principality of Samos. Photograph taken in 1900. Source: Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον 27 (1972)
November 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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In 1859, when Prince Gkikas smuggled precious antiquities from the Principality of Samos to Moldavia & Wallachia, the islanders mobilized to get them back. And they did! #MMARe tries to shed light to this case. #InternationalDayAgainstIllicitTraffickinginCulturalProperty #MSCA #HistoryOfArchaeology
Excerpt from a meeting by the General Assembly of the Samians where they discussed the smuggling of antiquities from the island by Prince Gkikas. The original to be found at the Samos branch of the Greek General State Archives (20 [illegible month] 1859, 1α).
November 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Citizen restitution: ““I felt a special kind of satisfaction. I don’t even know how to describe it. … I felt like I had done something good.” An article on a singular object return: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...
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A Man Brought His Father’s ‘Piece of the Parthenon’ to Greek Officials. They Said It Was From an Even Older Temple in the Acropolis of Athens
The engraved marble fragment likely came from an archaic temple called the Hekatompedon, making it around 2,600 years old
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM