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Francesco Ripanti
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Assistant Professor in Heritage and History at the University of Birmingham | Archaeology, heritage, public participation, wellbeing
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✨ It was a real pleasure to attend the European Huntington Association Conference this year in Bucharest, and to contribute to the session "Time, Temporality, Culture and Wellbeing", co-organised with Giorgos Papantoniou.
September 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Glad to see my research on #heritage and #wellbeing on the @unibirmingham.bsky.social website! An outline of the LOGGIA project in a nutshell

www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/dr...
Heritage sites as spaces for promoting mental health - University of Birmingham
Dr Francesco Ripanti explores the importance access to heritage sites has in mental wellbeing.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
July 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Campus 3K: ✅
A 15-min run made my day
June 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Glad to be back in Dublin and take part in the workshop, ‘Cypro-centric Approaches to Teaching Ancient Cyprus: Practical, Creative and Experiential Pedagogies for Engaging with Landscapes and Material Culture’ at Trinity College.

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May 29, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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I am so happy that this is the first parcel to arrive in my new university box!

@sabrinahiggins.bsky.social it looks fantastic!
March 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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📢 Breaking news! Our chapter "Lasting
Impressions: Archaeology and Community Engagement
in the Xeros River Valley (Cyprus)" is out! 🎉

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March 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Happy 10th birthday to the Ea-Nasir complaint tablet meme! A glorious decade of memes, mashups, merchandise, erotic fanfic, real-life copper fraud, and pilgrimages to the British Museum. Thread 🧵:
hand holding a sticker reading "well behaved copper ingot merchants rarely make history".
February 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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The #EAA2025 CfP deadline has been extended to 10/2!

Involved in an initiative to benefit people and places through #archaeology? There is still time to submit a paper for session 154, organised by the EAA Public Benefits of Archaeology Advisory Committee, of which I am proud to be a member!
The image includes the abstract of the session, with keywords and organisers. The same information are available on the EAA 2025 website.
February 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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My sunny Sunday is at Winterbourne House & Garden, preparing for Thursday's Heritage Interpretation activity.
February 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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🎉 Exciting news! I am thrilled to embark on a new academic chapter as Assistant Professor in Heritage and History at the University of Birmingham. Here's to new beginnings and inspiring journeys ahead!
A photo taken on a sunny day with me in the foreground holding my new university card and Old Joe, the University of Birmingham's standing tower, in the background.
January 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Sunday afternoon at #Newgrange

#archaeology #Ireland
A view of Newgrange from afar with a tree in the foreground A view on the bend of the river Boyne, under a clear sky A view of Newgrange from the side A view of the quartz wall
November 24, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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Some photos from the #Minecraft session on the Tower of Alaminos in Cyprus held as part of the 21st meeting of Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology at Trinity College Dublin

#archaeology #cyprus
Archaeologist playing Minecraft on a laptop using a joystick. In front of her, two people are playing Minecraft on their laptops, having fun A group of 10 people are grouped around a table and they are looking at three players enjoying Minecraft on their laptops. They all seem to be very focused on the game An archaeologist providing information to another archaeologist on how to play Minecraft. The photo does not show the screen but only the two archaeologists An image of the room of the conference with the main screen in the background and people sitting on their seats
November 22, 2024 at 10:13 PM
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The 21st meeting of Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology is ongoing at Trinity College Dublin.
If you are interested in joining online, please visit pocadublin24.wordpress.com
#archaeology #cyprus
November 21, 2024 at 11:48 AM
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The program for the Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology conference (POCA2024) which kicks off later today. I believe zoom registration is still possible. Always inspiring to see the work of the next generation of Cypriot archaeologists
🏺 #archaeology
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Conference program over four pages
November 20, 2024 at 12:23 PM
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The Postgraduate Cypriot #Archaeology Conference is an annual meeting of young researchers in #Cyprus. This year, I am one of the co-organisers and I thought about including a #Minecraft corner where participants can interact with a Cypriot heritage site, the Tower of Alaminos.Let's see how it goes!
Flyer of the activity "The Tower of Alaminos in Minecraft", happening within the Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology conference this week at Trinity College Dublin. The flyer portrays the medieval tower recreated in Minecraft, with some information about the event and the logos of the institutions supporting the project.
November 19, 2024 at 10:42 AM
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Hi Bluesky, this is Francesco! I am an archaeologist who likes to explore different ways in which society makes sense of the past.

For the last two years, I have been researching how #archaeology can impact people's #wellbeing with a focus on vulnerable groups
Francesco reading at the Rose Garden - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
November 16, 2024 at 3:26 PM