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Christine Johnston
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Archaeologist of bronze age people and pots and environment 🏺public history and pedagogy with Peopling the Past
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1 more week until "Cities on the Edge: Documenting, Preserving, and Teaching Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan, and Palestine"!

Registration is free – online option available🙏

Program & registration link: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/c...

#CulturalHeritage #Museums
Program flyer with event time and location information, as well as images of endangered heritage
October 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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1st for me – I'm sharing an article preprint given the relevance and immediacy of the issues around AI and its impacts.

Article focuses on AI literacies in humanities fields and the broad / immense social and environmental impacts that algorithmic systems are already having

doi.org/10.35542/osf...
Screenshot of the article abstract, which can be found by following the link to the article in the post
October 10, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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August 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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I have withdrawn my in-person participation from the @asor-research.bsky.social conference
Despite the undeniable genocide, scholasticide, and cultural heritage destruction happening in Palestine, and despite the clear complicity of universities and archaeology in the ongoing atrocities and longer-term oppression of Palestinian people (most recently noted in Francesca Albanese's recent UN report, "From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide", July 2025), the ASOR program includes not only 17 papers authored / co-authored by members of the Israel Antiquities Authority, but also numerous others authored by those working at institutions with demonstrated ties to Palestinian oppression or located in occupied territories. It is particularly deceitful to have accepting scholars working at universities in occupied territories (e.g., Ariel University in the occupied West Bank) while listing them as "Independent Researchers" (screenshots in comments below from the ASOR program and the Ariel University's Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology profiles page). In light of this, I have withdrawn my in-person participation from the conference.
August 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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which means that the true proportion is higher given the incorrect classification of children, medics, and journalists as combatants
Headline from the Guardian from August 21 2025 stating that Israel's own records show that 83% of the deaths in Gaza have been civilians
August 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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What a great way to spend a Saturday! Some excellent speakers and conversations--videos should be posted on the site in the future

Huge thanks to all the organizers and speakers!
Event poster for the long arc of fascism teach-in held on April 19, 2025, with a list of speakers and supporting institutions from the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University.
April 20, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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April 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Very excited for this Saturday's lecture! If you are interested in Egyptian cultural heritage and the antiquities trade, you won't want to miss it!

Register here (free for members & non-members): wwu-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#ArceVancouver #StolenFragments #CulturalHeritage #Papyri #Sappho
February 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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ARCE-Van lecture tomorrow—Sat Jan 25 at 12pm PT—Dr. Tom Landvatter on "Ritual and Imagined Landscapes at Ptolemaic Abydos"
Register here: wwu-edu.zoom.us/.../register...

#ARCE #ARCEVancouver
January 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Excited for our first ARCE Vancouver lecture of the year!

Join us Saturday Sept 23rd at 12pm PDT for a lecture by Dr. Danielle Candelora on Religious Identities at Tell el Dab'a.

You can register here: wwu-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Woman examines and ancient Egyptian coffin in a museum with a flashlight
September 15, 2023 at 12:30 AM
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Two more bucket list sites!! The Piazzale delle Corporazioni at Ostia and the Etruscan necropolis at Cerveteri ❤️❤️

Tivoli wasn't bad either 🏛️
Woman smiling in front of a row of mosaics with building remains beside Path with large round burial mounds Path with large round burial mounds
September 9, 2023 at 7:14 PM
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Big checkmark on my archaeology bucket list--the Nile Mosaic at Praeneste🐊🦛🐅🐢💗
Woman smiling in front of large mosaic showing the Nile in antiquity
September 7, 2023 at 12:07 PM
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I am OBSESSED with this sculpture by Simone Benedetto at @liquidartsystem in Positano 🙌
www.liquidartsystem.com/artworks/8904/
Dark naked human figure wearing gold lion head crawling off of a pedestal
September 2, 2023 at 6:47 PM
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The best cat from today's visit to Pompeii. Seen guarding the Lupanar
great cat yawning and stretching on marble countertop
August 28, 2023 at 5:56 PM
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this is heartbreaking and infuriating
Sign reading Trans Rights are Human Rights in blue, pink, and white lettering
August 17, 2023 at 1:24 AM
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First post: happy birthday Libby 🎈🐕💗
Black dog sitting and waiting for a treat with "Libby 4" written on it
August 8, 2023 at 12:16 AM