School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester
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The SAAH Wednesday Seminar Team would like to invite everyone to our talk this Wednesday 21st May. Our speaker will be Dr Heather Keeble presenting ‘How to Get Ahead in Archaeology: Using Book Reviews to Build Communities and Careers in Nineteenth-Century British Archaeology’.
May 20, 2025 at 8:33 AM
The SAAH Wednesday Seminar Team would like to invite everyone to our talk this Wednesday 21st May. Our speaker will be Dr Heather Keeble presenting ‘How to Get Ahead in Archaeology: Using Book Reviews to Build Communities and Careers in Nineteenth-Century British Archaeology’.
📚SAAH's BODY-POLITICS project have just published the first interdisciplinary study on pregnancy in the Viking Age.
Check it out here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Check it out here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
May 13, 2025 at 9:24 AM
📚SAAH's BODY-POLITICS project have just published the first interdisciplinary study on pregnancy in the Viking Age.
Check it out here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Check it out here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📢Join us for our seminar on Wed 14th May at 5pm when Gabrielle Russo will be presenting: '"He brought justice to al-Shām after a stretch of corruption”: Local Leadership and Revitalisation in al-Buhturī’s (d.897) Poems for Khumārawayh (d.896)’. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/ap/t-59584e8...
May 13, 2025 at 9:16 AM
📢Join us for our seminar on Wed 14th May at 5pm when Gabrielle Russo will be presenting: '"He brought justice to al-Shām after a stretch of corruption”: Local Leadership and Revitalisation in al-Buhturī’s (d.897) Poems for Khumārawayh (d.896)’. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/ap/t-59584e8...
👨🎓Join us for our research seminar at 4pm today, given by Dr Andriy Danylenko of Pace University, New York on 'The Slavic Slaves in al-Andalus & Ifrīqīyah: A Case of Linguistic Hybridization in the Late First Millennium'.
💻To join online: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/ap/t-59584e8...
💻To join online: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/ap/t-59584e8...
April 30, 2025 at 10:33 AM
👨🎓Join us for our research seminar at 4pm today, given by Dr Andriy Danylenko of Pace University, New York on 'The Slavic Slaves in al-Andalus & Ifrīqīyah: A Case of Linguistic Hybridization in the Late First Millennium'.
💻To join online: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/ap/t-59584e8...
💻To join online: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/ap/t-59584e8...
📢We’re delighted to announce the Term 3 programme for the hybrid Wednesday Research Seminars at 5pm each week.
👇 We'll post the Teams link here before each seminar.
👇 We'll post the Teams link here before each seminar.
April 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
📢We’re delighted to announce the Term 3 programme for the hybrid Wednesday Research Seminars at 5pm each week.
👇 We'll post the Teams link here before each seminar.
👇 We'll post the Teams link here before each seminar.
📢NEWSFLASH! We've joined forces with #TimeTeam @timeteam.bsky.social to profile student experience on their first fieldschool excavating a #Roman #villa in #Leicestershire.
🎥Tune in on Saturday at 7pm when the episode will air on Time Team's YouTube channel. (www.youtube.com/c/TimeTeamOf...).
🎥Tune in on Saturday at 7pm when the episode will air on Time Team's YouTube channel. (www.youtube.com/c/TimeTeamOf...).
April 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
📢NEWSFLASH! We've joined forces with #TimeTeam @timeteam.bsky.social to profile student experience on their first fieldschool excavating a #Roman #villa in #Leicestershire.
🎥Tune in on Saturday at 7pm when the episode will air on Time Team's YouTube channel. (www.youtube.com/c/TimeTeamOf...).
🎥Tune in on Saturday at 7pm when the episode will air on Time Team's YouTube channel. (www.youtube.com/c/TimeTeamOf...).
👩🎓Last week, our very own Dr Laura Basell gave a keynote lecture about the exciting fieldwork she directs on #Dartmoor Tor enclosures at the ‘Scales of Social, Environmental and Cultural Change in Past Societies’ conference at #Kiel University, Germany. #archaeology #neolithic #tors
March 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM
👩🎓Last week, our very own Dr Laura Basell gave a keynote lecture about the exciting fieldwork she directs on #Dartmoor Tor enclosures at the ‘Scales of Social, Environmental and Cultural Change in Past Societies’ conference at #Kiel University, Germany. #archaeology #neolithic #tors
🍰Yesterday was the annual Great Greek Monument Bake Off featuring edibles based on the content of Janie Masséglia's third-year module AH3082 Great Greek Monuments.
🏆Star Baker was Gen, with lemon & poppy seed 'Soul Cakes' inspired by the images of human souls on white ground lekythoi. Great work!
🏆Star Baker was Gen, with lemon & poppy seed 'Soul Cakes' inspired by the images of human souls on white ground lekythoi. Great work!
March 27, 2025 at 9:25 AM
🍰Yesterday was the annual Great Greek Monument Bake Off featuring edibles based on the content of Janie Masséglia's third-year module AH3082 Great Greek Monuments.
🏆Star Baker was Gen, with lemon & poppy seed 'Soul Cakes' inspired by the images of human souls on white ground lekythoi. Great work!
🏆Star Baker was Gen, with lemon & poppy seed 'Soul Cakes' inspired by the images of human souls on white ground lekythoi. Great work!
👨🎓Our very own Prof. Ben Jervis gave the keynote at a conference called 'Looking at things differently. New Materialist approaches in Archaeology' in Mainz, Germany last week.
❓He explored how the application of innovative theory can destabilise our perceptions of urban life in medieval England.
❓He explored how the application of innovative theory can destabilise our perceptions of urban life in medieval England.
March 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
👨🎓Our very own Prof. Ben Jervis gave the keynote at a conference called 'Looking at things differently. New Materialist approaches in Archaeology' in Mainz, Germany last week.
❓He explored how the application of innovative theory can destabilise our perceptions of urban life in medieval England.
❓He explored how the application of innovative theory can destabilise our perceptions of urban life in medieval England.
📢On 26th March at 5pm Prof. Cyprian Broodbank will deliver our Wednesday seminar on ‘Oued Beht (Morocco): New light on the later prehistoric dynamics of Mediterranean Africa’. Join online with the following link: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/ap/t-59584e8...
March 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
📢On 26th March at 5pm Prof. Cyprian Broodbank will deliver our Wednesday seminar on ‘Oued Beht (Morocco): New light on the later prehistoric dynamics of Mediterranean Africa’. Join online with the following link: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/ap/t-59584e8...
📢Check out PhD student Kayt Hawkin's article on the function of a range of vessels traditional identified as Roman infant feeding bottles in the journal 'Childhood in the Past'.
📷Image credit: Colchester & Ipswich Museums
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📷Image credit: Colchester & Ipswich Museums
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March 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
📢Check out PhD student Kayt Hawkin's article on the function of a range of vessels traditional identified as Roman infant feeding bottles in the journal 'Childhood in the Past'.
📷Image credit: Colchester & Ipswich Museums
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📷Image credit: Colchester & Ipswich Museums
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📢This week Prof. Cyprian Broodbank will deliver our Wednesday seminar on ‘Oued Beht (Morocco): New light on the later prehistoric dynamics of Mediterranean Africa’.
🍰There will be cake at 4.30pm & the hybrid seminar will start at 5pm. Check out our Facebook page for the Teams link!
🍰There will be cake at 4.30pm & the hybrid seminar will start at 5pm. Check out our Facebook page for the Teams link!
March 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
📢This week Prof. Cyprian Broodbank will deliver our Wednesday seminar on ‘Oued Beht (Morocco): New light on the later prehistoric dynamics of Mediterranean Africa’.
🍰There will be cake at 4.30pm & the hybrid seminar will start at 5pm. Check out our Facebook page for the Teams link!
🍰There will be cake at 4.30pm & the hybrid seminar will start at 5pm. Check out our Facebook page for the Teams link!
🎉🎉🎉Congratulations to SAAH doctoral student Kai Francis who passed his piratical #PhD this month with minor corrections.
👨🎓His thesis explores how real campaigns against #pirates turned into the stuff of rhetoric within the discourse of Rome's emerging imperial power. 🎉🎉🎉
#romanpirates
👨🎓His thesis explores how real campaigns against #pirates turned into the stuff of rhetoric within the discourse of Rome's emerging imperial power. 🎉🎉🎉
#romanpirates
March 19, 2025 at 12:38 PM
🎉🎉🎉Congratulations to SAAH doctoral student Kai Francis who passed his piratical #PhD this month with minor corrections.
👨🎓His thesis explores how real campaigns against #pirates turned into the stuff of rhetoric within the discourse of Rome's emerging imperial power. 🎉🎉🎉
#romanpirates
👨🎓His thesis explores how real campaigns against #pirates turned into the stuff of rhetoric within the discourse of Rome's emerging imperial power. 🎉🎉🎉
#romanpirates
📢The #Heritage Hub’s #Celebration of Heritage Event will take place on Sat. 22 March 2025 11am-4pm at Students’ Union (Percy Gee Building), University of #Leicester.
🏛Explore our campus heritage and collections and discover and celebrate the rich history and heritage of our city and region!
🏛Explore our campus heritage and collections and discover and celebrate the rich history and heritage of our city and region!
March 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
📢The #Heritage Hub’s #Celebration of Heritage Event will take place on Sat. 22 March 2025 11am-4pm at Students’ Union (Percy Gee Building), University of #Leicester.
🏛Explore our campus heritage and collections and discover and celebrate the rich history and heritage of our city and region!
🏛Explore our campus heritage and collections and discover and celebrate the rich history and heritage of our city and region!
📢Register now for an exciting workshop on the Global Levant during the Middle Ages to be held at UoL on 27th-28th March. The workshop is organised by Dr Carmen Ting in collaboration with the Council for British Research in the Levant.
💻For more information, visit: www.cbrl.ac.uk/event/global...
💻For more information, visit: www.cbrl.ac.uk/event/global...
March 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
📢Register now for an exciting workshop on the Global Levant during the Middle Ages to be held at UoL on 27th-28th March. The workshop is organised by Dr Carmen Ting in collaboration with the Council for British Research in the Levant.
💻For more information, visit: www.cbrl.ac.uk/event/global...
💻For more information, visit: www.cbrl.ac.uk/event/global...
📢Our speaker at this week's Wednesday seminar will be Dr Gwendoline Maurer presenting ‘Reassessing Kura-Araxes pastoral practices and mobility in the Levant & Caucasus using zooarchaeology, ZooMS & stable isotope analysis’.
📚12th March @ 5pm George Porter LT A or online. See Facebook for the link!
📚12th March @ 5pm George Porter LT A or online. See Facebook for the link!
March 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
📢Our speaker at this week's Wednesday seminar will be Dr Gwendoline Maurer presenting ‘Reassessing Kura-Araxes pastoral practices and mobility in the Levant & Caucasus using zooarchaeology, ZooMS & stable isotope analysis’.
📚12th March @ 5pm George Porter LT A or online. See Facebook for the link!
📚12th March @ 5pm George Porter LT A or online. See Facebook for the link!
Here's a few more images from our event on Friday where we renamed our building the Kathleen Kenyon Building in honour of a trailblazing archaeologist and #InternationalWomensDay. There were funny speeches, delicious cakes, amazing cartoons and beautiful banners galore!
March 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Here's a few more images from our event on Friday where we renamed our building the Kathleen Kenyon Building in honour of a trailblazing archaeologist and #InternationalWomensDay. There were funny speeches, delicious cakes, amazing cartoons and beautiful banners galore!
📢Today, the home of our Schools of #Archaeology & Ancient History & Museum Studies has been renamed the Kathleen Kenyon Building, the first academic building on campus to be named after a woman.
🏛️ le.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...
📷 UCL Institute of Archaeology, CC BY 4.0
#InternationalWomensDay
🏛️ le.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...
📷 UCL Institute of Archaeology, CC BY 4.0
#InternationalWomensDay
March 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
📢Today, the home of our Schools of #Archaeology & Ancient History & Museum Studies has been renamed the Kathleen Kenyon Building, the first academic building on campus to be named after a woman.
🏛️ le.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...
📷 UCL Institute of Archaeology, CC BY 4.0
#InternationalWomensDay
🏛️ le.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...
📷 UCL Institute of Archaeology, CC BY 4.0
#InternationalWomensDay
❓Want to know more about ancient Mesopotamia?
👩🎓Take a fascinating trip there with Dr Selena Wisnom in her lecture on the Library of Ancient Wisdom which was given as part of the Literary Leicester Festival 2025:
💻https://soundcloud.com/artshumlaw/sets/literary-leicester-2025
👩🎓Take a fascinating trip there with Dr Selena Wisnom in her lecture on the Library of Ancient Wisdom which was given as part of the Literary Leicester Festival 2025:
💻https://soundcloud.com/artshumlaw/sets/literary-leicester-2025
March 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
❓Want to know more about ancient Mesopotamia?
👩🎓Take a fascinating trip there with Dr Selena Wisnom in her lecture on the Library of Ancient Wisdom which was given as part of the Literary Leicester Festival 2025:
💻https://soundcloud.com/artshumlaw/sets/literary-leicester-2025
👩🎓Take a fascinating trip there with Dr Selena Wisnom in her lecture on the Library of Ancient Wisdom which was given as part of the Literary Leicester Festival 2025:
💻https://soundcloud.com/artshumlaw/sets/literary-leicester-2025
🏰Recently, our 1st years visited Kenilworth Castle for a rather soggy fieldtrip to consolidate their study of #castles in the medieval and post medieval world.
🥧After looking at gatehouses, gardens and great halls they all went for a much needed warm pub lunch!
#modulemonday #archaeology
🥧After looking at gatehouses, gardens and great halls they all went for a much needed warm pub lunch!
#modulemonday #archaeology
March 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
🏰Recently, our 1st years visited Kenilworth Castle for a rather soggy fieldtrip to consolidate their study of #castles in the medieval and post medieval world.
🥧After looking at gatehouses, gardens and great halls they all went for a much needed warm pub lunch!
#modulemonday #archaeology
🥧After looking at gatehouses, gardens and great halls they all went for a much needed warm pub lunch!
#modulemonday #archaeology
📢Our research seminar this week will be delivered by Dr Lenore Thompson on 'Rethinking Indigenous copper use in the Pacific Northwest during the fur trade and colonial periods.'
🏛The seminar will be in George Porter LT A at 5pm.
💻For those attending online, the Teams link is on our Facebook page.
🏛The seminar will be in George Porter LT A at 5pm.
💻For those attending online, the Teams link is on our Facebook page.
March 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
📢Our research seminar this week will be delivered by Dr Lenore Thompson on 'Rethinking Indigenous copper use in the Pacific Northwest during the fur trade and colonial periods.'
🏛The seminar will be in George Porter LT A at 5pm.
💻For those attending online, the Teams link is on our Facebook page.
🏛The seminar will be in George Porter LT A at 5pm.
💻For those attending online, the Teams link is on our Facebook page.
📢On April 28th, SAAH's Prof David Mattingly will give the Annual lecture for the Leicester Literature and Philosophical Society. He will reflect on how his view of the Roman empire has changed over the course of his career.
🎟For more info & to book: www.leicesterlitandphil.org.uk/event-5760241
🎟For more info & to book: www.leicesterlitandphil.org.uk/event-5760241
February 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
📢On April 28th, SAAH's Prof David Mattingly will give the Annual lecture for the Leicester Literature and Philosophical Society. He will reflect on how his view of the Roman empire has changed over the course of his career.
🎟For more info & to book: www.leicesterlitandphil.org.uk/event-5760241
🎟For more info & to book: www.leicesterlitandphil.org.uk/event-5760241
.📢Our Research seminar this week will be delivered by Dr David Gange from the University of Birmingham presenting ‘Rowing into Memory: Traditional Boats and Cultural Revivals in the North Atlantic’.
💻The hybrid seminar begins at 5pm in George Porter LT A. For a Teams link, visit our Facebook page.
💻The hybrid seminar begins at 5pm in George Porter LT A. For a Teams link, visit our Facebook page.
February 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
.📢Our Research seminar this week will be delivered by Dr David Gange from the University of Birmingham presenting ‘Rowing into Memory: Traditional Boats and Cultural Revivals in the North Atlantic’.
💻The hybrid seminar begins at 5pm in George Porter LT A. For a Teams link, visit our Facebook page.
💻The hybrid seminar begins at 5pm in George Porter LT A. For a Teams link, visit our Facebook page.
Dr Selena Wisnom is giving a talk as part of the Leicester Literary Festival to launch her new book: 'The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History'. The talk will be at UoL in Ken Edwards LT3. To book a free ticket visit: www.tickettailor.com/events/literaryleicester/1581016
February 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Dr Selena Wisnom is giving a talk as part of the Leicester Literary Festival to launch her new book: 'The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History'. The talk will be at UoL in Ken Edwards LT3. To book a free ticket visit: www.tickettailor.com/events/literaryleicester/1581016
This week's Wednesday seminar speaker is Dr Thomas Matthews Boehmer presenting ‘Nuptiality in the #Roman North: a new perspective’. The hybrid seminar will begin at 5pm (UK Time) - for a link see our Facebook page. For those attending in person, we are holding it in George Porter LT A! #archaeology
February 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This week's Wednesday seminar speaker is Dr Thomas Matthews Boehmer presenting ‘Nuptiality in the #Roman North: a new perspective’. The hybrid seminar will begin at 5pm (UK Time) - for a link see our Facebook page. For those attending in person, we are holding it in George Porter LT A! #archaeology