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Dr Louise O'Brien
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Egyptologist @livuni | CA Expert-in-Residence | Mummy Portraits, Hybridity & Identity in Graeco-Roman Egypt | Personal Account
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Yesterday I successfully defended my PhD thesis with minor corrections! My research has evolved so much over the past 4 years and I'm so grateful to my examiners for taking the time to read it and engage with it. And thank you of course to my wonderful supervisor @hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social !
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It’s too warm. It’s too warm for November and it’s too warm to wear the knitwear I want to wear and I hate it
November 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!

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October 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Are you a student at a UK university and looking for support to come to TAG York? Did you know the Royal Archaeological Institute Cheney Bursary is available to support you?

You can find more details here: www.royalarchinst.org/grants/bursa...

@royalarchinst.bsky.social
Bursaries
Cheney Bursaries for StudentsAs a result of a bequest left by Frank Cheney, the Institute has a fund to enable students that attend a UK university to attend RAI Meetings and conferences. Individuals ...
www.royalarchinst.org
October 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Maybe tomorrow will be good
October 1, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Another powerful blog post and kudos @wadehistory.bsky.social

I don’t think “ECR” works as a meaningful label any more

E - “early” is based on an out of date PhD➡️ postdoc➡️ permanent timeline
C - “career” is wildly optimistic for most of us
R - how many of us in teaching jobs get paid to research?
Today a follow up to yesterday’s post on being an ECR in French History, by @wadehistory.bsky.social

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6744/ 🗃️ #FRHistory
September 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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I’m delighted that my chapter, ‘The Bone Dolls from Dura-Europos: Embodying Childhood Experience’, has been published by Brepols in ‘Dura-Europos:Past,Present,Future’,available open access, www.brepolsonline.net/doi/book/10..... Special thanks to Lisa Brody,Anne Hunnell Chen, @jenbaird.bsky.social
Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future | Studies in Classical Archaeology
Abstract:This volume brings together an international and interdisciplinary host of scholars to reflect on the complicated legacies of exploration at the archaeological site of Dura-Europos, situated on the western bank of the Euphrates River near modern Salihiyeh (Syria). A chance discovery after World War I kicked off a series of excavations that would span the next century and whose finds are today housed in collections worldwide, including the Yale University Art Gallery, the Louvre, and the National Museum in Damascus. Dura-Europos exemplifies a multiethnic frontier town at the crossroads of major trade routes. Its textual remains and remarkably-preserved Christian, Jewish, and polytheist religious sanctuaries provide key resources for the study of antiquity and attest to the cross-cultural interconnectivity that was demonstrably central to the ancient world but which has been too often obscured by Eurocentric historiographic traditions and siloed disciplinary divisions.Foreign-run, large-scale archaeological campaigns of the early twentieth century, like those at Dura-Europos, have created narratives of power and privilege that often exclude local communities. The significance of these imbalances is entangled with the destruction the site has experienced since the 2011 outbreak of conflict in Syria. As a step toward making knowledge descendant of early excavations more accessible, this volume includes Arabic summaries of each paper, following up on the simultaneous Arabic interpretation provided at the 2022 hybrid conference whose proceedings form the core of this publication. The papers address topics connected to essential themes in relation to Dura-Europos: long-distance trade relations and cross-border interactions in antiquity, including the exchange of technologies, people, and materials; Christianity, Judaism, and other religious practices, and their relations to one another; contemporary trafficking of looted artifacts; cultural heritage and the Islamic State; and the evolving role of museum collections, technologies, and archival materials for research.
www.brepolsonline.net
September 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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lot of people out here laboring under the misapprehension that uni is just further high school and there is some higher authority on content than the professor who is a live, working researcher in the field
September 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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I don't feel like I should have to 2FA to look something up in my university's library catalogue.
September 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Egypt Unearths Its ‘New Rosetta Stone’
Complete Canopus Decree Stela Discovered in Sharqiya by Egyptian Archaeologists. More details shorturl.at/W5SEJ @flintdibble.bsky.social @ticiaverveer.bsky.social @debborahdonnelly.bsky.social @egypto-lou-gist.bsky.social @hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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The 17th International Congress of Greek and Latin #Epigraphy will be in Bologna (30 August–4 September 2027)

site.unibo.it/epigrafia-gr...
XVII CONGRESSUS INTERNATIONALIS EPIGRAPHIAE GRAECAE ET LATINAE
The 17th International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy will be held in Bologna from August 30 to September 4, 2027
site.unibo.it
September 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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"The Department of History invites applications for an assistant professor who will make enough leftist remarks to annoy conservative talk radio hosts but whose politics will ultimately support the neoliberal mission of the university."

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hon...
Honest Academic Job Postings
English department seeks a tenure-track assistant professor specializing in Shakespeare, Romanticism, Victorianism, modernism, post-modernism, post...
www.mcsweeneys.net
September 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Attention #AcademicSky Everyone is talking about books, but thousands of academic journals were also pirated and are entitled to up to $3,000 *per pirated volume!!!* if editors submit titles to join the suit. Incredible opportunity for underfunded journals to get some $$! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky
September 7, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Well. It’s official. You can now submit your proposals to the New Perspectives on Ancient Greek Religion book series, published by Edinburgh University Press!

#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
Book Series
Published by Edinburgh University Press ​The study of ancient Greek religion stands at a critical methodological juncture. While foundational frameworks like the polis-religion model have yielded...
www.npagr.info
September 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Devoured R F Kuang's Katabasis today and wow what a *perfect* post-PhD read! Fascinating concept, slightly more familiar than expected, and somewhat cathartic in subject matter!
September 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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We all need a timeline cleanse!

A recent discovery made in Peru: a figurine depicting two #toads.

Happy Sunday! 😃

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August 31, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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In light of R.F.Kuang’s latest book (which I cannot wait to read!), I thought I would share my own short story of the same name. About 5 years ago, a group of us from the Queer Heritage Forum each wrote a queer horror story and this was mine. Slightly edited since. www.ben-paites.com/post/katabas...
Katabasis - a journey to the underworld
TW/CW: Death, grief, sexual referencesThe wine-dark sea stretched out for what seemed like an eternity, broken in places by the white foamy excess of Neptune’s fury. Lifeless, empty, cold and yet some...
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August 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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The last known inscription made in #Egyptian hieroglyphs was carved #OnThisDay in AD 394 🏺 #Archaeology

The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom depicts the god Mandulis, accompanied with a text hoping the inscription will last forever. It seems the engraver got their wish 1/2

📷Olaf Tausch / CC BY-SA 3.0
August 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Still time to submit an abstract! 👇👇
Call for Papers 👇 Consider sending an abstract in for our TRAC 2025 session panel 'Beyond Binaries'! Deadline August 31st
August 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read
August 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A new episode of the Classics Podcast just dropped! I'm answering questions what the ancient Egyptians ate and how they married, syncretism in the ancient world, and historical figures I'd *really* like to meet 👇

#AncientBlueSky #Egyptology #Classics

open.spotify.com/episode/3PEl...
Q&A with Louise O'Brien, our Expert in Residence
The Classics Podcast · Episode
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August 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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My paper on #Egyptomania in Balkan turbo folk, chalga and rap just came out last week and it’s already attracting media attention 🤓

@issegyptomania.bsky.social

#ancientegypt #turbofolk #chalga #hiphop #rap

eualive.net/pharaohs-and...
Pharaohs and pyramids: ancient Egypt’s surprise grip on Balkan turbo-folk and chalga
In the pulsating world of Balkan turbo-folk and chalga – genres often dismissed as lowbrow ...
eualive.net
August 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM