Guopeng Chen
gpchen.bsky.social
Guopeng Chen
@gpchen.bsky.social
DPhil in archaeology, University of Oxford
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I am thrilled to say that me and Thomas Dowson will be hosting a session at TAG 2025 titled '25 Years of 'Queer Archaeologies' - Where do we need to go?'.

We seek submissions that engage with queer archaeology in its broadest sense.

More details here: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-...
June 2, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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For those around, next Wednesday at 16.00 at the Institute of Archaeology at @ox.ac.uk! The main aim of this research is to model geopolitical landscapes across time based on archaeological, historical and ethnographical data, with a specific focus on the pre-Columbian Indigenous world.
May 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Signatures will close Wednesday 7 May at 1700 GMT.

Get in there!
May 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Oxford World Archaeology Seminar Trinity Term 2025 termcard is here! Open to all, usually Fridays 4-5pm at the Institure Lecture Room
April 30, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Professor Tim Pauketat is giving a lecture for all and two workshops for graduate students next week!
April 30, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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😳🤬“Oxford academics drank from cup made from human skull, book reveals: Decades-long use of chalice at Worcester College highlights violent colonial history of looted human remains, says Prof Dan Hicks”😳🤬
Oxford academics drank from cup made from human skull, book reveals
Decades-long use of chalice at Worcester College highlights violent colonial history of looted human remains, says Prof Dan Hicks
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Gavin Lucas and Shannon Lee Dawdy (eds.), Undoing Things: How Objects, Bodies and Worlds Come Apart - Routledge, April 2025
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Undoing Things: How Objects, Bodies and Worlds Come Apart
Undoing Things explores all the ways in which things become undone, be they objects, bodies, places, or worlds. Although archaeologists have long attended to the productive dimensions of materiality a...
www.routledge.com
April 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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This was such a satisfying project, and one in which I realized for the first time how much my whole life had been spent in a manscape, in places where almost everything was named after men.
#WomensHistoryMonth: The City of Women Map is a fascinating visualization of women’s history and urban transportation. Created by Molly Roy, Rebecca Solnit, and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, the map renames subway stops after notable women with links to that area, offering an entirely new way to view #NYC.
March 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Here's the term card for our Oxford World Archaeology Seminar! Regular seminars will be held on Fridays 16:00–17:00 at the Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology, and we have some special talks and events as well. All welcome to join! The two online talks will be on Microsoft Teams (links below).
January 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Patricia Owens, Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men - @princetonupress.bsky.social, January 2025
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Erased
How a field built on the intellectual labor and expertise of women erased them
press.princeton.edu
December 18, 2024 at 8:14 AM
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Sad news from SHA: Mark Leone, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, has passed away. A founding voice in US Marxist archaeology, director of the long-running Annapolis archaeology project.
December 14, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Tomorrow (Friday 06 December) at 16:00 London Time We invited Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos from Yale University for an online talk via Microsoft Teams on "The Archaeology of Ancient Maya Myths". Everyone is welcome to join! teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
December 5, 2024 at 4:33 PM