Jen Baird
@jenbaird.bsky.social
Professor of Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London. Director of Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies. Excavator of archives. Syria, Romans, photographs, Dura-Europos. Newfoundlander.
The Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies seminar series will start next term at Birkbeck.
The topic will be Collaborative Archaeologies in (Post)Conflict Contexts. All very welcome!
The topic will be Collaborative Archaeologies in (Post)Conflict Contexts. All very welcome!
November 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies seminar series will start next term at Birkbeck.
The topic will be Collaborative Archaeologies in (Post)Conflict Contexts. All very welcome!
The topic will be Collaborative Archaeologies in (Post)Conflict Contexts. All very welcome!
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Join us Nov 25 for Engaging Publics in Media, Cities & Space -free online conference on research impact in media and urban studies. Talks on monographs, journals, podcasts, walking tours + networking, incl. a special session for ECRs.
👉 Full programme & register: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
👉 Full programme & register: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Engaging Publics in Media, Cities and Space - Online Conference 2025
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November 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Join us Nov 25 for Engaging Publics in Media, Cities & Space -free online conference on research impact in media and urban studies. Talks on monographs, journals, podcasts, walking tours + networking, incl. a special session for ECRs.
👉 Full programme & register: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
👉 Full programme & register: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Item on the Damascus Museum thefts, including quotes from @bbkhistorical.bsky.social’s own Adnan Almohamad
As cultural looting surges in Syria after a bloody civil war and a decades-long brutal dictatorship, thieves have broken into the National Museum of Damascus and walked away with six valuable Roman-era statues.
Thieves Steal Roman-Era Statues From Damascus Museum
A historian speculates it might have been an inside job.
hyperallergic.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Item on the Damascus Museum thefts, including quotes from @bbkhistorical.bsky.social’s own Adnan Almohamad
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Proper treat yesterday listening to Dr Ana Vale of Uni of Porto speaking on her incredible research into social lives in Late Prehistory. Thank you to @bbkhistorical.bsky.social and @lesleymcf.bsky.social for the invitation, the Carena Institute for Sustainable Archaeologies is up and running 🌟
November 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Proper treat yesterday listening to Dr Ana Vale of Uni of Porto speaking on her incredible research into social lives in Late Prehistory. Thank you to @bbkhistorical.bsky.social and @lesleymcf.bsky.social for the invitation, the Carena Institute for Sustainable Archaeologies is up and running 🌟
Speaking about my/Adnan Almohamad’s work in Greenwich tomorrow evening if you’d like to come along
📢 Event coming up at the PEF!
"Oral Histories at the Archaeological Site of Dura Europos, Syria," with Jen Baird
🗓️ 6 Nov 2025 | 🕕 6pm
📍 Greenwich SE10 9FP
✍️ RSVP: rsvppef@gmail.com
#Archaeology #Syria #Palestine #PEF
"Oral Histories at the Archaeological Site of Dura Europos, Syria," with Jen Baird
🗓️ 6 Nov 2025 | 🕕 6pm
📍 Greenwich SE10 9FP
✍️ RSVP: rsvppef@gmail.com
#Archaeology #Syria #Palestine #PEF
November 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Speaking about my/Adnan Almohamad’s work in Greenwich tomorrow evening if you’d like to come along
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Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future / Lisa Brody, Anne Hunnell Chen (eds) #openaccess @brepols.net
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Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future | Studies in Classical Archaeology
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November 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future / Lisa Brody, Anne Hunnell Chen (eds) #openaccess @brepols.net
www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...
@julietsamsonconlon.bsky.social @jenbaird.bsky.social
@lrbrody.bsky.social
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@julietsamsonconlon.bsky.social @jenbaird.bsky.social
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University Archaeology Day is at the @britishacademy.bsky.social this year! Here with @lesleymcf.bsky.social and lots of premium Birkbeck owl swag!
October 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM
University Archaeology Day is at the @britishacademy.bsky.social this year! Here with @lesleymcf.bsky.social and lots of premium Birkbeck owl swag!
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How has paperwork served as a tool of empowerment for people who often find power elusive?
In our latest podcast, a group of historians, archivists, and activists met at the Raphael Samuel History Centre (@rshc.bsky.social) to discuss the hidden history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️
In our latest podcast, a group of historians, archivists, and activists met at the Raphael Samuel History Centre (@rshc.bsky.social) to discuss the hidden history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️
Changing The Record
How has paperwork served over time as a radical tool for empowerment and change?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
September 30, 2025 at 7:02 AM
How has paperwork served as a tool of empowerment for people who often find power elusive?
In our latest podcast, a group of historians, archivists, and activists met at the Raphael Samuel History Centre (@rshc.bsky.social) to discuss the hidden history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️
In our latest podcast, a group of historians, archivists, and activists met at the Raphael Samuel History Centre (@rshc.bsky.social) to discuss the hidden history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️
Term is coming up, time to decorate those office doors
Apropos of nothing, here's some posters I made for outside my office in case anyone wants them. Text on one edited from @blacktrowel.bsky.social, the other from an Eco article (both cited of course). If you'd like the PDF files, just email me. #antifascist #AncientBluesky 🏺
September 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Term is coming up, time to decorate those office doors
What are the relationships between local communities and major heritage sites in Syria, and why do they matter? Adnan Almohamad and I attempt to begin to answer -- out now, open access.
www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1...
www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1...
The Ruins that Remain. Remembering Dura-Europos in Salhiyeh | Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future
The legacy of Dura-Europos is well known through hundreds of scholarly publications and continuing work in the archives of the excavations held by Yale University Art Gallery. The absences in the trad...
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September 9, 2025 at 8:35 AM
What are the relationships between local communities and major heritage sites in Syria, and why do they matter? Adnan Almohamad and I attempt to begin to answer -- out now, open access.
www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1...
www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1...
Massive congrats to Juliet, of @bbkhistorical.bsky.social, on her first publication, documenting the important corpus of bone dolls from Dura-Europos. Juliet's PhD is exploring the archaeology of childhood from the archives of the site. 🥳
September 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Massive congrats to Juliet, of @bbkhistorical.bsky.social, on her first publication, documenting the important corpus of bone dolls from Dura-Europos. Juliet's PhD is exploring the archaeology of childhood from the archives of the site. 🥳
Join us in Aarhus for RAC/TRAC 2026!
Rubina Raja and I have organised a session on "Archival Fieldwork" in archaeology and welcome submissions
Details on how to apply and attend here: www.romansocietyrac.ac.uk/ractrac-2026... (Deadline October 10)
Rubina Raja and I have organised a session on "Archival Fieldwork" in archaeology and welcome submissions
Details on how to apply and attend here: www.romansocietyrac.ac.uk/ractrac-2026... (Deadline October 10)
Call for Papers « Roman Archaeology Conference
Roman Archaeology Conference
www.romansocietyrac.ac.uk
August 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Join us in Aarhus for RAC/TRAC 2026!
Rubina Raja and I have organised a session on "Archival Fieldwork" in archaeology and welcome submissions
Details on how to apply and attend here: www.romansocietyrac.ac.uk/ractrac-2026... (Deadline October 10)
Rubina Raja and I have organised a session on "Archival Fieldwork" in archaeology and welcome submissions
Details on how to apply and attend here: www.romansocietyrac.ac.uk/ractrac-2026... (Deadline October 10)
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Come along to a gathering around contemporary art and archaeology on Arran at 4pm- 6pm on the 8th August!
www.ticketsource.co.uk
July 23, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Come along to a gathering around contemporary art and archaeology on Arran at 4pm- 6pm on the 8th August!
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Talked to @nature.com last week about scientific conferences in the past, present and future
Several academic and scientific conferences in the United States have been postponed, cancelled or moved elsewhere
https://go.nature.com/437v5IW
https://go.nature.com/437v5IW
Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears
Some meetings have been put on hold in response to foreign researchers’ travel concerns.
go.nature.com
May 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Talked to @nature.com last week about scientific conferences in the past, present and future
Thanks to an incredibly generous former student, we have some wonderful news for archaeology at Birkbeck: a new institute.
The Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies will enable research projects, support global collaborations, and fund studentships as well.
www.bbk.ac.uk/research/cen...
The Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies will enable research projects, support global collaborations, and fund studentships as well.
www.bbk.ac.uk/research/cen...
Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies - Birkbeck, University of London
www.bbk.ac.uk
July 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Thanks to an incredibly generous former student, we have some wonderful news for archaeology at Birkbeck: a new institute.
The Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies will enable research projects, support global collaborations, and fund studentships as well.
www.bbk.ac.uk/research/cen...
The Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies will enable research projects, support global collaborations, and fund studentships as well.
www.bbk.ac.uk/research/cen...
So pleased that we have MA funding available this year for our MA Archaeology & Heritage Programme. Please spread the word (or get in touch if you have questions)!
www.bbk.ac.uk/student-serv...
www.bbk.ac.uk/student-serv...
The Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies Postgraduate Scholarships - Birkbeck, University of London
Find out more about the Carena Institute postgraduate scholarships with project themes and how to apply.
www.bbk.ac.uk
July 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
So pleased that we have MA funding available this year for our MA Archaeology & Heritage Programme. Please spread the word (or get in touch if you have questions)!
www.bbk.ac.uk/student-serv...
www.bbk.ac.uk/student-serv...
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In seems that my review of Ariella Aïsha Azoulay's exhibition in Bristol last year has been include in e-flux's Index #6, alongside the writing of many wonderful people. You can read the review here.
Jeremy Millar on Ariella Aïsha Azoulay - Criticism - e-flux
In 2009, the curator, filmmaker, and writer on visual culture Ariella Aïsha Azoulay visited the archive of the International Committee of the Red C
www.e-flux.com
July 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
In seems that my review of Ariella Aïsha Azoulay's exhibition in Bristol last year has been include in e-flux's Index #6, alongside the writing of many wonderful people. You can read the review here.
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*Master's funding claxon*
Did you know that we have a range of scholarships for our MA programmes, including funding specifically for Archaeology, Heritage, and History of Art? Links below!
Did you know that we have a range of scholarships for our MA programmes, including funding specifically for Archaeology, Heritage, and History of Art? Links below!
July 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
*Master's funding claxon*
Did you know that we have a range of scholarships for our MA programmes, including funding specifically for Archaeology, Heritage, and History of Art? Links below!
Did you know that we have a range of scholarships for our MA programmes, including funding specifically for Archaeology, Heritage, and History of Art? Links below!
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Also! At the @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social we’re holding an emergency meeting about this at 7pm UK time (9pm Gaza) TOMORROW.
All welcome - please come and please share. Zoom link via our website: societyforthestudyofthepast.com/events/
All welcome - please come and please share. Zoom link via our website: societyforthestudyofthepast.com/events/
July 3, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Also! At the @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social we’re holding an emergency meeting about this at 7pm UK time (9pm Gaza) TOMORROW.
All welcome - please come and please share. Zoom link via our website: societyforthestudyofthepast.com/events/
All welcome - please come and please share. Zoom link via our website: societyforthestudyofthepast.com/events/
Out today, my review of a recent two volume work on Sculptures from Roman Syria.
TL; DR -- Important, but frustrating, work.
The words that will stick with me are "current location unknown".
TL; DR -- Important, but frustrating, work.
The words that will stick with me are "current location unknown".
July 1, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Out today, my review of a recent two volume work on Sculptures from Roman Syria.
TL; DR -- Important, but frustrating, work.
The words that will stick with me are "current location unknown".
TL; DR -- Important, but frustrating, work.
The words that will stick with me are "current location unknown".
So proud of my brilliant colleague Esther!
Esther Breithoff wins Tress Prize for her research on conflict heritage and her commitment to sustainable, decolonial archaeology ✨
Dr Esther Breithoff wins Birkbeck’s Tress prize
www.bbk.ac.uk
June 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
So proud of my brilliant colleague Esther!
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📢 June Event coming up at the PEF!
"Rethinking Preservation: Diversifying Engagement with the Middle East's Material Past," with Mirjam Brusius.
🗓️ 19th June, 2025
🕕 6pm
📍 5-6 Dreadnought Walk, Greenwich SE10 9FP
RSVP by emailing rsvppef@gmail.com ✍️
"Rethinking Preservation: Diversifying Engagement with the Middle East's Material Past," with Mirjam Brusius.
🗓️ 19th June, 2025
🕕 6pm
📍 5-6 Dreadnought Walk, Greenwich SE10 9FP
RSVP by emailing rsvppef@gmail.com ✍️
June 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
📢 June Event coming up at the PEF!
"Rethinking Preservation: Diversifying Engagement with the Middle East's Material Past," with Mirjam Brusius.
🗓️ 19th June, 2025
🕕 6pm
📍 5-6 Dreadnought Walk, Greenwich SE10 9FP
RSVP by emailing rsvppef@gmail.com ✍️
"Rethinking Preservation: Diversifying Engagement with the Middle East's Material Past," with Mirjam Brusius.
🗓️ 19th June, 2025
🕕 6pm
📍 5-6 Dreadnought Walk, Greenwich SE10 9FP
RSVP by emailing rsvppef@gmail.com ✍️
