Opportunity to join our teaching team in Museum Studies. Full time, permanent contract - Lecturer (Teaching) www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Come join me and the @uclarchaeology.bsky.social team! Teaching replacement post in Museum Studies, 1 year contract: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

📚 I’m thrilled to share that “Researching a Rigged Game: Digital Approaches to Tracing the Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects”, edited by @dremilinesmith.bsky.social and myself, is now published and available as Open Access via @springernature.com. 🔗https://lnkd.in/gBCv2KDH

We need to utterly transform how we protect our heritage: more funding for museums, more education and disrupting our equation of heritage with monetary value. This isn't a one off. From our fiekds to our museum cases, antiquities are seen as objects for personal acquisition and monetary gain. 🏺

Dr Matt Pope@mattpope.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

All eyes on her! Dismantling 'Egypt' in UK museums artuk.org/discover/sto...

Interesting paper from former @uclarchaeology.bsky.social PhD researcher Dr Tian Tian on histories of Egyptological knowledge production in China 👇

Antiquity Journal@antiquity.ac.uk · last yr.

In Late Qing (1840–1912) antiquarianism, historical accounts and ancient scripts were prioritised over all else. This extended to the study of other cultures, with rubbings of ancient Egyptian monuments providing a unique perspective on Egyptology 2/2 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

“The last three to four months has been the biggest flood of antiquities trafficking I have ever seen, from any country, ever.” ://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/08/looted-from-syria-sold-on-facebook-antiquities-smuggling-surges-after-fall-of-assad?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Looted from Syria, sold on Facebook: antiquities smuggling surges after fall of Assad

Collapse of once-feared security apparatus, coupled with widespread poverty, has triggered a gold rush

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SMA has responded to calls for changes to legislation and practice regarding human remains, by collaborating with several organisations to agree a joint statement on on the retention, display, and provision of access to human remains from British archaeological contexts. socmusarch.org.uk/news/

New exhibition now open @hornimanmuseum.bsky.social part of our @ukri.org AHRC project Mobilising Collections for Institutional Change scenenow.com/ArtsAndCultu...

‘All Eyes on Her!’: Reclaiming Egyptian Womanhood in This London Show

This exhibition at Horniman Museum calls for the reclamation of Egyptian artefacts, as well as our narrative.

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Chapter 1 introduces the excellent work of our collaborators and reflects on how and why Med archaeology collections were formed in the region. I hope that this volume encourages more reflection on the value of these heritages in dialogue with the First Nation's cultures of their new homelands. 📜🏺🏛

Candace Richards@circa-candace.bsky.social · last yr.

Out now! A collaborative volume that explores provenance, pedagogy, participatory programming and ethics for managing ancient Mediterranean collections in this region by #museum experts and researchers. 🏺📜🖼🏛 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

@dremilinesmith.bsky.social and I give some of our thoughts on the provenance of lots offered at TEFAF this year hyperallergic.com/997650/champ...

Champagne, Caviar, and Provenance Gaps at TEFAF Maastricht

Despite efforts to improve vetting procedures, the persistence of vague ownership points to an industry still grappling with its past.

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And to his co-curator, @uclarchaeology.bsky.social museum studies graduate Trish Robert’s 👏🏻 well done both!

Anna Garnett@beketaten.bsky.social · last yr.

When a #millennial curates an Egyptology exhibition 🤘 Huge congratulations to Ben Hinson & team on the incredible #MakingEgypt exhibition at the Young V&A. Go see it! www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/... #Egypt #Museums #London

The Museo Egizio (Egyptian Museum) in Turin has some really interesting collaborations with contemporary artists going on right now🏺https://www.museoegizio.it/en/explore/news/10584/

Ali Cherri and Sara Sallam: The First Contemporary Artists at the Museo Egizio

In light of its reflection on its role as a contemporary archaeological museum, the Museo Egizio, on the occasion of...

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UCL Press has just released War Essays, by Zainab Bahrani, the Edith Porada Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. It's open access, so download away! @smh-historians.bsky.social uclpress.co.uk/book/war-ess...

War Essays

In this fascinating book, Zainab Bahrani charts the devastation, cultural cleansing and targeted erasure of Iraq’s past, and argues that the topics of archaeology, history and memory must be analysed ...

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Not just an open access book from @uclpress.bsky.social but also a lovely artefact! Got the physical copy today - colour pictures throughout & all. uclpress.co.uk/book/contemp...

In which I question the oft-repeated claim that artistic intervention puts the past and present into dialogue. But which pasts? To what ends? Based on interviews with curators & artists, and reflections on not the end product but the process.

UCL Press@uclpress.bsky.social · 2y ago

Congratulations to @alicestevenson.bsky.social ! Her #OpenAccess book Contemporary Art and the Display of Ancient Egypt published today. Read and download free at: ow.ly/Ciqp50U9bAH #AncientEgyptianArt #Curators

Publication day 🥳 one outcome from my @britishacademy.bsky.social mid-career Fellowship now OA & free to download 👇. uclpress.co.uk/book/contemp...

Contemporary Art and the Display of Ancient Egypt

Artistic interventions are now a popular means of delivering fresh perspectives on museum displays, including in galleries devoted to ancient Egypt. Installations are commonly said to put the past and...

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Still time to apply. Join @nannonstevens.bsky.social and myself, addressing the record of the last Neanderthals in Britain. Be part of a new era of research, testing assumptions and setting out a new agenda for discovery. 🏺🦣🧪

Prof. Rhiannon Stevens@nannonstevens.bsky.social · 2y ago

Final call !! Apply for this funded PhD at University College London @UCLarchaeology.bsky.social on Establishing limits of Neanderthal presence in Britain. Deadline 20th Jan 5pm Uk time www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/est...

Sadly this is exactly the same experience I’ve had as a journal editor….

Brandy Schillace@bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 2y ago

My very last issue (on ♿️) has now come out with BMJ Medical Humanities: I have stepped down from my role as Editor in Chief. There are a lot of factors—after 17 years editing two consecutive journals, it was time. But there’s more, and I feel we should talk about the climate of #academic publishing

New publication out today! 🏺🗃️ This is my argument for an economic history of heritage-making in African states over the past 40 years, and how this speaks to themes like sovereignty, commodification of tradition, and (of course) the idea of usable pasts >>

The Neoliberalisation of Heritage in Africa

Cambridge Core - Archaeology: General Interest - The Neoliberalisation of Heritage in Africa

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Thanks @coloursburntin.bsky.social for a great session. Lots of great projects, from @lisarandisi.bsky.social archaeological ephemera www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/proj... between object & archive, to

Archaeological Ephemera

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B.@coloursburntin.bsky.social · 2y ago

You find our abstract booklet here: www.canva.com/design/DAGUA...

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Katherine V Huntley@kvallie.bsky.social · 2y ago

The story of Yusra, the Palestinian archaeologist, who discovered Tabun 1, the skull of a neanderthal, on Mount Carmel, has always stuck w/ me. I'm excited someone made a documentary about her. I hope it gets the support it needs. #archaeology #history www.palestinefilminstitute.org/en/sheffield...

One day to go until @tag45.bsky.social and our session 'Excavating the Collection'! Friday 13th starting at 14:00! Who's speaking you ask? More details below 👇

Counting down to @tag45.bsky.social ! I'm running the session 'Excavating the Collection: New Evolutions in the Archaeology of Museum Collections' this Friday 13th 14:00-16:30, and am so excited to be joined by @alicestevenson.bsky.social as discussant! For more info 👇

Great to see this volume in the world. Edited vols like this take a lot of time & work so congrats to the editors (wrote my chapter while pregnant- now planning a 6th birthday party 🙃). Spotted a few other @uclarchaeology.bsky.social contributions too…

[redoing this b/c my original post contained a wrong date!] Interested in Victorian cultures of display or spectacle; collections; archives; exhibitions; museums; or galleries; or anything else related to EXHIBITING in literature, art, science, material culture, etc? Send us your abstract!

Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada@vsawc.bsky.social · 2y ago

[corrected repost] The CFP for the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada's 2025 conference, EXHIBITING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, May 23-24 in Regina, Saskatchewan is up! Send us abstracts by Jan. 5. Travel grants available for students + underemployed/contingent faculty 👇 vsawc.org/events/

Yesterday, I went to the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology to do some research. (Thanks @lisarandisi.bsky.social). Today is my daughter Emily's 10th birthday. What I found made me rethink what I know & understand how I feel. Warning: mention of baby loss www.debbiechallis.com/post/ephemer...

Ephemera in the Archives: Beads, Babies and Bought

Rethinking what and how I know the past through an unexpected piece of ephemera in the archives of an Egyptian museum.

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Just learned of Prof Colin Renfrew’s passing. His class on contemporary art & architecture in my archaeology BA was my most memorable course. Bemused by it at the time, it gave me a confidence to go beyond traditional readings for archaeology. RIP www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

Spent a LOT of time travelling this weekend but time flew as absorbed by this read from Roberta Mazza - going straight on the reading list for the UCL Archaeology module Antiquities & the Law which I’m resurrecting next year: www.sup.org/books/histor...

Stolen Fragments | Stanford University Press

In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact—a fragment of papyrus, just discovered, carrying lines from...

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Would like to know suggestions for this too…

Rachel King@rachelking.bsky.social · 2y ago

🏺Archaeologists who teach: if you had to use one piece of writing to teach First Year undergrads how to read an academic paper, what would you choose? Doesn’t have to be a full-on article but it should be something they can practice on in a workshop 🙏🏻