We had a blast at the 8th Ibero-American Congress of Egyptologists in Barcelona earlier this week! Is that yours truly with a pic of Deleuze and Guattari on the slide? I'm afraid that's right!

Today is the day. I am starting a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship to critically reconsider the idea of cultural survivals and the role it has played in the construction of Egyptological knowledge. It is *very* daunting and at the same time incredibly exciting. Wish me luck!

Please consider submitting an abstract if you haven't done so already. The deadline is this Friday ☺️

Leire Olabarria@leireolabarria.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨Call for Papers 🚨 Connecting with the Past: Cultural Survivals and Ethnographic Comparison in the Study of Ancient Societies 📖 Interdisciplinary workshop, University of Birmingham (UK), 12-13 November 2026 ❗Deadline for abstracts 14 August 2026 Submission form: forms.office.com/e/DbAM3hmgiF

I can't be the one who really struggles to update and keep track of so many platforms and academic repositories. Bluesky, LinkedIn, Academia, Orcid, Pure... The list keeps growing, and it is frankly overwhelming! How do you do it?

Gentle reminder that the call for papers for this workshop is still open until mid-August ☺️

Leire Olabarria@leireolabarria.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨Call for Papers 🚨 Connecting with the Past: Cultural Survivals and Ethnographic Comparison in the Study of Ancient Societies 📖 Interdisciplinary workshop, University of Birmingham (UK), 12-13 November 2026 ❗Deadline for abstracts 14 August 2026 Submission form: forms.office.com/e/DbAM3hmgiF

Just a few days left to apply for this one-year post!

Leire Olabarria@leireolabarria.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 Teaching Fellow in Egyptology at the University of Birmingham Full time, fixed-term contract from 1 September 2026 to 31 August 2027 Application deadline: 6 July www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRX646/t...

Fantastic start to a week packed with research events supported by BRIHC with a conference on conferences. Can it get any more meta than that? Amazing keynote by @lauracforster.bsky.social with a focus of the experience of organising and attending conferences and the power dynamics involved

It has cooled down significantly today, so it's a beautiful day on campus. Come along to the Mason Lounge in the Arts Building if you want to learn about our programmes in Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology!

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 Teaching Fellow in Egyptology at the University of Birmingham Full time, fixed-term contract from 1 September 2026 to 31 August 2027 Application deadline: 6 July www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRX646/t...

Teaching Fellow in Egyptology at University of Birmingham

An opportunity for an academic position as a Teaching Fellow in Egyptology is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

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

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So proud of my wonderful PhD student Liv, who was first runner-up in the 126 seconds presentation challenge organised as part of our College's Research Festival today! Well done, Liv!!!

🚨Call for Papers 🚨 Connecting with the Past: Cultural Survivals and Ethnographic Comparison in the Study of Ancient Societies 📖 Interdisciplinary workshop, University of Birmingham (UK), 12-13 November 2026 ❗Deadline for abstracts 14 August 2026 Submission form: forms.office.com/e/DbAM3hmgiF

We have enjoyed sharing #EgyptologyinDialogue with you all over the past few weeks! We hope it has offered food for thought in exploring the role of theory in Egyptology, particularly as concerns discussions of the body #EgyptologyInDialogue

We are grateful to all contributors and to Oxbow team and their enormous effort invested in this publication! We hope that it will inspire scholars also outside history and archaeology, especially concerning methodologies and thinking about war in relational way. #archaeology #war

Oxbow Books@oxbowbooks.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Investigate the visibility of different short- and long-term consequences of armed conflicts in the archaeological record from prehistory to the medieval period with this multi-disciplinary volume, the first to tackle this subject. Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/4ucSC5w

What potential does the dialogue between anthropology and Egyptology hold? Rather than follow a traditional import-export model, trading ready-made theories between disciplines, the afterword by Matei Candea examines the place of comparison and defamiliarization. #EgyptologyInDialogue

🚨📢 LAST TICKETS LEFT for our screening of The Mummy (1999) on Wednesday! #EESFest Join us at The Garden Cinema for an evening of Hollywood bingo, as we watch a movie that defined the interests of a whole generation of budding Egyptologists. Book now: www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/eve...

What can a pastiche Middle Kingdom boat tell us about body worlds? @emilywhitehead.bsky.social takes a model solar boat as a case study to illustrate how the notion of body worlds can help us make sense of the complex biography of this object. #EgyptologyInDialogue

Can embodied cognition help us overcome the conventional mind/body bias? By focusing on the doer rather than on what was done, Wendrich proposes a chaîne opératoire approach to rediscover the ancient Egyptian body as an active, sensory participant in its environment. #EgyptologyInDialogue

How did the ancient Egyptians conceptualise nakedness? Through texts from a wide range of genres and across two millennia, Serova analyses lexemes related to this semantic field. She uses [EXPOSURE] as a case study to demonstrate how semantic networks can be visualised. #EgyptologyInDialogue

How do foreign goddesses change when they are imported into the Egyptian pantheon? @edwardscrivens.bsky.social uses Sørensen’s notion of gender negotiation to interpret the intersections of gender and foreignness in Egyptian representations of Qadesh, Astarte, and Anat. #EgyptologyInDialogue

Our PGR community event is always one of the highlights of the year! This time we had panels on PGR funding, academic posters and alternative career pathways. Thanks to the organisers and the speakers for such a stimulating discussion!

What is the relationship between kinship and bodies in ancient Egypt? Olabarria (yours truly!) shows that we cannot take our intuitive distinction between nature and nurture for granted and uses the notion of body worlds to shed light on the Egyptian category of ‘bodily son’. #EgyptologyInDialogue

Another wonderful Birmingham Egyptology Symposium this year! PhD students from all over the world came to Birmingham in person and virtually to share their exciting research with us. Thanks to my PGRs who keep working hard behind the scenes to make this possible. Pic from the poster session below.

Trying out Kudos as a feature of @degruyterbrill.bsky.social to communicate my research to a broader audience 🧠 Hope it inspires people to read it and think about ideological background of class and ontological distinctions in #ancientEgypt link.growkudos.com/1eqi0q439q8 #egyptology #archaeology

Divine nature of pharaoh's violence in war

Using textual and visual sources from ancient Egypt, this work demonstrates that the violence conducted by the pharaoh in war was conceptualized as the violence conducted by ancient Egyptian deities t...

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‘Preserving’ Egyptian Heritage: A Tale as Old as Time? Our hybrid Study Day unpacks historical efforts to preserve Egypt’s heritage as well as the concept of ‘preservation’, what has been preserved, for whom, and why. 📅 Saturday 27 June 2026 🎫 £15-£40 for #EESFest! ℹ️ www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/eve...

Can we use comparison to align ancient Egyptian body and image concepts more closely with current anthropological frameworks? #EgyptologyInDialogue

As much as I like Bluesky, I have a major gripe with it and that is that @ncrenic.bsky.social is not as active here. I need my daily dose of academic banter!

Did the ancient Egyptians really understand the human body as inherently fragmented? Di Biase-Dyson revisits the old Egyptological theory of the ‘fragmented body’ and the related framework of ‘aspective’ with a critical lens, exposing its underlying evolutionist and racist ideas.

The ancient Egyptians usually took great care in differentiating between men, women, and others, and some of them even sought to determine the quintessential question, is the child male or female?

Coming up on the 15th of May 2026 are the application deadlines for the following NINO grants: - Conference Subsidy - Incoming and Outgoing Mobility Grants - Visiting Research Fellowship For more information and applications, see buff.ly/N0COD2T. #ninoleiden