Miksi tonkia muinaisia vessajuttuja? Ancient Toilets – A Cultural and Social History -projekti pureutuu antiikin vessakulttuuriin ja murtaa myyttejä törkyisestä kaupunkitilasta. Saara Kauppinen Khelidonissa khelidon.fi/2026/09/02/m...

Miksi tonkia muinaisia vessajuttuja? Esittelyssä <em>Ancient Toilets</em> -projekti

Käymälät, niiden puute ja jätteiden käsittely vaikuttivat merkittävällä tavalla ihmisten elämään. Kirjallisista lähteistä saatava tieto täydentää olennaisesti arkeologisen tutkimuksen tarjoamaa kuvaa kaupunkien arjesta. Aineistoja yhdistämällä saamme eri sukupuolten, ikäryhmien ja yhteiskuntaluokkien kokemukset huomioivan kokonaiskuvan antiikin käymälöistä ja niiden käyttäjistä. Myös aistimaailman tarkastelu on osa tätä kokonaisuutta. Näin ymmärrämme paremmin kaupunkitilan käyttöä ja elämää antiikin kaupungeissa.

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Inequality in the Ancient Mediterranean: Diachronic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Tomorrow, 31 August, the Netherlands Institute at Athens hosts the workshop “Inequality in the Ancient Mediterranean: Diachronic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives.” The workshop explores how we ca…

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Have a topic of broad importance that you would like to tackle using archaeological evidence? Would you like to bring a team of archaeologists together to do so? CfAS is launching a Synthesis Design Grants scheme for 2027 ! Proposals due 15 October. #archaeology www.archsynth.org/project/synt...

Synthesis Design Grants - CfAS

Anyone with an idea for a synthesis project can now apply for a Synthesis Design Grant that will fund a Design Workshop.

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You are researching how past societies have experienced, managed, and adapted to population decline? The CCSA Kiel together with the CfAS is calling for applications for a Design Workshop. The deadline is 07 September. More information: tinyurl.com/jdxw9mjd

Call for Applications: Design Workshop on Understanding Population Decline in the Past to Inform Societal Futures - CfAS

Call for Applications open for Design Workshop on Understanding Population Decline in the Past to Inform Societal Futures

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Got a new book! Many interesting chapters on experiencing space in the past, including chapters dealing with Roman administration and republicanism - one of them mine.

Arctos – Acta Philologica Fennica Vol. 59 (2025 journal.fi/arctos/issue... #openaccess @anttiijaes.bsky.social @simelius.bsky.social

New article: "Reframing Pompeii: Population Debates and Inequality beyond Conventional Models,”Arctos 59, 2026. There is some critique, but also new results - for example, Gini estimates of Pompeii's income inequality. 1/3

One more before summer (break) romanurbaninequality.wordpress.com/2026/06/17/a...

Ancient Architecture Discussion Group

This Friday, I will give my last talk of the academic year at the Ancient Architecture Discussion Group seminar in Oxford. The title is ”Getting Out of the House: Developing a Methodology for…

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The modern West is once again competing with the Romans in inequality. 🏘️🏛️

Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality@stone-lis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Studies of wealth typically treat housing as a single category, but this practice obscures the dual nature of real estate. A new WP, "Real Estate Wealth Is Not a Monolith," reveals the important role of non-primary real estate in wealth concentration. stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/publications...

Folkhemmet 🇸🇪

tapahtumat.helsinki.fi/fi-FI/page/6... Tervetuloa seuraamaan väitöstäni arkeologian alalta 5.6. klo 12 Helsinkiin. Tilaisuutta voi seurata myös etänä. Vastaväittäjänä toimii prof. Jari Pakkanen, Royal Holloway, University of London.

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Helsingin yliopiston tapahtumakalenteri

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In a new article for @antiquity.ac.uk, we find that a quantitative analysis of housing at Mohenjo-daro, one of the world’s first cities, reveals that inequality sharply declined over time. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Inequality declined in the Bronze Age city of Mohenjo-daro | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Inequality declined in the Bronze Age city of Mohenjo-daro

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Talk tomorrow romanurbaninequality.wordpress.com/2026/05/18/i...

IBF Seminar

Tomorrow I’m giving a paper at Uppsala University’s Institute for Housing and Urban Research (Institutet för bostads- och urbanforskning). I’ll be talking about my project on Roman urban inequality…

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The Long History of Inequality

Tomorrow in Vienna, the workshop The Long History of Inequality: Resources, Control, and Social Power (Initiative Future Archaeology – Conference) will explore how access to, control of, and inequa…

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Friday in Vienna www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeai/even...

The Long History of Inequality: Resources, Control, and Social Power

Initiative Future Archaeology – Conference

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Workshop in Helsinki (and online) on 'Disabilities and Women in Ancient Rome: Legal, social and cultural perspectives', on Monday 4 May:

Disabilities and Women in Ancient Rome | Law, Governance and Space | University of Helsinki

Welcome to the "Disabilities and Women” workshop at the University of Helsinki!

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New Pompeii Artistic Landscape Project (PALP) website is live. Try "Mythological Figure": palp.art/browse/#myth... . There's work to do. Exploring what the interface can and should be is absolutely part of the ongoing project...

Tänään Suomen Ateenan-instituutin ystävien, Lähi-idän instituutin ystävien ja Villa Lanten ystävien yhteinen esitelmäilta aiheesta 'Itsevaltiaat'. Helsingissä ja Zoomissa!

Mare nostrum 15.4.2026 klo 18 – Itsevaltiaat

Suomen Ateenan-instituutin ystävien, Lähi-idän instituutin ystävien ja Villa Lanten ystävien yhteinen esitelmäilta Mare nostrum järjestetään keskiviikkona 15.4.2026 klo 18:00 alkaen. Mare nostrumin…

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Testing new UI for Pompeii Artistic Landscape (PALP). Try p-lod.github.io/palp-client-... . Earliest stages! Slow! Barest functionality! But "Type Ahead" beginning to work. Try 'ar...' or 'ha..." in input in header. You might have to hit return even after choosing word. cc @epoehler.bsky.social

Our newest results from the project. Using 3d models we found that changes to the Forum Romanum by Caesar and Augustus reduced the visibility of speakers. At the same time they separated hypothetical crowds of two simultaneous events @ncn.gov.pl www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Thrilled to be guest editing the blog this month for a series on all things Roman gardens! Check out the first post featuring the wonderful Kaja Tally-Schumacher 👇

Peopling The Past@peoplingthepast.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This week on the #PeoplingBlog we kick off our Earth Month series! Here, Dr. Kaja Tally-Schumacher takes us through her work on Roman gardens and the ways in which archaeologists can recover the experiences of laborers & other non-elite people in the Roman world: peoplingthepast.com/2026/04/03/b...

Hakuaika päättyy sunnuntaina 26.4.2026.

Haku arkeologisille kaivauksille Italiaan

Klassillisen arkeologian, antiikintutkimuksen ja historian perustutkinto- ja jatko-opiskelijat voivat hakea 2.–30.9.2026 järjestettäville Castrum Novumin arkeologisille kaivauksille Santa Marinellassa...

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Found some time to write a short blog post about Liisa Jalkanen's and my article "Feelings and the Roman house: A sentiment analysis of Pompeian graffiti" romanurbaninequality.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/f...

Feelings and the Roman house

Together with Liisa Jalkanen, I published the article “Feelings and the Roman House: A Sentiment Analysis of Pompeian Graffiti” in Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage. The stu…

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What do archaeologists and ecological economists have in common? Both disciplines know that GDP is problematic, and that we can learn more about human economies by measuring their material worlds To bring these disciplines together, we are guest editing a collection for JAMT. #sustainability

In an effort to convince everyone posthumanism isn't scary I will be presenting 'Posthumanist Roman archaeology? Revisiting the Roman military community concept' as part of this year's @tracconference.bsky.social webinar series on 31/03/2026 17:00 BST Register www.ticketsource.co.uk/theoretical-...

Töitä tarjolla Tieteellisten seurain valtuuskunnassa! Haemme läheistä kollegaa minulle tiedejulkaisemisen näköalapaikalle. Linkki hakuilmoitukseen kommenteissa.

📢 Postdoctoral Fellowships in Rome! The Unione internazionale degli istituti di archeologia, storia e storia dell’arte in Roma (coordinated by École française de Rome) offers two 6-month fellowships in 2026–2027. bsr.ac.uk/open-call-un...

Open Call | Unione internazionale degli istituti di archeologia, storia e storia dell’arte in Roma - bsr.ac.uk

The Unione internazionale degli istituti di archeologia, storia e storia dell’arte in Roma (coordinated by École française de Rome) offers two 6-month fellowships in 2026–2027. 🔹 Conduct research at t...

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Please sign the #petition to save the wonderful Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Östasiatiska museet, 远东博物馆) which holds - among many other things - material from the earliest scientific archaeological excavations ever to be conducted in #China kampanj.skiftet.org/medelhavsmus...

Rädda Medelhavsmuseet

Medelhavsmuseet och Östasiatiska riskerar att stängas för gott. En hyreshöjning på 57% tar knäcken på kulturen.

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Den här veckan i Uppsala romanurbaninequality.wordpress.com/2026/03/10/h...

Higher Seminar in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History in Uppsala

Tomorrow I will give a talk at the Higher Seminar in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at Uppsala University. I will outline the concept of Roman inequality and present new methodological a…

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Catherine Steel and I are thrilled to announce the publication of our edited volume 'Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic': www.cambridge.org/core/books/w... @universitypress.cambridge.org #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics