Jana Anvari

This will be out soon! Eileen Cummings about her incredible life story from Stolen generation to policy maker, community leader and great-grandmother. Spending time with Eileen and forming this narrative together has been an enormous privilege. Laughing, crying – it’s all in here!

Bombs falling near where my brother Hamza lives in Gaza City. He, his 1 year old son and pregnant wife had just moved back into their bombed out apartment. Now they had to leave again because of a new evacuation order for their area.

My friend Shumon is looking for a PostDoc on his innovative project that just started: somebody broadly interested in working at the confluence of computational archaeology, network & complexity science and Palaeolithic stone artefact analysis - in a dynamic early career research group!

Exciting news: Co-director @patrickwillett will talk about our newest survey results at this year’s IMSW. You can join with the following link on the 25th at 10:30am: conectaha.csic.es/b/vic-tiw-ap...

Donate to Help my family survive the war in Gaza, organized by Jana Anvari Hello kind people of the world, I am asking for your help in keeping my family … Jana Anvari needs your support for Help my family survive the war in Gaza

I will send every donated euro/dollar to my Gaza family for basic survival. Everything - water, food, nappies, blankets - is very expensive. Your donations have been helping to keep the 20 people in my core family alive: my five siblings, their mother, spouses and children. gofund.me/7c21df27

My family in Khan Younis is near the new evacuation zone and my sister messaged me yesterday ‘I am very afraid, especially since there is a near bombing’. I repost our fundraiser here.

I haven’t posted on my family in Gaza in a while - because what is there to say? During the ceasefire, food supply had become easier and my nieces and nephews had returned to school a few hours per week. Now the war is back without any end in sight.

Last Thursday, our project presented in two different places around the world! Co-director Edlira Andoni presented at the annual meeting of the Institute of Archaeology in Tirana; co-director Jana Anvari presented at the Flinders Archaeology Seminar in Adelaide. Thanks to all who came out!

Always wonderful to talk about our ongoing research! Today, 3pm Adelaide time, possibility to join online: tinyurl.com/3e8yzjs8

on the day Hitler became chancellor.

Just offering possible wording for everbody who’s at a loss for words: I can’t eat nearly as much as I want to puke (German original, in Berlin dialect: Ick kann janich so viel fressen, wie ick kotzen möchte). Spoken by German Jewish painter Max Liebermann when he was watching a Nazi parade

This is her Instagram account: @translatorsaja. Or you can reach her through me.

My sister Saja, living in Khan Younis, is a trained translator English<>Arabic. Her wish is to (re-)build her life through her own strength and work. She asks me to spread the word that she would be grateful for any translation jobs; she already successfully completed one for a colleague of mine.

Just a reminder that applications are open for this Assistant Professorship in Cologne, deadline is this week.

in even worse condition than the photos sent to them by friends showed. Walls are instable, the place is not safe for living. Fortunately, they were able to move into our aunt's apartment. Food is still expensive and water difficult to obtain.

Three of my sibling with their families returned to Gaza City this week. Like many others, they did the trek north partly on truck, on donkey cart and on foot, having to sleep at the Netzarim checkpoint for two nights. They found their apartment building

Exhaustion after 470 days of bombardment, fear and malnutrition. Sadness about the loss of their homes. These pictures are taken from videos they sent me of their destroyed apartments in Gaza City.

Finally, a ceasefire. My sisters and brothers in Gaza tell me that, like many people there, they are feeling a mixture of emotions: Happiness, hope. Sadness about the friends and family who died, which includes three of our cousins in just the last two weeks.

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If you ever wanted to replace me, this is your chance: my old job in Cologne is now advertised, wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in (Assistenz) am Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte. I loved this job and the department - very happy to answer questions about it all, just message me.

DiaryOfA(Partly)UnemployedAcademic, 5: A few days in Darwin for a research project. Loving it, but my hair is going crazy.

Global Connectivity in Maritime Perspective – International Fellowships DSM 2025 | Deutscher Museumsbund e.V. Do you also think that the global impact of our relationship with the sea has so far been little addressed? The German Maritime Museum, Leibniz Institute for Maritime History (DSM) offers you the oppo...

The German Maritime Museum invites applications for 3-9 month-long fellowships to work on interdisciplinary object-based research focussing on the cultural & political significance of the relationship between humans and the sea. Deadline 31 January 2025. More info: www.museumsbund.de/stellenangeb...

The older kids are missing out on education, but people in the displacement camps are self-organising some schooling. This is a photo of my niece Lareen taking part in a lesson given by a teacher in the school building in Deir el-Balah part of my family is sheltering in.

My siblings in Gaza continue to parent under very difficult circumstances. The younger kids in my family received WHO polio vaccinations a few weeks ago, for which I am very grateful. My two youngest nephews, both a bit over 1 year old, have spent most of their lives in a war.

many more fun people from different countries. Details here: www.archaeologybalkansummerschool.com. We are very grateful for the funding from @daadworldwide.bsky.social!

Excited to announce our archaeological Summer school in Albania in July/August 2025. Teaching the archaeological process with a practical focus. Funded places for 15 students from Albania, North Macedonia and Germany. With the fabulous @patrickwillett.bsky.social and

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JOB! 🏺🔬🧪 #archaeology www.wessexarch.co.uk/node/35521?f...

Celebrating submitting a >1000 pages edited book manuscript for peer review. Phew!

🚨 Job Klaxon 🚨 1 PhD position for 3 years a the German Mining Museum Bochum in the interdisciplinary DFG/AHRC funded project "Toxic Heritage: Socio-natural Landscapes of Extraction and Pollution in the Harz and Cornwall". More details: karriere.bergbaumuseum.de/jobposting/2.... Please share!

I am using the kids’ school hours for writing ... And loving it! Finally getting enough research time now that I am not employed.