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Profiling students, staff and general amazingness of the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester.
The SAAH Wednesday Seminar Team would like to invite everyone to our talk this Wednesday 21st May. Our speaker will be Dr Heather Keeble presenting โHow to Get Ahead in Archaeology: Using Book Reviews to Build Communities and Careers in Nineteenth-Century British Archaeologyโ.
20.05.2025 08:32 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
๐SAAH's BODY-POLITICS project have just published the first interdisciplinary study on pregnancy in the Viking Age.
Check it out here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
๐ขJoin us for our seminar on Wed 14th May at 5pm when Gabrielle Russo will be presenting: '"He brought justice to al-Shฤm after a stretch of corruptionโ: Local Leadership and Revitalisation in al-Buhturฤซโs (d.897) Poems for Khumฤrawayh (d.896)โ. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/ap/t-59584e8...
13.05.2025 09:16 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
๐ฉโ๐Ever wondered what you can do with a degree in Ancient History?
๐ฅCheck out this YouTube video from one of our graduates Claire Jackson which explores how her degree helped her discover a passion for sharing history in innovative and accessible ways.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD8t...
๐จโ๐Join us for our research seminar at 4pm today, given by Dr Andriy Danylenko of Pace University, New York on 'The Slavic Slaves in al-Andalus & Ifrฤซqฤซyah: A Case of Linguistic Hybridization in the Late First Millennium'.
๐ปTo join online: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/ap/t-59584e8...
๐ขWeโre delighted to announce the Term 3 programme for the hybrid Wednesday Research Seminars at 5pm each week.
๐ We'll post the Teams link here before each seminar.
*PUBLIC LECTURE*
On 30 April, Prof Andriy Danylenko (Pace University, NY) will be giving a public lecture on 'The Slavic Slaves in al-Andalus & Ifrฤซqฤซyah: A Case of Linguistic Hybridization in the Late First Millennium', hosted by the DoSSE project & the University of Leicester.
Details below โฌ๏ธ
๐ปTune in to hear our very own Dr Kathryn Tempest discuss the Gracchi and the fall of the Roman Republic on #BBC #Radio4 programme 'In Our Time' tomorrow morning: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
02.04.2025 15:43 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
๐ขNEWSFLASH! We've joined forces with #TimeTeam @timeteam.bsky.social to profile student experience on their first fieldschool excavating a #Roman #villa in #Leicestershire.
๐ฅTune in on Saturday at 7pm when the episode will air on Time Team's YouTube channel. (www.youtube.com/c/TimeTeamOf...).
Thurs 3 April 16:15 in the Meadows LT for our ArchSoc/OneHealth Archaeology seminar is @thehem.bsky.social@archanchistleic.bsky.socialย โBody-politics: Untold stories of broken bodies from Iron & Viking-age Scandinaviaโ #medievalsky #Vikings #EdinArch #archaeology ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ช๐ณ๐ด @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.socialย โ๏ธโ ๏ธ
31.03.2025 16:30 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
๐ฉโ๐Last week, our very own Dr Laura Basell gave a keynote lecture about the exciting fieldwork she directs on #Dartmoor Tor enclosures at the โScales of Social, Environmental and Cultural Change in Past Societiesโ conference at #Kiel University, Germany. #archaeology #neolithic #tors
31.03.2025 15:42 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
๐ฐYesterday was the annual Great Greek Monument Bake Off featuring edibles based on the content of Janie Massรฉglia's third-year module AH3082 Great Greek Monuments.
๐Star Baker was Gen, with lemon & poppy seed 'Soul Cakes' inspired by the images of human souls on white ground lekythoi. Great work!
๐"...Since then people just know where Leicester is..." ๐
๐This week marks ten years since Richard III's reinterment at #Leicester Cathedral.
๐ฐRead more about the Richard III effect in this #BBC article:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#archaeology #richardiii #universityofleicester
๐จโ๐Our very own Prof. Ben Jervis gave the keynote at a conference called 'Looking at things differently. New Materialist approaches in Archaeology' in Mainz, Germany last week.
โHe explored how the application of innovative theory can destabilise our perceptions of urban life in medieval England.
๐ขOn 26th March at 5pm Prof. Cyprian Broodbank will deliver our Wednesday seminar on โOued Beht (Morocco): New light on the later prehistoric dynamics of Mediterranean Africaโ. Join online with the following link: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/ap/t-59584e8...
25.03.2025 12:16 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
๐ขCheck out PhD student Kayt Hawkin's article on the function of a range of vessels traditional identified as Roman infant feeding bottles in the journal 'Childhood in the Past'.
๐ทImage credit: Colchester & Ipswich Museums
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
๐ขThis week Prof. Cyprian Broodbank will deliver our Wednesday seminar on โOued Beht (Morocco): New light on the later prehistoric dynamics of Mediterranean Africaโ.
๐ฐThere will be cake at 4.30pm & the hybrid seminar will start at 5pm. Check out our Facebook page for the Teams link!
Programme of talks for the April-June 2025 Herodotus Helpline series: 2 April Tom Harrison (British Museum) Divinity and History โ 25 years on 30 April Ian Oliver (Regis) Audiences of Herodotus 14 May Round-table: Teaching Herodotus 28 May Matteo Zaccarini (Bologna/Ravenna) Herodotusโ women 11 June Rosalind Thomas (Balliol College, Oxford) Herodotus in Context โ 25 years on
The Herodotus Helpline is delighted to share details of its spring/summer 2025 edition of talks! All talks are freely open to everybody. Just register at herodotushelpline@gmail.com #Herodotus @classicsforall.bsky.social @archanchistleic.bsky.social
21.03.2025 12:00 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
๐๐๐Congratulations to SAAH doctoral student Kai Francis who passed his piratical #PhD this month with minor corrections.
๐จโ๐His thesis explores how real campaigns against #pirates turned into the stuff of rhetoric within the discourse of Rome's emerging imperial power. ๐๐๐
#romanpirates
๐ขThe #Heritage Hubโs #Celebration of Heritage Event will take place on Sat. 22 March 2025 11am-4pm at Studentsโ Union (Percy Gee Building), University of #Leicester.
๐Explore our campus heritage and collections and discover and celebrate the rich history and heritage of our city and region!
The Pasha Palace seen in 2022 and again on 5 January 2024. Getty Images
๐ฃ Our work with Palestinian colleagues in monitoring heritage damage in #Gaza is mentioned as part of an article out in @theguardian.com:๐๐ป
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
@unioxarchaeology.bsky.social @arcdurham.bsky.social @archanchistleic.bsky.social
๐We've just heard that the School have been ranked 40th in the world for Archaeology in the QS World University Rankings by Subject for 2025. Not only that, we've climbed 10 places in the rankings since last year! Well done everyone!๐
www.topuniversities.com/university-s...
๐ฅFor those of you who couldn't make it on the day, we've now uploaded a video to YouTube of the ceremony which renamed the home of Archaeology, Ancient History and Museum Studies as the Kathleen Kenyon Building. Check it out here: youtu.be/MzZRQTno2C0
11.03.2025 18:05 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
๐ขRegister now for an exciting workshop on the Global Levant during the Middle Ages to be held at UoL on 27th-28th March. The workshop is organised by Dr Carmen Ting in collaboration with the Council for British Research in the Levant.
๐ปFor more information, visit: www.cbrl.ac.uk/event/global...
๐ขOur speaker at this week's Wednesday seminar will be Dr Gwendoline Maurer presenting โReassessing Kura-Araxes pastoral practices and mobility in the Levant & Caucasus using zooarchaeology, ZooMS & stable isotope analysisโ.
๐12th March @ 5pm George Porter LT A or online. See Facebook for the link!
Here's a few more images from our event on Friday where we renamed our building the Kathleen Kenyon Building in honour of a trailblazing archaeologist and #InternationalWomensDay. There were funny speeches, delicious cakes, amazing cartoons and beautiful banners galore!
09.03.2025 17:06 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
๐ขToday, the home of our Schools of #Archaeology & Ancient History & Museum Studies has been renamed the Kathleen Kenyon Building, the first academic building on campus to be named after a woman.
๐๏ธ le.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...
๐ท UCL Institute of Archaeology, CC BY 4.0
#InternationalWomensDay
โWant to know more about ancient Mesopotamia?
๐ฉโ๐Take a fascinating trip there with Dr Selena Wisnom in her lecture on the Library of Ancient Wisdom which was given as part of the Literary Leicester Festival 2025:
๐ปhttps://soundcloud.com/artshumlaw/sets/literary-leicester-2025
๐ฐRecently, our 1st years visited Kenilworth Castle for a rather soggy fieldtrip to consolidate their study of #castles in the medieval and post medieval world.
๐ฅงAfter looking at gatehouses, gardens and great halls they all went for a much needed warm pub lunch!
#modulemonday #archaeology
๐ขOur research seminar this week will be delivered by Dr Lenore Thompson on 'Rethinking Indigenous copper use in the Pacific Northwest during the fur trade and colonial periods.'
๐The seminar will be in George Porter LT A at 5pm.
๐ปFor those attending online, the Teams link is on our Facebook page.