ewan coopey

Kicking off our 2026 webinar series we're happy to have Sem Van Atteveld from Leiden University as our speaker!

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Our 2026 webinar series is now underway! We're excited to introduce our wonderful speakers and hope to see you all online soon.

Current Season – 2026 TRAC would like to welcome you to our 2026 webinar series. Register for free for each speaking event on the ticketsource links below. 11/03/2026 – 17:00 GMT – The City of Purple: The In…

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NUMISMA The Zoom Seminar Series of the Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies March 04 at 6.00pm: Dr. Ewan Coopey Money Talks: Imperial Coinage and the Roman Military 'Regime of Signs'

Got an upcoming talk for the Australian Centre for Ancient #Numismatic Studies about how coins were implicit to the flows of power and symbols in the #Roman military world, with reference to Deleuze and Guattari of course!

Wed Mar 4th, 6pm Sydney, on Zoom

Email ewan.coopey@mq.edu.au for rego

Argh! ewan.coopey@mq.edu.au

et voila! Online open access via the MQ Waranara library: ‘Roman archaeology with agencements,’ a thesis that looks to assemblage thinking in order to both unpack how social life was (and is) always more-the-human and to enhance the concept of the Roman army as a community.

doi.org/10.25949/313...

and if anyone would like an unredacted version, with the pretty pictures, please do get in touch!

#archaeology

et voila! Online open access via the MQ Waranara library: ‘Roman archaeology with agencements,’ a thesis that looks to assemblage thinking in order to both unpack how social life was (and is) always more-the-human and to enhance the concept of the Roman army as a community.

doi.org/10.25949/313...

this is well cool

Emerging from the Shadows: Building New Narratives of those Enslaved by the Empire The editorial of the eighth volume of the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal explores the necessity of producing new narratives, theoretical as well as public facing, concerning the lived experienc...

Have you read the latest #TRAJ editorial?

'Emerging from the Shadows' by Isabel Annal & Sian Therese

'explores the necessity of producing new narratives, theoretical as well as public facing, concerning the lived experiences of those enslaved in a Roman world'..

doi.org/10.16995/tra...

Had a fantastic week in Auckland at #ASCS47 this year! I was privileged to present on the AWAWS sponsored panel ‘Home is Where the Hatred Is’ with Katherine Prouting and Meg Challis. Looking forward to the next one!

Fortunate to attend #ASCS47 at the last-minute in Auckland this week. A great chance to see old friends and meet new ones! Always wonderful to see the supportiveness of our community on full display.

If anyone wants to put together a panel on Roman Social History for ASCS in Feb 2027, let’s chat!

My review of Cupcea 2024 'Latin inscriptions from the legionary fortress of Apulum' in Classical Review doi.org/10.1017/S000...

An extensively researched corpus of inscribed monuments found in situ in a military fortress - I mean, what more could one ask for?

#epigraphy #archaeology

‘A nation of rich cowards’: Australia needs its dreamers but the arts are underfunded, undervalued and despised We need a society that values its visionaries, those who go against the grain to create new dreams that reveal other ways of being

‘It’s financial stupidity to enter the humanities in any of our universities, and the current federal government has done nothing to abate that.’ Great piece by Ben Quilty on our undervaluing of the arts in Australia:
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Archaeology mentioned by Philippe Auclair? Am I dreaming?

headline reading: ai could replace humans in some social science surverys: metascientist says AI responses are similar enough to humans and could over productivity gains

toit

Maybe Man Utd could pick up that Hojlund fella who’s doing well over in Napoli to solve their goal scoring woes?

History and AI Explore the article collection: History and AI. Published in History Australia.

For the entire month of December, the History Australia special collection on history and AI is free to read! Grab a cup of tea, settle in, and happy reading! www.tandfonline.com/journals/rah...

Thank you so much (esp. for very constructive and generous feedback!)

Thank you!!!

Thank you 🎉

Cover image: Fragmented stela of Percennius from Trilj. AMS inv. no. A 2458. Edit of A. Verzotti, lupa.at/21471/photos/1

… and eight months excavating in Paramatta, Sydney (of all places): all are contingents of this thesis and the academic becoming it is but a fragment of.”

From the preface: “From the smallest daily interactions and discussions over my morning weetbix and coffee, to the many enriching conversations during an international research trip, the reverberations from three institutional restructures in as many years…

Front page of a thesis with a roman stela fragment on it, with the text on the title page reading: Roman archaeology with agencements: Assemblage thinking and the military community in Dalmatia and beyond Ewan S. Coopey BAncHist, MRes (University Medal) Discipline of History and Archaeology Macquarie University, Sydney Submitted on the 21" of August, 2025

Seems like the world is getting posthumanist Roman archaeology in Dalmatia whether it likes it or not

Awarded with corrections!

What a Monday

#archaeology

what's wrong with fibula (brooch)? is it anachronistic or something? 👀

A horrendous report on ABC radio from a Brisbane doctor doing a second tour in Gaza with Medecins sans Frontières. She says the ceasefire is in name only, the genocide continues and the deprivation of basic food, shelter and resources means even the injured haven’t what the need to heal.

Russell Crowe as the Red Baron

when do we think Arsenal are going to sign their first Quarterback?

Joining Bluesky one month into my PhD in the School of Humanities at Macquarie University.

I will be sharing bits and pieces as I go. Here's a cryptic sneak peak of what will be the project's conceptual foreground.

Let's roll!