E-J Graham

E-J Graham

@e-jgraham.bsky.social

Professor of Roman Archaeology at The Open University | Roman archaeology | material religion | penguins 🐧

221 Followers 149 Following 31 Posts Joined Oct 2023
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Female Agency is here in paperback! Agency is relational, so why not relate to a lighter and less expensive set of chapters about it: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

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The Open University
MA Classical Studies Leventis Studentships 2026
Thanks to the generosity of the A.G. Leventis Foundation, The Open University are delighted to offer three fully-funded studentships for UK students to undertake our MA in Classical Studies. These are open to candidates who meet one or both of the following criteria:

Teachers working in state-funded schools or sixth form colleges in the UK who plan to introduce or develop classical subjects in their school
Students from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background

The Leventis studentships consist of a grant of £9,000 to cover the full cost of the tuition fees for the MA with the remaining balance available for the purchase of books and resources or attendance at related events.

Full details and the application form are available on our website: https://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/classicalstudies/

Studentships now available for the @openuniversity.bsky.social MA in Classical Studies! Open to state school teachers and/or students from Black, Asian, or Minority Ethnic backgrounds. Applications due by 1 June. Please share widely! More info + application form: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/classi...

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Hey everyone, copy Naomi and come study Classical Studies with us 😊

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I started with the OU seriously at 39. Since then I've done a full BA in Classics, plus a couple of modules in eg Biology and Art History, then an MA in Classics, now starting on some Maths.

I made a decision to be this person, and I am grateful to Naomi-age-39 for it. The time goes past anyway.

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The Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion

Learn more via: www.openmaterialreligion.org

@shaftowheed.bsky.social

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We'll post about our research groups over the next days, starting with...

1️⃣ Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion (Classical Studies) — exploring the material, visual & sensory worlds of Greek, Etruscan & Roman religions.
Director/Deputy: Jessica Hughes/Emma-Jayne Graham

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Sixty years ago, Jennie Lee's vision created The Open University 🎓 Welcoming all backgrounds, millions have started life-changing journeys. #OUfamily #TheOpenUniversity #OU60 💙

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Exploring Ovid’s big ideas In this free course, Exploring Ovid’s big ideas, you will find out why Ovid’s work is still so relevant today. You will meet characters from ancient myth like Actaeon the hunter who was turned into...

It’s part of a suite of free OpenLearn courses, HeadStart Classical Studies, written by my brilliant colleagues. You can study the course here: www.open.edu/openlearn/hi...

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Friends! For the @openuniversity.bsky.social’s free learning platform I wrote a course: Exploring Ovid’s big ideas. It’s about Pacific Islander creation myth, monsters, Brazilian art, how stories change their meaning across time, British-Nigerian poetry, and of course… about Ovid. 💻🏺

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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...

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1 month ago

Your periodic reminder that you can start learning ancient Greek right now, free of charge!

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1 month ago

Curling is the best (and not just because of the one slippy/one non-slippy shoe thing, although that too).

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'I am dragging my anchor'

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1 month ago

Ah, let that be a lesson to watch out for 'turbulent' Grahams and their ‘owne nowghtie men' …

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I can't wait! (That sounds sarcastic, but it really isn't meant that way!)

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2 months ago

Right ... so sounds like an offering to Zeus may be in order then, just to make sure there is more waxing and less waning?

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2 months ago

Oh go on then: 4 5 6

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2 months ago

And to you Mhairi!

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3 months ago

Huge congratulations Ewan! Everyone NEEDS to read this excellent thesis!

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4 months ago

Good luck!

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4 months ago
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Ancient History Magazine 57 In ancient Rome, as throughout the ancient world, people's lives were structured around religious rituals and festivals, they prayed to the gods for guidance, and it was believed the gods even interce...

I wrote about Roman curse tablets in Ancient History Magazine - available now! www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-gb/produc...

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Excavating a Roman gypsum burial We've begun work on one of the project's most intriguing burials - a surviving gypsum casing inside a Roman sarcophagus. Find out what we discovered during our initial investigations!

Check out this latest research blog from the very excellent Seeing The Dead project in York.

It's an account of what we found when removing the upper part of a Roman gypsum cast which hadnt been moved in 150years.

seeingthedead.ac.uk/blog/excavat...

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Senses, Cognition, and Ritual Experience in the Roman World Cambridge Core - Ancient History - Senses, Cognition, and Ritual Experience in the Roman World

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Our @universitypress.cambridge.org book "Senses, Cognition and Ritual Experience in the Roman World" is #OPENACCESS !
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www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

#archaeology #sensoryarchaeology #senses #cognition #cognitivescienceofreligion #ritual #religion #classics #ancienthistory #romanhistory

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5 months ago
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Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️

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5 months ago

Just FYI - if you decide to use your slot at the department meeting next week simply to distribute pears, then that would be perfectly acceptable.

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Poster for the Badè Museum's Fall 2025 - Spring 2026 Lecture Series for Disability in the Ancient Middle East and Mediterranean.

Starting next Thursday at 5:30pm BST (9:30am PST), the Badè Museum will kick off it's new Lecture Series. Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Research Facility @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, the Series will explore Disability in the Ancient Middle East and Mediterranean. (1/4)

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Call for Papers « Roman Archaeology Conference Roman Archaeology Conference

Are you working on relations between bodies (living/dead/human/animal/other!) & ritual in the #ancient #Roman world? If so, maybe you'd like to submit a 300-word abstract for the session 'Bodies in Ritual Practices' at RAC/TRAC Aarhus, 21-23 May 2026?! See www.romansocietyrac.ac.uk/ractrac-2026...

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5 months ago

Saw this and thought of you @tony-potter.bsky.social!

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6 months ago

Probably a long shot, but does anyone have an electronic copy that they’d be willing to share with me of Friedhelm Prayon (1975) …

“Frühetruskische Grab- und Hausarchitektur”

I had copies saved on a flash drive, but it’s now corrupted & I can’t access it 😑

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