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If you still need this, I have a PDF copy of the article!

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@toomanyspectra.bsky.social and I have an amazing friend, Willow. They have been homeless for a while now in NYC but getting back into housing! They need help getting things out of storage/moving and all the things needed to get going. We're so happy for them. Thank you!
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Performing Gender Normativity and Queerness in the Roman Funeral: An Analysis of Historical Sources and Iconographic Evidence This article contributes to the emerging field of Queer Death Studies by offering a queer analysis of the gendered performances of mourners during the Roman funeral through an examination of subversio...

Check out my new article in @traj-journal.bsky.social !
traj.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...

Performing Gender Normativity and Queerness in the Roman Funeral: An Analysis of Historical Sources and Iconographic Evidence This article contributes to the emerging field of Queer Death Studies by offering a queer analysis of the gendered performances of mourners during the Roman funeral through an examination of subversio...

NEW in #TRAJ Vol. 8:

Performing Gender Normativity & Queerness in the Roman Funeral: An Analysis of Historical Sources & Iconographic Evidence by Jessica Tilley

doi.org/10.16995/tra...

#AcademicSky #RomanArchaeology

Deadline for submission is today!

Great news for PhD students! See below!

Really pleased to be one of three co-chairs for the 2025/26 @pgwip.bsky.social's PG work-in-progress seminar series based at @ics.bsky.social along with @carlosedes.bsky.social!

Looking forward to a great year of insightful talks and discussions ahead as part of my new PhD journey!

We're now accepting submissions for papers for our 2025/26 seminar series!

You can send abstracts of 300 words to postgradwip@gmail.com along with a working title, your preferred term and mode of attendance.

Papers are around 45 minutes and can be connected with any aspect of the ancient world!

Assistant Professor (Teaching Focussed) in Roman History (110578-0625) at University of Warwick Apply now for the Assistant Professor (Teaching Focussed) in Roman History (110578-0625) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

I know it's only part time, since this is cover for Alison Cooley being made head of Warwick Institute of Advanced Studies (take it up with the powers who decide these buy outs), but there is a 3 year teaching gig at in Roman history at Warwick.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX770/a...

Assistant Professor (Teaching Focussed) in Roman History (110578-0625) at University of Warwick
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CALLING ALL POTENTIAL BOOK REVIEWERS

See something on our booklist you'd like to review? We'll be delighted to publish you! All the steps of the review process are laid out here. We look forward to hearing from you!

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Friends (Romans? Countrymen?): I’m so proud of the program for “Ages of Nero: Reality and Reception” this week. There’s a livestream that’s free and open to anyone who wants to tune in for all sorts of Neronianness. 

lit.auth.gr/research/con...
 
LIVESTREAM audiovisual.auth.gr/video/101860

Processional Routes, Orthopraxy and a Political Sacred Island: Exploring the Iron Age and Roman Religious Landscape of Hayling Island and the Chichester region The role of processions and pilgrimage in the pre-Roman to Roman transition in southern Britain is considered in this paper. The example chosen for detailed examination is the temple on Hayling Island...

NEW #TRAJ research article by Anthony King, Grahame Soffe & Kate Adcock

'Processional Routes, Orthopraxy & a Political Sacred Island: Exploring the Iron Age & Roman Religious Landscape of Hayling Island & the Chichester region'

traj.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...

#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology

A cover for a journal showing the mosaic floor of the Guildhall in London.

🎉 #TRAJ Volume 8 is launched!

Check out the first paper of our Cosmologies Special Issue on pilgrimage routes to Hayling Island in Britain, a review of ancient wine archaeology & more!

FREE traj.openlibhums.org/issue/1682/i...

The @hellenicsociety.bsky.social, Roman Society and the Institute of Classical Studies are running a small grants scheme to assist unfunded scholars who wish to visit the Library in summer 2025 to advance a project of research or scholarship:
ics.sas.ac.uk/awards/grant...

Closing date: 15 June.

Delivered a talk at the PGR Colloquium 2025 this afternoon on the topic "Some considerations on the mentions of origo intra civitatem in the province of Hispania Ulterior Baetica" at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social. Had some pretty good feedback, too!

A green jug in the shape of a male upper body with face and arms.

With the 60th ICMS well underway it's only right to post something medieval for #FindsFriday!🏺

May we present to you the most endearing jug we've ever seen...

Source: CIL 02-05, 00257 = HEp 2005, 00164 = AE 1935, 00006 = Navarro-2017, 00014

M(arcia) M(arci) f(ilia) Procula /
Patriciensis an(norum) III s(emis) /
M(arcus) Marcius Gal(eria) /
Proculus Patricien/
sis domo Sucaeloni /
IIvir c(olonorum) c(oloniae) P(atriciae)

A rather interesting inscription from Baetica stating two different origines (!) for a certain M. Marcius Proculus

Thank you! I'm very happy to hear you enjoyed it! I find it is hard for many to move past these assumptions. However, I'm glad to see the argument is at least somewhat convincing!

Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Pompeii

#AncientHistory seminar
6 February, 4:30pm - Online
Seth Bernard (University of Toronto): Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Pompeii
ics.sas.ac.uk/events/slavery-prosperit...

Cede nothing.
Force them to fight you for every step they attempt to take.
No surrender.
No yielding a single inch of ground.
This is the line.
Hold the line.

Sign the Petition Save Cardiff University Ancient History Degree

Cardiff University has scheduled a closure of Ancient History.

Please sign this petition from students at Cardiff to save their lecturers jobs and their chosen subject of study!

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Correct link🤦‍♀️: www.elliemackinroberts.net/blog/the-blu...

We are continuing our collaboration between @ics.bsky.social @bsrome.bsky.social @theromansoc.bsky.social to offer another fully funded student placement at Falerii Novi this summer! 🏺
Please note new deadline of *28 February*

The Emergence of the Replica Model? An Analysis of the Question of the ‘Copies of Rome’ in Late Republican Colonization Through Three Case-Studies - Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica 30(1): 117-138 Carlos ENRÍQUEZ DE SALAMANCA DOI: 10.47743/saa-2024-30-1-6 ABSTRACT The debate around the replica model of Roman colonization has traditionally been focu...

I guess I'll advertise it here!

I recently published my first paper on Roman colonisation and the Replica Model in 'Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica! Read it on Open-Access here:

saa.uaic.ro/30-1-6/