Just popping in to recommend this article! And, giving Norwegian Archaeological Review a little follow. The name doesn't give it away, but the journal is not only for Norwegian (or even Northern European stuff), check out the aims and scope and see if your stuff might be good fit🏺
Here now! Love it! So much amazing stuff and really well exhibited too!
Archaeologist (with friends) visiting Dublin! What should we see? 🏺#archaeology
Article in Norwegian! The publishing system is broken. That has been clear for a while. Having been on the end that have to find peer reviewers for more than a decade... It's become so, so, so difficult. It's a major bottle neck in the workflow for everyone involved.
www.khrono.no/tidsskriftet...
Just a lil reminder for the archaeology peeps on here! 👇🏾🏺
Whoops, litt vel sein på avtrekkeren her, og ser @kriloseth.bsky.social hadde et forslag. Men kan det dreie seg om proxy? Arkeologer er glad i proxies, men føler ikke det treffer heeelt her.
Photo taken from above. Oak desk in the back with light brown desk mat on on it. On the mat: Brown coffe mug towards the bottom left corner. Teal book in the middle with title in Norwegian: "Skriv! Håndverk i sakprosa". Parts of a grey keyboard can be seen in the upper right corner.
Only halfway through this: "Write! Craftsmanship in non-fiction" by Anders Johansen. It seems like a gem so far - so many of the author's descriptions and feelings about writing are resonating with me! Of course, he writes wonderfully too.
Starting December with yet another cold. Oslo's dark and wet. Behind on everything at home. Swamped at work. Trying to embrace the general messiness that this season of life is giving, and after some "admin" work I'll ease into this week with reading about writing. One of my favourite topics!
Should be of interest to archaeologists too! So 👉🏼 🏺
Do contact Marianne Moen, the contact person in the advertisements if you need more information (she's very nice!) and feel free to send me a message or email if you're curious about how doing a PhD at the Museum is.
Please help me spread the word and share widely! Although the material scope is set, there's still a lot of flexibility within that. There's some benefits to doing a PhD in Norway, e.g. you're employed with everything that includes (paid sick leave, paid parental leave, etc.) + a decent-ish pay.
The Museum of Cultural History has announced two PhD positions! One is on rock art from the Bronze Age
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Professor Felix Riede in front of auditorium screen. Back heads of audiences and auditorium seats and desks in the front
Professor Felix Riede in front of auditorium screen with poll results on whether archaeologists on Norway engage in international collaborations. Back heads of audiences and auditorium seats and desks in the front
Professor Felix Riede from @aarhusuni.bsky.social continues the discussion with his keynote on "Internationalisation in the Nordics"! Spiced up with an interactive poll.
The overall theme for this year's meeting is "Global trends, local challenges", so Hansen's introduction is very apt!
Vice-rector at UiO, Mette Halskov Hansen, in front of auditorium screen. In the front of the picture you can see the back heads of the audience
Vice-rector at UiO, Mette Halskov Hansen, opens this year's Norwegian Archaeological Meeting and discusses the university's ambition to balance academic freedom with globalization, knowledge creation and collaboration with (some) authoritarian states in a generally challenging political climate. 🏺
Tomorrow, we have a session in the national conference "Norwegian Archaeological Meeting" (NAM):
"AI in Archaeology beyond ChatGPT: The AI revolution is upon us, but how do we employ Artificial Intelligence in our daily workflows?" Keynote by Gabriele Gattiglia.
There's a lot of 3D, but also remote sensing and a session on ontologies and repositories. Good stuff, in other words!
Getting ready to attend Norway's CAA conference! Most are presenting in Norwegian, but Sjoerd van Riel and Simon Radchenko have presentations in English from 11.10 & 11.30 CET (you can check out the programme below and find a link to Zoom). Open for all! 🏺
no.caa-international.org/caa-n-2024/
Apropos of teaching, I'll be doing a lecture on "Archeology today" for second year students in a few weeks (subject is on theory and research history), what should not be missed, in your opinion? It's their last lecture of the semester and close to exam date, so bonus points for extra fun stuff 🤓🏺
This is absolutely wonderful! Downloading and will share with those I know that teach at UiO.
Sure, some votes flip-flop from election to election, but a lot of the decisions are made on (did)trust built up over decades.
Quoting because, well, this is true everywhere. We see it in Europe and in Norway. Latest polling shows that FrP, our far right populist party, is the country's biggest (luckily, I guess, we have more than two parties).
political culture is built on top of much longer time horizons than elections might lead one to believe. many a political battle is won and lost generationally
🏺I've been very lucky to be invited to co-organise a PhD course in the Nordic graduate school Dialogues with the Past in March next year, on one of my favourite topics: writing as method. Deadline to register is November 1st.
"Writing the past in and for the Present" www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english...
I started with wanting to recommend Onyx Boox tablets for people in Norway, both Bookbites and Libby work on them. And then it went somewhere else. I think I'll try reading and writing more, not just for work, but to live better.
Again, I'm trying to get back into the habit of reading. Because I need it. Easy access helps. I don't know where I'm going with this, I only know that letters, reading and writing, has always been a comfort to me.
Yesterday a week had passed since her funeral. I was supposed to have been in Rome, instead I was holding a memorial speech for a young woman who wanted nothing more than to survive and live.
It's been draining me, creatively and mentally, for far longer than I thought. The last month has been rough. While my fever was rising on a Sunday the message of the passing of a close friend was relayed to me. The following Monday was spent in a fever dream.
Bookbites, the library app of choice in Norway is, well, not that good. It is, however, an easy way to get quick access to free books. I started to attempt getting back into the habitat of reading for fun over the summer, instead of endless doomscrolling and binging.