Wooohooo! Many congratulations Florence! Love the Polaroid :) 🌱
Posts by Despoina V. Sampatakou
First lecture of the Bronze Age SE Arabia series tomorrow on landscapes and foodways. I also have a lecture/workshop in the Archaeology & AI module, where the students will play “and what remains” the world building card game before examining better ways to craft metadata.
As one does.
Iain McLean currently giving our paper on proxemics and social interaction in XR :) #FUSION
@glasgow.ac.uk
This is tomorrow night, in beautiful Cushendall, and youre very welcome to come along!
And at long last!
This paper is finally live. It's been a labour of love, with thanks to so many @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @micireland.bsky.social @ulstermuseum.org @nmireland.bsky.social and so many more!
And it's open access!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Here's a collection of trans/queer focused papers at #CHI2026! 🌈🏳️⚧️📝
padlet.com/haimson/chi2...
Great paper on physics in VR presented by Christos Lougiakis #CHI2026
Key take away: more realism is not always better but consistent realism do matters :)
Really pleased this collaboration with @carlyschuster.bsky.social is finally published! We lean on queer feminist theory to discuss kinship as a dynamic set of relations and map their flow around funerary rites - we see burials as cannily assembled, not simple mirrors of the living world
The EAA votes are out
The great majority of our archaeological community has voted in favour of the petitions raised by #concernedEAA. We asked for a democratic process, we asked for accountability, and for the need to acknowledge the horrific genocidal policy of Israel against Gaza.
Right? So cool and also so appropriate for the paper on queer gaming 🌈
There they are! @florencesn.bsky.social presenting their paper on video game archaeology 🤩
The app doesn’t allow me to message you and the session is full 😩
The only paper in archaeology and gaming at #CHI2026 I believe :)
Looking forward to hearing @florencesn.bsky.social 👾
On a Tuesday if I’m not wrong, which is why us Greeks consider the Tuesday 13 to be an unlucky one and not the Friday :)
Amazing! I’ll send you my WhatsApp if it’s easier :) I think it’ll be 5000 people 😅
Heading to Barcelona tomorrow for #CHI2026
If any digital archaeologists or heritage people are there, drop me a message 🤓
We're very excited for Sara Perry (UCL)'s public, keynote lecture next week:
Exploring Human Values through Social Virtual Reality for Cultural Heritage.
Thursday 16th April at 17:00 BST, free for all to attend in person or online, book at ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Just in case you haven’t heard, we’re organising #CAAUK in #Glasgow this November! Hope to see familiar and new faces there!
@glasgow.ac.uk
@caaint.bsky.social
@clmorgan.bsky.social and @apolitopoulos.bsky.social on Worldbuilding 🗺️ in the #CAA2026
I’ve played the game #AndWhatRemains and I loved it so much! Amazing tool for teaching and public engagement :) 👾
Promotional poster from the University of Glasgow School of Health & Wellbeing for Byres Community Hub BSL Café sessions. It advertises beginner and intermediate British Sign Language cafés with Carly Brownlee from Deaflancers on 8th and 29th April 2026. The poster says everyone is welcome to practise BSL in a friendly, supportive environment. On the right is an illustration of the BSL sign for “hello,” showing a person waving a hand near the side of their head.
Practice your British Sign Language at UofG this April!
Join Carly Brownlie (Deaflancers) in a friendly & supportive environment. Everyone welcome!
☕ Beginners Café - 8 April
☕ Intermediates Café - 29 April
More: gla.ac/4sIYhQT
If you care about democracy and the ethics of archaeology, and believe that scholars should take a stance on the on-going genocide, please sign and circulate.
Looking forward to the #CAA2026 in Vienna next week! I’ll be presenting our lab’s experiments on cultural object interaction in XR in Session 3 on Wednesday the 2nd of April at 11:10. Hope to see you there!
#FUSION project
@glasgow.ac.uk
All the cool kids will be there 🤩
At @ucl.ac.uk today giving a lecture on digital archaeology and cultural heritage. Such a great audience, thank you @veyselapaydin.bsky.social for the invite!
OMW to present to the Newcastle University Archaeology Society tonight! I gave them a choice of topics and they went for:
OTHER EYES: Mixed reality, digital interpretation and Romano-british identity in a changing interpretive landscape
Say hi if you are there! 🖤
Picture of Victorian geologist w text reading oh look another day where we celebrate an under represented group by asking them to do a bunch of work reminding us they have a legitimate reason to be. Elebrates
Happy no-longer-boycotting-#IWD -actively-protesting-it-day ;)
Shout out to everyone does this work anyway ❤️💪
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Digital Classicist London 2026 call for papers. Papers on any aspect of the ancient or pre-colonial worlds *and* that address innovative digital approaches. Deadline Monday 16th March 2026. blog.stoa.org/archives/4370
Amazing 🤩