The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Ethics The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Ethics offers a comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the concepts, challenges and dilemmas that characterise and shape contemporary heritage ethics in theory and p...

The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Ethics - including me on the ethics of space heritage
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The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Ethics The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Ethics offers a comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the concepts, challenges and dilemmas that characterise and shape contemporary heritage ethics in theory and p...

The Handbook of Heritage Ethics is finally out! Thanks to my co-editors and all the many contributors for their hard work. I hope the framing essay and themed chapters will be useful for your reading lists and research projects!
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Ethics The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Ethics offers a comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the concepts, challenges and dilemmas that characterise and shape contemporary heritage ethics in theory and p...

The Handbook of Heritage Ethics is finally out! Thanks to my co-editors and all the many contributors for their hard work. I hope the framing essay and themed chapters will be useful for your reading lists and research projects!
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Reminder that Ghosts Behind Glass is available for you to order worldwide through your local bookstore or online.

I promise that you’ll love the feel of the book and its 80 color photos. Low price of £16 / $20.

Read the description of the book here:
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Fabulous! I have been following @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social work with great interest! I should be in London in April, pending re arranged travel this month!

Farming the Cyprus Buffer Zone: Navigating a contested terrain In this talk, Christakis Peristianis (University of Cyprus) examines the sustained efforts of Greek Cypriot farmers to continue cultivating land within the Cyprus Buffer Zone from 1974 to the present ...

How do farmers, Turkish forces and UN peacekeepers navigate land shaped by division since 1974? What does cultivation look like in a frozen conflict?
Join @cperistianis.bsky.social
Wed 4 Mar 2026, 16:00–17:30 (UK)
Hybrid | Stream opens 15:50
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A win! A federal judge has instructed the Interior Department to restore signage and video exhibits at George Washington’s former Philadelphia residence that explain his ownership of enslaved people.

Metropolis (1927) is set in 2026.

The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Ethics The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Ethics offers a comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the main concepts that shape and inform heritage ethics, whilst also giving consideration to the ways they are...

'Early indications of how cultural heritage might be mobilised to assert space power on the Moon can be seen in the US’ steps
to protect its own heritage and the ongoing focus on the US flags'.

- Quote from my forthcoming paper
🧪 🏺 🔭

I'm excited to have my first publication of 2026 coming soon! Look out for The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Ethics Chapter 34: Ethical Considerations in Managing the Heritage Values of Lunar Sites. 🏺 #PlanetSci 🔭

The Bodyline Fix: How women saved cricket An engrossing Australian social history that places women at the centre of a largely untold story.

Hope you can interview Marion Stell about her book on the bodyline fix, bringing women into the historical picture! www.uqp.com.au/books/the-bo...

Looking forward to hosting fellow Leverhulme International Professor, Emma Waterton! Join us...

Everyday aesthetics in place and memory: an alternative economy of heritage abundance This Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory seminar is held jointly with the University of Stirling Centre for Environment, Heritage and Policy. Emeritus Professor Tracy Ireland will examine the ...

Professor @tracyireland.bsky.social
Everyday Aesthetics in Place and Memory: an alternative economy of heritage abundance
Room D1, Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling
Wednesday September 10, 4.00-5.30pm

Please register here to attend in person or online

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Can't wait to be back in Scotland in a few short weeks and to take the @everydayheritage.bsky.social roadshow to Stirling's exciting new @memoryplace.bsky.social

Thanks for a fantastic Winter School experience. So wonderful to meet you and the emerging generation of scholars!

National Treasures on the Big Screen: What Ne Zha 2 Can Tell Us about Techno-Nationalism - Asian Studies Association of Australia Early this year, a BBC article reported that a Chinese animated film Ne Zha 2 (2025) has become ‘a source of national pride.’ During my field trip to China in March this year, I was fortunate enough t...

Check out this fascinating post by Sharpay Wu, thinking about techonationalism and the recent film Ne Zha 2!

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Yes! Independent session Contemporary archaeology and nuclear heritage

PhD researcher Ieuan Rees presented his ongoing PhD project on local place plans, heritage, placemaking, and the everyday to a public audience at an Australia ICOMOS ACT talk on 21 May 2025. This event was supported by the Everyday Heritage ARC Linkage Project, GML Heritage and Australia ICOMOS.

You are a bloody breath of fresh air Imogen! ☺️

Pleased to share that Prof Tracy Ireland has been invited as the keynote speaker at the conference, Heritage & Conservation, in Beijing from 9-11 May 2025. It was a fascinating opportunity to share some of the work we have done for Everyday Heritage with audiences outside Australia #everydayheritage

@everydayheritage.bsky.social

Very excited to be heading to Beijing and the Centre for Ethical Studies at Renmin University to talk about the ethics and aesthetics of everyday heritage!

whan antony green says you've lost before 8:30 without working computers

Sad to see Dan Tehan retain his seat: he was the architect of Job Ready Graduates, one of the most destructive, punitive higher education policies we’ve ever seen. Labor needs to get rid of it as soon as possible

Historians dispute Bayeux tapestry penis tally after lengthy debate Two Bayeux scholars at loggerheads over whether dangling shape depicts dagger or the embroidery’s 94th phallus

If you're having a difficult day, have a read through of this article on the urgent question of whether the Bayeux Tapestry has 93 or 94 penises.
And people say history is boring.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Dreaming Ecology: Nomadics and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Victoria River, Northern Australia Full volume of Deborah Bird Rose's posthumous book Dreaming Ecology: Nomadics and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Victoria River, Northern Australia.

New book on our Environment & Society Portal: Deborah Bird Rose's 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 (ANU Press, 2024), edited by Darrell Lewis and Margaret Jolly. #EnvHum #CCBY

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

An ancient manuscript. Along the left margin is a drawn-on octopus whose tentacles point out important sentences on the page.

In the 14th century, someone who didn't have a highlighter handy thought to use octopus tentacles to mark the most important parts. I love it so much

(Manuscript from the Bankcroft library, UC Berkeley)

🕊️ Call for Nominations: Peter Ucko Memorial Award
Nominations are open — and due this Friday (April 4, 2025)!

🏆 Who can be nominated?
Anyone — at any career stage — who has made a significant contribution to archaeology in ways that align with the values of the World Archaeological Congress.

Changes to ARC grants will make it harder for Australia to combat Trump chaos, researchers warn Plan to cut most standalone positions in favour of shorter fellowships will hurt international recruitment, critics say

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com reporting on the proposed changes to the ARC grants system.

There’s concern that getting rid of standalone fellowships will have lots of unintended consequences, especially for Early-Career Researchers.

By @donnadlu.bsky.social