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Areas of expertise: #archaeology, #Sparta and the #Peloponnese, #IsotopeAnalysis, human-animal interactions #Quaternary - present, digital #epigraphy, #AncientPollution, #ClimateChange & more! ✉️ Chrysanthi Gallou / Hannah O’Regan for info marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

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We’re currently open for chats with potential MSCA post docs. The Dept has a range of 3D scanners, an X-ray machine, pXRF, and furnace, with a digital microscope and clean room in their way. We also host N-MESH - find out about facilities across UoN here: www.nottingham.ac.uk/arts/researc...

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Brand New Student Membership – Just £5! 📢 Are you a student in the UK with a passion for archaeology and heritage? Whether you're studying archaeology, history, or just love exploring the past, you can now join the CBA for only £5! 🎉 Become a student member 👉 buff.ly/4ewkB8k

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Areas of expertise: #archaeology, #Sparta and the #Peloponnese, #IsotopeAnalysis, human-animal interactions #Quaternary - present, digital #epigraphy, #AncientPollution, #ClimateChange & more! ✉️ Chrysanthi Gallou / Hannah O’Regan for info marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

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We’re currently open for chats with potential MSCA post docs. The Dept has a range of 3D scanners, an X-ray machine, pXRF, and furnace, with a digital microscope and clean room in their way. We also host N-MESH - find out about facilities across UoN here: www.nottingham.ac.uk/arts/researc...

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Ramadan Mubarak to all of our students, staff, alumni and friends observing this holy month. ✨🌙 Join our Chaplaincy team in March to find out more about Ramadan and share a fast-breaking. Find info and booking link at www.nottingham.ac.uk/chaplaincy/e... #WeAreUoN

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New #BoxOfficeBears Research by Prof Hannah O’Regan & Honorary Research Fellows Dr Lizzie Wright & Dr Liam Lewis, & many other collaborators. Read about it in the 🧵below 👇

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Summer weekend job for learning assistant available at Creswell Crags. 🦣🏺 #prehistory Trustee roles also available: www.creswell-crags.org.uk/jobs

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The CBA South East is a grant giving institution. We meet to decide on grants on the 1st April and 1st October. Currently we only have one application to decide on! Please do get in touch with us about your research, publication or outreach project! 🏺 www.cbasouth-east.org/grants-and-f...

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🎉We’re delighted that our first major #BoxOfficeBears paper is published Open Access today in @antiquityj.bsky.social What do we know about the 🐻 and 🐶 that lived on Bankside? How big were they? What did they eat? How long did they live?🧵 of key findings below! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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It’s here! Find out what we’ve been up to for the last 4 years #archaeology #earlymodern #shakespeare #boxofficebears

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Research seminar! For tomorrow’s ClassArch seminar we’re excited to welcome Dr Philip Bone who will be speaking on “Percy Bysshe Shelley's Translations from Greek and Latin Verse” 5pm, A03, Humanities Building. All welcome, 🍷to follow!

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Our own Associate Professor Theodora Jim is currently at the British School in Athens as one of their 2024-25 Visiting Fellows. During her time in Athens this year, Theodora will be working on her project ‘Comparing Greek and Chinese Polytheism’! Congratulations, Theodora! 🥳🥳🥳 Image (c) BSA

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Sunset vibes over the woodland memorial walk on Uni Park. #WeAreUoN

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📢 Last chance to apply | Health and Wellbeing in Museums Project Officer We're looking for a part-time project officer for 24 months to deliver our new Health and Wellbeing in Museums Fund, supported by the Julia Rausing Trust. Find out more and apply by 9 February 👇

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Tonight’s research seminar is Prof Mike Fulford (Uni of Reading) speaking on: Silchester: Iron Age Town and Roman City: The Town Life Project 1997-2024 5pm, A03, Humanities Building. Be there or be less informed about the #Romans 🏺

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On my way to Cardiff to give a seminar on medieval bears and baiting with Dr Liam Lewis. It’s a two-hander - I’m archaeology and dating, he’s literature and imagery. Publication coming soon. #BoxOfficeBears

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We’re also interested in supporting British Academy International and Royal Society Newton Fellowships. If you have a good idea, do get in touch!

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I’m looking forward to talking at this. 🐻🐾

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Please spread the word as we have opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships which enable researchers to work for two years at a UK institution. If you fancy being away from your country right now this could be an option! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

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We’re also interested in supporting British Academy International and Royal Society Newton Fellowships. If you have a good idea, do get in touch!

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We welcome enquiries about the NERC Fellowships. We’re particularly interested in projects that will be able to utilise the skills and equipment across our N-MESH partnership - link in next message. www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

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Professor Jane Norman has been appointed the eighth President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham. 👏 Professor Norman will take up her new role from 1st January 2025 ➡️ www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/new-vic... #WeAreUoN

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🎬 New Film!! Watch Dr Chris King discuss antiquarian theories on what the #Nottingham #Caves were for. Part of the ‘Tales from the Caves’ exhibition on at Lakeside @uniofnottingham.bsky.social until March. Watch it on this link (scroll to bottom of page) 👇 www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsa...

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@uonclassarch.bsky.social I created a petition to help to save the Latin Excellence Programme in state schools. If you could circulate it. Sign at chng.it/vtsF6qb6BZ

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In the run up to our next gathering at the University of Bradford this April, we're keen to see what research you're all up to. If you're working on a dissertation or thesis primarily focusing on the Neolithic and/or Early Bronze Age and want to share your hard work so far, drop us a message!

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💥Tuesday 26/11, 5pm (GMT) The Centre for Spartan & Peloponnesian Studies Annual Lecture 2024 ⚔️Dr Andrew Bayliss will speak on "The Hidden Terror: the Spartan krypteia in modern #popularculture #reception #Sparta #Classics Webinar registration here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/a30258...

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📢Only one week to go until the deadline for our Olivette Otele Prize! If you want the chance to win £500, the opportunity to speak at our annual conference and to publish your paper in @ihr.bsky.social's history journal, then please send us your abstracts! Share widely! #CFP

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We welcome enquiries for UKRI FLFs in #Classics & #Archaeology. Through the N-MESH initiative we have access to a wide range of Heritage Science equipment incl. #aDNA & #paleoproteomics labs, MicroCT, Alicona scanners, XRF & more. Get in touch if you have a good idea! www.ukri.org/what-we-do/d...

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💥Tuesday 26/11, 5pm (GMT) The Centre for Spartan & Peloponnesian Studies Annual Lecture 2024 ⚔️Dr Andrew Bayliss will speak on "The Hidden Terror: the Spartan krypteia in modern #popularculture #reception #Sparta #Classics Webinar registration here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/a30258...

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All prepped and ready to speak to the Southwell Community Archaeology Group about the long history of bears in Britain. Includes #archaeology #history #bears #bones and #BoxOfficeBears

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If you’re an ECR with a strong track-record & a great idea for a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, do get in touch. We have lots of fun kit & enthusiasm, we just need people! Ditto MSCA or even EMBO for the right applicants. #archaeology #zooarchaeology #ancientDNA #taphonomy #metrology #materials 🏺🧪

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We welcome enquiries for UKRI FLFs in #Classics & #Archaeology. Through the N-MESH initiative we have access to a wide range of Heritage Science equipment incl. #aDNA & #paleoproteomics labs, MicroCT, Alicona scanners, XRF & more. Get in touch if you have a good idea! www.ukri.org/what-we-do/d...

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Nov 21 [online, 5pm UK - Nottingham Classics] Sparta Live! Neil Bar (Bar Ilan University), Xerxes and his Barbarian Horde Returns: The Battle of Thermopylae, Ephialtes, and the Cultivation of Xenophobia by the Greek Golden Dawn www.nottingham.ac.uk/csps/news-an...

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🎉Huge congratulations to our former #archaeology student Emily LeHegarat on winning the Art and Culture strand of the @nationaltrust.bsky.social Time + Space Award. 🎉🏺 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/n...

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It will be lovely to see our former colleague @drnaomiscott.bsky.social back to give a seminar with us next week. In-person, 5.30pm next Tuesday (Nov 19th). Full info below 👇

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Did you see Prof Mark Bradley on BBC4 discussing augury with Simon Sebag Montefiore? If you missed it, find the first episode of ‘Rome: a history of the eternal city’ on I-player.

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Don’t forget - there’s still time to approach us with your Leverhulme Trust ECF ideas. We have expertise in #ancientRome #AncientGreece #prehistory #archaeology #medieval #Sparta #bioarchaeology and lots of facilities through our N-MESH network www.nottingham.ac.uk/arts/n-mesh/...

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🗣💬 Real Talk is a space where Black students can come together to have honest, open discussions and debates about relevant issues in a safe space with banter and good vibes! Sign up for your free ticket 🔥✊🏾 - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-spor... 📅 Friday Nov 8th 🕑 6.30pm 🏫 A48, Clive Granger

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📢Prof Simon Malloch has had a new essay published in The New Digest on ‘Tacitus and the Roman Constitution’. Read it on this free link here: thenewdigest.substack.com/p/tacitus-an... #ancientsky #classics #ancienthistory 🏺

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We’re delighted with the booklet based on Clerkinworks’ #LGBTQ+ creative writing workshops. The stories are tender, powerful and engaging, and all based around the methods and results of the #BoxOfficeBears project. Get in touch if you’d be interested in hosting workshops in your area.

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📢Prof Simon Malloch has had a new essay published in The New Digest on ‘Tacitus and the Roman Constitution’. Read it on this free link here: thenewdigest.substack.com/p/tacitus-an... #ancientsky #classics #ancienthistory 🏺

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📢Don't miss this week's #SpartaLive #webinar w/ Dr Daphne Martin on Sparta's #Mediterranean 🏺 🗓️Thurs 24/10, 5pm (BST)/ 7pm (ETT) #archaeology #Sparta #ancientGreece #ancientGreekhistory All welcome! Follow 🔗 to register👇 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/66eaa3...

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📢Join us for tomorrow's dept research workshop w/ our @LeverhulmeTrust postdoc researchers: Dr Thea Sommerschield on new #inscriptions from the necropoleis of #Himera, & Dr Qin Yang on comparing #Greek & #Chinese divine epiphanies. #Classics 🗓️Tomorrow (22/10), 5pm | Humanities A03.

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#PhD #funding opportunities in #Classics and #Archaeology @ Uni of Nottingham: 1. AHRC Midlands4Cities PhD funding for UK and International applicants 2. The Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarships in the Humanities. Check out our research here and get in touch ASAP! www.nottingham.ac.uk/humanities/d...

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Dr Emily Kneebone took part in a public-facing #classics debate a few weeks ago in London run by and in support of @classicsforall 🤩 🏺 Enjoy the debate in the video below 👇 📹 www.youtube.com/embed/1DHCZ8...

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Don’t forget - there’s still time to approach us with your Leverhulme Trust ECF ideas. We have expertise in #ancientRome #AncientGreece #prehistory #archaeology #medieval #Sparta #bioarchaeology and lots of facilities through our N-MESH network www.nottingham.ac.uk/arts/n-mesh/...

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I’m delighted to be giving a talk to our #Nottingham Local History Seminars this morning. All set up for 2.5 hours of #bear related research based on the work of the #BoxOfficeBears project. @archaeobears.bsky.social

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