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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr)

@urosmatic.bsky.social
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Egyptologist, archaeologist Senior fellow, College for Social Sciences and Humanities, University Alliance Ruhr, Essen Lecturer at University of Graz Winner of Harrassowitz Philippika (2018) and Austrian Academy of Sciences (2020) Prizes

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies Vol. 14, No. 2 (2026) scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/jemahs/... @psupress.bsky.social Animals in War in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean and Southwest Asia @laerkerecht.bsky.social @urosmatic.bsky.social
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Volume 14 Issue 2 | Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies | Scholarly Publishing Collective
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Is there #theory in #Egyptology and can it contribute to theory? In my forthcoming monograph I deal with this issue following the development of theory in Egyptology since its conception until today. ToC is in the thread. It will be out in 2027. #archaeology www.equinoxpub.com/projects/the...
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
That special feeling when you receive the copies of your book 💫 I am very happy with the quality of the hardcover, the design and the illustrations! @oxbowbooks.bsky.social Order now with discount code PREHISTORY20 #archaeology
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Use the code PREHISTORY20 for a 20% discount on Aftermath of War in Ancient Societies! @oxbowbooks.bsky.social #archaeology
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
We are grateful to all contributors and to Oxbow team and their enormous effort invested in this publication! We hope that it will inspire scholars also outside history and archaeology, especially concerning methodologies and thinking about war in relational way. #archaeology #war
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College for Social Sciences and Humanities | UA Ruhr @college-uaruhr.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
📅 WORKSHOP: Heat and Health: Bodies, Environments, and Unequal Thermal Worlds | 26 June t1p.de/b7m4g This workshop examines #heat as an embodied and sensorial experience that shapes health and illness, exhaustion, recovery, and care. A second focus lies on approaches to heat in #HealthGovernance.
collage with an illustration / artwork by Urvi Sawant
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
🤩 Preparations are in progress! Proud to join the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions family @ec.europa.eu Follow my bluesky and Linkedin profiles for more project updates! cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1...
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Trying out Kudos as a feature of @degruyterbrill.bsky.social to communicate my research to a broader audience 🧠 Hope it inspires people to read it and think about ideological background of class and ontological distinctions in #ancientEgypt link.growkudos.com/1eqi0q439q8 #egyptology #archaeology
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Divine nature of pharaoh's violence in war
Using textual and visual sources from ancient Egypt, this work demonstrates that the violence conducted by the pharaoh in war was conceptualized as the violence conducted by ancient Egyptian deities t...
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 29/04/2026
We are delighted to announce that every research article accepted for publication in Antiquity after 1 June 2026 will be published completely #OpenAccess at no cost to the author or reader! More information here: www.cambridge.org/core/service... @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org 🏺 #Archaeology
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
It is my honor to join the scientific board of Anatole journal, a new #openaccess journal on ancient Near Eastern studies especially dedicated to Latin American scholarship. It has been unjustly marginalized in related disciplines despite valuable contributions! #decoloniality #decolonization
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
We are pleased to say that our March Issue is now out! This Issue includes 434 pages of original articles, many #OpenAccess, and some book reviews. Read it here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...
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Gender & History: Vol 38, No 1
Gender & History is a global gender studies journal publishing research on femininity, masculinity and gender across eras and territories.
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Happy to see “Beautiful Bodies: Gender and Corporeal Aesthetics” reviewed and included in the overview on #gendered materials in the ancient world by Nicola Denzey Lewis in Journal of Women’s History ✅ muse.jhu.edu/verify?url=%...
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Last summer I recorded a podcast episode with @unterirdisch.bsky.social during my fellowship at the @college-uaruhr.bsky.social We discussed #masculinities #violence and #warfare in #ancientEgypt The recording is in German and you can listen to it on #Spotify! open.spotify.com/episode/1ob4...
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
In just two months our volume “Aftermath of War in Ancient Societies” is coming out with @oxbowbooks.bsky.social You can pre-order it now with a discount!
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Very cool looking CFP for a special issue of Animal History on the intersection between African Studies and Animal Studies: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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Crossing Species Boundaries: African Studies and Animal Studies in Conversation | H-Net
Animal Studies is coming into its own. A recently founded journal Animal History now offers a publication venue for work that documents the impact animals have had on global histories, cultures, languages, technologies, and environments, as well as the effects that humans have had on animals and their pasts, cultures, and lives.
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Thrilled that the recording 🎥 of my lecture 'Archäologie der Angst´ 😱 is now online on the website of the University of Zurich and their YouTube channel 🙏 Many thanks to Zurich Center for the Study of Antiquity for hosting this lecture. #archaeology #fear youtu.be/EABDmK2wy1Q
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Archäologie der Angst
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Follow your star 💫
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Blanka Misic @drblankam.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Hey #classics scholars! 👋🏺🏛️ My fellow Classical Review editors and I recently wrote this blog post on how to write review articles and profiles 👇 👉 If you are interested in writing one do get in touch! www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20... #publishing #academia #classics #archaeology #ancienthistory
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What Makes a Good Review Article or Profile « Classics# « Cambridge Core Blog
Classical Review has recently expanded its standard work of publishing reviews and notices of single books to include also longer pieces covering more – and more varied – material. We have previously ...
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Blanka Misic @drblankam.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
📯🏺🏛️ Our @universitypress.cambridge.org book "Senses, Cognition and Ritual Experience in the Roman World" is #OPENACCESS ! 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/books/s... #archaeology #sensoryarchaeology #senses #cognition #cognitivescienceofreligion #ritual #religion #classics #ancienthistory #romanhistory
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Senses, Cognition, and Ritual Experience in the Roman World
Cambridge Core - Ancient History - Senses, Cognition, and Ritual Experience in the Roman World
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
📽️ We now have the recordings of the lectures delivered at our May workshop uploaded! 🎄if you missed the conference consider this our Holiday present to you. Many thanks to College for Social Sciences and Humanities | UA Ruhr for preparing these videos! #archaeology #ancientegypt #multisensory
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Isabelle Algrain @greekvases.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
✨ La traduction anglaise de notre « Introduction à l’archéologie du genre » vient d’être publiée chez BAR ! Nous sommes particulièrement honorées de la préface de Rachel Pope 😊 Un grand merci à notre éditrice Jacqueline Senior et à son équipe ! 👉 www.barpublishing.com/book/an-intr...
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An Introduction to Gender Archaeology - BAR Publishing
Gender archaeology seeks to understand the influence of gender on the social, economic, political and cultural practices of ancient societies, as well as their power dynamics. Integrating gender into ...
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
🤓 Two years ago I embarked on a research completely out of my comfort zone. 💡 Vienna Museum of Science and Technology welcomed me as a Scholar in Residence to work on their project on Colonial Infrastructures. ✅ We have now almost finalised our online exhibition. forschung.tmw.at/exhibition/v...
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
📖 Next week I will be a guest in Berlin at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social in the seminar ''Sense and Sensibility: The Archaeology of Sensory Experience and Perception'' organized as a joint effort between FU Berlin and University of Copenhagen and ran by professors Henny Piezonka and Elisa Roßberger
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
🇨🇭I will be in Zurich next week at the University of Zurich as a guest of its ZAZH-Zentrum Altertumswissenschaften Zürich, presenting on archaeology of fear in ancient Egyptian palaces. Join us there it you are around! 🙌
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UCL Institute of Archaeology @uclarchaeology.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
🚨 Job Klaxon! 🚨 @ucl.ac.uk Institute of Archaeology currently has a vacancy for an Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Islamic Archaeology (Ref.: B03-02751) The post is available from 1 Jan 2026 & is funded until 31 Dec 2028 in the first instance, providing cover for Corisande Fenwick bit.ly/4oxQgfp
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Job Vacancy: Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Islamic Archaeology
The UCL Institute of Archaeology currently has a vacancy for an Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Islamic Archaeology (Ref.: B03-02751).
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Perfect end of the week with a hardcover example of our newest edited volume that just arrived today from Leiden ❤️ @sidestone.bsky.social Open Access at www.sidestone.com/books/bodies... #ancientegypt #egyptology #corporealities #bodies #archaeology
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Archaeology Magazine @archaeologymag.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
It has long been thought that the “Plague of Akhetaten” led to the abandonment of the ancient Egyptian capital of Amarna around 1332 B.C. But surprising archaeological research gives a new picture of what happened there … archaeology.org/news/2025/10/23/study-revisits-egypts-plague-of-akhetaten/
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News - Study Revisits Egypt’s “Plague of Akhetaten” - Archaeology Magazine
CARBONDALE, ILLINOIS—Phys.org reports that Gretchen R. Dabbs of Southern Illinois University and Anna Stevens of […]
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Our volume has been published in open access! Dig in! Many chapters dealing with bodies in #AncientEgypt. It is a first volume of this kind in #Egyptology a discipline running later as usual. Congrats to all contributors!
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
📖 “Bodies that Mattered. Ancient Egyptian Corporealities“ edited by Dina Serova and myself should be out any time now and can be pre ordered. Get your discount at @sidestone.bsky.social #egyptology #archaeology #body #ancientegypt www.sidestone.com/books/bodies...
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Bodies that Mattered @ Sidestone Press
Bodies are immanent element of socio-cultural negotiation. Since the 19th century, Egyptology has produced vast knowledge on the ancient Egyptian bodies (human, divine, animal), however, mainly by foc...
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transcript Verlag @transcript-verlag.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Gleichheit in Bild, Objekt und Befund – vierzehn Perspektiven zu einer Archäologie des Normativen.  www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376… #Bild #Kunst #Kulturgeschichte #Archäologie #AntikeGeschichte #Kulturwissenschaft #Zeitschrift
Das Buch-Cover von »Zeitschrift für archäologische Aufklärung. Heft 3/2025: Gleichheit« auf neonpinkem Hintergrund.
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Join me in Münster on 27th October! I will open the lecture series on „Archaeology and Conflicts“ this semester with a talk on plundering of foreign lands by New Kingdom Egyptian army. #egyptology #ancientegypt
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
It took some time but our reflection on #gender #stereotypes in #archaeology is now out @springernature.com link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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What Is Wrong with This Image? Reflecting on Past Diversity Through Visual Representations of Gender Stereotypes in Archaeology
Gender and feminist archaeologists have fought for decades against gender stereotypes through academic writing, museum exhibitions, and popular literature, among other mediums. Despite their efforts, many of these stereotypes—e.g. depictions of men only as...
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
In a burning world I choose to do socially relevant research. Ever since my PhD I devoted my career to #warstudies. This volume is a wake up call. War is not the answer. In the aftermath there is both precarity and hope. #archaeology #war Forthcoming 2026 www.oxbowbooks.com/979888857246...
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Aftermath of War in Ancient Societies - Oxbow Books
The archaeology of war has often focused on combatants and weaponry, prioritising the conflicts themselves over their aftermath. Yet in today’s world, with...
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Congrats to Daniel who will be presenting his awarded work in session 208 on ancient Egyptian settlements starting today at 14h CET and co-organized by Eva Calomino and myself. #archaeology #settlements #egypt
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European Association of Archaeologists @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The #EAA2025 Book Prize is now being presented by Robin Skeates on behalf of the Book Prize Selection Committee. In the Academic Book Prize the joint winners are: "Heritage and Healing in Syria in Iraq" (2024) by Zena Kamash and published my Manchester University Press 1/
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Paye ta Truelle @payetatruelle.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
| EXPOSITION ARCHÉO-SEXISME | Cette année, le colloque de l' @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social a lieu en ligne ! Si vous êtes inscrit.e, vous pourrez y retrouver l'exposition Archéo-Sexisme dans sa version anglaise en libre accès du 2 au 6 septembre 2025. 🎉 #EAA2025
Couverture du Programme

31st EAA Annual Meeting 
2-6 September 2025 
Belgrade Virtual 

Texte de présentation de l'exposition.

Accessible au format PDF ici : https://drive.google.com/file/d/19g-L_xwY2gCXwc_F_Y0jdkm8t-H7_aHO/view?usp=drivesdk
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
My paper on #Egyptomania in Balkan turbo folk, chalga and rap just came out last week and it’s already attracting media attention 🤓 @issegyptomania.bsky.social #ancientegypt #turbofolk #chalga #hiphop #rap eualive.net/pharaohs-and...
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Pharaohs and pyramids: ancient Egypt’s surprise grip on Balkan turbo-folk and chalga
In the pulsating world of Balkan turbo-folk and chalga – genres often dismissed as lowbrow ...
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Grateful for the inclusion of our @springer volume into this chronicle! Many thanks to @antiquity.ac.uk #Archaeologists should neither romanticise nor orientalise the past, but attempt to be self-reflective as much as possible. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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New Book Chronicle: Did women never go to war? Female stereotypes in ancient myths and archaeological evidence | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
New Book Chronicle: Did women never go to war? Female stereotypes in ancient myths and archaeological evidence - Volume 99 Issue 406
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Reuters @reuters.com · 14/08/2025
Supporters of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party threw flares and firecrackers at anti-government protesters in Novi Sad, prompting police to intervene to end the standoff, a major escalation of nine-month-long protests in Serbia. #protest #novisad #belgrade #serbia #police
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
How long do we have? #cixinliu #wanderingearth
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
My paper on #Egyptomania in Balkan #turbofolk, #chalga, pop and rap is now published! 📖 The paper was presented at ISSE conference last year in August while I was staying in Cairo on my way to Port Said to work on the Suez Canal heritage project. www.academia.edu/128734394/_I...
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‘I am ahead of my time, like Ancient Egypt’: Egyptomania in Balkan Turbo-folk, Chalga and Rap. Journal of the International Society for the Study of Egyptomania
This paper is the first attempt to analyse Egyptomania and ancient Egyptian motifs in musical genres such as turbo-folk, chalga and rap in the Balkans from the 1990s to nowadays. Within the genres of ...
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🔴 Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Der seit über zwei Jahren tobende Bürgerkrieg im #Sudan hat auch eine deutsche Vorgeschichte. @romandeckert.bsky.social über das langjährige militärische Engagement im #Sudan und die zwielichtigen Waffenexporte Deutschlands. 👇 www.rosalux.de/news/...
Foto: Kämpfer mit einem G3-Sturmgewehr (Südsudan, 2011). Dazu der Text: Deutschlands Rolle im Sudan. Die Bundesrepublik trägt eine historische Verantwortung für den Bürgerkrieg im Sudan – und eine aktuelle: als strategischer Partner des Hauptkriegstreibers.
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Questions for Egyptologists with excellent knowledge of francophone Egyptology. 1. Did someone publish anything on racism and scientific racism in francophone Egyptology? 2. Do you know any examples comparable to those of Morton, Nott and Gliddon, Petrie, Reisner, Breasted and later? Many thanks!
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Invitation to my evening lecture at the Egyptology Department and Egyptian Museum of the University in Bonn in less than 2 weeks! I will present the first results of my ongoing research project at @college-uaruhr.bsky.social #egyptology #actor-network-theory #latour #archaeology #ancientegypt
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College for Social Sciences and Humanities | UA Ruhr @college-uaruhr.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
How do temporality, gender, class, and familial interdependencies shape life trajectories in Germany and Pakistan? Learn more about cross-cultural life-course research in this hybrid workshop on 14 July. The complete programme is now available: www.college-uaruhr.de/news-events/...
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College UA Ruhr: Methodological Complexities in Cross-Cultural Life-Course Research
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Prof. Villegas of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and prof. Caruso of the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional have come to Serbia for a conference accompanied by their under aged children. They have been arrested at the airport on accusations of terrorism!!! www.elespectador.com/educacion/re...
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Retienen a profesor de la Universidad Nacional en Serbia. Esto dijo la Cancillería
El profesor de la U. Nacional, Miguel Ángel Beltrán, fue retenido junto a su familia en Serbia. Esto dijo la Cancillería.
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Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
“The Çatalhöyük evidence now shows that such male-centered practices were not an inherent characteristic of early agricultural societies.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Gimbutas really deserves a posthumous apology.
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Female lineages and changing kinship patterns in Neolithic Çatalhöyük
Combining 131 paleogenomes with bioarchaeological and archaeological data, we studied social organization and gendered practices in Çatalhöyük East Mound (7100 to 5950 BCE), a major Neolithic settleme...
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Incredibly important publication for all archaeologists and heritage scholars! #archaeology #heritage #diversity
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Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
For those who missed my ARCE NY chapter lecture in April, here is a video recording #ancientegypt #egyptology #streets #settlements #archaeology youtu.be/9d_x9rDO_r8?...
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ARCE/NY Dr. Uroš Matić IV-01-25 "Street Life in Ancient Egypt"
YouTube video by ARCE New York
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