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🏛️ 🏺 Aegean Archaeologist. Director of the Centre for Spartan & Peloponnesian Studies @UniofNottingham. Thalassophile. Private account. She/Her

University of Nottingham
Joined October 2011
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@UniofNottingham's Centre for #Spartan & #Peloponnesian Studies [CSPS] signs prestigious agreement w/ the City of #Sparti 🇬🇷 to promote #Spartan history, #archaeology & cultural heritage at local and global level ▶️tinyurl.com/y22wjywx @UoNArch @UoNClassics @UoN_Institute
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Join us today at 5pm BST for our AGIDO webinar series, w/ Petros Tsagklis (#PhD, @UoNClassics) on women’s status & social roles in #Roman #Laconia as evidenced from the Eleutherolaconian #funerary #epigrams Registration🔗 tinyurl.com/szy8s68d #Sparta #ancientGreece #history
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join us for this week's #SpartaLive #webinar w/ Dr Paul Bardunias on "Manifesting the #hoplite: what #reenactment can teach us about #ancient #Spartan #warfare" 🗓️7/5, 5pm BST 🔗tiny.cc/2oy2101 All welcome! #Sparta #ancientGreece #ancientwarfare #history #ancienthistory
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📢Join us for our 1st Research Workshop w/our #PhD students @jacopodolci: Vestiges of #Paganism in the #Church #Mosaics of Umm ar-Rasas 🇯🇴 & Kate Honeker: An Experiential Approach to the #Cemeteries of #Roman #Syria 🇸🇾 🗓️30/09, 17:00 🏛️Trent Building A46 #archaeology #WeAreUoN
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📢Hot off the press! New #publication by our Honorary Associate Professor Dr Georgios Spyropoulos (@cultureGR) & his esteemed colleagues on exploring #Lechaion and #Sikyon (#Peloponnese) with diverse #GPR #technologies 👏👏👏 🔗tinyurl.com/zy3hxhfh #Greece #geoarchaeology
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📢Congratulations to our Professor of #Mediterranean #Prehistory Mark Pearce, who has been admitted as a Liveryman to the Worshipful Company of Founders, London’s craft guild that still supports #research & #education in #metallurgy of #copper & #bronze👏 tinyurl.com/55m5w5ym
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📢Not to be missed! 📍"#Fieldwalking: past, present... & future?" @archaeologyuk: #EastMidlands #conference, organised by our own Professor of Mediterranean Prehistory Mark Pearce together with @CBAEastMidlands & @IceAgeJourneys 🗓️24 Sept 2025 #archaeology #archaeologyuk
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Our world-leading Centre for Spartan & Peloponnesian Studies (CSPS) announces the publication of "Herodotus, Sparta & Austerity", ed. by our Prof Emeritus & CSPS co-founder Steve Hodkinson & +Anton Powell (Classical Press of Wales) 📚🎉 #Sparta #History #ancienthistory #Classics
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Warm congratulations to our h. Associate Professor Dr Georgios Spyropoulos on his new digital guide of ancient #Corinth, one of the most important sites in the ancient #Meditterranean🏺 You can preview part of the guide here: tinyurl.com/5n6avjbf #archaeology @cultureGR
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Great Britain’s economy didn’t completely tank after the Romans left, countering conventional wisdom. Read the fascinating and “completely surprising” discovery based on ancient pollutants in @ScienceNews from academics at @UoNClassics @Cambridge_Uni 🔽 science.org/content/article/…
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Britain’s #economy boomed after the #Romans, groundbreaking #Aldborough study led by our own Professor Chris Loveluck & colleagues reveals 👏👏 Read more 🔽 #medievaltwitter #archaeology #Britisharchaeology #Britain #medieval @UoNHumanities @UoNPressOffice @UniofNottingham
What have the #Romans ever done for us? New research suggests Britain's economy didn't collapse after the Romans left, questioning the idea of a post-Roman 'Dark Age'. Read the research 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.10… @UCamArchaeology @UoNArch
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Congratulations to our amazing @UoNArts colleague & Associate Researcher in our Deparment Dr Anna Walas on her @UKRI_News #FutureLeadersFellowship at @SASNews! Well done, Anna 👏🎉 Read more: sas.ac.uk/news-events/news/d… #Roman #archaeology #research
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Delighted to have welcomed Dr Clare Burke as our new Assistant Professor in #ArchaeologicalMaterials, and Dr Meir Orbach who has joined us on a year-long Rothschild Fellowship to work with Prof @PalaeoHan on Lateglacial #faunas and #extinction! 🎉🎉🎉 @UoNHumanities @UoNClassics
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Fantastic news! Well done, @jacopodolci 👏👏👏
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⚡️We are pleased to announce that the title of Honorary Associate Professor has been recently conferred on Dr Georgios Spyropoulos of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, a leading expert in Greek and Roman art and archaeology. A warm welcome to Giorgo from us all! @UoNHumanities
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Warmest congratulations to our Assistant Professor in Archaeology Dr Anna Bloxam for receiving a Lord Dearing Award this year! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 @UoNClassics @UoNHumanities #WeAreUoN
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Congratulations to our amazing @LeverhulmeTrust EC fellow Dr Thea Sommerschield and her esteemed colleagues for this great achievement! @GoogleDeepMind #AI #epigraphy #Classics @UoNArch @UoNHumanities
A group of researchers, co-led by researchers from Google DeepMind and the University of Nottingham, have launched a world-first AI model that can contextualise ancient inscriptions. Read more ▶️ nottingham.ac.uk/news/aeneas…
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📢We are delighted to announce that Dr Clare Burke will be joining the Department as our new Assistant Professor in Archaeological Science, in September! Clare is a ceramic specialist focused on the production and consumption of prehistoric pottery from the Balkans and Aegean🏺
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📚Hot off the press! Kouphovouno: A Neolithic and Bronze Age Site in #Laconia. Excavations 2001–06, by our own Prof Emeritus William Cavanagh, †Christopher Mee & Prof Josette Renard. @BSAthens Suppl Vol 54. London 2025 🔗tinyurl.com/3npj47h3 #Sparta #Archaeology #prehistory
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Are you a postdoctoral researcher? Don't miss the application deadline for BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants on 4 June. Funding is available for research projects across all areas of the humanities and social sciences. Apply now: thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fund…
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📢#PhD #Studentship opportunity: Decoding the #Vindolanda tablets: Generative #AI to reassemble, read and restore #Roman handwritten #texts #AHRC CDP studentship w/@britishmuseum 🗓️Deadline: 01/06 ℹ️🔗tinyurl.com/3rhvk8p6 @UoNHumanities #PhDposition @UoNHumanities
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