Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Yannis Hamilakis 🍉

@yannisham.bsky.social

240 followers 170 following 9 posts

Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Modern Greek Studies at Brown University. Politics of the past (and the present), sensoriality and the body, contemporary archaeology, theory and philosophy, migration: https://brown.academia.edu/YannisHamilakis .. more

Videos

Yannis Hamilakis is a Greek archaeologist and writer who is the Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Modern Greek Studies at Brown University. He specialises in archaeology of the prehistoric Aegean as well as historical archaeology, including ethnography and anthropology. His research interests include nationalism, postcolonialism, and migration studies. .. more

History 37%

Art 14%

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Scott L. Greer, Philip Nel , and 7 more Dorothy Bishop, Scott L. Greer, Philip Nel, Yannis Hamilakis, Joni Lovenduski, Scott A. Imberman, Jonathan Webber, Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, Nelson Flores, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 7d

UPenn professors have responded forcefully to the Trump administration's that colleges sign a "compact" in order to secure funding:

"When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation." aaup-penn.org/statement-by...

Statement by the AAUP-Penn Executive Committee on the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education | AAUP–Penn

October 2, 2025 We have received reports that Penn has been “invited” to sign a so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” by the federal government, and that failing to do so wou...

aaup-penn.org

14 250 760

Yannis Hamilakis 🍉 @yannisham.bsky.social · Sep 8

Members of the European Association of Archaeologists, past and present, please sign!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Call for a Special Meeting of the EAA

Recent events during the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists* have generated profound discontent and distrust toward the current Executive Board among members of the associati...

docs.google.com

2 6

Reposted by Howard Williams, Yannis Hamilakis, Caroline Robion‐Brunner , and 2 more Howard Williams, Yannis Hamilakis, Caroline Robion‐Brunner, Laura McAtackney, Dan Hicks

Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide @archagainstaparth.bsky.social · Sep 3

Archaeologists Against Apartheid urgent call for action! We are not anonymous. We are members of both the EAA&global archaeological community and more committed than ever to holding our representative organisations to account and anti-democratic influences.

aaaeaastatementseptember3rd.tiiny.site

3 44 70

Reposted by Howard Williams, Yannis Hamilakis, Catherine J. Frieman , and 3 more Howard Williams, Yannis Hamilakis, Catherine J. Frieman, Dan Hicks, Aidan O’Sullivan, David Stott

The Black Trowel Collective @blacktrowel.bsky.social · Sep 2

BTC Call for Action - EAA

EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns.

Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...

3 61 76

Yannis Hamilakis 🍉 @yannisham.bsky.social · Aug 8

Archaeology defined as a hauntology of remains. A theoretical statement grounded on my work on ruins as well as my recent work on the remnants of contemporary migration. Part of a great volume! Grateful to the editors and to many colleagues who helped out!

www.academia.edu/143309448/Ha...

Hamilakis, Y. 2026. Archaeology as a hauntology of remains. In Shadow Archaeologies In the Shadow of Antiquity or For Other Modes of Archaeological Worldmaking, edited by A. Nativ and G. Lucas. London...

In this chapter, I propose a hauntological archaeology, not as a subdiscipline, a subfield, or a method but as an affect, as a way of allowing or rather enabling material remains to haunt us. This is ...

www.academia.edu

4 13

Yannis Hamilakis 🍉 @yannisham.bsky.social · Jul 30

I chatted with the good colleagues of the @peoplingthepast.bsky.social on decoloniality, the politics of archaeology in the current moment, Palestine of course, and even our fieldwork efforts at Koutroulou Magoula!

Peopling The Past @peoplingthepast.bsky.social · Jul 29

For the final episode of #PeoplingPodcast Season 4, we are joined by Dr. Yannis Hamilakis to discuss his vision for a decolonial future for ancient archaeology.
peoplingthepast.com/2025/07/29/p...

#Ancient #Mediterranean #Archaeology #Decolonialism #CulturalHeritage /1

Yannis stands in front of book shelves filled with books. He is wearing a dark blue shirt worn open at the collar.

5 10

Reposted by Yannis Hamilakis

Peopling The Past @peoplingthepast.bsky.social · Jul 29

1 3 9

Yannis Hamilakis 🍉 @yannisham.bsky.social · Jun 21

A victory! WAC has just announced that it decided to exclude from its congress the participant from an institution based in an illegal settlement in the West Bank. Many thanks to the people who raised their voices...

Reposted by Yannis Hamilakis

Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide @archagainstaparth.bsky.social · Jun 20

Going to #wac10? You'll be sharing the space with a war criminal. Demand the @worldarch.bsky.social exclude archaeologists who knowingly engage in war crimes!

loom.ly/lTKF50o
#wacwithoutapartheid
@pacbi.bsky.social

The World Archaeological Congress (WAC) Is Normalizing a War Crime

The WAC 10 conference program includes a panel chair and presenter from illegal Israeli settlement-based Ariel University who is therefore knowingly participating in a war crime and should therefore b...

loom.ly

1 9 7

Yannis Hamilakis 🍉 @yannisham.bsky.social · Jun 2

Looking forward to going back to the Getty Research Institute in September...

www.getty.edu/news/getty-a...

Getty Announces 2025/2026 Scholars | Getty News

GRI Getty Scholars Program proudly announces the recipients of the 2025/2026 fellowship cycle.

www.getty.edu

Reposted by Yannis Hamilakis

Nordic Theoretical Archaeology Group @nordicarchtag.bsky.social · May 20

Hey 🏺 archaeologists on bluesky!

Bookmark your calendars for 6-9 May at Linnaeus University in Kalmar 🇸🇪 & submit your session proposal for #NordicTAG2026 - deadline 31 May

Don't miss our keynote speakers, inc. @yannisham.bsky.social & @evamol.bsky.social!

More info: lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

A conference poster showing a white dove spray painted on a brick wall.

5 11

Yannis Hamilakis 🍉 @yannisham.bsky.social · Apr 15

It's hard to believe it, especially in the present climate... I am certain that there are many other worthy colleagues who deserve this (perhaps more than I), but I was notified today that I received a Guggenheim Fellowship...

I am grateful to the Foundation for the support.

#guggfellows2025

2 1 17

Reposted by Yannis Hamilakis

Guggenheim Foundation @guggfellows.bsky.social · Apr 15

Congratulations to our 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows, and welcome to the Fellowship! A message from Edward Hirsch, President of the Guggenheim Foundation and 1985 Fellow. www.gf.org #guggfellows2025

6 34

Reposted by Yannis Hamilakis

Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide @archagainstaparth.bsky.social · Mar 27

forms.gle/2BQzgRk8VCxZ...
Sign and share and share again. Deadline in 3 days! We don’t want anyone to miss the chance to sign the letter and take an important stand, with Palestinians and against apartheid and genocide. #Archaeology #🏺

5 2

Reposted by Yannis Hamilakis

Dr Katherine Blouin @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · Mar 26

Tired of witnessing the complicit silence and ongoing coloniality of disciplinary associations, from the AHA to the SCS and AIA? Us too! That's why we founded the @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social: JOIN US! societyforthestudyofthepast.com

18 22

Reposted by Yannis Hamilakis

Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide @archagainstaparth.bsky.social · Mar 20

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Join over 300 archaeologists & cultural heritage workers worldwide. Sign the open letter to WAC, urging them to pledge no ties with apartheid Israel or its complicit institutions. WAC respected the boycott of apartheid South Africa in 1986. Why not now?
#Archaeology #🏺

8 13

Reposted by Yannis Hamilakis

Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology @brownarchaeology.bsky.social · Mar 18

We are so pleased to see that Archaeology and the Ancient World concentrator Carrington Hughes has been awarded Brown University's Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF)! She will be mentored by JIAAW's Yannis Hamilakis in her research focused on Liberian identity. Congratulations, Carrington!

1 1

Reposted by Yannis Hamilakis

David Wengrow @davidwengrow.bsky.social · Feb 14

Pleased to be speaking at this year’s Political Concepts meeting, hosted at Brown University:
“The End(s) of Democracy.”
Programme here:
humanities.brown.edu/events/polit...

Political Concepts: The End(s) of Democracy

February 28 – March 1, 2025 Andrews House 110, 13 Brown St.

humanities.brown.edu

4 22

Yannis Hamilakis 🍉 @yannisham.bsky.social · Feb 8

Consider applying for one of our several 2-year postdocs!
This year, we encourage applicants to team up with faculty members (including myself)
I would love to work with colleagues who are interested in applying, so reach out if you are!

archaeology.brown.edu/news/2025-02...

Postdoctoral Research Associates (formerly Fellows) in Archaeology and the Ancient World

The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World (JIAAW) at Brown University invites applications for the position of Postdoctoral Research Associate in Archaeology and the Ancient World.

archaeology.brown.edu

1 5

Reposted by Yannis Hamilakis

David Wengrow @davidwengrow.bsky.social · Feb 8

I’d like to use my newfound infamy as a scientific opponent of the case for a “Proto-Indo-European Homeland” in the Caucasus to draw attention to an open letter by Prof. Rafi Greenberg, which concerns an impending conference on #archaeology in the Occupied West Bank.

22 64

Reposted by Yannis Hamilakis

Dr Katherine Blouin @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · Feb 6

Look: A Zionist archaeology conference that aims to normalize occupation archaeology
Amidst a genocide
Amidst a scholasticide
Amidst the obliteration of Gaza's heritage
Amidst the ruins of complicit academic fields and associations
SHAME! arch-js.co.il?page_id=781&...

1 7 10

Yannis Hamilakis 🍉 @yannisham.bsky.social · Jan 25

Classicists think that the term Global Antiquity is a way of countering Eurocentrism…the temporality of progression and successive periodicization is the real issue though…

Yannis Hamilakis 🍉 @yannisham.bsky.social · Jan 24

Hi all,
some of you may have not seen this short, open-access piece..I suspect that the phenomena I am recounting will intensify in the coming months and years. And yet, our students give us hope...

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

‘Palestine is our working condition’: border pedagogy, materiality, and the corporate university | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core

‘Palestine is our working condition’: border pedagogy, materiality, and the corporate university

www.cambridge.org

1 13