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Lisa Randisi
@lisarandisi.bsky.social
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Archaeologist. Historical dancer. Filmmaker in training. Never not in a costume. Curatorial Assistant @ Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology. | Doctoral researcher @ Institute of Archaeology, UCL. | Public Archaeologist in Western Mongolia
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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · Nov 26
Now that I'm on here, I can start shouting about all the exciting things I've been up to! Like the Archaeological Ephemera project at the Petrie Museum - looking at the bits and bobs left behind by early archaeologists and museum workers, the stories they can tell us, and what to do with them.
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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · 20d
Actually, the terms in the first screenshot do govern Member Content, as Collective Content is defined further up as "“Collective Content” means, collectively, Academia. edu Content and Member Content.". That being said, it then contracts itself in a later clause re: ownership of Member Content:
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UCL Global Engagement @ucl-global.bsky.social · Sep 4
📢 Tonight at the Horniman Museum (6–9pm): All Eyes on Her!

A powerful display from our AHRC-funded project with @uclarchaeology.bsky.social & Horniman Museum, celebrating the creativity, resistance & heritage of Egyptian women, past & present.

Free entry, all welcome⬇️
Horniman Museum Late - Horniman Museum and Gardens
Enjoy an evening at the Horniman Museum late with extended opening times once a month often with music and crafts
www.horniman.ac.uk
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Stori3d Past @stori3dpast.bsky.social · Sep 4
The more I look at Pompeii, the more it strikes me how plastic it was. Rubble walls plastered & painted to look like marble. Brick columns plastered to look like solid stone. Tiny gardens painted to look like rolling villas. An aspirational city, where everyone wanted to be someone/somewhere else.
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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · Sep 4
My Spotlight Lecture for @theees.bsky.social, on the @uclpetriemuseum.bsky.social's Archaeological Ephemera Project, is now available online -

If you work with a historic collection that has similar bits and bobs, and would like to join our Community of Practice, please get in touch!
Spotlight Lecture: Between Object and Archive
YouTube video by The Egypt Exploration Society
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Sep 2
Lora Webb Nichols’s photographs of boom and bust in her small Wyoming town might be the largest photographic record of the era and region.
A Woman’s Intimate Record of Wyoming in the Early Twentieth Century
Lora Webb Nichols created and collected some twenty-four thousand negatives documenting life in her small town.
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Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com · Sep 2
Excellent lunchtime Egyptology with @lisarandisi.bsky.social and @theees.bsky.social – looking at ephemera. The random bits and bobs in museum collections that initially had no value, such as food containers reused to transport artefacts, which give a snapshot of life on that excavation.
Zoom screenshot: Between Object and Archive: the Petrie Museum Archaeological Ephemera Project, Lisa Randisi. The slide shows images of boxes for candles, matches, carbolic tooth powder etc.
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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · Sep 1
Looking for something fun to do at lunchtime tomorrow? Why not tune in to my EES Spotlight Lecture on archaeological ephemera at the Petrie Museum? Stories of Victorian archaeologists shopping, grumpy museum curators & more... 1pm (UK) / 3pm (Egypt)

@uclpetriemuseum.bsky.social @theees.bsky.social
Between Object and Archive
Following EA 66, Lisa Randisi discusses items in the liminal space between object and archive within the Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology. Start time: 13:00 (UK) / 15:00 (Egypt)
www.ees.ac.uk
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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · Aug 29
www.ees.ac.uk/resource/joh...
John J Johnston (1965–2025)
Aidan Dodson remembers former EES Vice-Chair and long-term supporter, John J Johnston.
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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · Aug 29
Shocked and deeply sad to hear of the passing of Egyptologist and performer extraordinaire John J Johnston yesterday.
Tonight in the Petrie Museum we raise a glass to you. Ave atque vale.
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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · Jul 23
What do you get when you cross musical theatre, decolonial museum practice, archives and student satire?
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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · Jul 16
It'll be some time before the documentary is out - so follow me on Substack to keep up to date with this project:
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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · Jul 16
“I feel we’re witnessing the last days of nomads in Mongolia,” said to me archaeologist J. Bayarsaikhan. And indeed as we travelled together through central Mongolia, this phenomenon was repeated everywhere – despite national statistics claiming the contrary. Where have all the young people gone?
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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · Jul 16
Except this year… they weren’t there. In the last year, so many people have moved away. To the city, for a job, to the mines, or just elsewhere, in search of better pastures as the effects of climate change are making themselves felt. Unaware that the steppe cannot survive without herding.
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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · Jul 16
This journey is turning out to be quite different from what I initially set out to do. As I reach my 11th year working on the Western Mongolian steppe, I was looking forward to featuring the young herders I’ve known for so long, and giving others a glimpse into their daily lives, hopes and dreams.
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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · Jul 16
Been keeping this one under wraps… delighted to announce that for the last couple of months, I’ve been working on an audio documentary about young people in contemporary rural Mongolia, thanks to the @rgsibg.bsky.social's Journey in Audio programme. Original pitch (think trailer of sorts) below:
RGS Journey in Audio pitch
Listen to RGS Journey in Audio pitch by The Wendy Bird #np on #SoundCloud
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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · Jun 27
Last chance to see... and unsee our display about the different Egypts that we all see. Closing tomorrow!
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Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology @uclpetriemuseum.bsky.social · Jun 26
Last chance to view Seeing and Unseeing the Pyramids! Come along and visit the display showcasing Lee Miller’s work, available until 28 June. www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...
A display in the Petrie Museum with a panel entitled, "Lee Miller in Egypt".
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Tannis Davidson @tannisdavidson.bsky.social · Jun 25
Thrilled to work with @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social researchers to communicate their incredible work on wasps! Many thanks to @hannahcornish.bsky.social, Alice Holloway, @ucllccos.bsky.social wider team, @uclnews.bsky.social @artscouncilengland.bsky.social for all their support 🐝
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Seirian Sumner @waspwoman.bsky.social · Jun 25
Huge thanks to @tannisdavidson.bsky.social and team for making the impossible dream come true:

THE WORLD'S FIRST ART-SCIENCE WASP EXHIBITION!
www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...

...from wasp researchers behind #WorldOfWasps @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social...

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · May 9
Yesterday, I ran into a bunch of students who were loading up on dictionaries and thesauruses that had been discarded by our campus library.

I asked them about it and they said “because AI has made digital tools worthless”
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Sam Bodrojan @helmetgirl.bsky.social · May 9
you used to have a spell check software that only offered corrections for words found in a dictionary. now, with the power of AI, you no longer have access to this functionality
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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · Apr 7
Job klaxon! We're looking for a Project Archivist at the @uclpetriemuseum.bsky.social

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · Apr 1
Thank you very much!
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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · Mar 31
'The Ginza on a Spring Night' - Kasamatsu Shiro, 1934.
#JapaneseArt #shinhanga
A street scene at night, people walking and cherry blossoms.
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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · Mar 31
Hot off the press! You can find my article on archaeological #ephemera and the social history of archaeology in this month's Egyptian Archaeology magazine (@theees.bsky.social)

#makingephemerahappen
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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · Mar 25
Last year the Petrie Museum hosted Reimagining Flinderella, a programme centring student voices around the legacy of early archaeology.
This year we're inviting students of all backgrounds & people of Egyptian and Sudanese descent to revisit this conversation, to workshop solutions for the future.
Legacies of Heritage Practice in the Nile Valley: Solutions for the Future?
A museum-based student forum, workshopping ideas for heritage futures at UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology.
www.ucl.ac.uk
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Lisa Randisi @lisarandisi.bsky.social · Mar 25
Last year, along with 8 brilliant women, I co-founded a network for women in arts & heritage & women from corporate backgrounds to get together & enjoy shared experiences in London. 6 months later, Muses in the City has 100+ members & our first magazine feature by Yinsey Wang. Exciting times ahead!
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B Hodgett @coloursburntin.bsky.social · Feb 14
Booking is live for our next #MakingTheMuseum workshop! We've teamed up with Zine Collective Imperfect Bound to run a Zine making workshop exploring the stories behind the hundreds of copies, casts, replicas and fakes in the Pitt Rivers Museum collection.

More info: torch.ox.ac.uk/event/makers...
A sample zine page. On the left individually printed letters read "Makers and Fakers: How Copies, replicas, casts and fakes 'make' museum collections". The letters are pasted over the image of a replica handaxe cradled in tissue paper. On the right details of the event workshop are given. For event details please follow the link in the main text post.
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