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Yannis Hamilakis

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Yannis Hamilakis is a Greek archaeologist and writer who is the Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Modern… more

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Reposted by: Yannis Hamilakis, Dorothy Bishop, Scott L. Greer , and 7 more

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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...
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by Yannis Hamilakis

yannisham.bsky.social
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...
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Reposted by: Yannis Hamilakis, Howard Williams, Caroline Robion‐Brunner , and 2 more

archagainstaparth.bsky.social
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
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Reposted by: Yannis Hamilakis, Howard Williams, Catherine J. Frieman , and 3 more

blacktrowel.bsky.social
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...
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by Yannis Hamilakis

yannisham.bsky.social
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
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by Yannis Hamilakis

yannisham.bsky.social
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!
peoplingthepast.bsky.social
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.
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Reposted by: Yannis Hamilakis

peoplingthepast.bsky.social
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.
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by Yannis Hamilakis

yannisham.bsky.social
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...
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Reposted by: Yannis Hamilakis

archagainstaparth.bsky.social
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!

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#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...
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by Yannis Hamilakis

yannisham.bsky.social
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
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Reposted by: Yannis Hamilakis

nordicarchtag.bsky.social
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.
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by Yannis Hamilakis

yannisham.bsky.social
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
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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
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archagainstaparth.bsky.social
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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 #🏺
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Reposted by: Yannis Hamilakis

isisnaucratis.bsky.social
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
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archagainstaparth.bsky.social
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 #🏺
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Reposted by: Yannis Hamilakis

brownarchaeology.bsky.social
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!
Photo of Carrington Hughes
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davidwengrow.bsky.social
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
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by Yannis Hamilakis

yannisham.bsky.social
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.
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davidwengrow.bsky.social
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.
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Reposted by: Yannis Hamilakis

isisnaucratis.bsky.social
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&...
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by Yannis Hamilakis

yannisham.bsky.social
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…
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by Yannis Hamilakis

yannisham.bsky.social
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
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