📢🚨Call for papers: Climate Change and Heritage Adaptation Conference The organisers invite papers dealing with various aspects of #climate impacts on #heritage, focusing on North and East Africa and covering any period. ⏰Submit abstracts by 1 July ees.ac.uk/resource/clima…

For those interested in Roman Britain and Minecraft (or either of those), check out my colleague Ben Edwards’ talk about what he’s been doing with both - free online talk for Chester Heritage Festival at the end of June! #archaeogaming

For friends in the DC area, don’t miss this wonderful lecture!

Fantastic keynote by Elle Osili-Wood for the launch event of the #gamehearts event at the Uni of Salford, MediaCityUk, on videogame culture / videogames as culture

#Multiplatform2024's second day opened by Chloé Germaine 🏳️‍🌈🐝🦇. It is dedicated to networking with the many academic institutions who came to discuss Strategies Horizon Europe and new research projects. Later, we explore its new Manchester Game Center Archive with Jenny Cromwell and Sam Jolly.

Currently prepping for my (remote) presentation at #DiGRA2024, where I'll discuss the first results of a study where I interviewed 12 Greek game developers about their opinions on Greece in games. We'll talk reception, heritage, and more! Game Developers Association of Greece 🎮💙 DiGRA #archaeogaming

Had the first chance in ages last week to work in a papyrus collection, as part of a visit to Cambridge. You can read about our work on the Thompson Coptic papyri in Eline Scheerlinck’s blog post for the Caliphal Finances: blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinanc…

⚠️Today is the last day to get your abstracts submitted for The Egypt Exploration Society #ClimateChange and Heritage Adaptation conference!

A really interesting blog by Louie Wheeler. Also, lecturers, be like Jenny Cromwell - offer your students opportunities to write up good work for public facing sites! We need good history communicators more than we need academic essay writers.

Any Romanists who can take up a 0.5 post for 12 months in Manchester, check out the job advert below and come join me and our history department at ManMet! Feel free to reach out for more info about the post / dept etc

Heading to Cardiff for the first time for the week to talk about board games & ancient history at the Celtic Classics Conf. In prep I’ve been using this fantastic volume on material game studies ed by Manchester Game Centre co-directors Chloé Germaine 🏳️‍🌈🐝🦇 & Paul Wake (now out in paperback!)

Official publication day for my long awaited Hades (Supergiant Games) chapter in this edited volume (edited by Anastasia Bakogianni and Luis Unceta Gómez) is July 22, but the volume is out and available now!

The Handbook of Classics, Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory is officially out! I am extremely proud of this project, which I see as representing the best the field called "Classics" taken at large has to offer 1/ routledge.com/The-Routledge-…

Great to see a site excavated and studied by HistoryManMet colleagues getting such a popular shout out!! You can also explore the site in Minecraft Education, as created by Ben Edwards in 2020

Along with RossFifield, I'll be co-moderating the iGGiCon 2024 panel "Preserving Play: Strategies and Challenges in Game Preservation" at 10am tomorrow! We have an amazing line-up of panellists: Jenny Cromwell, Colleen Morgan, Prof James Newman and Dr Guy Schofield!

After a slight odyssey to get here, really happy to be at the University of York this morning to talk about the Manchester Game Centre archive at iGGiCon 2024 on a panel about digital game preservation w/ RossFifield Florence Smith Nicholls Colleen Morgan and others!