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Between the 23-24 September 2024, I was participating in a workshop on “Future Developments of Digital Humanities and Didactics in Global Ancient Studies” at the Northeastern Normal University in Changchun China. It was one of the friendliest and interesting workshops I was able to participate in. The long way…
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So in September 2024, I made a trip to China to participate in a conference. Before going to Changchun, where the conference took place, I spent four days in Beijing. This is my report of these four days, divided into four parts. This post is day 1 of my…
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So today I spend a lot of time at the airport waiting for my plane to depart. It occurred to me, that there are certain kinds of people at airports. So naturally, I started a short ethnographic study classifying people going about at an international airport. Let’s begin.
Type 1:…
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How do you schedule your tasks? I believe, there are two schools of thought on scheduling: “simultaneously” or “sequentially”. My whole life, I was the type that worked simultaneously on different projects at a time. Lately, maybe because I am getting old, I tend to switch to work sequentially,…
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So currently I am preparing for a trip. A big trip (at least for me). I was invited to participate in a workshop in Changchun, China and I am really looking forward to it. I will also spend some time in Beijing before, but I will write about my…
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This book delves into the consequences of the digital economy’s rise and its impact on society, democracy, and human autonomy. It examines how data has become the central resource of contemporary economy, controlled by a few powerful tech giants. I already was aware of the data we give out…
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Today a joint article was published with Springer about a whooly rhino on a stone slab, that I analysed via Reflectance Transformation Imaging. My part was actually very small, but I am nevertheless happy this paper is out now and open access! It is also my first paper with…
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For a while now I had the book “Storyworthy” by Matthew Dicks on my “want-to-read”-list. I finally did read the book that is about creating and telling stories. I was interested in terms of my professional career as I often give talks and want to make them… well storyworthy….
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It took a while, but last week a new publication came out that includes a chapter from me. I am proud to be part of this volume and to be able to write a little about video games. I am not only looking at a specific Indiana Jones game,…
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I reported a while back that I offered an interdisciplinary course on the app ArchaeoTrial. The app is for creating tours and scavanger hunts for archaeological sites. In my course, groups created tours through Roman Cologne. The students invested a lot of work and effort and since a couple…
Hi! My name is Sebastian. I am an archaeologist, a university lecturer, freelancer, guitarist, and father. You could say I am quiet busy, so I learned to manage my time and energy to build good habits and still have space for myself and my family. Sounds difficult? Read here how I do it. (Nearly) Every Friday.