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Academia Archaeology

Upcoming conferences and workshops

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2024-10-18

As you might know, I am a friend of conferences and workshops. It is not only about travelling around,but also about meeting friends and building networks. To constantly go to conferences and workshops, one has to constantly plan ahead. Today I want to tell you about my plans for…

Screenshot of a website offering Archaeogames of the summer term 2024.


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Academia Archaeology Games

A new batch of Archaeogames (2024)

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2024-10-11

In this third instalment of published Archaeogames, I present the works of my students of the academic year 2024. I already wrote about the games of 2022 and 2023. This semester, my students produced four video games concerned with archaeology in one or the other way. All games are…

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Workshop in Changchun, China

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2024-10-04

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…

The image shows a three-storey round temple in Beijing China, called the Temple of Heaven.


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Personal

Day 1 in Beijing (1/4)

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2024-09-27

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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Personal

People at the airport

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2024-09-20

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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Productivity

Scheduling

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2024-09-13

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,…

Screenshot of the workshop poster with the title and date. Some archaeological artefacts are scattered throughout the image.


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Academia

Upcoming workshop in China!

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2024-09-06

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…

Cover of the book "Data Grab" by Ulises A. Mejias and Nich Couldry. Background by Joshua Bartell on Unsplash.


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Book Review

Book review: Data Grab by U.A. Mejias and N. Couldry

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2024-08-30

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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Archaeology

Making a rhino visible!

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2024-08-16

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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Book Review: “Storyworthy” by Matthew Dicks

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2024-08-02

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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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.

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