Some publications drag on for years. This one went from workshop to finished book in about sixteen months, and I am rather proud of that. Together with Marion Bolder-Boos and Georg Pantelidis, I edited Digitale Kompetenzen in den archäologischen Disziplinen. Perspektiven für die Lehre (Digital Competencies in the Archaeological Disciplines: Perspectives for Teaching). Propylaeum publishes…
CAA is going to Chile. From 17 to 20 May 2027, the University of Chile in Santiago hosts the 54th CAA International Conference – the first time the conference meets in South America (I think!). And once again, there will be an archaeogaming session. I am co-organising it with Aris Politopoulos and Angus Mol from…
A call for papers landed in my inbox recently, and it deserves more visibility than it will get on its own. ConTrA 2027 – Reconstructing Antiquity. Knowledge, Imagination and the Making of the Ancient World takes place on 19 February 2027 at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Cologne. Here is why I think…
Last week, I attended the 53rd International Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) in Vienna, Austria. The conference took place from 31 March to 4 April at the University of Vienna, right on the famous Ringstraße. It was a packed week – and a very good one. Presenting and organising I…
A few weeks ago, I announced that I would be organising the third Archaeogaming Hackathon. This time in Kiel. Well, time flies, and it is already over. As before, a more detailed report will be available on the DiKopA project website in the coming weeks. Today, I will give you a short summary of what…
A long-running project has finally seen the light of day. Forum Kritische Archäologie (FKA) just released our special issue “West Asia in the Center” in volume 14 (2025). I co-edited this issue with Aris Politopoulos, Bärbel Morstadt, and Aydin Abar. I also contributed an article of my own. What is it about? The central question…
I won an award. More specifically: the Teaching Award of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Cologne for 2025. The award is based on teaching evaluations from the past year, and I received particularly high ratings for my two courses “3D modelling and reconstruction in Archaeology” and “3D recording and documentation…
Recently, I had the pleasure of being interviewed for the Berliner Antike-Blog, a platform dedicated to research on the ancient world in the Berlin/Brandenburg region. The format – “10 Questions” – is a series I’ve enjoyed reading for years, so being asked to participate felt like a small milestone. Rather than simply reposting the interview…
I’m quite happy to announce that my latest article just came out in Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice. The piece is called “Archaeology and interdisciplinarity after the digital turn” and is part of a special issue on interdisciplinary approaches to history. What’s it about? The article explores how archaeology – and especially…
It’s always a good week when something you’ve worked on finally makes its way into the world. This week, I’m happy to share two new publications. Both of which I’ve been involved in (in different ways and at different stages of my academic life). One takes us to the markets of the Moroccan High Atlas….