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Samuli Simelius
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Pompeii, classical archaeology
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I’m organizing a workshop called ”Dynamics of Inequality in the Ancient Mediterranean” (22-23 October 2026, Helsinki)

Here’s the CfP:
Call for papers: ”Dynamics of Inequality in the Ancient Mediterranean” workshop 22-23 October 2026, Helsinki
December 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Together with Liisa Jalkanen we wrote an article ”Feelings and the Roman house: A sentiment analysis of Pompeian graffiti”. The goal was to test sentiment analysis for Pompeian graffiti, and hopefully, further research using this methodology and graffiti will follow.
Abstract This article introduces a new digital method for studying Roman domestic spaces: sentiment analysis. The first objective is to test how sentiment analysis can be used to study Roman graffiti, while the second is to examine what the results reveal about the functions of the Roman and Pompeian house and people's behavior within it. The article focuses on one house in Pompeii, the Casa delle nozze d'argento (V,2,i), which offers a well-documented context for the purposes of this work. The article combines the study of textual and material sources and introduces new innovative methods for studying life in the ancient world. The use of sentiment analysis as a tool makes it possible to identify sentiments via computational methods, where the text is provided with values that define its sentiment polarity. Pompeian graffiti has not been previously studied using this method. Additionally, the article makes use of Space Syntax analysis – a mathematical tool used to calculate the relationships between rooms and spaces – to assess how the results of the sentiment analysis correlate with the visibility of the graffiti and their makers. Such an analysis will provide information on the location of negative, neutral, and positive examples of graffiti in relation to the scale of public and private spaces in the Casa delle nozze d'argento.
December 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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A job in Helsinki at the ERC Advanced Grant Project "Work without End: Informal Taxation and Forced Labor within Persian Southern Levantine Temple Economy and Society (WORK-IT)" @workit-hki.bsky.social
Research Assistant
Research Assistant
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December 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Excited to be heading back to Dumbarton Oaks for the first time since my PhD! Looking forward to discussing all things Gardens of the Roman Empire www.doaks.org/events/garde...
Garden and Landscape Studies Colloquium
December 5, 2025 | Kathryn Gleason, Amina-Aïcha Malek, and Divya Kumar-Dumas, Colloquiarchs
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December 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Torstaina 4.12. klo 18 Villa Lanten ystävien yleistajuinen 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐚𝐫𝐢 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐮𝐬 𝐂𝐚𝐞𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚 ja Kanava-palkitusta uudesta tietokirjasta 𝘎𝘢𝘪𝘶𝘴 𝘑𝘶𝘭𝘪𝘶𝘴 𝘊𝘢𝘦𝘴𝘢𝘳 - 𝘙𝘰𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘬𝘵𝘢𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘵 𝘬𝘢𝘴𝘷𝘰𝘵. Webinaariin on vapaa pääsy, mutta siihen tulee ilmoittautua etukäteen sähköpostilla.
Webinaarit – Villa Lanten Ystävät ry
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December 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Archaeologists! Considering joining @simonmair.bsky.social and I at the European Society for Ecological Economics conference in Ghent to provide examples of "non-capitalist economies" that we can use to learn about sustainability.
simonmair.bsky.social Simon Mair @simonmair.bsky.social · 10d
Call for abstracts: Learning from Non-Capitalist Economies. Deadline 19th December. Details here: esee2026ghent.be/wp-content/u...

Abstracts will form sessions at the 16th Biennial Conference of the European Society of Ecological Economics in Ghent. More details th thread below:
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December 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Tervetuloa kuulolle!
tiedetati.bsky.social Tiedetäti (Dr. Laura Nissin) @tiedetati.bsky.social · 9d
Villa Lanten ystävien joulukuun webinaarissa 4.12.2025 klo 18 päähenkilönä on Julius Caesar, jonka elämää esittelee tuore, Kanava-palkittu teos Caesar – Rooman diktaattorin monet kasvot
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December 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Villa Lanten ystävien joulukuun webinaarissa 4.12.2025 klo 18 päähenkilönä on Julius Caesar, jonka elämää esittelee tuore, Kanava-palkittu teos Caesar – Rooman diktaattorin monet kasvot
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December 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Reconstructing emotional languages is an area that the digital humanities method known as sentiment analysis is good at. A new article by Liisa Jalkanen & Samuli Simelius applies it to Pompeii graffiti. My only worry is the corpus is too small in one house? www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
Figure 9. Space Syntax VGA analysis overlaid with graffiti locations and sentiment scores (where available). Color scales indicate the numerical value range. Left: Connectivity. Right: Integration HH.
November 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Applications are open for the Barcelona Past Networks Summer School (16–19 June 2026)! It offers hands-on training in network research for the study of the human past. Participants explore network theory, methods and through practicals and expert-led lectures. See details at: www.pastnetworks.net
November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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KISSOJA, KISSOJA!! MISSÄ?
😻😽🐯
No, tietenkin Tieteiden yössä! Kiskiskis... Antiikintutkimuksen verkosto ylpeänä esittää:

Kissaeläinten historiaa ja nykyisyyttä itäisellä Välimerellä

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Kissaeläinten historiaa ja nykyisyyttä itäisellä Välimerellä | tieteidenyo.fi
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November 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Tomorrow in Stockholm

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Research seminar in Classical archaeology and Ancient History
Tomorrow I will give a talk at the Research Seminar in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at Stockholm University. I will discuss the new methods I am developing for the study of Roman urban…
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November 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Tämäpä hienoa! 🥳
gaudeamuskirjat.bsky.social Gaudeamus @gaudeamuskirjat.bsky.social · 22d
"Kaikkiaan kuudentoista tutkijan työn tuloksena syntynyt Gaius Julius Caesar on hienosti koottu, sujuvasti kirjoitettu ja kohdettaan ilahduttavan monista näkökulmista kuvaava teos (...)"

Paljon onnea Kanava-palkinnosta kaikille kirjoittajille!💐

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Kanava-palkinto Gaius Julius Caesar -teokselle - Gaudeamus
Kanava-tietokirjapalkinto myönnetään parhaalle suomalaiselle henkilöhistoriaa käsittelevälle tietokirjalle.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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"Kaikkiaan kuudentoista tutkijan työn tuloksena syntynyt Gaius Julius Caesar on hienosti koottu, sujuvasti kirjoitettu ja kohdettaan ilahduttavan monista näkökulmista kuvaava teos (...)"

Paljon onnea Kanava-palkinnosta kaikille kirjoittajille!💐

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Kanava-palkinto Gaius Julius Caesar -teokselle - Gaudeamus
Kanava-tietokirjapalkinto myönnetään parhaalle suomalaiselle henkilöhistoriaa käsittelevälle tietokirjalle.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Pidän pari luentoa antiikin kirjallisuudesta Salon kansalaisopistossa.

#antiikinKreikka #antiikinRooma #kirjallisuus #salonkaupunki #salonkansalaisopisto

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November 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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I'm co-editing a book on Radicalized Loneliness and we need a few more chapters to make an already exciting collection a bit thicker.

Please share this Call for Chapters or consider submitting something yourselves!

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Call for Chapters – Radicalized Loneliness: Philosophical and Political Perspectives
Call for Chapters: Radicalized Loneliness: Philosophical and Political Perspectives   We invite chapter proposals for the forthcoming edited volume Radicalized Loneliness: Philosophical and Polit...
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November 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access

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Cambridge University Press
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November 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Itiner-e – The Digital Atlas of Ancient Roads
by Tom Brughmans and colleagues has been featured even here in the faraway corner of Europe. Here is the article in Helsingin Sanomat in Finnish. Way to go, Tom et al. (pun intended)!
www.hs.fi/tiede/art-20...
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November 12, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Tiistaina 11.11.2025 Martti Leiwo ja Minna Seppänen pitävät esitelmän liittyen uuteen julkaisuunsa 𝘓𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯 𝘬𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘢. Klo 17–19, Helsingin yliopistolla ja suoratoistolinkin kautta. Lisätietoja tapahtumasta: www.kfy.fi/tapahtumat/
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Tapahtumat – Klassillis-filologinen yhdistys
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November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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📢 The 4th instalment of our 'Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School' is coming up!

Apply by 14 December, and join us in #Helsinki, June 2026!

More information at: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...

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Apply to the Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School 2026 | Ancient Near Eastern Empires | University of Helsinki
In 2026, the Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School will return to Helsinki, Finland. The fourth edition of the summer school will be hosted at the University of Helsinki with contac...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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#Vacancies: we are looking for not just one but three #postdoctoral researchers interested in bridging #genetics, #archaeology and #linguistics in exploring the #humanpast. shorturl.at/B3Qdd @haam-community.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social
Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past - Uppsala University
Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University
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November 10, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Archaeology at the Center for the Human Past - Uppsala University
Postdoctoral Researcher in Archaeology at the Center for the Human Past, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala ...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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theconversation.com/the-roman-em...
The Roman empire built 300,000 kilometres of roads: new study
A new comprehensive map reveals the true scale of the ancient Roman road network – but it is still incomplete.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Want to learn from ancient agropastoral economies to help us figure out what makes cities sustainable?

Check out this NERC-funded opportunity for PhD study with me here at @york.ac.uk!

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Investigating agricultural adaptation and re-urbanisation in the Yamuna-Ganges Doab of South Asia at University of York on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Investigating agricultural adaptation and re-urbanisation in the Yamuna-Ganges Doab of South Asia at University of York, listed on FindAPhD.com
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November 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Plan your next vacation around the distribution of Roman road using this awesome new tool by lots of folks, including my colleague Tom Brughmans. They doubled the number of digitally compiled Roman roads. Seriously awesome! Also a cool intro animation. itiner-e.org
itiner-e
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November 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM