Yannis Hamilakis 🍉
@yannisham.bsky.social
Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Modern Greek Studies at Brown University. Politics of the past (and the present), sensoriality and the body, contemporary archaeology, theory and philosophy, migration: https://brown.academia.edu/YannisHamilakis
Hi all,
A modest proposal on the contours and future of Decolonial Archaeology (open access). Grateful to all who inspired the ideas! I would welcome all feedback and critique.
A decolonial archaeology of refusal, care and repair | Antiquity | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A modest proposal on the contours and future of Decolonial Archaeology (open access). Grateful to all who inspired the ideas! I would welcome all feedback and critique.
A decolonial archaeology of refusal, care and repair | Antiquity | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A decolonial archaeology of refusal, care and repair | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
A decolonial archaeology of refusal, care and repair
www.cambridge.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Hi all,
A modest proposal on the contours and future of Decolonial Archaeology (open access). Grateful to all who inspired the ideas! I would welcome all feedback and critique.
A decolonial archaeology of refusal, care and repair | Antiquity | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A modest proposal on the contours and future of Decolonial Archaeology (open access). Grateful to all who inspired the ideas! I would welcome all feedback and critique.
A decolonial archaeology of refusal, care and repair | Antiquity | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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New issue of Archaeological Dialogues Vol. 31, No. 1 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #openaccess @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org @sveinvn.bsky.social @prehistorian.bsky.social @yannisham.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
New issue of Archaeological Dialogues Vol. 31, No. 1 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #openaccess @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org @sveinvn.bsky.social @prehistorian.bsky.social @yannisham.bsky.social
Now published in the latest issue "Archaeological Dialogues", along with many great papers. Many thanks to the journal's team!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
‘Palestine is our working condition’: border pedagogy, materiality, and the corporate university | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core
‘Palestine is our working condition’: border pedagogy, materiality, and the corporate university - Volume 31 Issue 1
www.cambridge.org
October 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Now published in the latest issue "Archaeological Dialogues", along with many great papers. Many thanks to the journal's team!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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UPenn professors have responded forcefully to the Trump administration's that colleges sign a "compact" in order to secure funding:
"When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation." aaup-penn.org/statement-by...
"When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation." aaup-penn.org/statement-by...
Statement by the AAUP-Penn Executive Committee on the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education | AAUP–Penn
October 2, 2025 We have received reports that Penn has been “invited” to sign a so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” by the federal government, and that failing to do so wou...
aaup-penn.org
October 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
UPenn professors have responded forcefully to the Trump administration's that colleges sign a "compact" in order to secure funding:
"When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation." aaup-penn.org/statement-by...
"When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation." aaup-penn.org/statement-by...
Members of the European Association of Archaeologists, past and present, please sign!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Call for a Special Meeting of the EAA
Recent events during the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists* have generated profound discontent and distrust toward the current Executive Board among members of the associati...
docs.google.com
September 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Members of the European Association of Archaeologists, past and present, please sign!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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I've just resigned from the EAA. Sad to leave an organisation I have been part of for decades, but collaboration with genocide is unthinkable. #stopthegenocide #stopapartheid @archagainstaparth.bsky.social
BTC Call for Action - EAA
EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns.
Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns.
Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
September 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I've just resigned from the EAA. Sad to leave an organisation I have been part of for decades, but collaboration with genocide is unthinkable. #stopthegenocide #stopapartheid @archagainstaparth.bsky.social
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Archaeologists Against Apartheid urgent call for action! We are not anonymous. We are members of both the EAA&global archaeological community and more committed than ever to holding our representative organisations to account and anti-democratic influences.
aaaeaastatementseptember3rd.tiiny.site
aaaeaastatementseptember3rd.tiiny.site
September 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Archaeologists Against Apartheid urgent call for action! We are not anonymous. We are members of both the EAA&global archaeological community and more committed than ever to holding our representative organisations to account and anti-democratic influences.
aaaeaastatementseptember3rd.tiiny.site
aaaeaastatementseptember3rd.tiiny.site
Archaeology defined as a hauntology of remains. A theoretical statement grounded on my work on ruins as well as my recent work on the remnants of contemporary migration. Part of a great volume! Grateful to the editors and to many colleagues who helped out!
www.academia.edu/143309448/Ha...
www.academia.edu/143309448/Ha...
Hamilakis, Y. 2026. Archaeology as a hauntology of remains. In Shadow Archaeologies In the Shadow of Antiquity or For Other Modes of Archaeological Worldmaking, edited by A. Nativ and G. Lucas. London...
In this chapter, I propose a hauntological archaeology, not as a subdiscipline, a subfield, or a method but as an affect, as a way of allowing or rather enabling material remains to haunt us. This is ...
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August 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Archaeology defined as a hauntology of remains. A theoretical statement grounded on my work on ruins as well as my recent work on the remnants of contemporary migration. Part of a great volume! Grateful to the editors and to many colleagues who helped out!
www.academia.edu/143309448/Ha...
www.academia.edu/143309448/Ha...
I chatted with the good colleagues of the @peoplingthepast.bsky.social on decoloniality, the politics of archaeology in the current moment, Palestine of course, and even our fieldwork efforts at Koutroulou Magoula!
For the final episode of #PeoplingPodcast Season 4, we are joined by Dr. Yannis Hamilakis to discuss his vision for a decolonial future for ancient archaeology.
peoplingthepast.com/2025/07/29/p...
#Ancient #Mediterranean #Archaeology #Decolonialism #CulturalHeritage /1
peoplingthepast.com/2025/07/29/p...
#Ancient #Mediterranean #Archaeology #Decolonialism #CulturalHeritage /1
July 30, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I chatted with the good colleagues of the @peoplingthepast.bsky.social on decoloniality, the politics of archaeology in the current moment, Palestine of course, and even our fieldwork efforts at Koutroulou Magoula!
Reposted by Yannis Hamilakis 🍉
Going to #wac10? You'll be sharing the space with a war criminal. Demand the @worldarch.bsky.social exclude archaeologists who knowingly engage in war crimes!
loom.ly/lTKF50o
#wacwithoutapartheid
@pacbi.bsky.social
loom.ly/lTKF50o
#wacwithoutapartheid
@pacbi.bsky.social
The World Archaeological Congress (WAC) Is Normalizing a War Crime
The WAC 10 conference program includes a panel chair and presenter from illegal Israeli settlement-based Ariel University who is therefore knowingly participating in a war crime and should therefore b...
loom.ly
June 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Going to #wac10? You'll be sharing the space with a war criminal. Demand the @worldarch.bsky.social exclude archaeologists who knowingly engage in war crimes!
loom.ly/lTKF50o
#wacwithoutapartheid
@pacbi.bsky.social
loom.ly/lTKF50o
#wacwithoutapartheid
@pacbi.bsky.social
A victory! WAC has just announced that it decided to exclude from its congress the participant from an institution based in an illegal settlement in the West Bank. Many thanks to the people who raised their voices...
June 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
A victory! WAC has just announced that it decided to exclude from its congress the participant from an institution based in an illegal settlement in the West Bank. Many thanks to the people who raised their voices...
Looking forward to going back to the Getty Research Institute in September...
www.getty.edu/news/getty-a...
www.getty.edu/news/getty-a...
Getty Announces 2025/2026 Scholars | Getty News
GRI Getty Scholars Program proudly announces the recipients of the 2025/2026 fellowship cycle.
www.getty.edu
June 2, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Looking forward to going back to the Getty Research Institute in September...
www.getty.edu/news/getty-a...
www.getty.edu/news/getty-a...
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Hey 🏺 archaeologists on bluesky!
Bookmark your calendars for 6-9 May at Linnaeus University in Kalmar 🇸🇪 & submit your session proposal for #NordicTAG2026 - deadline 31 May
Don't miss our keynote speakers, inc. @yannisham.bsky.social & @evamol.bsky.social!
More info: lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
Bookmark your calendars for 6-9 May at Linnaeus University in Kalmar 🇸🇪 & submit your session proposal for #NordicTAG2026 - deadline 31 May
Don't miss our keynote speakers, inc. @yannisham.bsky.social & @evamol.bsky.social!
More info: lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
May 20, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Hey 🏺 archaeologists on bluesky!
Bookmark your calendars for 6-9 May at Linnaeus University in Kalmar 🇸🇪 & submit your session proposal for #NordicTAG2026 - deadline 31 May
Don't miss our keynote speakers, inc. @yannisham.bsky.social & @evamol.bsky.social!
More info: lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
Bookmark your calendars for 6-9 May at Linnaeus University in Kalmar 🇸🇪 & submit your session proposal for #NordicTAG2026 - deadline 31 May
Don't miss our keynote speakers, inc. @yannisham.bsky.social & @evamol.bsky.social!
More info: lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
It's hard to believe it, especially in the present climate... I am certain that there are many other worthy colleagues who deserve this (perhaps more than I), but I was notified today that I received a Guggenheim Fellowship...
I am grateful to the Foundation for the support.
#guggfellows2025
I am grateful to the Foundation for the support.
#guggfellows2025
April 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
It's hard to believe it, especially in the present climate... I am certain that there are many other worthy colleagues who deserve this (perhaps more than I), but I was notified today that I received a Guggenheim Fellowship...
I am grateful to the Foundation for the support.
#guggfellows2025
I am grateful to the Foundation for the support.
#guggfellows2025
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Congratulations to our 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows, and welcome to the Fellowship! A message from Edward Hirsch, President of the Guggenheim Foundation and 1985 Fellow. www.gf.org #guggfellows2025
April 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Congratulations to our 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows, and welcome to the Fellowship! A message from Edward Hirsch, President of the Guggenheim Foundation and 1985 Fellow. www.gf.org #guggfellows2025
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Sign and share and share again. Deadline in 3 days! We don’t want anyone to miss the chance to sign the letter and take an important stand, with Palestinians and against apartheid and genocide. #Archaeology #🏺
Sign and share and share again. Deadline in 3 days! We don’t want anyone to miss the chance to sign the letter and take an important stand, with Palestinians and against apartheid and genocide. #Archaeology #🏺
March 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Sign and share and share again. Deadline in 3 days! We don’t want anyone to miss the chance to sign the letter and take an important stand, with Palestinians and against apartheid and genocide. #Archaeology #🏺
Sign and share and share again. Deadline in 3 days! We don’t want anyone to miss the chance to sign the letter and take an important stand, with Palestinians and against apartheid and genocide. #Archaeology #🏺
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EXTENDED DEADLINE: Join over 300 archaeologists & cultural heritage workers worldwide. Sign the open letter to WAC, urging them to pledge no ties with apartheid Israel or its complicit institutions. WAC respected the boycott of apartheid South Africa in 1986. Why not now?
#Archaeology #🏺
#Archaeology #🏺
March 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
EXTENDED DEADLINE: Join over 300 archaeologists & cultural heritage workers worldwide. Sign the open letter to WAC, urging them to pledge no ties with apartheid Israel or its complicit institutions. WAC respected the boycott of apartheid South Africa in 1986. Why not now?
#Archaeology #🏺
#Archaeology #🏺
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Tired of witnessing the complicit silence and ongoing coloniality of disciplinary associations, from the AHA to the SCS and AIA? Us too! That's why we founded the @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social: JOIN US! societyforthestudyofthepast.com
March 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Tired of witnessing the complicit silence and ongoing coloniality of disciplinary associations, from the AHA to the SCS and AIA? Us too! That's why we founded the @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social: JOIN US! societyforthestudyofthepast.com
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We are so pleased to see that Archaeology and the Ancient World concentrator Carrington Hughes has been awarded Brown University's Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF)! She will be mentored by JIAAW's Yannis Hamilakis in her research focused on Liberian identity. Congratulations, Carrington!
March 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
We are so pleased to see that Archaeology and the Ancient World concentrator Carrington Hughes has been awarded Brown University's Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF)! She will be mentored by JIAAW's Yannis Hamilakis in her research focused on Liberian identity. Congratulations, Carrington!
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Pleased to be speaking at this year’s Political Concepts meeting, hosted at Brown University:
“The End(s) of Democracy.”
Programme here:
humanities.brown.edu/events/polit...
“The End(s) of Democracy.”
Programme here:
humanities.brown.edu/events/polit...
Political Concepts: The End(s) of Democracy
February 28 – March 1, 2025 Andrews House 110, 13 Brown St.
humanities.brown.edu
February 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Pleased to be speaking at this year’s Political Concepts meeting, hosted at Brown University:
“The End(s) of Democracy.”
Programme here:
humanities.brown.edu/events/polit...
“The End(s) of Democracy.”
Programme here:
humanities.brown.edu/events/polit...
Consider applying for one of our several 2-year postdocs!
This year, we encourage applicants to team up with faculty members (including myself)
I would love to work with colleagues who are interested in applying, so reach out if you are!
archaeology.brown.edu/news/2025-02...
This year, we encourage applicants to team up with faculty members (including myself)
I would love to work with colleagues who are interested in applying, so reach out if you are!
archaeology.brown.edu/news/2025-02...
Postdoctoral Research Associates (formerly Fellows) in Archaeology and the Ancient World
The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World (JIAAW) at Brown University invites applications for the position of Postdoctoral Research Associate in Archaeology and the Ancient World.
archaeology.brown.edu
February 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Consider applying for one of our several 2-year postdocs!
This year, we encourage applicants to team up with faculty members (including myself)
I would love to work with colleagues who are interested in applying, so reach out if you are!
archaeology.brown.edu/news/2025-02...
This year, we encourage applicants to team up with faculty members (including myself)
I would love to work with colleagues who are interested in applying, so reach out if you are!
archaeology.brown.edu/news/2025-02...
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I’d like to use my newfound infamy as a scientific opponent of the case for a “Proto-Indo-European Homeland” in the Caucasus to draw attention to an open letter by Prof. Rafi Greenberg, which concerns an impending conference on #archaeology in the Occupied West Bank.
February 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I’d like to use my newfound infamy as a scientific opponent of the case for a “Proto-Indo-European Homeland” in the Caucasus to draw attention to an open letter by Prof. Rafi Greenberg, which concerns an impending conference on #archaeology in the Occupied West Bank.
Reposted by Yannis Hamilakis 🍉
Look: A Zionist archaeology conference that aims to normalize occupation archaeology
Amidst a genocide
Amidst a scholasticide
Amidst the obliteration of Gaza's heritage
Amidst the ruins of complicit academic fields and associations
SHAME! arch-js.co.il?page_id=781&...
Amidst a genocide
Amidst a scholasticide
Amidst the obliteration of Gaza's heritage
Amidst the ruins of complicit academic fields and associations
SHAME! arch-js.co.il?page_id=781&...
February 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Look: A Zionist archaeology conference that aims to normalize occupation archaeology
Amidst a genocide
Amidst a scholasticide
Amidst the obliteration of Gaza's heritage
Amidst the ruins of complicit academic fields and associations
SHAME! arch-js.co.il?page_id=781&...
Amidst a genocide
Amidst a scholasticide
Amidst the obliteration of Gaza's heritage
Amidst the ruins of complicit academic fields and associations
SHAME! arch-js.co.il?page_id=781&...
Hi all,
some of you may have not seen this short, open-access piece..I suspect that the phenomena I am recounting will intensify in the coming months and years. And yet, our students give us hope...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
some of you may have not seen this short, open-access piece..I suspect that the phenomena I am recounting will intensify in the coming months and years. And yet, our students give us hope...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
‘Palestine is our working condition’: border pedagogy, materiality, and the corporate university | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core
‘Palestine is our working condition’: border pedagogy, materiality, and the corporate university
www.cambridge.org
January 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Hi all,
some of you may have not seen this short, open-access piece..I suspect that the phenomena I am recounting will intensify in the coming months and years. And yet, our students give us hope...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
some of you may have not seen this short, open-access piece..I suspect that the phenomena I am recounting will intensify in the coming months and years. And yet, our students give us hope...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...