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Podcast Season 3, Episode 9 – (Not so) Risky Business: the Potential Perils of Childbirth in Ancient Rome with Anna Bonnell Freidin

On this episode of the Peopling the Past Podcast, we are joined by Dr. Ana Bonnell Freidin, an assistant professor of history at the University of Michigan. Listen in, as Dr. Bonnell Freidin talks about risk, pregnancy, and childbirth in the ancient Roman empire, and the ways in which we might engage with notions of…

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Blog Post #76: Interview with Heba Abd el Gawad of Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage Project

In this week’s blog post, we interview Dr. Heba Abd el Gawad, Egyptologist and project researcher for the AHRC funded project: “Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage: Views from Egypt”. Her research aims to amplify the voice, visibility, and validity of modern Egyptian communities in UK museums. Dr. Heba Abd el Gawad will be presenting this work at…

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fragment representing half of a ceramic byzantine lamp with a greek. inscription partially visible
Mould-made Byzantine lamp fragment with stylized Greek letters. The six-line linear design on the channel represents a menorah and the Greek lettering is likely a reference to “light”. The lamp, part of the Hetherington Collection (#A1-158) of the Anthropology Museum at the University of Winnipeg, is currently being analyzed as part of the Lux Project.

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On today’s #PeoplingPodcast, Melissa and Chelsea are joined by Dr. Anna Bonnell Friedin to discuss the (not so?) risky business of pregnancy, childbearing, and delivery in the ancient Roman Empire. Listen in here: In today’s BONUS #PeoplingBlog, we interview early career scholar Kyle Lewis Jordan about his work as the ‘Curating for Change’ Fellow at the Ashmolean and the Pitt Rivers Museums in Oxford. Read on, to hear about Kyle’s role curating disability histories held within these museum collections here: In this week’s #PeoplingBlog, we interview Dr. Gino Canlas, a postdoctoral fellow working on the Database of Religious History at the University of British Columbia. Read on to discover more about the Database, an open access resource that offers a large-scale study of historical evidence and trends in religious experience from the Neolithic period to the present day: On today’s #PeoplingBlog, we interview Dr. Heba Abd el Gawad, Egyptologist and project researcher for the AHRC funded project “Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage: Views from Egypt”. Read on to learn more about Heba’s research aims to amplify the voice, visibility, and validity of modern Egyptian communities in UK museums here: On today’s #PeoplingPodcast, Chelsea and Melissa are joined by Dr. Lauren Caldwell, who takes us through her work on puberty and girlhood and the practices that surround these life stages in the Roman Empire. Listen in as they discuss the transitional phase of ‘Not a Puella, Not Yet a Femina’ here: https://peoplingthepast.com/2023/03/07/podcast-season-3-episode-8-not-a-puella-not-yet-a-femina-roman-girlhood-with-lauren-caldwell/ On today’s #PeoplingBlog we are re-sharing our feature on The Lux Project, an undergraduate research and digitization project led by our very own Dr. Melissa Funke and focused on the Hetherington Collection, a collection of around 450 ancient Mediterranean artifacts housed in the Anthropology lab at the University of Winnipeg: On today’s #PeoplingBlog we are re-sharing our interview with Dr. Nadhira Hill, one of the participants at our upcoming colloquium! Read on, as Nadhira introduces us to her research on deconstructing the traditionally Athenocentric definition of the Greek symposium here: https://peoplingthepast.com/2021/01/29/blog-post-13-grad-student-feature-with-nadhira-hill/ On today’s #PeoplingPodcast we’re celebrating Black History and African Heritage month with a very special episode on the women of ancient Nubia! Join our hosts Chelsea and Melissa as they welcome Dr. Jacke Phillips to discuss the variety of evidence available to us on the lives of women in this fascinating region of the ancient world: In today’s #PeoplingBlog, we interview our video editor Dr. Christine Johnston to discuss her role as coordinator of the Ancient World in 3D Project! Read on to learn about her collaboration with graduate students at Western Washington University which examines the use of 3D printed and replica materials in teaching and learning about the ancient world:

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