Meet Kate Klesner! She´s a postdoc fellow at Cambridge Archaeology. Her research focuses on reverse engineering ancient ceramic technologies through archaeometric analysis to study how technological knowledge was transmitted in Islamic C Asia.

Meet Ana Tetruashvili! She teaches prehistoric and Stone Age archaeology of Georgia at Tbilisi State University. Ana works on typological & traceological analysis of prehistoric stone tools, looking at agriculture and labour divisions.

Meet Aizhan Amanova! She is originally from KG, where she volunteered as a City Representative of the American Councils working on social projects in rural areas. Currently Aizhan is 1st year computer science student at the ELTE University, Faculty of Informatics in Budapest.

In Oct, Durham #Archaeology with Kristen Hopper visited University of York for the Steppe Sisters Network 1st annual meeting and lecture - connecting & supporting women & underrep'd groups engaging in academic research in Central Asia & neighbouring regions 🌏 Read more 👇 bit.ly/Steppe-Sisters…

Funded PhD opportunities: soas.ac.uk/study/student-… scholarshipdb.net/scholarships-i… exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/…

CALLING ALL ARCHAEOLOGY STUDENTS or related disciplines. The EAA NEEDS YOU! ☝️ We are looking to recruit volunteers to help steer the Annual Meeting (on-site or online) #EAA2024. Please follow this link for more details and how to apply: tinyurl.com/5899d6f2 Thank you 🙏

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Let's keep supporting & teaching each other 🙌🧑‍🔬❣️

Historic Photo: Talking to Suinbike Suleimenova 5 years ago today for my project on protest art in Central Asia. On 23 April 2019, she was arrested at the Almaty Marathon where the Qazaq Koktemi #KazakhSpring movement staged their first protest. I gasped for air that day

For Women´s Day on Friday 8th March a talk by Dr. Gillian Tett "Shaking the nail: the battles around women, power and politics in Central Asia" kings.cam.ac.uk/research/silk-…

Happy International Women's Day ! We want equal rights, not (only) flowers 💪 Check out our new winter newsletter to find out what we have been up to: mailchi.mp/a8e829339cd0/s… If you haven't signed up yet, you can subscribe here 💌steppesisters.org/#how_to_join

We’re here to help! If you’re from the #globalsouths (widely understood) & applying to graduate programs in the social/political sciences, we're happy to offer care-full feedback on your applications as peers! Write to us at [email protected] southsouthmovement.org/projects/ssm-h…

Nawruz in Newcastle! Looking forward to it!

📢 We are happy to announce a new call for applications for grants and places in the doctoral programme of the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies for the calendar year 2025/26! The application deadline is 1 November 2024. bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/announcements/…

Call for Papers! TAG45 @ Bournemouth session on Knowledge Production & Intercultural Collaboration in Archaeology. Come and chat about #ethnographyofarchaeology, #impact, #decolonialpractice and much more - please send abstract by 1st October to Cecilia Conte & I. tag2024.wordpress.com/2024/09/05/s22…

Send your abstracts for TAG45 @ Bournemouth to Steppe Sisters Lisa Randisi & Cecilia Conte by October 1st!

Steppe Sister Annual Lecture by Qian Gao on Nov. 2nd, 16:30 in Wolfson College, Oxford! Further info: steppesisters.org/2024-annual-ge… No registration needed to attend in person; to attend online, please register here: durhamuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regist…