News
Review
[25-01-12, 0:00] I just found this brief comment on my article in the proceedings of TRAC 2008 in Britannia, 2011, 471. ...
AIA Paper: Demand, Scale and Rationalization (PDF)
[05-01-12, 3:11] I thought it might be useful to just upload the paper I will be giving this Sunday morning at the AIA. ...
AIA Annual Meeting
[23-11-11, 0:44] I have been selected to give a paper at next year's Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Archaeology at Philadelphia, January 6-8. ...
Working and living under one roof
[03-03-11, 23:41] Later this month, I will be participating in the conference 'Privata Luxuria - towards an archaeology of intimacy. ...
Working paper: Dealing with Decay
[12-11-10, 22:04] So the House of the Gladiators has collapsed, and I am an archaeologist working at Pompeii, what does it professionally mean to me? After a week of reading about the collapse, looking at the pictures, and discussing it with people, I had some time this afternoon to organize my thoughts and writing them down as a kind of working paper. ...
Review of Hoffmann and Faber's Casa del Fauno
[11-11-10, 12:21] I was asked by the Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft to write a review of Faber and Hoffmann's book on the House of the Faun, which appeared last year and published the results of the German excavations in the house in the late 1960's. ...
Living with a tagcloud
[27-07-10, 2:20] The good thing about having a research database that started all the way back in 2002 and includes all bibliographic, epigraphic, literary and archaeological data that I have been using over the past eight years, is that it is not only full of data, but also fairly accurately documents the development of my research. ...
Making sense of Molise
[26-05-10, 19:08] "Yet, how did this socio-economic integration of Samnium into Roman Italy actually ‘work’ in practice? It may be worth pointing out that for most people familiar with the social geography of present day Molise, ‘integration’ will not be the first word that springs to mind when thinking about the region. ...
Pompeii book to the press
[24-04-10, 0:23] Our edited volume on Pompeii has gone to press, and we are very happy with the result. ...
Radio interview tonight at 9:30 cet
[11-03-10, 16:44] I have just been interviewed by the Dutch radio programme "Hoe? Zo!" of TELEAC and it's going to be broadcast on radio 5 between 9 and 10 tonight (Dutch time). ...