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Dr. Miko Flohr

@drmflohr

Leiden University | Institute for History | Roman Archaeologist

 Leiden, The Netherlands
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Joined September 2016
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If this site goes down, this will be my pinned tweet. I wrote this last year, and this is me. mikoflohr.org/blog/2021/09/1…

Being Indo-Dutch, becoming a classical scholar

I grew up as the oldest and darkest-skinned kid in a mixed Indo-Dutch family in a terraced house in a small village in the southern part of The Netherlands. My mother is Dutch, my father was born on...

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Out now - Flohr, M. and A. Zuiderhoek (2025). A Companion to Cities in the Greco-Roman World. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell.
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Third book proofs of 2024. Incredible.
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Linkse belastingverhogingen uit Rutte I, II, III of IV? – at Wassenaar, Nederland
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Replying to @DilanYesilgoz
We geven ondernemers weer ademruimte! Zo draaien we linkse belastingverhogingen terug en laten we ondernemers weer ondernemen. Zodat de economie kan blijven groeien en wij met elkaar daar ook baat bij hebben.
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LeidenGlobal@LeidenGlobal20 Jul 2024
Innovaties werken het best in omgevingen waar veel kennis circuleert, aldus dr. Miko Flohr @UniLeiden Door bezuinigingen op kennis zijn wij minder innovatief. Dan moeten we kennis gaan importeren en dat past helemaal niet zo goed bij NL @MinOCW @drmflohr youtube.com/watch?v=TdrV9UCj…
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LeidenGlobal@LeidenGlobal18 May 2024
🎙️Rijkdom in het Romeinse Rijk In deze #Podcast #Oudheid vertelt dr. Miko Flohr @UniLeiden over Centraal-Italië als Centrum van een Wereldrijk (2e E. v Chr.), en zijn onderzoek in oa Paestum, Ostia & Pompeii @mikofLohr @drmflohr @RM_Oudheden @RomeinenNU open.spotify.com/episode/69u…

Centrum van een wereldrijk (1/2)

Oudheid · Episode

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Very good.
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Statement of Members of the Department of Classics on the University’s Failure to Protect Student Protestors classics.ucla.edu/uncategori…
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Very sad. When I was a Ph.D.-student, David Konstan gave us a masterclass on the theme of emotions. He was very kind indeed, and very bright, too.
Georgy Kantor (@GeorgyKantor) profile pictureGeorgy Kantor@GeorgyKantor3 May 2024
Very sad news that the great historian of Roman emotions, David Konstan, has passed away. I didn't know him well, but we once examined a doctorate together and were occasionally in touch - enough to know that he was not only a major scholar but a most kind and lovely man.
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His theme, though, gave me a lot of trouble. I did not know what to do with it. So I decided to do something new entirely, and wrote a paper on the role of emotions in responses to the AD 79 Eruption in Pompeii - 'The Archaeology of Panic'...
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... my appearance in the BBC-documentary this week, when I discussed how people responded when Vesuvius blew up, was I guess, at least partially due to David Konstan forcing me out of my comfort zone. It remains one of my favorite papers in terms of the fun I had writing.
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There we go.
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Tonight. 9PM BST / 22:00 CET. Pompeii. The New Dig. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001yv3…
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Tonight. 9PM BST / 22:00 CET. Pompeii. The New Dig. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001yv3…
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Eva Mol🍉@Eva___Mol26 Apr 2024
Useful list of initiatives and resources to support Palestinian students, academics and universities (please see below), particularly in the UK and Ireland. by Aleks Palanac @AleksPalanac docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Initiatives to support Palestinian students, academics and universities 🍉🍓

Initiatives to support Palestinian students, academics and universities 🍉🍓

Below is a list of initiatives and resources to support Palestinian students, academics and universities, particularly in the UK and Ireland (but some opportunities are further afield). Please use...

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Funny how my 'yes let's go to Pompeii next year, this should be fun!' In 1998 escalated, 25 years later, into me appearing in this BBC documentary. – at Wassenaar, Nederland
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'but colonial slavery is sooo long ago can you please stop complaining about it?'
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Tory MP from slave-owning family set to gain £3m from sale of former plantation theguardian.com/world/2024/a…
Tory MP from slave-owning family set to gain £3m from sale of former plantation

Tory MP from slave-owning family set to gain £3m from sale of former plantation

Caribbean historians want Richard Drax to pay reparations – but now Barbados plans to buy his land for homes

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Miko Flohr@mikofLohr19 Apr 2024
Podcast Oudheid: Centrum van een wereldrijk Miko Flohr vertelt in deze tweedelige podcast over zijn onderzoek in Paestum, Ostia, Herculaneum en Pompeii. universiteitleiden.nl/onderz…

Podcast Oudheid: Centrum van een wereldrijk

Miko Flohr vertelt in deze tweedelige podcast met Timo Epping over zijn onderzoek in Paestum, Ostia, Herculaneum en Pompeii.

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There we go. #Pompeii #bbc2 – at Wassenaar, Nederland
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Tonight, 9PM (22:00 CET), BBC Two. Pompeii: The New Dig - 'The Bodies'. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ycz…
BBC Two - Pompeii: The New Dig, Series 1, The Bodies

BBC Two - Pompeii: The New Dig, Series 1, The Bodies

At Pompeii, in the biggest dig in a generation, archaeologists excavate a new city block.

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Next Monday the first episode of this BBC-documentary in the new excavations at Pompeii. It will feature me in episodes two and three. BBC Two, 9pm GMT. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ycz… – at Wassenaar, Nederland
BBC Two - Pompeii: The New Dig

BBC Two - Pompeii: The New Dig

Following the biggest archaeological excavation in Pompeii for a generation.

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Sad not to be in London for #RACTRAC2024. I am scheduled to give a paper tomorrow in the session on Decolonial Roman Archaeology, but I have had to cancel as I am unable to travel at the moment.
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I am really sorry, as I had been looking forward to discuss an issue that has been preoccupying me for quite some time, and that in recent years also have been something you can actually speak about in our field. Which I think is really important.
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There will, for sure, be future occasions, and maybe our field will really become less 'European' and more diverse. But we have a long way to go.
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