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Beatrice Pestarino

Dr Beatrice Pestarino
PhD UCL, MA Pisa

Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow
Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology
Part of
School of Histories, Languages and Cultures
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Contact

Beatrice.Pestarino@liverpool.ac.uk

Professional activities

Conference Roles

  • Talk: When Sarapis puts Hartapu on his feet: Hellenistic reception of post-Hittite kings (with Alvise Matessi, Verona) at 14th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (Université Lyon 2, 2025)
  • Organisation: Introduction at BES British Epigraphy Society Spring Meeting, Graffiti in desert landscapes (University of Liverpool, 2025)
  • Organisation: lecture by Ory Amitay (Haifa): 'Alexander the Great and the origins of the Alexander Romance' at Ancient History Seminar at the University of Liverpool (University of Liverpool, 2025)
  • Talk: Mitzpe Shivta (the graffiti) (with Sina Lehnig, Berlin) at Negev Workshop, the Negev Desert during Late Antiquity and Early Middle Age, by Invitation (University of Cologne, 2025)
  • Organisation: Introduction at Resistance and Adaptation, Navigating Elites' power in Hellenistic Mediterranean and Near-East (University of Liverpool, 2025)
  • Seminar: Changements de stratégie, changements de capitale ? Légitimation du pouvoir à Chypre dans les premières années du règne ptolémaïque at Séminaire Espaces, villes et sociétés, by Invitation (Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon, 2025)
  • Seminar: Atene, Evagora e le loro politiche imperialistiche at Seminario per Dottorato in Scienze Archeologiche,Storiche e Storico Artistiche e Corso di laurea in Scienze storiche - Storia greca, by Invitation (University of Turin, 2024)
  • Talk: The Cypriot Eupatridai, local reactions against socio-political turns at POCA 21st Cypriot Archaeology Meeting 2024 (Trinity College Dublin, 2024)
  • Talk: The Graffiti from Mitzpe Shivta (with Sina Lehnig, Berlin) at BES British Epigraphy Society Autumn Colloquium 2024, by Invitation (ICS, Senate House, London, 2024)
  • Talk: Clustering Graffiti on Stones in Late Antique Negev and Sinai (with Gil Gambash, Haifa) at Experiencing the Oecumene. Aspects of Touristic Travelling in the Ancient Mediterranean, by Invitation (Heidelberg University, 2024)
  • Organisation and talk: Kingship and Monarchy (with Chris De Lisle, Durham) at Cyprus and Sicily in Comparative Perspectives, by Invitation (Durham University, 2024)
  • Talk: Climbing the stairs of the divine ascent in desert landscapes (with Sina Lehnig, Berlin) at 'Persisting with Change', European Archaeological Association conference 2025 (Università La Sapienza, Rome, 2024)
  • Talk: Women’s sacrifices in Ancient Cyprus? The Kition tariff revisited according to a Brelichian approach at Understanding Ancient Women: New Approaches from Material Texts, by Invitation (University of Warsaw, 2024)

Editorships

  • Resistance and Adaptation, Navigating Elites' power in Hellenistic Mediterranean and Near-East, (ed.) Pestarino, B., (forthcoming 2027) (Editor)
  • Cyprus and Sicily in Comparative Perspectives, (eds) De Lisle, C., Pestarino, B., Brill, Leiden (forthcoming 2026) (Co-editor)

Media Appearances

  • The History of Ancient Cyprus - The introduction of the Greek alphabet in Cyprus, podcast (Invited, March 2026)
  • The History of Ancient Cyprus - The political and administrative systems of the Classical Cypriot city-kingdoms, posdcast (Invited, February 2026)
  • Transplanting kingship, Cambridge Core Blog (Invited, April 2025)
  • The introduction of the Greek alphabet in Ancient Cyprus, website Crews project, epigraphy in action (Invited, September 2022)

Professional Body Memberships

  • British Epigraphy Society (Fellow, 2017 - present)
  • Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (Fellow, 2016 - present)
  • British Academy Early Career Researcher Network (Fellow, 2025 - present)

Publication Reviews

  • Peer-reviewer, Invited (Classical Quarterly, Pre-publication, 2025)
  • Peer-reviewer, Invited (Annual of the British School at Athens, Pre-publication, 2025)
  • Peer reviewer, Invited (Religions, Pre-publication, 2021 - 2022)
  • Peer reviewer, Invited (Sustainability, Pre-publication, 2023)
  • Peer-reviewer, Invited (Studies in Memory of Mogens Herman Hansen (eds) Rubistein, L., Nielsen, T. et al., forthcoming, Pre-publication, 2025)
  • Peer-reviewer, Invited (Proceedings of the 17th Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology Conference - PoCA 2020 - Nicosia (eds) C., Loizou, T. Chrstophorou, D. Ioannides, forthcoming, Pre-publication, 2022)