Just under two weeks left until the #CallForPapers for the Connected Past Toronto (Sep. 2026) closes!
Keynote: Prof. Barbara Mills
Submit your paper or poster abstract --> by 15 March
Call text and more info at: connectedpast.net
@theconnectedpast.bsky.social
Join us for another (hybrid) AMME Seminar TODAY, Thursday 19.02.26 at 16:15-18:00 EET!
Session theme:
๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ ๐๐๐ข๐๐ง๐๐๐ฌ
Speakers:
- Aida Alavi
- Jeffrey Kotyk
More info at: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...
@helsinki.fi @anee-helsinki.bsky.social #AMMEseminar
๐ข Pleased to share that the #CfP for the #connectedpast 2026 in #Toronto, Canada, is OPEN!
โ๏ธ Submit your abstract --> by 15 March
More info at: connectedpast.net
#networks #history #archaeology
@theconnectedpast.bsky.social
Join us for another (hybrid) #AMMEseminar this Thursday (18.12.2025, at 16:15-18:00 EET)!
Session theme:
'Ancient Waste - Trash or Treasures?'
Speakers:
- AnneMarie Luijendijk
- Louise Blanke
Abstracts & more info at: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...
@helsinki.fi
@anee-helsinki.bsky.social
Last chance --> apply TODAY (Sunday)!
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#digitalhumanities #digitalassyriology #OpenRefine #python #tableau #QGIS #gephi
#Helsinki @anee-helsinki.bsky.social
Last chance to sign up for the Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School!
Deadline: 14 December
Want to learn how to study cuneiform sources or related materials with digital tools?
Join us in #Helsinki, for the next 'Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School'!
Application deadline: --> THIS Sunday (14.12.2025).
Call text: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...
#CallforApplications
Call for papers: โDynamics of Inequality in the Ancient Mediterraneanโ workshop 22-23 October 2026, Helsinki
Iโm organizing a workshop called โDynamics of Inequality in the Ancient Mediterraneanโ (22-23 October 2026, Helsinki)
Hereโs the CfP:
Just under one week left to submit your application to the next 'Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School' (Helsinki, June 2026)!
Apply by: 14 December 2025
Call text: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...
Applications are open for the Barcelona Past Networks Summer School (16โ19 June 2026)! It offers hands-on training in network research for the study of the human past. Participants explore network theory, methods and through practicals and expert-led lectures. See details at: www.pastnetworks.net
Call for applications!
Digital Applications in Assyriology Summer School in Helsinki, 1โ5 June 2026. Open to students worldwide in Assyriology/related fields. Topics: data collection/cleaning, programming, SNA, GIS.
Apply by 14 Dec 2025.
Info & application: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...
Join us for another (hybrid) #AMMEseminar this Thursday (13.11.25, at 16:15-18:00 EET)!
Session theme:
'Social Dependency Systems'
Speakers:
- Kostas Vlassopoulos
- Seth Richardson
- Saadia Yacoob
Abstracts & more info at: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...
@helsinki.fi @anee-helsinki.bsky.social
๐ข The 4th instalment of our 'Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School' is coming up!
Apply by 14 December, and join us in #Helsinki, June 2026!
More information at: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...
@anee-helsinki.bsky.social @helsinki.fi
Our data paper on the Prosobab networks is now online. Of course #openaccess with the very efficient @up_johd: doi.org/10.5334/johd...
#babylonia #1milleniumBC #SNA #mesopotamia
I am looking to fill a postdoctoral position on my research project Understanding Epidemics in Ancient Mesopotamia for a Near or Middle Eastern Archaeologist for 26 months on full time from February 2026.
Deadline is 16th of November. Read more and apply through employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho....
Join us for another (hybrid) AMME Seminar this Thursday (23.10.25, at 16:15-18:00 EEST)!
Session theme:
Writing History in the Ancient World
Speakers:
- Johannes Bach
- Jasmin Lukkari
Abstracts & more info at: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...
@helsinki.fi @anee-helsinki.bsky.social #AMMEseminar
The Connected Past Coimbra 2025 was a resounding success. We would like to thank our speakers and our colleagues Joel, Tania, Riccardo,ย andย Carlos who helped host the event in Coimbra. Stay tuned for updates on Connected Past events and for next year's event in Toronto, Canada!
#connectedpast
The Connected Past 2025 Coimbra conference had its last session focused on Egypt with Chana Algarvio discussing iconography in the Achaemenid Empire and Hossam Hegazi and Tamer Ali presenting religious networks. Thank you and well done everyone!
#conntectedpast #Egyptology
Yet more network explorations of the ancient Hittite, Italian, and Roman Dacian worlds offered unique insight into the past through pottery and mortuary finds. Thank you so much to Dylan G. Winchell, Stephen J. Smith, and Marina Musteaศa!
#connectedpast #ceramics #pottery #Dacia
Yet more wonderful presentations came in the second session of Day 3 covering Ancient Greek temple architecture, Hittite prosopography, and Etruscan epigraphy by George Veloudios, Lucas G. Freire, and Tom Francis. Thank you everyone!
#connectedpast #Hittites #Etruscology #archaeology #architecture
Day 3 began with three talks on material networks with talks which applied network analysis to datasets of materials recovered in the archaeological record from Bronze Age China, Iron Age Italy, and the Roman world by Yating Liao, Adrian Proestos, and Bogdan Lฤpuศan.
#connectedpast #archaeology
Our final session of Day 2 featured two insightful presentations on religious networks from Late Antiquity in the Near East and the early Middle Ages of Spain by Jamie Wood and Irina Barash. Thank you for such intriguing papers!
#connectedpast #archaeology #history
The afternoon of Day 2 began with three exciting presentations exploring technological development, epistolary networks of 20th century China, and models of Bronze Age Aegean from Cristina Pattuelli, Marcus Bingenheimer, and Ray Rivers. Well done everybody!
#connectedpast #networks
The second day of presentations continued with three talks showing outlining innovative applications of network analysis to oral histories, inter-state communication, and linguistic mobility by Jiajie Zhang, Alessio Cardillo, and Olga Solovova.
#connectedpast #language #oralhistory #socialnetworks
A wooden platter covered in delicious pastel de nata, a custard tar in flaky pastry characteristic of Portugal
Table covered in delicious-loomking foods, especially cakes
Oh no, not more pastel de nata @theconnectedpast.bsky.social! Oh, go on then... Possibly the best-catered Connected Past event to date?!
Day 2 began with intriguing papers that used network analysis to explore documentary and textual evidence from the 16th to the 20th centuries from the local to continental scale by Kristiyan Simeonov, Ana Isabel Ribeiro, Joel Santos and Tรขnia Casimiro. Well done everybody!
#connectedpast #history
A big thank you to our keynote speaker Fiona Coward who presented her paper 'Diversifying networks, new kinds of relationships: comparing bio-social and socio-material windows on urbanisation processes in the Bronze Age Levant' to cap-off the first day of talks
#connectedpast #archaeology #history
A wonderful second session of talks featuring topics on the Venice Charter, Renaissance Venetian printing, and museum collections of prehistoric Australian artifacts by Claudine Houbart and Pierre-Henri Lefebvre, Emilio Cammarata, and Friederike Schmidt
#connectedpast #Coimbra #archaeology #history
A big thank you to Nathan Cornish, Ana Margarida Dias da Silva; Maria Teresa Gonรงalves, John R. Schaefer, and Gabriel Tober for getting The Connected Past in Coimbra 2025 started with their exploration of plants, gardens, and modern farming through networks!
#connectedpast #Coimbra
Join us for another (hybrid) AMME Seminar this Thursday (25.09.25), 16:15-18:00 EEST)!
Session theme:
Science and the Social Lives of Ancient Materials
Speakers:
- Takehiro Miki
- Marta Lorenzon
More info at: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...
@helsinki.fi @anee-helsinki.bsky.social #AMMEseminar
