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The Connected Past Coimbra 2025 was a resounding success. We would like to thank our speakers and our colleagues Joel, Tania, Riccardo, and 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!
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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!

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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 Musteața!

#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 Lăpușan.

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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!

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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 Tânia Casimiro. Well done everybody!

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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 Gonçalves, 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

We love to hear a conversation about how research comes together between Joel Santos and Tânia Casimiro @theconnectedpast.bsky.social in #Coimbra #ConnectedPast2025

Will I see you at The Connected Past Coimbra, Portugal? 😃

REGISTER BY 5 SEPTEMBER (i.e. THIS Friday), at:
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More info on this and future TCP events: connectedpast.net

📢Only one month left to register for The Connected Past in Coimbra 2025! Scan the QR code or click the link below to join our conference from September 16 to 19 in Portugal!

Register here: shorturl.at/ZY21T

#archaeology #networks #digitalhumanities #history #Academic #Coimbra2025

Connected Past Conference Coimbra - 16-19 September 2025 The Connected Past 2025 will occur in Coimbra, Portugal, from 16 to 19 September 2025.(https://connectedpast.net/other-events/coimbra-2025/)

Register now, for the #connectedpast 2025 in Coimbra, Portugal!

Conference dates: 17-19 September
Workshop dates: 16-17 September (special registration required)

More info and registration link at connectedpast.net

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Register now, for the #connectedpast 2025 in Coimbra!

Early bird -> until 30 June
Late bird -> until 5 September

As usual, the conference is preceded by a network workshop led by Tom Brughmans. Register early, if you want to reserve a seat at the workshop!

#networks #history #archaeology

Poster advertising that registration for the Connected Past Coimbra is now open. Features the Connected Past website (www.connectedpast.net) and a QR code for registration. Early bird registration is open until June 30, 2025, with regular registration open until September 5, 2025. Poster also notes that "the conference workshop is free and runs Sept. 16-17, but requires registration as spaces are limited. Register as soon as possible to secure a spot!"

Registration for the @theconnectedpast.bsky.social Coimbra is now OPEN! Register using the QR below or this link! shorturl.at/qp2MT . We hope to see you there! #networks #archaeology #academic

AMME Seminar 6.5.2025 ‘Deciphering Lost Languages’ | Ancient Near Eastern Empires | University of Helsinki The Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires (ANEE) is pleased to invite you to participate in the last instalment in the Ancient and Medieval Middle East (AMME) seminar’s spring programme...

Join us for another (hybrid) AMME Seminar this Tuesday (06.05.25, at 16:30-18:15 EEST)!

Session theme:
Deciphering Lost Languages

Speakers:
- Jacob Dahl
- Ramaz Shengalia

Abstracts & more info at: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...

@helsinki.fi @anee-helsinki.bsky.social #AMMEseminar

Check out the latest #openaccess article from my Zenon project⤵️

doi.org/10.1515/opar...

Published in the #OpenArchaelogy special issue on 'Network Perspectives in the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East', edited by M.G. Micale, H. Dawson & A. Lahelma

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AMME Seminar 27.3.2025 ‘Ancient Archives’ | Ancient Near Eastern Empires | University of Helsinki We are pleased to invite you to participate in the next instalment in the Ancient and Medieval Middle East (AMME) seminar’s spring programme on Thursday 27 March 16:15-18:00 EET (UTC+2h). The session ...

Join us this Thursday (27.03), for the next (hybrid) AMME seminar – on Ancient Archives!

Speakers:
- Michael Jursa
- Rotem Avneri Meir

Abstracts & more info at: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...

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📢 Call for Papers: The Connected Past 2025
Coimbra, Portugal | Abstracts due soon!

We invite submissions for studies in network approaches in history and archaeology.

📅 Abstract deadline: March 15, 2025
connectedpast.net/other-events...
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Hey hey hey! The @theconnectedpast.bsky.social now has a bsky account! Follow for all updates related to the Connected Past, including our upcoming meeting in Portugal!

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@theconnectedpast.bsky.social, now on Bluesky!

Hope to see you in Coimbra in September, for the next #connectedpast event!

Less than a month left until the #CallForPapers closes.

Check it out (at connectedpast.net/other-events...) and submit your abstract --> by 15 March!

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PhD scholarships at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen

Open call for PhD scholarships (fully funded) at my department, possible subject areas include Assyriology, West Asian Archaeology, Egyptology, Modern Middle Eastern Studies (one is earmarked for Turkish studies) and many more!

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Welcome | Online Companion to Network Science in Archaeology <p>This online bookdown document accompanies the Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology book <em>Network Science in Archaeology</em> by Tom Brughmans and Matthew A. Peeples.</p>

I'm planning on writings some new features into the online companion for Network Science in Archaeology. Are there any particular kinds of network methods or models in archaeology you'd like to see covered in detail? Share with any who may be interested. book.archnetworks.net

AMME Seminar 30.1.2025 ’Embodied Emotion in the Ancient World’ | Ancient Near Eastern Empires | University of Helsinki We are pleased to announce the first session of the spring 2025 schedule ‘Embodied Emotion in the Ancient World’! The session will be organized as a hybrid event, Thursday 30. January (16:15-18.00 EET...

The next (hybrid) AMME seminar – on Embodied Emotion in the Ancient World – is coming up 30.01.25!

Speakers:
- Juha Lahnakoski
- Tuomo Nuorluoto

Abstracts & more info at: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...

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