Paula Gheorghiade

Registration for the 25th Annual NMCGSA Graduate Symposium "Echoes Across Time and Space: Expressions of Power and Dissent in West Asia and North Africa" is now open. See poster for details.

The Connected Past will be held in Toronto from Sept. 22-25. The organizing committee invites scholars to submit abstracts for papers or a poster session that explore network science and theory within archaeology and historical fields. See further topics on poster. Abstract deadline is March 15.

The Archaeology Centre welcomes Dr. Nicholas Brown for a talk titled: "Looted Expertise: Wak’a Heritage Collectors as Knowledge Producers in Andean Archaeology". See poster for details. All welcome.

A map is shown, with the logo of the Historic Towns Trust in the top left corner. The words "Mapping our Past, Shaping our Future" are written in the centre.

Join us next week to learn about how an Atlas of London in 1666 has been researched!

This webinar is in collaboration with the Historic Towns Trust @historictownstrust.bsky.social

Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-r...

#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

The Connected Past will be held in Toronto from Sept. 22-25. The organizing committee invites scholars to submit abstracts for papers or a poster session that explore network science and theory within archaeology and historical fields. See further topics on poster. Abstract deadline is March 15.

RESCHEDULED TO TODAY DUE TO SNOW CLOSURE! The talk will now take place at 11 AM in AP140 - 19 Ursula Franklin Street (The Anthropology Building).

The Archaeology Centre & the Mediterranean Archaeology Collaborative Specialization (MACS) present welcome Prof. Emily Anderson for a talk titled: “Within the Below: Crafting Subsurface Spaces in the MB II-LB I Aegean,"

The Barcelona Past Networks Summer School 2026 is now open for applications! The 4-day summer school takes place in Barcelona from 16 to 19 June 2026. You can find all details and apply here: https://www.pastnetworks.net/.

The Barcelona Past Networks Summer School 2026 is now open for applications! The 4-day summer school takes place in Barcelona from 16 to 19 June 2026. You can find all details and apply here: https://www.pastnetworks.net/.

The Mediterranean Archaeology Collaborative Specialisation (MACS) & the Archaeology Centre welcome Dr. Stephen Kay (British School at Rome) for a talk titled: "Going over Old Ground: New Perspectives on Roman Urbanism in Central Italy through Geophysical Prospection."

Applications are open for the Barcelona Past Networks Summer School (16–19 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

Exciting work coming out of our Social Resilience Lab via Tom Brughmans & colleagues !

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The Archaeology Centre welcomes Dr. Felipe Rojas Silva who will give a talk titled: “Tightrope Walking in Roman Antiquity (dangling between archaeology and performance)". See poster for details.

The Archaeological Institute of America (Toronto Chapter) welcomes Dr. Lan Li for a talk titled: "Sealed Bodies, Promised Rebirth: Tang Burial Caves at Longmen." Join in person or online on Zoom: https://shorturl.at/Vz20I

NMC Spotlight: Stanley Klassen

Grateful to Stanley Klassen & @driesdaems.bsky.social who helped us study the pottery in #Jordan over the last few years. This is a well deserved spotlight! Many thanks to all! www.nmc.utoronto.ca/news/nmc-spo... #UofT #NMC #archaeology #ceramics @helsinki.fi

THESE BOOKS ARE MEDICINAL
Literally lol-ed, as the kids say

I don't think it's hyperbole to suggest Greta Thunberg is literally, in every meaningful way, tougher & a better leader than any elected official. Every single one. Some much more than others.

Methods, policy, practicalities, those are all beside the point. You need passion, drive & humanity

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

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 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

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!

#connectedpast #history

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

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

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

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.

#connectedpast #archaeology

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

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

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