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The Connected Past @theconnectedpast.bsky.social · 20h

Our first day wrapped up with out second session "Relational ecologies, landscapes, and archives." We had the following three brilliant presentations: Francisco Rivera, Marcony Alves, Carl Knappett, & Agnieszka Brylak. #archaeology #history #theconnectedpast #universityoftoronto

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The Connected Past @theconnectedpast.bsky.social · 23h

A big thank you to our speakers for our first session "Texts, communication, and mobility in the ancient world" featuring Virginia Martos Armenteros, Tom Francis and Muhammad Rehan, Adam Schor, and Emma Glenister. Well done everybody! #archaeology #history #theconnectedpast #utoronto

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Lena Tambs @lenatambs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thank you to Prof. Dr. Barbara Mills for the wonderful keynote lecture, to all presenters and participants, and to Tucker, Zeynep and everyone who volunteered for the smooth organisation! A most inspiring week in lively Toronto, filled with that very special #ConnectedPast feeling I so cherish 🥰

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The Connected Past @theconnectedpast.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Connected Past 2026 has officially started! It began with vibrant workshops full of exciting brainstorming and collaborative activities led by our team. Stay tuned for more on the Connected Past 2026 in Toronto! #archaeology #history #networkanalysis #digitalhumanities #UofT

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The Connected Past @theconnectedpast.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

📢 Connected Past Toronto 2026 is almost here! Check out our lineup of speakers for September 22-25 our keynote speaker Dr. Barbara Mills: connectedpast.net/other-events... Registration closes **August 21**! Register here: connectedpast.net/other-events... #theconnectedpast #archaeology #history

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Lena Tambs @lenatambs.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Late bird registration for the Connected Past 2026 in Toronto, Canada, closes THIS Friday, 21 August! Register here: the-connected-past-2026.bloomtickets.ca/event/575?Th... Still considering? Check the prel. program here: connectedpast.net/other-events... #Networks #History #Archaeology

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We are very pleased to share that The Connected Past 2026 will be held in-person at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada from September 22nd to...

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Lena Tambs @lenatambs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Really enjoyed the 2026 HNR (Historical Network Research) conference in majestic Turin! Inclusive community and so many inspiring talks on the topic of sources. A big thank you to the organisers and HNR community for making this happen! As always, I left exhausted but inspired #networks #history

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Lena Tambs @lenatambs.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Early bird registration for the upcoming Connected Past conference and pre-workshop ends in 2 weeks (30.06)! Register here: the-connected-past-2026.bloomtickets.ca/event/575?Th... For more info and future updates, see connectedpast.net @theconnectedpast.bsky.social #Networks #History #Archaeology

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We are very pleased to share that The Connected Past 2026 will be held in-person at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada from September 22nd to...

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Lena Tambs @lenatambs.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

New paper alert! Through a case study of a small sample of Zenon papyri, my latest article—published OA in JHNR—asks how opting to either include or exclude impersonal and collective actors from 2- and 1-mode networks alter the models and affect select centrality measure. jhnr.net/articles/10....

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Unnamed Actors and Groups in Select Papyri from the Zenon Archive (3rd cent. BCE): Implications for Historical Network Approaches | Journal of Historical Network Research

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Lena Tambs @lenatambs.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Looking very much forward to this! Register now for the next Connected Past conference! Early Bird until 30 June

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Lena Tambs @lenatambs.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Truly honoured that I was accepted to the HCAS with a project on the establishment and early years of the new Ptolemaic settlement of Philadelphia (Fayum, Egypt). Can't wait to start this exciting next chapter of my life and academic carrier after the summer! #AncientEgypt #History #Archaeology

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Lena Tambs @lenatambs.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Join us for another (hybrid) AMME Seminar TOMORROW (07.05.26, at 16:15-18:00 EEST)! Session theme: cuneiform texts and scribal adaption Speakers: - Gian Pietro Basello - Jay Crisostomo Abstracts & more info: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg... @helsinki.fi #AMMEseminar

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Lena Tambs @lenatambs.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Join us for TODAY's (hybrid) AMME Seminar (30.04.26 at 16:15-18:00 EEST)! Session theme: Macrolithic Technology in the Ancient Mediterranean Speakers: - Danai Chondrou - Francesco Michele Rega Abstracts & more info at: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg... @helsinki.fi #AMMEseminar

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Lena Tambs @lenatambs.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Join us for another AMME Seminar, Thursday 26.03.26 at 16:15-18:00 EET! Theme: Stimulants in the Ancient World Speakers: Anna Jarosz-Wilkołazka, Anna Rysiak & Andrzej Kokowski NB: Online only. More info at: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg... @helsinki.fi @anee-helsinki.bsky.social #AMMEseminar

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The Connected Past @theconnectedpast.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

📣 Deadline Extended! The Connected Past 2026 Call for Abstracts is now open until March 31. Join us in Toronto, Sept 22–25 to explore the past with network methods & theory. 👇 Check the posters below for details. #theconnectedpast #archaeology #history #networks #networkanalysis #toronto

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Paula Gheorghiade @paulageorgiade.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The abstract deadline for the 2026 Connected Past has been extended until March 31!

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Lena Tambs @lenatambs.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

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

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People, Networks and Complexity in Archaeology and History

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Lena Tambs @lenatambs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Join us for another (hybrid) AMME Seminar TODAY, Thursday 19.02.26 at 16:15-18:00 EET! Session theme: 𝐀𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 Speakers: - Aida Alavi - Jeffrey Kotyk More info at: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg... @helsinki.fi @anee-helsinki.bsky.social #AMMEseminar

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Lena Tambs @lenatambs.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

📢 Pleased to share that the #CfP for the #connectedpast 2026 in #Toronto, Canada, is OPEN! ✒️ Submit your abstract --> by 15 March More info at: connectedpast.net #networks #history #archaeology @theconnectedpast.bsky.social

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Lena Tambs @lenatambs.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

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

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Seraina Nett @serainanett.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Last chance to sign up for the Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School! Deadline: 14 December

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Samuli Simelius @simelius.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I’m organizing a workshop called ”Dynamics of Inequality in the Ancient Mediterranean” (22-23 October 2026, Helsinki) Here’s the CfP:

Call for papers: ”Dynamics of Inequality in the Ancient Mediterranean” workshop
22-23 October 2026, Helsinki

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Lena Tambs @lenatambs.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

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...

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The Connected Past @theconnectedpast.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

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

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Seraina Nett @serainanett.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Call for applications! Digital Applications in Assyriology Summer School in Helsinki, 1–5 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...

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Apply to the Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School 2026 | Ancient Near Eastern Empires | University of Helsinki

In 2026, the Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School will return to Helsinki, Finland. The fourth edition of the summer school will be hosted at the University of Helsinki with contac...

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Lena Tambs @lenatambs.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

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

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Heidi Jauhiainen @heidijauhiainen.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

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

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Social Networks of Prosobab | Journal of Open Humanities Data

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Troels Pank Arbøll @panktroels.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

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....

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Postdoctoral position in Archaeology: Understanding Epidemics in Ancient Mesopotamia

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Lena Tambs @lenatambs.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

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

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The Connected Past @theconnectedpast.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

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! #connectedpast

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The Connected Past @theconnectedpast.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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

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The Connected Past @theconnectedpast.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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

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The Connected Past @theconnectedpast.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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

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The Connected Past @theconnectedpast.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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

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The Connected Past @theconnectedpast.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

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

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The Connected Past @theconnectedpast.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

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

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The Connected Past @theconnectedpast.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

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

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Agent of Chaos @fionacoward.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Oh no, not more pastel de nata @theconnectedpast.bsky.social! Oh, go on then... Possibly the best-catered Connected Past event to date?!

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

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The Connected Past @theconnectedpast.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

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

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The Connected Past @theconnectedpast.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

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

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The Connected Past @theconnectedpast.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

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

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The Connected Past @theconnectedpast.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

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

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Lena Tambs @lenatambs.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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

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Paula Gheorghiade @paulageorgiade.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

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

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Lena Tambs @lenatambs.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Will I see you at The Connected Past Coimbra, Portugal? 😃 REGISTER BY 5 SEPTEMBER (i.e. THIS Friday), at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connected-... More info on this and future TCP events: connectedpast.net

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