Paula Gheorghiade
@paulageorgiade.bsky.social
Aegean archaeologist & Postdoctoral Researcher in Archaeological Networks @ the Social Resilience Lab, University of Aarhus https://cas.au.dk/en/social-resilience-lab & 1/2 of the Connected Past Scientific Committee @theconnectedpast.bsky.social
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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
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
January 20, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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
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
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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.
January 19, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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.
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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).
January 16, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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).
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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,"
January 12, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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,"
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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/.
January 12, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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/.
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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/.
December 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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/.
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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."
December 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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."
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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
November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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 !
A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire
go.nature.com/4qMYGRw
go.nature.com/4qMYGRw
‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network
A high-resolution digital map nearly doubles the known length of the ancient road network.
go.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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.
October 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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.
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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
October 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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
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
NMC Spotlight: Stanley Klassen
www.nmc.utoronto.ca
October 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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
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THESE BOOKS ARE MEDICINAL
Literally lol-ed, as the kids say
Literally lol-ed, as the kids say
October 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
THESE BOOKS ARE MEDICINAL
Literally lol-ed, as the kids say
Literally lol-ed, as the kids say
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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
Methods, policy, practicalities, those are all beside the point. You need passion, drive & humanity
Greta Thunberg has just been released and she is back on the warpath, exactly like our leaders should be.
Israel will never silence her or the billions who oppose them.
Israel will never silence her or the billions who oppose them.
October 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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
Methods, policy, practicalities, those are all beside the point. You need passion, drive & humanity
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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
#connectedpast #Coimbra
September 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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
#connectedpast #Coimbra
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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
#connectedpast #Coimbra #archaeology #history
September 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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
#connectedpast #Coimbra #archaeology #history
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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
#connectedpast #archaeology #history
September 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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
#connectedpast #archaeology #history
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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
#connectedpast #history
September 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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
#connectedpast #history
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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
#connectedpast #language #oralhistory #socialnetworks
September 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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
#connectedpast #language #oralhistory #socialnetworks
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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
#connectedpast #networks
September 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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
#connectedpast #networks
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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
#connectedpast #archaeology #history
September 28, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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
#connectedpast #archaeology #history
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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
#connectedpast #archaeology
September 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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
#connectedpast #archaeology
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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
#connectedpast #Hittites #Etruscology #archaeology #architecture
September 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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
#connectedpast #Hittites #Etruscology #archaeology #architecture
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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
#connectedpast #ceramics #pottery #Dacia
September 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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
#connectedpast #ceramics #pottery #Dacia