City, Hinterland, and Environment. Urban Resilience in the Late Roman and Early Islamic Period

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City, Hinterland, and Environment Urban Resilience in the Late Roman and Early Islamic Period
Seminar room 1, Department of archaeology, history, cultural studies and religion, Øysteinsgate 3.
MONDAY September 23
12:00-12:45 Arrival, registration, light lunch
12:45-13:00 Welcome: Simon Malmberg/Eivind Seland/Raimo Hakola
13:00-13:40 Greg Woolf Locating Resilience in Ancient Urban Networks
13:40-14:20 Jørgen Christian Meyer The Desert and the Sown. Long-term Trends in the Exploitation of the Syrian DrySteppe from the Roman to the Ottoman Period
14:20-15:00 John Bintliff Changes in Town and Country in Late Antiquity and into the Early Medieval Period in Greece and the Aegean Islands
15:00-15:20 Coffee break
15:20-16:00 Jørgen Bakke Resilience and Christianity in Early Byzantine Urban Culture
16:00-16:40 Alexandros Tsakos City, Hinterland, and Environment: Urban Resilience in the Late Roman and Early Islamic Period. The Case Study of Nubia
16:40-17:20 General discussion
TUESDAY September 24
09:00-09:40 Johannes Preiser-Kapeller A Tale of Three Cities: Urban Metabolisms of Early Medieval Imperial Mega-Cities in Comparison (Constantinople – Baghdad – Cairo)
09:40-10:20 Simon Malmberg Rome as the City-in-Between: Movement as a Way to Understand Urban Change
10:20-10:50 Coffee break
10:50-11:30 Håkon Teigen: Oasites on the Nile: the trade network of fourth-century Kellis
11:30-12:10 Christina Videbech When the Cat’s Away: Fora as Sites of Collective Memory and Resilience in Gothic and Post-Gothic Rome
12:15-13:55 Lunch (Dragefjellet)
14:00-14:40 Eivind Heldaas Seland Water, Settlement and Communication in the Syrian Desert
14:40-15:20 Bethany Walker Spolia, Reuse, and Repurposing at Tall Hisban: How the Early Islamic Town Created a Resilient Urban Fabric
15:20-15:40 Coffee break
15:40-16:20 Øystein La Bianca Centrifugal Forces Impacting Urbanization in the Eastern Mediterranean during Roman and Early Islamic Times
WEDNESDAY September 25
09:00-09:40 Christopher Dickenson Public Space and the Cultural Resilience of Roman Urbanism in the Near East
09:40-10:20 Anna Danilova Gated Communities of Ostia
10:20-10:50 Coffee break
10:50-12:00 Raimo Hakola (chair) Final discussion
Funded by the Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences. University of Helsinki, Aarhus University, University of Bergen.