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....

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

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

Register now, for the #ConnectedPast 2026 in Toronto! Early bird --> until 30 June Register at: the-connected-past-2026.bloomtickets.ca/event/575?Th...

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

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

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

📣 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

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

CfP closing soon!

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

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

📢 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

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

Last chance --> apply TODAY (Sunday)! 📣 helsinki.fi/en/researchg... #digitalhumanities #digitalassyriology #OpenRefine #python #tableau #QGIS #gephi #Helsinki @anee-helsinki.bsky.social

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

Want to learn how to study cuneiform sources or related materials with digital tools? Join us in #Helsinki, for the next 'Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School'! Application deadline: --> THIS Sunday (14.12.2025). Call text: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg... #CallforApplications

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

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...

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

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...

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

📢 The 4th instalment of our 'Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School' is coming up! Apply by 14 December, and join us in #Helsinki, June 2026! More information at: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg... @anee-helsinki.bsky.social @helsinki.fi

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

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....

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

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

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

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. #connectedpast #archaeology

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! #connectedpast #networks

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

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! #connectedpast #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

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: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connected-... 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

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 #networks #history #archaeology @theconnectedpast.bsky.social

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

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

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 @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

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... @helsinkiuni @ANEE_Helsinki #AMMEseminar

📢 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... #connectedpast #ConnectedPast2025 #archaeology #history