Open Audition 21 January 2016

Venue: Moesgård Allé 20, 8270 Højbjerg, building 4206, room 139

# U R BN E T # CENTRE FOR URBAN NETWORK EVOLUTIONS, AARHUS UNIVERSITY

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10:00 Registration

10:30 Tour of UrbNet

11:00 Welcome

11:15 The Medieval townscape of Uppland: An outline and future research potentials Joakim Kjellberg

11:40 The geophysical investigations of the Viking age and early medieval market place on the island of Veøy, in Møre og Romsdal, Norway Arne Anderson Stamnes

12:05 Understanding urban transitions in the Zanzibar archipelago: A high-resolution approach Federica Sulas

12:30 Lunch

13:15 Rediscovering Walichrum: Towards the renewed, interdisciplinary study of a major early medieval urban settlement and associated cemeteries on the beach of Domburg/Oostkapelle (NL) Pieterjan Deckers

13:40 The people of Ribe – and some of their friends: Challenged identities as a key to understanding urbanization in North-Western Europe c. 600-900 CE Sarah Croix

14:05 Urbanised settlement adaptation in climatically marginal environments of Syria and Jordan Stefan Smith

14:30 Coffee break

14:50 Bridgeheads, beaches and foreign tongues: On Gotlandic trade harbours in the early medieval period Ny BJörn Gustafsson

15:15 Quantitative data on the distribution and control of the water of Rome’s Anio Novus aqueduct from geoarchaeological techniques and hydraulic modelling Duncan Keenan-Jones

15:40 Closing remarks