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Guest Lecture (Zoom)Endangered Harbor TownsWed. June 15, 2022

15 June 2022

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We cordially invite you to our interdisciplinary guest lecture "Endangered Harbor Towns" on Wed. June 15, 2022
5 -7 pm (German time) on Zoom. For registration please contact romanislam@uni-hamburg.de(Katharina.Mewes"AT"uni-hamburg.de)

The format comprises the lectures ""An Endangered Species? The Port City of Late Roman North Africa" by David L. Stone (University of Michigan) and "How Endangered were the Harbour Cities and Settlements of Early Islamic Ifrīqiya? A Reassessment of the Functions of the ribāṭs" by Antonia Bosanquet (Universität Hamburg).

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