Guest Lecture (Zoom)Urban NetworksWed. Apr. 20, 2022

20 April 2022

Biographies: All Interregional Connections-733x414-new

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We cordially invite you to our interdisciplinary guest lecture "Urban Networks" on Wed. Apr. 20, 20212 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 "Road Networks and Human Settlements in the Roman World. Some ideas" by Arnaldo Marcone (Università degli Studi Roma Tre) and "Tied by People: Modeling Islamic Urban Networks from Biographical Data (ca. 600-1300 CE)" by Maxime Romanov (Universität Hamburg).

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