Søren M. Sindbæk is professor MSO at Aarhus University and deputy centre director at UrbNet. His main research interests are Viking-age Scandinavia and early-medieval Europe, early urbanism and urban archaeology, early-medieval communication and social networks, archaeological Network Analysis, and settlement archaeology. He has many years' experience working on excavation projects in Ribe, Denmark, studying the oldest city in northern Europe.

Recent publications

• Sindbæk, S.M. (2016). Steatite vessels and the Viking diaspora. Migrants, travellers, and cultural change in early medieval Britain and Ireland, in Barrett, J.H. & S.J. Gibbon (eds.), Maritime Societies of the Viking Age and Medieval World. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 198-218. 
• Sindbæk, S.M. (2015). Northern emporia and maritime networks. Modelling past communication using archaeological network analysis. In Preiser-Kapeller, J. & F. Daim (eds.), Harbours and Maritime Networks as Complex Adaptive Systems. Mainz: Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 105-118.
• Ashby, S.P., Coutu, A.N. & Sindbæk, S.M. (2015). Urban networks and Arctic outlands: Craft specialists and reindeer antler in Viking towns. European Journal of Archaeology, 18(4), 679-704.  
• Frei, K.M., Coutu, A.N., Smiarowski, K., Harrison, R., Madsen, C.K., Arneborg, J., Frei, R., Guðmundsson, G., Sindbæk, S.M., Woollett, J., Hartman, S., Hicks, M. & McGovern, T.H. (2015). Was it for walrus? Viking Age settlement and medieval walrus ivory trade in Iceland and Greenland. World Archaeology, 47(3), 439-466.

Lecture series

Søren M. Sindbæk will give a lecture series entitled Age of Emporia: The Archaeology of Urban Networks:

1. Anomalocivitas: on urban evolutions
2. Small world: on urban networks
3. Boom and bust: on urban dynamics
4. Réseau opératoire: on urban activities
5. Intercitizens: on urban communities
6. Entrepology: On urban margins

Alain Schnapp is Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology at Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne). His main research interests are Greek iconography and cultural history of Antiquity, and he is recognised among peers as one of the leading experts in his field. Alain Schnapp has been visiting professor at a number of institutions, including Princeton University and Stanford University.

His many publications include:

• Schnapp, A. & Vidal-Naquet, P. (1971). The French Student Uprising, November 1967 – June 1968: An Analytical Record. Boston: Beacon Press.
• Schnapp, A. (1996). The Discovery of the Past: The Origins of Archaeology. London: British Museum
• Schnapp, A. (1997). Le Chasseur et la Cité: Chasse et Érotique dans la Grèce Ancienne, Paris: Albin Michel.
• Schnapp, A., L. von Falkenhausen, P. Miller & T. Murray (eds.) (2003). World Antiquarianism: Comparative Perspectives. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute.
• Schnapp, A. (2014). Was ist eine Ruine? Entwurf einer vergleichenden Perspektive. Göttingen: Wallstein.

During his stay (April-June 2016), Alain Schnapp will give a lecture series entitled Ruins and their significance for urban history:

1. The Egyptian and Mesopotamian approach
2. The ancient Chinese vision of city ruins 
3. The Greco-Roman way of considering city remains
4. The medieval East and West: Clash between pagan, Christian and Islamic memory
5. The Renaissance confrontation with cities' pasts
6. The Enlightenment and the foundation of the modern vision of cities’ pasts