Abstract

Since 2016 the research and public outreach project Urban Encounters – Mobility, Migration and Networks in Premodern Scandinavia has explored new perspectives of research into premodern urbanism in northern Europe (1000-1700 AD).

Urban Encounters is funded by the Velux Foundation and is a collaborative project between Museum of Copenhagen, Odense City Museums, The Nya Lödöse project in Gothenburg (The National Historical Museums (SHMM) and their collaborators Bohusläns Museum, Museum of Gothenburg and RIO Gothenburg) and Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet) at Aarhus University. The project runs over a period of 4 years.

Today's lecture will give an introduction to the project and a mid-term status and review on both the research and the public outreach parts of the project.