On Monday, the 1^st of February 2016, Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet) will move into building 4230 at Moesgård campus (2^nd floor). We wish to celebrate this occasion by hosting an opening reception at 4:15 PM, and we hope that many of you will be able to join us. It will be a stand-up reception with drinks and nibbles.

For practical purposes, please send an email to Christina Levisen (levisen@cas.au.dk) if you know you will be attending.

This will also be an opportunity to say hello to our centre members, incl. our newly recruited 

• Assistant professor Michael Blömer (research focus: urbanism, sculpture and religious iconography in Asia Minor and the Roman Near East)
• PhD student Neeke Hammers (project title:  Trade, connections and urban development: an archaeobotanical approach to the study of north European cities in medieval and historical 
• PhD student Hanna Dahlström (project title: Towards the making of a city and its inhabitants - a study of urbanity as life form and identity in Early Medieval 
• PhD student Kirstine Haase (project title: Life in the town: Urban practices, networks and identity in Odense from AD 1100-
• PhD student Kristine Thomsen (project title: Understanding complex urban space and development through geochemistry. The case of Jerash in 
• PhD student Ema Bauzyte (project title: Iron production and networks in the East Africa Swahili 
• PhD student Olav Gundersen (project title: The economy of Norwegian towns c. 1250 - 1350: A comparative study of the economic functions of towns in Norway, Denmark and England).

On behalf of Rubina Raja and Søren M. Sindbæk,
Christina