Dept. of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology
Dept. of Archaeology and Ancient History
The structure of infrastructure: material networks in early urban
communities
Wed March 16 – Dinner: The Clove Hitch, 23 Hope Street, Liverpool L1 9BQ (20:00)
Thurs March 17 – Gilmour Room, Guild of Students, University of Liverpool
1. Lin Foxhall (Liverpool, HLC/ ACE) Welcome (9:00-9:15)
2. Bruce Routledge (Liverpool, ACE): “Is the city one thing? The relational networks of urban
infrastructure” (9:15-9:45).
3. Fei Chen (Liverpool, School of Architecture): “Understanding historical urbanism in Chinese cities
through urban micromorphology” (9:45-10:15)
4. Roderick Campbell (ISAW - NYU): “The infrastructure of sacrifice: The Great Settlement Shang"
(10:15-10:45)
Coffee (10:45-11:00)
5. Augusta McMahon (Cambridge): “Trash and toilets: waste management strategies in early
Mesopotamian cities” (11:00-11:30)
6. Magnus Widell (Liverpool, ACE): “Storage” (11:30-12:00)
7. Andrew Creekmore (UNColorado): “Infrastructure, structure, and meaning in Bronze Age cities of
Upper Mesopotamia.” (12:00-12:30)
Lunch 12:30-14:30 – (The Pen Factory, 13 Hope St. L1 9BQ)
9. Joakim Kjellberg (Uppsala), "Networks as infrastructure - material culture in a medieval Swedish
townscape" (14:30-15:00)
10. Gustav Malmborg (Uppsala) "Pigs, meat and waste: Osteological challenges in the medieval town
of Visby, Gotland" (15:00-15:30)
11. Karl-Johan Lindholm (Uppsala), "Outland resource colonisation and urban networks in the
Scandinavian inland region 300-1200 CE" (15:30-16:00)
Garstang Museum and Slater Archaeological Labs Open House. (16:30-19:00)
14 Abercromby Square, L69 7WZ
Dinner: The Old Blind School, 24 Hardman St., Liverpool, L1 9AX (20:00)
Friday March 18 - Gilmour Room, Guild of Students, University of Liverpool
12. Birgitta L. Sjöberg (Uppsala), "Cities, materiality and social networks"(9:15-9:45)
13. Patrik Klingborg (Uppsala), "Water supply and world views in Pergamon" (9:45-10:15)
14. Lars Karlsson (Uppsala) "Hippodamos and the Greek orthogonal street plan" (10:15-10:45)
Coffee 10:45-11:00
15. Angus Graham (Uppsala), "Islands of houses in the Egyptian and Nubian Nile Valley: living in a
dynamic floodplain". (11:00-11:30)
16. Steve Snape (Liverpool, ACE): “Living on the Fringe: Infrastructure at Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham,
Egypt” (11:30-12:00)
17. Ömür Harmanşah (UI-Chicago): "Ancestors, the Underworld and the infrastructure: the
materiality of water in the Hittite World" (12:00-12:30)
Lunch (12:30-14:30) (Victoria Gallery and Museum, U. of Liverpool, Ashton St., L69 3DR)
18. Zosia Archibald (Liverpool, ACE): “Social order and its effects on physical order in Classical
Mediterranean cities” (14:30-15:00)
Dept. of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology
Dept. of Archaeology and Ancient History
19. Stephanie Wynne-Jones (Uppsala), "Town planning as a process: the case of Songo Mnara"
(15:00-15:30)
20. Monika Baumanova (Uppsala), "Swahili tombs as mortuary infrastructure in urban strategies of
display" (15:30-16:00).
Dinner: Mayur, 130 Duke St. Liverpool, L1 5AG. (19:30).
Saturday March 19
10:00 – Visit to World Museum, Liverpool and/or The Walker Art Gallery (adjacent to one another).
William Brown St. Liverpool, L3 8EN.
Contact:
Bruce Routledge
Dept. of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology
University of Liverpool
14 Abercromby Sq. Room 2.10
Liverpool, L69 7WZ
Mobile (cell): +447477730033
Email: [email protected]