TOWARDS AN INTERSECTIONAL UNDERSTANDING OF ANCIENT TRAVEL HISTORY

This open seminar is arranged to reflect on and celebrate the achievements of the ANINAN project, which is about to end, and to consider the future of investigating its key themes, human mobility and intersectionality. All are warmly welcome!

Time: Friday 23 January 2026, at 13:00-16:30

Place: Nobelparken, building 1461-516

Programme:

13.00-13.05 Welcome! (Elisa)

13.05-13.20 Significant statistics (Gillian)

13.20-14.20 Keynotes, followed by Q&A (chair: Eelco)

13.20-13.40 Alexiana Fry (Copenhagen): “Human mobility and the biblical past: what do we know and why we must keep investigating the topic?”

13.40-14.00 Marianne Bjelland Kartzow (Oslo): “Intersectionality and the biblical past: what do we know and why we must keep investigating the topic?”

14.00-14.20 Q&A

14.20-14.30 Tea/coffee break

14.30-15.30 Reflecting on results, closing ANINAN, and going forward - Q&A with project members (Anat, Eelco, Elisa, Gillian)

15.30- Final words (Elisa) & reception

Organizer: ANINAN, supported by the ERC under the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement n° 948264).