Universität Bonn

Islamic Archaeology Research Unit of the University of Bonn

Past News & Events at the Islamic Archaeology Research Unit




13-14 June 2024 | 13:00-18:00 | Workshop by Giacomo Ponticelli

Open-source GIS and Spatial Analysis: Harnessing QGIS for Survey and Mapping Management


14 May 2024 | 16:00-18:00 | Prof. Dr.  Hugh Kennedy (SOAS/ UCL, University of London)

The Globalization of Baghdad, 762 to c. 1050.


17 November 2023 |  P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award for Prof. Dr. Bethany J. Walker

2023 ASOR (American Society of Overseas Research) Annual Meeting in Chicago on 17 November.


02 July 2023 | 09:00– 17:00 | The first TERRSOC workshop (In cooperation with our partners from Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University)

'Reading' Ancient Landscapes


11 November 2021 | 11:30 – 18:00 | Two guest lectures by Prof. Dr.  Hugh Kennedy (Professor of Arabic, SOAS)

An old friend revisited: a new translation of al- Balādurī's Futūh al-Baldān (Conquests of the Lands)

Greater Mesopotamia and the globalization of Baghdad in the early Abbasid period



28 February 2020 | 16:00 – 18:00 | Dr. Reem Al Shqour (Ghent, Belgium)

The Ayyubid and Mamluk Khans at Aqaba


26 February 2020 | 16:00 – 18:00 | Dr. Megan A. Perry (Greenville, NC, USA).

Resilience and change: A biocultural view of a Bedouin population from Hisban, Jordan


01 March- 16 April 2019 | Webinar by Prof. Dr. Bethany J. Walker

live from the field at the excavation in Jerusalem: "Introduction to Islamic Landscape Archaeology"


14-15 September 2018 | Internal Workshop

The Medieval Jerusalem Hinterland Project  


21 June - 16 July 2018 | Spring School

Archaeological Field Trip on Tall Hisban, Jordan


22 June 2017 | 16:00 – 18:00 | Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre van Staevel (Université Paris-Sorbonne)

Between Tribe and State: The French-Moroccan Excavations at Igiliz (Morocco), Birthplace of the Almohad Empire


26 April 2017 | 16:00 – 18:00 | Prof. Dr. David Graf (University of Miami)

Ba‘aja – Nabataean-Islamic Site in the Shadow of Petra


29 November 2016 | 16:00 – 18:00 | Prof. Dr. Timothy Insoll (Manchester)

Research Themes in Islamic Archaeology in sub-Saharan Africa



10 November 2015 | 18:00 – 22:00 | The Opening of the Islamic Archaeology Research Unit

The opening Ceremony


05-06 October 2015 | International Workshop

Ceramic Evidence for a Byzantine-Islamic Tradition


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