Thursday, 24.11.2022

18:00 h Sabine Panzram (Universität Hamburg) – Lauro Olmo Enciso (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares) – Eduardo Manzano Moreno (CSIC Madrid – St Andrews),
Welcome and Introduction
General Consul (Consulado general de España en Hamburgo), Welcome

Shifting cities between Republican times and Late Antiquity
Chair: Eduardo Manzano Moreno (CSIC Madrid – St Andrews)

18:30 h Luis Silva Reneses (Université de Genève), Shifting cities as a result of Roman hegemony: contexts, motives and decision making

19:15 h Pieter Houten – Sabine Panzram (Universität Hamburg),
In view of the cross: The transformation (or no) of the civitas into sedis episcopalis

20:00 h Reception

Friday, 25.11.2022

Chair: Sabine Panzram (Universität Hamburg)

09:30 h Paulo Pachá (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – Universität Hamburg), Shifting urban loyalties: Conquered and rebellious cities in Visigothic Iberia

10:15 h Damián Fernández (Northern Illinois University – Freie Universität Berlin),
Changing institutions and political culture in post-imperial Hispania

11:00 h Coffee

Shifting Towns during Late Antiquity and Early Medieval times
Chair: Sabine Panzram (Universität Hamburg)

11:30 h Lauro Olmo Enciso (Universidad de Alcalá), Shifting cities and landscapes between the 8th and 9th centuries: widening interpretation through materiality

12:15 h Manuel Castro Priego (Universidad de Alcalá): Madīnat al-Faraŷ, Qal´at´Abd al-Salām and Complutum: the shaping of the Islamic social space in the Lower Henares Valley (Madrid and Guadalajara) during the 8th and 9th centuries AD.

13:00 h Lunch

Chair: Lauro Olmo Enciso (Universidad de Alcalá)

15:30 h Irene Montilla (Universidad de Jaén), Urban dynamics in the Upper Guadalquivir valley during the 8 and 9th centuries.

16:15 h Julián M. Ortega (Universidad de Zaragoza) – Marta Pérez Polo (Universidad de Navarra), Central Places on the move. Reconfigurations of the urban network in the Ebro Valley during the first millenium AD

17:00 h Coffee

17:30 h Joan Negre Pérez (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) – Ada Lasheras González (EHEHI, Casa de Velázquez Madrid) – Francesc Rodríguez Martorell (Universitat Rovira i Virgili – Universitat de Barcelona), From Ṭarrakūna to Ṭurṭūša. Shifting capitals on the farthest confines of early al-Andalus

18:15 h María Teresa Casal-García (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Early Andalusi urbanism in Madīnat Qurṭūba: survivals and new patterns

20:30 h Dinner

Saturday, 26.11.2022

Between the Ummayad conquest and the 9th century
Chair: Sabine Panzram (Universität Hamburg)

09:30 h Eduardo Manzano Moreno (CSIC Madrid – St Andrews), Ancient ciuitates, new madīna-s. Urban transformations in the aftermath of the Arab conquest

10:15 h Jorge Elices Ocón (Universität Hamburg), Inherited cities: How to cope with Antiquity in al-Andalus

11:00 h Coffee

Chair: Eduardo Manzano Moreno (CSIC Madrid – St Andrews)

11:30 h Sonia Gutiérrez Lloret (Universidad de Alicante): From pillar to post: shifting cities in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula between Hispania and al-Andalus

12:15 h Guillermo García-Contreras Ruiz – Bilal Sarr (Universidad de Granada), Eliberri - Ilbira - Garnata. Early Medieval towns in the Vega of Granada

13:00 h Lunch

15:30 h Fernando Amores Carredano - Ana Mateos Orozco (Universidad de Sevilla), From Ispali to Isbiliya (Sevilla) within the urban process of the lower Guadalquivir

16:15 h Antonio Vallejo Triano – Ma. del Carmen Rodriguez Sánchez (Conjunto Arqueológico Madinat al-Zahra), Competence or complementarity. Qurṭūba and Madīnat al-Zahrāʼin the caliphal period

17:00 h Coffee

Comparison and conclusions
Chair: Sabine Panzram (Universität Hamburg)

17:30 h Caroline Goodson (University of Cambridge), Shifting cities in the late Roman and early Medieval west: a view from beyond Iberia

18:15 h Sabine Panzram (Universität Hamburg) – Lauro Olmo Enciso (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares) – Eduardo Manzano Moreno (CSIC Madrid – St Andrews), Conclusions

20:30 h Dinner