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Laura Schmidt has studied Classics at the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She defended her PhD thesis under the title “From Lesbos to Athens: Sappho’s Place in the Symposium and Greek Learning” in 2020. She has been member of the Graduate School ‘Human Development in Landscapes’ (2016-2020). She worked on Plato’s concept of optics at the CRC 1266 “Scales of Transformation” at Kiel (2020) and participated in the interdisciplinary project “Gardens, Human Senses and Eudaimonia” of the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS at Kiel (2021). She is currently researching the “thin Anthropocene” in classical antiquity as a member of the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence. Studies of Classics in Tübingen and Oxford, PhD 1990, Habilitation 1997, Professor of Classics, especially Greek Literature at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 1999-, Ordinary Member of the German Archaeological Institute 2000-, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities 2006-2008, Co-Coordinator of the Kiel Graduate School ‘Human Development in Landscapes’ 2007-2016; Speaker of the University’s Research Focus ‘Social, Environmental, Cultural Change’ 2007–. Holding an MA in medieval history (Universität Bielefeld) and another in maritime archaeology (University of Southampton), Anja Rutter has been an interdisciplinary researcher from the outset. After gaining experience as a research diver and a field archaeologist, she is now writing her PhD on Bronze Age networks in the Levant at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel. Her main research focusses on networked identities, mental maps and the question of continuitiy in societies during and after upheaval and forced change. As Anja Rutter also has long-time experience in museum didactics and citizen science, she has a special interest in making research accessible and understandable to the public and in the role the humanities can play in shaping our ideas of the future. Oliver Nakoinz is a lecturer at Kiel University. He obtained his PhD in 2004 with “Studien zur räumlichen Abgrenzung und Strukturierung der älteren Hunsrück-Eifel-Kultur” and his habilitation in 2010 with “Archäologische Kulturgeographie der ältereisenzeitlichen Zentralorte Südwestdeutschlands”. His work is focused on quantitative archaeology, landscape archaeology and interaction and connectivity, in particular in the Iron Age. Furthermore, he is dedicated to the idea of interdisciplinary integration and integrating theory and method.

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