Forskningen min handler om forholdet mellom politisk makt, økonomi/naturforhold og ideologi/religion i den antikke/førislamske verden. Jeg har særlig skrevet om Midtøsten, Rødehavet og det Indiske hav, men er også interessert i Middelhavsområdet og Sentral-Asia. Jeg har arbeidet mye med handelsbyen Palmyra i Syria, med handel på Det indiske hav, og med å utvikle globalhistorie som fagfelt på norsk.

I det siste har jeg arbeidet med hvordan historikere, arkeologer og klimaforskere vurderer klimaets rolle i historiske endringer. Det kan hjelpe oss å forstå forholdet mellom klima- og samfunnsendringer bedre. Sammen med klimaforskeren Kikki Kleiven har jeg skrevet en bok om klima og historie.

Jeg er også opptatt av hvordan eldre historie har blitt forstått og brukt i senere perioder. Sammen med kollega Ingvar Mæhle leder jeg forskergruppen Antikkens virkningshistorie. 

De neste årene (2024-2027) deltar jeg i prosjektet SILKROMO, ledet av Tomas Høisæter, Høgskulen Vestlandet, hvor vi skal utforske handel og kulturkontakt langs silkevegen i seinantikken.

Jeg har nylig vært vert for Marie Skłodowska-Curie prosjektene ASCNET og RENE (2020-2022), som begge utforsker hvordan digitale metoder kan være til hjelp for å forstå religiøse nettverk i antikken.

Sammen med nordiske kolleger organiserte jeg workshop-serien "Globalization, Urbanization and Urban Religion in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Roman and Early Islamic periods". Den var finansiert av The Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2018-2019).

2013-2017 ledet jeg prosjektet: "Mechanisms of cross-cultural interaction: Networks in the Roman Near East" finansiert av Norges Forskningsråds SAMKUL-program. Her undersøkte vi sosiale nettverk basert på handel, etnisitet, religion og makt i Midtøsten i den romerske perioden.

I denne saken på UiB sine nettsider står det mer om forskningen min.

Jeg har også bloggen Globalhistorie. Den oppdateres ikke så ofte, men der legger jeg blant annet ut en del av de populærvitenskapelige tekstene jeg skriver.

 

 

Hver vår underviser jeg på emnet HIS101: Oversikt over eldre historie.

De siste årene har jeg vekslet mellom å tilby fordypningsemnene HIS114 /250: Klima og samfunn i førmoderne tid og HIS114 /250: Midtøsten på romersk tid. Høsten 2024 vil jeg tilby klimaemnet.

Jeg bidrar også på emnene HIS100: Innføring i historie, HIS203: Teorier, metoder og historiske kilder, samt HIS309: Historikerens arbeidsmåter og AHKR300: Forskningsetikk.

Sammen med kollegaene mine Marijn Visscher og Ingvar Mæhle driver jeg masterseminaret Antikkens verden. Se på nettsiden vår hvis du er interessert i å ta mastergrad i antikkens historie.

 

 

 

2024

• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2024). Maritime trade [Arabian]. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2024). Maritime trade. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2024). Palmyrene Trading Networks. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2024). Climate and Environment of Palmyra and the Syrian Desert. (ekstern lenke)

2023

• Campmany Jiménez, Joan; Romanowska, Iza; Raja, Rubina et al. (2023). Modelling an Urban Hinterland The Case of Roman Palmyra. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2023). History in Arbeidernes Leksikon. Representation, use, and counterculture. (ekstern lenke)
• Melve, Leidulf; Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2023). Å studere historie. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2023). Palmyra and the Indian Ocean. (ekstern lenke)
• Raja, Rubina; Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2023). Resilience and vulnerability in the Syrian Desert in the first millennium CE: The case of the oasis city Tadmor (Palmyra). (ekstern lenke)
• Malmberg, Lars Simon Tobias; Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2023). City, Hinterland and Environment: Urban Resilience during the First Millennium Transition. (ekstern lenke)
• Malmberg, Lars Simon Tobias; Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2023). Introduction. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas; Kleiven, Helga Flesche (2023). En kort introduksjon til klimahistorie - menneskene og klimaet etter siste istid. (ekstern lenke)
• Meyer, Jørgen Christian; Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2023). Water, Communication, Sight, and the Location of Fortifications on the Strata Diocletiana (Syria) in Late Antiquity.. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2023). Trust networks in ancient cross-cultural and long-distance trade. (ekstern lenke)

2022

• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2022). Spaces, Places and Things. The Spatial Dimension of Early Indian Ocean Exchange . (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2022). The Classical World in a Norwegian Workers' Encyclopedia: Arbeidernes Leksikon (1931–1936). (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2022). Markets in the Erythra Thalassa. (ekstern lenke)
• Campmany Jiménez, Joan; Romanowska, Iza; Raja, Rubina et al. (2022). Food security in Roman Palmyra (Syria) in light of paleoclimatological evidence and its historical implications. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2022). Caravans in Palmyrene tesserae? How to tell a pack camel from a steed of war?. (ekstern lenke)
• Raja, Rubina; Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2022). The Paradox of Palmyra: An Ancient anomalopolis in the Desert. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2022). Firmus of Alexandria and the trade of Palmyra. (ekstern lenke)

2021

• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2021). Associations and Interactions in Urban Networks of the Roman Near East. (ekstern lenke)
• Lichtenberger, Achim; Raja, Rubina; Seland, Eivind Heldaas et al. (2021). Scaling up and zooming in: global history and high-definition archaeology perspectives on the longue durée of urban–environmental relations in Gerasa (Jerash, Jordan). (ekstern lenke)
• Melve, Leidulf; Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2021). Hva er globalhistorie. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2021). Trade, Traders, and Religion in Gateway-Cities of the Roman East. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2021). A global history of the ancient world. Asia, Europe and Africa before Islam. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2021). Local Dynamics of Globalization in the Roman Near East: The case of Palmyra. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas; Raja, Rubina (2021). Horses and Camels in Palmyrene Art: Iconography, Contexts and Meanings. (ekstern lenke)
• Brughmans, Tom; Bobou, Olympia; Kristensen, Nathalia B. et al. (2021). A kinship network analysis of Palmyrene genealogies. (ekstern lenke)
• Brughmans, Tom; Kinnaird, Tim; Kristiansen, Søren M. et al. (2021). Urbanization and Riverine Hinterlands: A Proposal for an Integrative High-Definition and Multi-Scalar Approach to Understanding Ancient Cities and their Dynamic Natural Resources. (ekstern lenke)

2020

• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2020). Climate Change in Urban Biographies: Stage, Event, Agent. (ekstern lenke)
• Meyer, Jørgen Christian; Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2020). قارب وسفينة ومنارة في الصحراء. نقوش نهرية وبحرية في تدمر القديمة. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2020). The rise of the merchant princes? Scale, status, and wealth in Palmyrene trade.. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2020). Coastal and high-sea passages in ancient Red Sea navigation: combining GIS with common-sense geography. (ekstern lenke)
• Mæhle, Ingvar B.; Ravnå, Per Bjarne; Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2020). Methods and models in ancient history. Essays in honor of Jørgen Christian Meyer. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2020). Red Sea Studies: A historiographical sketch. (ekstern lenke)

2019

• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2019). Religion and Early Trade in the Western Indian Ocean: Ideology and Knowledge Exchanges Across the Indian Ocean World. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2019). Portable Religion and the Palmyrene Diaspora. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2019). Travelling the treacherous seas: pirates, storms and sirens. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2019). The Trade of Palmyra. (ekstern lenke)
• Lichtenberger, Achim; Raja, Rubina; Seland, Eivind Heldaas et al. (2019). Urban-Riverine Hinterland Synergies in Semi-Arid Environments: Millennial-Scale Change, Adaptations, and Environmental Responses at Gerasa/Jerash. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2019). Als Indien das Römische Reich entdeckte. Exploration und Handel im Indischen Ozean vom Osten aus gesehen. (ekstern lenke)

2018

• Steiner, Pål; Tsakos, Alexandros; Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2018). From the Fjords to the Nile: Essays in Honor of Richard Holton Pierce on his 80th Birthday. (ekstern lenke)
• Teigen, Håkon Fiane; Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2018). Limbs of the Light Mind. The social world of a Manichaean community in fourth-century Egypt. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2018). Nomads and caravan trade in the Syrian Desert". . (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2018). Å arbeidet med materielle kilder. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2018). Hundre års undergang. (ekstern lenke)

2017

• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2017). Gemstones and Mineral Products in the Red Sea / Indian Ocean Trade of the First Millennium. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2017). Tøffe valg med store konsekvenser: Historiske fortellinger i norsk klimapolitikk. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2017). The iconography of caravan trade in Palmyra and the Roman Near East. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2017). Approaching trade in pre-state and early state societies. (ekstern lenke)
• Teigen, Håkon Fiane; Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2017). Sinews of empire and the relational turn in classical scholarship. (ekstern lenke)
• Teigen, Håkon Fiane; Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2017). Sinews of Empire: Networks in the Roman Near East and beyond. (ekstern lenke)
• Van der Lans, Birgit; Teigen, Håkon Fiane; Seland, Eivind Heldaas et al. (2017). Reiser til Tadmor: Historie og kulturarv i Palmyra og Midtøsten/Journeys to Tadmor: History and heritage in Palmyra and the Middle East. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2017). The Archaeological Record of Indian Ocean Engagements in the Red Sea. (ekstern lenke)

2016

• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2016). Trade diasporas and merchant social cohesion in early trade in the western Indian Ocean. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2016). Ancient trading networks and new institutional economics: the case of Palmyra. (ekstern lenke)
• Meyer, Jørgen Christian; Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2016). Palmyra and the trade-route to the Euphrates. (ekstern lenke)
• Meyer, Jørgen Christian; Seland, Eivind Heldaas; Anfinset, Nils (2016). Palmyrena: City, Hinterland and Caravan Trade Between Orient and Occident: Proceedings of the Conference Held in Athens, December 1-3, 2012. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2016). Ships of the Desert and Ships of the Sea: Palmyra in the World Trade of the First Three Centuries CE. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2016). The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: A Network Approach. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2016). Here, there and Everywhere: A Network Approach to Textile Trade in the Periplus Maris Erythraei. (ekstern lenke)

2015

• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2015). Preconditions of Palmyrene Long-distance trade: Land, River, and Maritime routes in the first three centuries CE. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2015). Antikkens Globale Verden. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2015). Writ in water, lines in sand: Ancient trade routes, models and comparative evidence. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2015). Dette er den virkelige verdenshistorien som har inspirert Game of Thrones. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2015). Derfor frykter de bilder. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2015). Hva skal vi med historie?. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2015). Det "rettferdige" verdenskartet. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2015). Kampen om Den syriske ørken. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2015). Hva skal vi med historie?. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2015). Google Earth – tiåringen som forandret verden. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2015). Camels, Camel Nomadism and the Practicalities of Palmyrene Caravan Trade. (ekstern lenke)

2014

• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2014). Archaeology of Trade in the Western Indian Ocean, 300 BC-AD 700. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2014). The organisation of the Palmyrene caravan trade. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2014). Early Christianity in East Africa and Red Sea/Indian Ocean Commerce [Les débuts du Christianisme en Afrique de l’est et le commerce de la mer Rouge et de l’Océan Indien]. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2014). Caravans, Smugglers and Trading Fairs: Organizing Textile Trade on the Syrian Frontier. (ekstern lenke)

2013

• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2013). : Antikkforskning som faghistorie. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2013). Networks and social cohesion in ancient Indian Ocean trade: geography, ethnicity, religion. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2013). Ancient Afghanistan and the Indian Ocean: Maritime Links of the Kushan Empire ca 50-200 CE. (ekstern lenke)

2012

• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2012). The Liber Pontificalis and Red Sea Trade of the Early to Mid 4th Century AD. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2012). Globalhistorisk atlas. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2012). Trade and Christianity in the Indian Ocean during Late Antiquity. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2012). Death or taxes? Choosing itineraries between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean in the mid-18th century. (ekstern lenke)

2011

• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2011). Ørkenens skip: Kamelen og den første transportrevolusjonen. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2011). Antikken Globale Verden: Asia, Europa og Afrika før islam. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2011). The Persian Gulf or the Red Sea? Two axes in ancient Indian Ocean trade, where to go and why. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2011). Kameler og kamelkaravaner i romersk kunst. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2011). Romerne og Rødehavet. (ekstern lenke)

2010

• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2010). Ports and political power in the periplus: complex societies and maritime trade on the Indian Ocean in the first century AD. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2010). Palmyra : karavanehandel og geopolitikk i romersk Syria. (ekstern lenke)

2009

• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2009). Piratvirksomhet med historiske røtter. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2009). Shipwreck, Maroons and Monsters: The Hazards of Ancient Red Sea Navigation. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2009). Antikk økonomi og moderne historie. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2009). Ptolemaiere på elefantjakt. (ekstern lenke)

2008

• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2008). Taxation of ancient Indian Ocean trade. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2008). Kyrenaika: Grekerne på det grønne fjellet. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2008). Trade routes of Palmyra, with special notes on western routes in Palmyrene trade. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2008). Antikkens globale verden: Asia, Europa og Afrika før Islam. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2008). The Indian Ships at Moscha and the Indo-Arabian trading circuit. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2008). The Indian Ocean and the Globalisation of the Ancient World. (ekstern lenke)

2007

• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2007). The Indian Ocean in the Ancient Period: Definite Places, translocal exchange. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2007). Red Sea and Indian Ocean: Ports and their hinterland. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas; Bjørkelo, Anders; Meyer, Jørgen Christian (2007). Definite places, translocal exchange - an introduction. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2007). Ports, Ptolemy, Periplus and Poetry - Romans in Tamil South India and on the Bay of Bengal. (ekstern lenke)
• Bjørkelo, Anders; Meyer, Jørgen Christian; Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2007). Definite places, translocal exchange. (ekstern lenke)

2006

• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2006). Eritrea: Nasjonsbygging, kolonihistorie og arkitektur. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2006). The Roman Attack on Aden: an unintended result of successful propaganda. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2006). Indian Ocean in Antiquity: trade and the emerging state. (ekstern lenke)

2005

• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2005). Fra Hav til Hafrsfjord - Utstein før Harald Hårfagre. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2005). The Periplus' report of a Roman attack on Aden an unintended result of successful propaganda?. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2005). Ancient South Arabia: trade and strategies of state control as seen in the Periplus Maris Erythraei. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2005). Langs Romerrikets grense i øst. (ekstern lenke)

2004

• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2004). Et handelsperspektiv på arabisk ekspansjon rundt Det indiske hav i antikken. (ekstern lenke)
• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2004). På reisefot i antikken. (ekstern lenke)

2003

• Seland, Eivind Heldaas (2003). Aksum - Antikkens glemte sivilisasjon. (ekstern lenke)

Se en full oversikt over publikasjoner i Cristin

2024–2027 SILKROMO: Like Islands in a Sea of Sand. Understanding the Silk Roads of Late Antiquity as a layered network model, Resesarch Council of Norway (partner).

2020–2022 I supervised the Marie-Sklodowska-Curie-IF-projects of Francesca Mazzilli, Regional Religious Networks in the Roman Empire and Tomas Glomb, Favorable Conditions of the Spread of the Cult of Asclepius across the Transportation Network of the Roman Mediterranean: A Quantitative Evaluation. 

Globalization, Urbanization and Urban Religion in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Roman and Early Islamic periods (partner 2018-2019)

Mechanisms of cross-cultural interaction: Networks in the Roman Near East (Project manager 2013-2016)

Local dynamics of globalization in the pre-modern Levant (core group member 2014-15)

Palmyrena: City, Hinterland and Caravan Trade between Orient and Occident (Postdoc 2009-2012)