Eivind Heldaas Seland is a researcher at the University of Bergen, and Associate professor of Global History (from January 2017). His research interest is in the interrelation of power, economy, and ideology in the Roman Period Near East and Indian Ocean, with emphasis on trade in the Red Sea and on the ancient city of Palmyra.
Håkon Fiane Teigen is a Ph.D. student at the University of Bergen, whose current project centres on the social organisation of Manichaeism in late antique Egypt. His research interests include the transmission of ideas, the social mobilisation of ideology, and the history of Manichaeism, in particular in the areas of the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran.
