Program

The program of the Historical Network Research Conference 2024 includes 23 long papers, 19 short papers, 3 keynotes and 2 workshops. It will bring together colleagues from over fifteen countries. Please note that workshop registration is separate from the conference registration (but also free of charge).

Conference program

Speakers

Claire Lemercier, Research Director CNRS, SciencesPo Paris (France), see also quanthum.hypotheses.org. Claire Lemercier will give the closing plenary keynote, where she will react to the various presentations in an attempt to highlight the contributions of the conference, and assess how far we have come (and how far we still have to go).

Mathieu Jacomy, Assistant Professor at the University of Aalborg in Copenhagen (Denmark), see also reticular.hypotheses.org. After giving a pre-conference workshop, Mathieu Jacomy will open the conference with the first keynote. He will discuss our network visualisation practices and show where they fit into our hermeneutic engagement with our data.

Marten Düring, Assistant Professor at the University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg), see also martenduering.com. As founder of the Historical Network Research Community, Marten Düring will open Tuesday’s debates by showing how much our field has evolved since its earliest beginnings.

Pim van Bree and Geert Kessels, founders of nodegoat.net. The creators of a tool designed for research into historical networks, Pim van Bree and Geert Kessels will be leading a pre-conference workshop to demonstrate its potential.

Martin Grandjean, Senior Researcher at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), see also martingrandjean.ch. As conference organizer, Martin Grandjean will chair the opening plenary.


Monday 8 July

Monday 8 July will consist of two workshops, followed by the opening plenary session. Registration for the workshops is independent of the conference: informations and registration here.

9:00-12:30 WORKSHOP 1

Visual Network Analysis

  • Mathieu Jacomy

14:00-17:30 WORKSHOP 2

Historical network analysis with nodegoat

  • Pim van Bree and Geert Kessels

18:00-19:30 PLENARY A

Opening keynote: “Irreductionist network visualization”

  • Mathieu Jacomy

Tuesday 9 July

9:00-10:30 PLENARY B

Opening session

  • Martin Grandjean

HNR Keynote

  • Marten Düring

11:00-12:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS

SESSION 1: Long papers

  • Networks of Confessional Affiliation: Religious Choice and the Schism of Utrecht
    • Jaap Geraerts, Demival Vasques Filho
  • Emerging Maximilian: temporal co-occurrences network analysis of people mentioned in Regesta Imperii XIII
    • Marcella Tambuscio, Daniel Luger, Georg Vogeler
  • Inclusive institutions? Access to political power in the city of Tainan (Fort Zeelandia) in Dutch Formosa (1655-1662)
    • Maarten F. Van Dijck

SESSION 2: Long papers

  • Le marché foncier à Lausanne au 19e siècle. Mutations et réseaux des protagonistes.
    • Lucas Rappo
  • Communicating about communication: Using graph comics to explore communication networks in letters of Early Romanticism
    • Elena Suárez Cronauer, Aline Deicke, Laura Fath
  • Levantine Transitions. A Social Network Approach to Elite Formation in Urban Egypt, 1890-1914
    • Gert Huskens, Jan Vandersmissen, Christophe Verbruggen, Julie Birkholz

14:00-15:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS

SESSION 3: Long papers

  • Les réseaux urbains lyonnais pendant la guerre civile (1589-1594)
    • Graziella Gentet
  • ‘Our Maist Speciall Freindis’: Using historical network analysis to study clan structures in early modern Scotland
    • Katharina Pruente
  • The Diplomatic Networks of Ancient Athens: The Evidence from the Decrees
    • Silvan Auf der Maur

SESSION 4: Short papers

  • Religious Networks in Late Babylonian Period (RelNet)
    • Rocio Da Riva
  • Archaeological networks in pre-Roman Italy: approaching new visual methodologies
    • Tayla Newland
  • Beyond nodegoat: a critical look at historical network research workflows
    • Pim van Bree, Geert Kessels
  • Visualization of Early Islamicate Scholars’ Network
    • Tuba Nur Saraçoğlu
  • Representing discourses as networks: potential applications of TheSu XML in network analysis for the history of ideas and science
    • Daniele Morrone

16.00-17:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS

SESSION 5: Long papers

  • Analysing artistic network of the Basilian order in Eighteenth-Century Poland-Lithuania: a digital humanities approach
    • Tomasz Panecki, Melchior Jakubowski
  • Integrating library and prosopographical data in the early modern publication network of the University of Louvain (1501-1797)
    • Rossana Scebba, Margherita Fantoli

SESSION 6: Short papers

  • Viewsari: New Perspectives on Historical Network Analysis in Giorgio Vasari’s The Lives Using Knowledge Graphs
    • Sarah Rebecca Ondraszek, Harald Sack, Etienne Posthumus
  • Shaping British Digital Art: the Global Network of the Computer Arts Society, 1968-1985
    • Pita Arreola, Jin Gao, Bonnie Buyuklieva
  • The assistance of the Church to the Jews in Milan during the Second World War
    • Chiara Bonomelli
  • Finance, business and Cultural Cold War: exploring transatlantic associationism’s networks in post-war Italy
    • Giulia Clarizia

Wednesday 10 July

9:00-10:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS

SESSION 7: Long papers

  • Gender diversity in the historical networks of Soviet film production
    • Vejune Zemaityte, Mila Oiva, Ksenia Mukhina, Aaron Schecter, Noshir S Contractor, Maximilian Schich
  • Tracing the Network Continuity: From the Socialist to the Communist Women’s Movement (1907-1934)
    • Minja Bujakovic
  • The transfer of German pedagogical knowledge to Turkey through Turkish educators in the Early Republican Era: A historical social network study in the field of transnational education
    • Seyma Aksoy

SESSION 8: Long papers

  • L’analyse de réseaux pour l’étude des coopérations intergouvernementales : le cas du Bureau International d’Éducation (1929-1952)
    • Émeline Brylinski
  • Visual Exchanges as a Network: The Case of Avant-Garde Periodicals
    • Nicola Carboni
  • The networked geography of a newspaper
    • Zef Segal

11:00-12:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS

SESSION 9: Long papers

  • Exploring Biographical Networks of Person Objects from Newspaper Clippings in Herder Institute
    • Erdal Ayan
  • Interactive Visualization of Linked Open Data Networks Representing Historical Writings
    • Sepideh Alassi
  • Visualising Bibliographical Data on Polish Literature after 1989
    • Maciej Maryl

SESSION 10: Short papers

  • Networks of Displacement: Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Post-WWII Migration and Resettlement
    • Konstantin Schischka
  • High Density = High Citations? Approaches for Tracking Knowledge Evolution
    • Raphael Schlattmann, Malte Vogl, Aleksandra Kaye
  • Complex networks allow a quantitative analysis of historical networks by data mining the Wikipedia corpus
    • Gustavo A. Schwartz
  • Geospatial Network of Internees in Switzerland during the Second World War - A Proof of Concept
    • Nóirín Ailis Rice
  • Containing complexity: Networks of expertise and the emergence of genetic epidemiology, 1900-1990
    • Carolina Mayes, Rhodri Leng

14:00-15:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS

SESSION 11: Long papers

  • Networks and textual production during the Middle Ages (12th-15th centuries)
    • Pierre Lebec, Stéphane Lamassé
  • Modéliser les réseaux de pouvoir de la fin du Moyen Âge
    • Raphaël Carbonne
  • Network hermeneutics: exploring the meaning of a source using network analysis, case of inquisitorial protocols from 14th century Stettin
    • Kaarel Sikk, Välimäki Reima, David Zbíral

SESSION 12: Short papers

  • Mapping Anglo-Swiss Travel Writing in the 17th and 18th Century
    • Stefanie Heeg
  • Using citation networks for viewpoint plurality assessment of historical literary corpora: The case of the Medieval Rabbinic corpus
    • Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Nati Ben-Gigi, Binyamin Katzoff, Jonathan Schler
  • Gouverner à distance : analyse d’un réseau d’espionnage contre-révolutionnaire dans l’Europe de la Révolution et de l’Empire napoléonien
    • Karine Rance, Aurelia Vasile
  • Mapping the networks of the Accademia dei Nobili della Giudecca: a sous-champ of the 18th Venetian Reforming Era
    • Filippo Soramel, Bastien Tourenc
  • Radical translators (Britain, France and Italy, 1789-1815) through the lens of a network visualisation
    • Miguel Vieira, Arianna Ciula, Rosa Mucignat, Sanja Perovic

16:00-17:30 PLENARY C

Closing keynote

  • Claire Lemercier

Closing remarks and next HNR conference announcement