HISTONET - HNR at NetSci

HISTONET - Historical Networks

Satellite Event at NetSci2025 (Maastricht, June 2-6)

This session aims at bringing together researchers active in studying applications of networks in historical research to discuss state-of-the-art, share knowledge across disciplines, and create opportunities for novel and fruitful collaborations.

NEWS: Keynote Announcement & Final Program!

We’re excited to announce that Maximilian Schich will be our keynote speaker at HISTONET 2025!
The full program is now available in the Program section of the website.
Join us on June 3rd in Maastricht to explore the role of networks in historical research — we look forward to seeing many of you there!

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

We invite abstracts of published / unpublished / in progress work for short talks to present at the satellite symposium. The scope includes (but is not limited to):

Comparison and integration of various historical datasets
Network representation of prosopographical or relational data
Temporal analysis and the selection of time steps
Addressing data incompleteness and inferred information
Understanding the evolution of societies and historical structures
Visualisations techniques for historical network data
Best practices, methods, and tools for network-based historical analysis

Please send your contribution here with subject “submission histonet2025”.

IMPORTANT DATES

NEW!!! Deadline for abstract submission: ~~February 15th~~ February 20th

Abstract selection notification: ~~February 20th~~ February 22th

Satellite Event: June 3rd, 14:30-17:30

REQUIREMENTS

Submissions (max 1 page in PDF format), beside the abstract (max 500 words) must include title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), name of the presenter. We highly recommended to add a visualisation of your network.

Presenters of accepted contributions must register for NetSci2025 (information here).

CONTACTS

You can find more infos about accomodation and transport on the website of the conference.

For any question contact us here with subject “histonet2025”