Program
The program of the Historical Network Research Conference 2025 includes 20 papers, two keynotes and two tutorials.
Keynotes
Making shell companies visible. Digital history as a tool to unveil global networks and local infrastructures
Benoît Majerus works as a historian at the Center for Contemporary and Digital History. In the last three years, he has research on a project at the intersection of Digital and Financial History. In LETTERBOX, he used digital methods to reveal how Luxembourgish shell companies have been incorporated since the interwar period in global tax avoidance schemes.
Is AI in low-resource contexts still a realistic pursuit? Absolutely — and necessary
Aline Paes is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Computing at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF), Brazil. She earned her Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Systems Engineering, focusing on Artificial Intelligence, from COPPE-Systems at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). During her Ph.D., she spent a year as a visiting researcher at Imperial College London. Currently, she holds a Jovem Cientista do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Young Scientist of the State of Rio de Janeiro) fellowship from FAPERJ and a research productivity fellowship from CNPq. Her research in Artificial Intelligence spans multiple areas, including machine learning integrated with neural, statistical, and logical approaches; representation learning and language models; model adaptation and transfer learning; explainable AI; and AI applications for positive social impact. Aline Paes serves on the editorial boards of the Machine Learning Journal, the Ibero-American Journal of Artificial Intelligence, and the Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society. She was recently awarded FAPERJ’s inaugural research grant for Young Women Scientists. In 2023, she was a visiting professor at the Natural Language Processing Group at the University of Sheffield, supported by a CAPES scholarship. Since 2020, she has been a member of the Brasileiras em PLN (Brazilian Women in NLP) group.
Accepted papers
This is a preliminary list of accepted papers. This section will be updated with the full program soon.
A Data Visualization Platform for Analyzing Social Relations in 19th-century Alegrete
Paulo Roberto Scheuer Gomes, Laura Vargas Dicheti, Carla Maria Dal Sasso FreitasAnalyzing political-religious criminality during the Dollfuß-/Schuschnigg-Regime – A case study of LLM-assisted historical network research
Cindarella PetzBreaking the Surface. Uncovering Mechanisms, Practices and Dynamics of Historical Engagement in the City of Cologne
Annika HäberleinCliental Network of Biała Podlaska 1702-1709: An Attempt at Qualitative Analysis of Patronage Networking
Jan SiwońExploring the Nature of Science through Data and Connections: Introducing Historical Network Analysis in Brazilian High School Physics Education
Marlon C. Alcantara, Leonardo DomingosHigh Middle Ages Aristocratic Networks through Alcuin’s Letters and Digital Methods (c. 790-804)
Renato Da SilvaHistorical Network Research of International Trade: Data Issues Overview
Alina VladimirovaIdentifying prominent actors in historical networks: The case of the New Education Movement
Lauri LuotoImputing relational data based on individual strategies and network structure: experiment with records from Peter Zwicker’s inquisitorial campaign in Stettin in 1393-94
Kaarel Sikk, Välimäki Reima, David ZbíralInstitutional Development and the Dynamics of Power Through Time
Héctor Gutiérrez Magaña, Jesús Espinal-EnríquezIntroducing High School Students to Historical Network Research: A Pedagogical Framework
Juliane T. Moraes, Marlon C. Alcantara, Hudson W. FerreiraMapping Medieval Mazovia’s Trade Networks: Reconstructing Economic and Social Dynamics through Data Analysis
Karol BanachNetwork information extraction from medieval trial records combining LLM-based coreference resolution with string matching in pre-existing lists of persons
David Zbíral, Gideon Kotzé, Zoltán Brys, Robert L. J. Shaw, Tomáš Hampejs, Andres KarjusNetworks of Named Entities in Large Press Collections: Epistemological and Methodological Challenges
Martin GrandjeanPolitical entanglements. A network study on contracts, power, and defection in Renaissance Italy’s warfare market
Criveller Margherita, Federico Bianchi, Raffaele Vacca, Flaminio SquazzoniSocial Networks from Dailies: The Observer’s Perspective José Antonio Motilla, Diego Espitia, Edgardo Galán Vasquez, Edgardo Ugalde, Martín Zumay
The Pioneers Network of the Computer Science Courses in Brazil
Ana BazzanThe Potential of LLM Models in the Research of Arabic Script Biographical Texts
Tuba Nur SaraçoğluThe roots of business familism in Southern Italy. A quantitative analysis of the 19th century
Roberto Rondinelli, Maria Carmela Schisani, Giancarlo RagoziniThe Succession of Mysticism during the Formative Period of Islamic Reformism
Yuri Ishida