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 Freitas

  • Analyzing political-religious criminality during the Dollfuß-/Schuschnigg-Regime – A case study of LLM-assisted historical network research
    Cindarella Petz

  • Breaking the Surface. Uncovering Mechanisms, Practices and Dynamics of Historical Engagement in the City of Cologne
    Annika Häberlein

  • Cliental Network of Biała Podlaska 1702-1709: An Attempt at Qualitative Analysis of Patronage Networking
    Jan Siwoń

  • Exploring the Nature of Science through Data and Connections: Introducing Historical Network Analysis in Brazilian High School Physics Education
    Marlon C. Alcantara, Leonardo Domingos

  • High Middle Ages Aristocratic Networks through Alcuin’s Letters and Digital Methods (c. 790-804)
    Renato Da Silva

  • Historical Network Research of International Trade: Data Issues Overview
    Alina Vladimirova

  • Identifying prominent actors in historical networks: The case of the New Education Movement
    Lauri Luoto

  • Imputing 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 Zbíral

  • Institutional Development and the Dynamics of Power Through Time
    Héctor Gutiérrez Magaña, Jesús Espinal-Enríquez

  • Introducing High School Students to Historical Network Research: A Pedagogical Framework
    Juliane T. Moraes, Marlon C. Alcantara, Hudson W. Ferreira

  • Mapping Medieval Mazovia’s Trade Networks: Reconstructing Economic and Social Dynamics through Data Analysis
    Karol Banach

  • Network 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 Karjus

  • Networks of Named Entities in Large Press Collections: Epistemological and Methodological Challenges
    Martin Grandjean

  • Political entanglements. A network study on contracts, power, and defection in Renaissance Italy’s warfare market
    Criveller Margherita, Federico Bianchi, Raffaele Vacca, Flaminio Squazzoni

  • Social 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 Bazzan

  • The Potential of LLM Models in the Research of Arabic Script Biographical Texts
    Tuba Nur Saraçoğlu

  • The roots of business familism in Southern Italy. A quantitative analysis of the 19th century
    Roberto Rondinelli, Maria Carmela Schisani, Giancarlo Ragozini

  • The Succession of Mysticism during the Formative Period of Islamic Reformism
    Yuri Ishida