Program
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09:00 - 12:30
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Workshop: Introduction to Nodegoat (Aula S3) - Geert Kessels, Pim van Bree |
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12:30 - 13:30
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Lunch and Badge Collection |
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13:30 - 14:00
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Welcome & Opening Remarks (Aula S1) - HNR2026 Organizer, HNR Community Board |
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14:00 - 15:30
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1–A Objects, Traces and Ancient Connectivity (Aula S1) - Chair–Tiziana Pasciuto |
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14:00 - 14:20 |
› From Connoisseurship to Networks: Mobilities of Potters and Painters in South Italy Red-Figure Pottery Production (450–300 BCE) - Serino Marco, Università degli studi di Torino |
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14:20 - 14:40 |
› From Pyramid Town to Provincial Necropolis: Sources and Networks in Middle Kingdom Egypt - Danijela Stefanovic, University of Belgrade |
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14:40 - 15:00 |
› Historical Networks as Treasure Maps: Finding Relevant Sources with Aid from Attestation Networks - Lena Tambs, University of Helsinki |
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14:00 - 15:30
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1–B Testimony, Belief and Inquisition (Aula S2) - Chair–Jean-Paul Rehr |
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14:00 - 14:20 |
› Beyond Repression: Network Analysis and Social Dynamics in Medieval Inquisition Records - Mussinatto Roberto, Università degli Studi di Padova/Université Côte d'Azur |
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14:20 - 14:40 |
› From Testimony to Network: Modelling Reported Interactions in the Bologna Inquisition Register (1291–1310) - Katia Riccardo, Centre for the Digital Research of Religion, Department for the Study of Religions, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University |
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14:40 - 15:00 |
› Gender bias and endogenous dynamics of denunciations in shaping knowledge about the heterodox - Davor Salihovic, Universiteit Antwerpen |
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14:00 - 15:30
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1–C Women and Gender (Aula S3) - Chair–Alessandra Celati |
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14:00 - 14:20 |
› Gendered Knowledge Production in Romantic Correspondence Networks - Elena Suárez Cronauer, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz; Aline Deicke, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, Philipps Universität Marburg |
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14:20 - 14:40 |
› Narrated Networks: Social Network Analysis of the Memoirs of Countess Luise Charlotte von Schwerin (1684-1732) - Selina Galka, University of Graz; Marcella Tambuscio, University of Graz |
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14:40 - 15:00 |
› Networks of Manuscript Production: Mapping Female Scribes and their Texts in Medieval Europe - Estelle Gueville, Yale University |
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15:30 - 16:00
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Afternoon break by the Roman Wall (refreshments provided) |
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16:00 - 17:15
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2–B Ancient and Medieval Connectivity (Aula S2) - Chair–TBD |
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16:00 - 16:10 |
› Clustering Lead White References Across Graeco-Roman Genres: Visual Network Analysis from a TheSu XML Dataset - Daniele Morrone, KU Leuven |
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16:10 - 16:20 |
› Reassessing Ancient Connectivity in Central Italy from Fragmentary Sources: A Multiscale Uncertainty-Aware Network Model - Caterina Paola Venditti, University of Cassino & Southern Lazio, Ministry of Culture (Italy) - Superintendency for Archaeology, Fine Arts & Landscape, Provinces of Frosinone & Latina |
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16:20 - 16:30 |
› Exploring the Late Medieval Adriatic Wax Trade with Neo4j - Vladimir Aleksic, Free University Berlin |
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16:30 - 16:40 |
› From Sources to Networks. The TRACES Project and the Reconstruction of Mobility Systems from Antiquity to the Middle Ages - Caterina Paola Venditti, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio; Cristina Corsi, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio; David Gherdevich, Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines–Paris Saclay |
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16:00 - 17:15
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2–A Surveillance, Dissent and Control (Aula S1) - Chair–Margherita Criveller |
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16:00 - 16:10 |
› Constructing the Enemy: Network Analysis of Anti-Hussite Vocabulary in Late Medieval Diplomatic Correspondence - Aliaksandra Valodzina, Austrian Academy of Sciences |
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16:10 - 16:20 |
› Investigating the Resilience of Waldensian Heterodoxy in Medieval Fribourg using Social Network Analysis - Stanisław Banach, Masaryk University |
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16:20 - 16:30 |
› Networks under Surveillance: Source Bias and Historical Network Reconstruction in Revolutionary Iran - Misagh Depretis Javadpour, Universiteit van Amsterdam |
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16:30 - 16:40 |
› Watching Your Back: Identifying Organization and Movement Counter-Surveillance via FOIA Requests (1989 – 1992) - Stephanie Zhang, UCLA Sociology |
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17:30 - 18:30
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HNR2026 Opening Keynote (Aula S1) - Scott B. Weingart |
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18:30 - 19:30
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HNR2026 Welcome aperitivo by the Roman Wall (refreshments provided) |
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| Time |
Event |
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09:00 - 10:30
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3–A The Circulation of Knowledge (Aula S1) - Chair–Alessandra Celati |
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09:00 - 09:20 |
› “Nourished Among the Foremost Men”: An Inquiry into Grosseteste's Intellectual Background - Matthieu Statius, Théologie catholique et sciences religieuses |
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09:20 - 09:40 |
› One Problem at a Time: Exploring the Network of Edo Japan's Mathematicians with Sangaku - Antonia Karaisl, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study |
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09:40 - 10:00 |
› The BorGal project. What's next? - Federica Favino, Università degli Studi di Roma |
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09:00 - 10:30
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3–B Arts, Institutions and Actors (Aula S2) - Chair–Tiziana Pasciuto |
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09:30 - 09:50 |
› Navigating Institutional Archives of Suisse Romande Architecture Competitions - Clay Foye, EPFL, University of Zurich; Paul Guhennec, EPFL, University of Zurich |
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09:50 - 10:10 |
› Network Analysis for Historical Music Research: Deep-Mapping Musical Space in Milan (1958–1962) - Martin Nicastro, Università degli Studi di Pavia |
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10:10 - 10:30 |
› Politics behind the Score: The Institutionalization of the São Paulo Municipal Symphony Orchestra - Breno Ampáro, Instituto de Artes, UNESP |
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10:30 - 11:00
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Morning break by the Roman Wall (refreshments provided) |
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11:00 - 12:30
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4–B Correspondences (Aula S2) - Chair–Tiziana Pasciuto |
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11:00 - 11:10 |
› Caesurae and Continuities: A Qualitative-Quantitative Analysis of a Correspondence Network between 1882–1926 - Manuel Schmidinger, Leopold Franzens Universität Innsbruck |
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11:10 - 11:20 |
› From Letters to Networks: Historical Network Analysis of Dutch Brazil through the ePistolarium - Marlon Alcantara, Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Ensino de Ciências, Instituto Federal do Sudeste de Minas Gerais |
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11:20 - 11:30 |
› Reconstructing Visibility through Archival Sources: Grazia Pierantoni Mancini's Epistolary Networks - Aurora Sturli, University of Cambridge |
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11:30 - 11:40 |
› St. Petersburg Literacy Committee: Bipartite Networks of 1885 Correspondence - Anna Britanova, European University at Saint Petersburg |
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11:00 - 12:30
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4–A Machine Language and Historical Sources (Aula S1) - Chair–Jean-Paul Rehr |
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11:00 - 11:10 |
› “From Bibliography to Network: Mapping the Contemporary Field of Leigh Hunt Studies (1987–2025)” - Michael Sinatra, Université de Montréal |
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11:10 - 11:20 |
› Integrating Generative LLMs into the Study of Middle-Period Chinese Elites - Song Chen, Bucknell University |
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11:20 - 11:30 |
› Metadata as Epistemic Devices: Towards Weak Semantic Networks in Digital Archives - Manfredi Scanagatta, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia |
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11:30 - 11:40 |
› Reconstructing Early Red Cross Communication Networks: LLM-Assisted Analysis of the Bulletin International (1884–1914) - Riccardo Aramini, Università degli studi di Torino |
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11:40 - 11:40 |
› Strings that tie: Network modeling and interactive visualization of musical instrument makers in Valdrighi's Nomocheliurgografia - Federico Filippi Prévost de Bord, Università degli studi di Genova |
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12:30 - 14:00
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Lunch |
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14:00 - 15:30
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5–A Communities and the Archive (Aula S1) - Chair-Tiziana Pasciuto |
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14:00 - 14:20 |
› Hidden voices in the archive: African agency and missionary networks in Gold Coast - Pietro Fasola, Università degli Studi di Firenze |
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14:20 - 14:40 |
› Mapping Academic Exile: A Multi-Layer Network Model of German Refugee Scholars in Türkiye (1933–1955) - Seyma Aksoy, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena |
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14:40 - 15:00 |
› The Voices and Networks of ‘Soybean-Pioneers' in Austria Since the 1950s. Conceptual and Methodological Reflections on Interviews in Historical Network Analysis. - Gabriel Tober, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz |
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14:00 - 15:30
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5–B Print and Media Networks (Aula S2) - Chair–TBD |
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14:00 - 14:20 |
› Echoes from the Periphery: Modelling Media Networks of the 1969 Apollo Landing in Authoritarian Portugal - Prezado Rafael, Universidade de Évora |
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14:20 - 14:40 |
› Visual Network Analysis of Flemish Literary Periodicals (1966-1969): Tracing Literary Dynamics Beyond the Establishment - Underground Dichotomy - Jan Lampaert, Universiteit Gent |
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14:00 - 15:30
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5–C Discovering Networks in the Sources (Aula S3) - Chair–TBD |
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15:30 - 16:00
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Afternoon break by the Roman Wall (refreshments provided) |
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16:00 - 17:45
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HNR2026 Round Table: Sources to Networks (Aula S1) - Scott Weingart & discussants TBA |
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| Time |
Event |
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09:00 - 10:30
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6–A Detecting Communities in Historical Sources (Aula S1) - Chair-Aliaksandra Valodzina |
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09:00 - 09:20 |
› Filtering the Emperor: Communication Networks around Maximilian I (1459-1519) - Marcella Tambuscio |
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09:20 - 09:40 |
› From Mentions to Modularity: Co-Occurrence Networks in Ancient Greek and Latin Texts - Evelien De Graaf, KU Leuven; Julie Nijs, KU Leuven |
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09:40 - 10:00 |
› The Invisible College of Medicine in Jagiellonian Courts: The Network of Giovanni Manardo's Medical Letters - Cihan Şimşek, University of Szeged |
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09:00 - 10:30
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6–B Migration and Mobility (Aula S2) - Chair-TBD |
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09:00 - 09:20 |
› A Spatial Network Study of Itinerant Performers' Passports in 18th- and 19th-Century France - Martin Grandjean, University of Lausanne; Johanna Daniel, Univeristé Lyon 2 Lumière/INHA |
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09:20 - 09:40 |
› From the Alpine woods to Transylvania: Emigration of Italian forestry workers to Austria-Hungary(1850s-1914) - Vincenzo Colaprice, Università degli studi di Torino; Claudio Lorenzini, Università degli studi di Torino = University of Turin |
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09:40 - 10:00 |
› Tracing multi-religiosity and interethnic networks among Iranian communities in the Red Sea (19th-20th centuries) - Sara Zanotta, Università degli studi di Torino; Tiziana Pasciuto, Università degli studi di Torino |
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09:00 - 10:30
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6–C Culture and the Cold War (Aula S3) - Chair–Margherita Criveller |
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09:00 - 09:20 |
› Bankers, Businessmen and the Cultural Cold War: Networks of Transatlantic Cultural Associationism - Giulia Clarizia, Roma Tre University |
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09:20 - 09:40 |
› Mapping the History of European Nuclear Fusion Cooperation: Combining Archival and Publication Data - Malte Vogl, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology; Lalli Roberto, Politecnico di Torino |
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09:40 - 10:00 |
› Weaving Influence: Network Dynamics of U.S. PL-480 Food Aid in Morocco during the Cold War (1957–1965) - Hanane Haichami, PhD, Independent Researcher |
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10:30 - 11:00
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Morning break by the Roman Wall (refreshments provided) |
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11:00 - 12:30
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7–A Explorations in HNR (Aula S1) - Chair–Alessandra Celati |
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11:00 - 11:10 |
› Modeling Fragmented Prosopography: Historical Network Analysis and Archival Constraints in the 16th-century Greek Community of Venice - Eleni Makrygiorgou, Università degli Studi di Teramo |
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11:10 - 11:20 |
› Networks of Order: How Austria Reconstituted Power in 1848 - Dimitra Grigoriou, Austrian Academy of Sciences |
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11:20 - 11:30 |
› Networks of the “Social Question”: Republican and Catholic Reformers in Belle Époque France (1890-1920) - Giordani Tommaso, University of Venice Ca' Foscari |
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11:30 - 11:40 |
› The Material Network Of Empire: Household Objects, Sociability, and Mobility in Colonial India - Rohini Panicker, Christ University |
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11:00 - 12:30
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7–B Technical Challenges in Network Analysis (Aula S2) - Chair-Margherita Criveller |
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11:00 - 11:10 |
› Hurry Slowly - The Jesuit Catalogs Database and Obstacles to Automation - David Thomas, Boston College; Alessandro Corsi, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies (Boston College) |
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11:10 - 11:20 |
› Researching Historical-Biographical Information in Digital Scholarly Editions Through Event-Oriented Affiliation Networks - Timo Frühwirth, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Austrian Academy of Sciences |
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11:20 - 11:30 |
› Studying News Coverage Through Embeddings Networks: Opportunities and Challenges for Historical Research - Martin Grandjean, University of Lausanne |
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11:30 - 11:40 |
› The Feature Networks of High Medieval Writing - Celis Tittse, Utrecht University, KU Leuven Faculty of Theology |
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11:40 - 11:50 |
› Unveiling Sentiment Weighted Network Analysis (SWENA) with ERGM in Ottoman-Turkish Memoirs: A Hybrid Causal Analysis - Mustafa Ilter, Izmir Institute of Technology |
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12:30 - 14:00
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Lunch |
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14:00 - 15:00
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8–A Print Culture and Information Flow (Aula S1) - Chair–TBD |
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14:00 - 14:20 |
› Press, Power, Links and Public Spheres: Newspaper Networks in the Grand Duchy of Finland, 1867–1878 - Aytaç Yürükçü, University of Eastern Finland |
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14:20 - 14:40 |
› The Flow of Information in European Book Publishing, 1500-1800 - Peeter Tinits, Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie |
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14:00 - 15:00
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8–B Trade and Commercial Exchange (Aula S2) - Chair–TBD |
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14:00 - 14:20 |
› Disclosing Counterfeit Networks: The International Association of Museum Officials in Defence Against Counterfeiting and Improper Trade Practices, c. 1900 – 1945 - Jaap Geraerts, Leibniz Institute of European History; Demival Vasques Filho, University of Luxembourg |
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14:20 - 14:40 |
› Harmonizing Historical Trade Using Geopolitical Data: A Multilayer Network Approach to Bilateral Flows, 1830–1938 - Paul Girard, OuestWare |
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14:00 - 15:00
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8–C Medieval Material Culture in Circulation (Aula S3) - Chair–TBD |
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14:00 - 14:20 |
› Mapping Monastic Networks: The TITULI Project and the Circulation of Medieval Mortuary Rolls (8th–16th c.) - Davide Gherdevich, Dynamiques patrimoniales et culturelles |
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14:20 - 14:40 |
› NOMISMATA: exploring numismatic networks emerging from a source driven database - Pim van Bree, Lab1100; Geert Kessels, Lab1100 |
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15:30 - 16:30
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Closing Keynote (Aula S1) - TBA |
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16:30 - 17:00
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Conference Closing Remarks (Aula S1) - HNR |
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