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Monday, July 20, 2026
| Time | Event | |
| 09:00 - 12:30 | Workshop: Introduction to Nodegoat (Aula S3) - Geert Kessels, Pim van Bree | |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch and Badge Collection | |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Welcome & Opening Remarks (Aula S1) - HNR2026 Organizer, HNR Community Board | |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | 1–A Objects, Traces and Ancient Connectivity (Aula S1) - Chair–Tiziana Pasciuto | |
| 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 | |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | › From Pyramid Town to Provincial Necropolis: Sources and Networks in Middle Kingdom Egypt - Danijela Stefanovic, University of Belgrade | |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | › Historical Networks as Treasure Maps: Finding Relevant Sources with Aid from Attestation Networks - Lena Tambs, University of Helsinki | |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | 1–B Testimony, Belief and Inquisition (Aula S2) - Chair–Jean-Paul Rehr | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | › Gender bias and endogenous dynamics of denunciations in shaping knowledge about the heterodox - Davor Salihovic, Universiteit Antwerpen | |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | 1–C Women and Gender (Aula S3) - Chair–Alessandra Celati | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | › Networks of Manuscript Production: Mapping Female Scribes and their Texts in Medieval Europe - Estelle Gueville, Yale University | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Afternoon break by the Roman Wall (refreshments provided) | |
| 16:00 - 17:15 | 2–B Ancient and Medieval Connectivity (Aula S2) - Chair–TBD | |
| 16:00 - 16:10 | › Clustering Lead White References Across Graeco-Roman Genres: Visual Network Analysis from a TheSu XML Dataset - Daniele Morrone, KU Leuven | |
| 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 | |
| 16:20 - 16:30 | › Exploring the Late Medieval Adriatic Wax Trade with Neo4j - Vladimir Aleksic, Free University Berlin | |
| 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 | |
| 16:00 - 17:15 | 2–A Surveillance, Dissent and Control (Aula S1) - Chair–Margherita Criveller | |
| 16:00 - 16:10 | › Constructing the Enemy: Network Analysis of Anti-Hussite Vocabulary in Late Medieval Diplomatic Correspondence - Aliaksandra Valodzina, Austrian Academy of Sciences | |
| 16:10 - 16:20 | › Investigating the Resilience of Waldensian Heterodoxy in Medieval Fribourg using Social Network Analysis - Stanisław Banach, Masaryk University | |
| 16:20 - 16:30 | › Networks under Surveillance: Source Bias and Historical Network Reconstruction in Revolutionary Iran - Misagh Depretis Javadpour, Universiteit van Amsterdam | |
| 16:30 - 16:40 | › Watching Your Back: Identifying Organization and Movement Counter-Surveillance via FOIA Requests (1989 – 1992) - Stephanie Zhang, UCLA Sociology | |
| 17:30 - 18:30 | HNR2026 Opening Keynote (Aula S1) - Scott B. Weingart | |
| 18:30 - 19:30 | HNR2026 Welcome aperitivo by the Roman Wall (refreshments provided) |
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
| Time | Event | |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | 3–A The Circulation of Knowledge (Aula S1) - Chair–Alessandra Celati | |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | › “Nourished Among the Foremost Men”: An Inquiry into Grosseteste's Intellectual Background - Matthieu Statius, Théologie catholique et sciences religieuses | |
| 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 | |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | › The BorGal project. What's next? - Federica Favino, Università degli Studi di Roma | |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | 3–B Arts, Institutions and Actors (Aula S2) - Chair–Tiziana Pasciuto | |
| 09:30 - 09:50 | › Navigating Institutional Archives of Suisse Romande Architecture Competitions - Clay Foye, EPFL, University of Zurich; Paul Guhennec, EPFL, University of Zurich | |
| 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 | |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | › Politics behind the Score: The Institutionalization of the São Paulo Municipal Symphony Orchestra - Breno Ampáro, Instituto de Artes, UNESP | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Morning break by the Roman Wall (refreshments provided) | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | 4–B Correspondences (Aula S2) - Chair–Tiziana Pasciuto | |
| 11:00 - 11:10 | › Caesurae and Continuities: A Qualitative-Quantitative Analysis of a Correspondence Network between 1882–1926 - Manuel Schmidinger, Leopold Franzens Universität Innsbruck | |
| 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 | |
| 11:20 - 11:30 | › Reconstructing Visibility through Archival Sources: Grazia Pierantoni Mancini's Epistolary Networks - Aurora Sturli, University of Cambridge | |
| 11:30 - 11:40 | › St. Petersburg Literacy Committee: Bipartite Networks of 1885 Correspondence - Anna Britanova, European University at Saint Petersburg | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | 4–A Machine Language and Historical Sources (Aula S1) - Chair–Jean-Paul Rehr | |
| 11:00 - 11:10 | › “From Bibliography to Network: Mapping the Contemporary Field of Leigh Hunt Studies (1987–2025)” - Michael Sinatra, Université de Montréal | |
| 11:10 - 11:20 | › Integrating Generative LLMs into the Study of Middle-Period Chinese Elites - Song Chen, Bucknell University | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | 5–A Communities and the Archive (Aula S1) - Chair-Tiziana Pasciuto | |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | › Hidden voices in the archive: African agency and missionary networks in Gold Coast - Pietro Fasola, Università degli Studi di Firenze | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | 5–B Print and Media Networks (Aula S2) - Chair–TBD | |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | › Echoes from the Periphery: Modelling Media Networks of the 1969 Apollo Landing in Authoritarian Portugal - Prezado Rafael, Universidade de Évora | |
| 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 | |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | 5–C Discovering Networks in the Sources (Aula S3) - Chair–TBD | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Afternoon break by the Roman Wall (refreshments provided) | |
| 16:00 - 17:45 | HNR2026 Round Table: Sources to Networks (Aula S1) - Scott Weingart & discussants TBA |
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
| Time | Event | |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | 6–A Detecting Communities in Historical Sources (Aula S1) - Chair-Aliaksandra Valodzina | |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | › Filtering the Emperor: Communication Networks around Maximilian I (1459-1519) - Marcella Tambuscio | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | 6–B Migration and Mobility (Aula S2) - Chair-TBD | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | 6–C Culture and the Cold War (Aula S3) - Chair–Margherita Criveller | |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | › Bankers, Businessmen and the Cultural Cold War: Networks of Transatlantic Cultural Associationism - Giulia Clarizia, Roma Tre University | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Morning break by the Roman Wall (refreshments provided) | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | 7–A Explorations in HNR (Aula S1) - Chair–Alessandra Celati | |
| 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 | |
| 11:10 - 11:20 | › Networks of Order: How Austria Reconstituted Power in 1848 - Dimitra Grigoriou, Austrian Academy of Sciences | |
| 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 | |
| 11:30 - 11:40 | › The Material Network Of Empire: Household Objects, Sociability, and Mobility in Colonial India - Rohini Panicker, Christ University | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | 7–B Technical Challenges in Network Analysis (Aula S2) - Chair-Margherita Criveller | |
| 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) | |
| 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 | |
| 11:20 - 11:30 | › Studying News Coverage Through Embeddings Networks: Opportunities and Challenges for Historical Research - Martin Grandjean, University of Lausanne | |
| 11:30 - 11:40 | › The Feature Networks of High Medieval Writing - Celis Tittse, Utrecht University, KU Leuven Faculty of Theology | |
| 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 | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | 8–A Print Culture and Information Flow (Aula S1) - Chair–TBD | |
| 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 | |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | › The Flow of Information in European Book Publishing, 1500-1800 - Peeter Tinits, Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | 8–B Trade and Commercial Exchange (Aula S2) - Chair–TBD | |
| 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 | |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | › Harmonizing Historical Trade Using Geopolitical Data: A Multilayer Network Approach to Bilateral Flows, 1830–1938 - Paul Girard, OuestWare | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | 8–C Medieval Material Culture in Circulation (Aula S3) - Chair–TBD | |
| 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 | |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | › NOMISMATA: exploring numismatic networks emerging from a source driven database - Pim van Bree, Lab1100; Geert Kessels, Lab1100 | |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Closing Keynote (Aula S1) - TBA | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Conference Closing Remarks (Aula S1) - HNR |
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