HNR2026: The Historical Network Research Conference 2026 (Turin, Italy)

9:00 - 12:30 (3h30)

Workshop: Introduction to Nodegoat

Aula S3

Geert Kessels, Pim van Bree

12:30 - 13:30 (1h)

Lunch and Badge Collection

13:30 - 14:00 (30min)

Welcome & Opening Remarks

Aula S1

HNR2026 Organizer, HNR Community Board

14:00 - 15:30 (1h30)

1–A Objects, Traces and Ancient Connectivity

Aula S1

Chair–Tiziana Pasciuto

› 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 14:00-14:20 (20min)

› From Pyramid Town to Provincial Necropolis: Sources and Networks in Middle Kingdom Egypt - Danijela Stefanovic, University of Belgrade 14:20-14:40 (20min)

› Historical Networks as Treasure Maps: Finding Relevant Sources with Aid from Attestation Networks - Lena Tambs, University of Helsinki 14:40-15:00 (20min)

14:00 - 15:30 (1h30)

1–B Testimony, Belief and Inquisition

Aula S2

Chair–Jean-Paul Rehr

› Beyond Repression: Network Analysis and Social Dynamics in Medieval Inquisition Records - Mussinatto Roberto, Università degli Studi di Padova/Université Côte d'Azur 14:00-14:20 (20min)

› 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 14:20-14:40 (20min)

› Gender bias and endogenous dynamics of denunciations in shaping knowledge about the heterodox - Davor Salihovic, Universiteit Antwerpen 14:40-15:00 (20min)

14:00 - 15:30 (1h30)

1–C Women and Gender

Aula S3

Chair–Alessandra Celati

› 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 14:00-14:20 (20min)

› 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 14:20-14:40 (20min)

› Networks of Manuscript Production: Mapping Female Scribes and their Texts in Medieval Europe - Estelle Gueville, Yale University 14:40-15:00 (20min)

15:30 - 16:00 (30min)

Afternoon break by the Roman Wall (refreshments provided)

16:00 - 17:15 (1h15)

2–B Ancient and Medieval Connectivity

Aula S2

Chair–TBD

› Clustering Lead White References Across Graeco-Roman Genres: Visual Network Analysis from a TheSu XML Dataset - Daniele Morrone, KU Leuven 16:00-16:10 (10min)

› 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 16:10-16:20 (10min)

› Exploring the Late Medieval Adriatic Wax Trade with Neo4j - Vladimir Aleksic, Free University Berlin 16:20-16:30 (10min)

› 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 16:30-16:40 (10min)

16:00 - 17:15 (1h15)

2–A Surveillance, Dissent and Control

Aula S1

Chair–Margherita Criveller

› Constructing the Enemy: Network Analysis of Anti-Hussite Vocabulary in Late Medieval Diplomatic Correspondence - Aliaksandra Valodzina, Austrian Academy of Sciences 16:00-16:10 (10min)

› Investigating the Resilience of Waldensian Heterodoxy in Medieval Fribourg using Social Network Analysis - Stanisław Banach, Masaryk University 16:10-16:20 (10min)

› Networks under Surveillance: Source Bias and Historical Network Reconstruction in Revolutionary Iran - Misagh Depretis Javadpour, Universiteit van Amsterdam 16:20-16:30 (10min)

› Watching Your Back: Identifying Organization and Movement Counter-Surveillance via FOIA Requests (1989 – 1992) - Stephanie Zhang, UCLA Sociology 16:30-16:40 (10min)

17:30 - 18:30 (1h)

HNR2026 Opening Keynote

Aula S1

Scott B. Weingart

18:30 - 19:30 (1h)

HNR2026 Welcome aperitivo by the Roman Wall (refreshments provided)

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