Due to the continued uncertainties in the course of the Covid19 pandemic, we have decided to make the conference a virtual event.

• Workshop Day (Wed, 30.06.)
• Conference Day 1 (Thu, 01.07.)
• Conference Day 2 (Fri, 02.07.)
• Sessions in Detail

Workshop Day (Wed, 30.06.)

09:30	Analysis of Two-Mode Networks with Python Demival Vasques Filho
10:45	coffee break
11:00	Exponential Random Graph Models: Theory and Applications on Historical Networks  Antonio Fiscarelli
12:15	lunch break
13:30	From Historical Source to Network Data Claire Lemercier
14:45	coffee break
15:00	Introduction to Social Network Analysis: Basics and Historical Specificities Martin Grandjean
16:15	coffee break
16:30	Opening Keynote Matteo Valleriani The Sphaera Corpus in its Social and Economic Context
17:30	Opening Reception

Conference Day 1 (Thu, 01.07.)

	Room 1	Room 2
09:30	Welcome Address Andreas Fickers, HNR team
10:00	Networking Publications	Economic Transactions
10:20
10:40
11:00	coffee break
11:15	Networks and History of Science	Networking Correspondences
11:35
11:55
12:15	lunch break
13:30	Networks and Spatial Analysis I	Networks and Cultural Objects
13:50
14:10
14:30	coffee break
14:45	Co-authorship and Citations	Biographies and Careers in China
15:05
15:25
15:45	coffee break
16:00	Poster Session Room 1: Institutions and Institutionalisation Room 2: Networks and Spatial Analysis II Room 3: Networks and Medieval Texts

Conference Day 2 (Fri, 02.07.)

	Room 1	Room 2
09:00	Networks of Events	Kinship and Geneology
09:20
09:40
10:00	coffee break
10:15	Networks and Power
10:35
10:55
11:15	coffee break
11:30	Data and Methodology
11:50
12:10
12:30	lunch break
14:00	Software Demos
14:20
14:40
15:00
15:20	coffee break
15:35	Closing Keynote Marion Maisonobe «Les lieux qui font liens»: Several Ways to Integrate Places in Network Analysis

Sessions in Detail

Thursday, 01.07.

Networking Publications
Thursday, 01.07., 10:00–11:00 – Room 1

• Information extraction from medieval sources and historical network analysis: Late medieval clerical networks in the Repertorium Germanicum
  Robert Gramsch-Stehfest, Christian Knüpfer and Clemens Beck
• Character Networks in a Collection of 19th Century German Novellas
  Simon Päpcke and Ulrik Brandes
• Networks and development programs after WWII: the ego network of David Lilienthal (1950-1960)
  Elisa Grandi

History of Science
Thursday, 01.07., 11:15–12:15 – Room 1

• Cartesianism as a Social Epidemic: A Network Analysis Approach
  Paolo Rossini
• Recreating the network of early modern natural philosophy: social, semantic and linguistic dimensions
  Andrea Sangiacomo, Raluca Tanasescu, Silvia Donker and Hugo Hogenbirk

Networks and Spatial Analysis
Thursday, 01.07., 13:30–14:30 – Room 1

• The Greek Friendly Society (Philike Etaireia) as spatial and social network (1814-1821)
  Marios Hatzopoulos and Johannes Preiser Kapeller
• Mapping the social-economic network among painters in early modern Amsterdam
  Weixuan Li
• Textual Ecologies: Infrastructural Networks and Geosemantic Patterns in Nineteenth-Century Scotland
  Eric Gidal and Michael Gavin

Co-authorship and Citations
Thursday, 01.07., 14:45–15:45 – Room 1

• The dynamics of socio-epistemic networks – case study: the history of General Relativity, 1925-1970
  Roberto Lalli and Dirk Wintergrün
• Dropping out of circulation: How authors faded from 18th century learned journals
  Tobias Winnerling
• From Networks to Named Entities and Back Again: Exploring Classical Arabic Isnad Networks
  Ryan Muther, David Smith and Sarah Savant

Economic Transactions
Thursday, 01.07., 10:00–11:00 – Room 2

• Credit and social relations in an eighteenth-century urban economy. An application of SNA to an early modern merchant firm
  Francesca Odella and Cinzia Lorandini
• Social networks and entrepreneurship. Evidence from a historical episode of industrialization
  Javier Mejia
• “Taking time seriously”: an empirical approach to an American merchant network at the end of the 18th century
  Louis Bissieres

Networking Correspondences
Thursday, 01.07., 11:15–12:15 – Room 2

• Flow of Letters in Ptomelaic Egypt: Transportation and Connectivity between Center and Periphery
  Fernanda Alvares Freire
• ‚Distant Reading‘ Large Correspondence Archives Using Networks
  Yann Ciarán Ryan
• Modeling social context improves role detection in communication network of 16th century European reformers
  Ramona Roller and Frank Schweitzer

Networks and Cultural Objects
Thursday, 01.07., 13:30–14:30 – Room 2

• Collective identity formation through symbolic networks: The emergence of auteur filmmaking in New Hollywood
  Katharina Burgdorf and Henning Hillmann
• Diffusion of Innovation: The Social Networks of Ancient Athenian Potters
  Diane Harris-Cline and Eleni Hasaki
• Archaeological network research: what, when, who, why and where we go from here
  Tom Brughmans

Biographies and Careers in China
Thursday, 01.07., 14:45–15:45 – Room 2

• From Textual to Historical Networks: Reconstructing Social Relations among Chinese Elites from the Biographical Dictionary of Republican China (BRDC)
  Christian Henriot and Cecile Armand
• Mingling in Chongqing: Intellectual Networks in Exile and their Role in the Construction of a Post-war China
  Henrike Rudolph
• From Capital Domination to Regional Clusters: Kinship Networks of Prefects in China in the 1040s and the 1210s
  Song Chen

Poster session

Thursday, 01.07., 16:00–17:00 – Room 1–4

1-Minute Lightning Round

Room 1: Institutions and Institutionalisation

• Female Agency in the Late Republic: A Social Networking Approach
  Greg Gilles
• Indian indenture in the British Empire. A global network, 1838-1920.
  Eric Hielscher
• The restoration of English Catholicism between 1553-1558 – a matter of social relations?
  Corina Knorn
• Scholars, Institutions and Scholars. Networks of Cultural Memory Production in Serbian Medieval Studies since the Nineteenth Century
  Stefan Trajkovic Filipovic

Room 2: Networks and Spatial Analysis II

• Analysing geospatial networks under the Ancien Régime and the early 19th century: marriage, godparenthood and economic relationships in Corsier-sur-Vevey (Switzerland)
  Lucas Rappo
• Spatially explicit reconstruction of historical transport infrastructure
  Raphaël Fuhrer
• “Huaqiao” business networks in the Russia and China border peripheral territories
  Olga Zalesskaia

Room 3: Networks and Medieval Texts

• Networks in Early Medieval Narratives: Female Presence in cliques
  Ana Bazzan
• Transfer, translation, transgression. Network Approaches to Medieval Translation Studies
  Sven Kraus
• A network of texts: an historical and linguistic approach to Portuguese municipal charters during Middle Ages
  Filipa Roldão and Joana Serafim

Friday, 02.07.

Networks of Events
Friday, 02.07., 09:00–10:00 – Room 1

• Les congrès féminins et féministes entre 1878 et 1915. Un réseau transnational de la cause des femmes ?
  Alix Heiniger
• An analysis of the evolving network of European policymakers on EMU, 1958-1992
  Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol
• Structure, culture and agency – the position of Soros’ organizations in the Croatian institutional landscape
  Sanja Sekelj and Željka Tonković

Networks and Power
Friday, 02.07., 10:15–11:15 – Room 1

• Analysing the leadership networks of the first Portuguese women’s associations to internationalize (1914-1947)
  Raquel Rego, Anne Cova, Isabel Freire and João Esteves
• The Information-Network of an Imperial Diplomat at the Sublime Porte (17th Century)
  Elisabeth Lobenwein
• Networks from archives: reconstructing networks of official correspondence in the early modern Portuguese Empire
  Demival Vasques Filho

Data and Methodology
Friday, 02.07., 11:30–12:30 – Room 1

• Modelling longitudinal data: dynamic networks and research question-led variable datasets – the case of medieval royal households
  Matthew Hammond
• Assessing and Modelling Interaction in the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean: Negotiating between too much and too little data
  Paula Gheorghiade, Henry C. W. Price, Ray J. Rivers and Tim S. Evans
• Robustness in Network Extraction from Text: a Case Study
  Ana L. C. Bazzan, Silvio Renato Dahmen, Sandra Denise Prado, Máirín MacCarron, Julia Hillner and Ulriika Vihervalli

Software Demos
Friday, 02.07., 14:00–15:20 – Room 1

• PAOHVis: Analyzing Dynamic Hypergraphs with Parallel Aggregated Ordered Hypergraph Visualization
  Paola Valdivia, Paolo Buono, Catherine Plaisant, Nicole Dufournaud and Jean-Daniel Fekete
• PK-Clustering: Integrating Prior Knowledge in Mixed-Initiative Social Network Clustering
  Alexis Pister, Paolo Buono, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Catherine Plaisant and Paola Valdivia
• Historical Dates as Networks: Introducing Chronology Statements for nodegoat
  Pim van Bree and Geert Kessels
• Epistemic Network Analysis: A Technique for Modeling Discourse Networks in Historical Source Material
  Andrew Ruis

Kinship and Geneaology
Friday, 02.07., 09:00–09:40 – Room 2

• The intersect of Digital Genealogy and Historical Social Network Analysis: extraction of data from bureaucratic text for prosographical consideration
  Iain Riddell
• Kinship ties and collective action: a network analysis of the 1691 revolt attempt in the city of Basel, Switzerland
  Niccolò Armandola and Malte Doehne