Session:<\/strong> Poster Session – Institutions and Institutionalisation<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Keywords: <\/strong>History of scholarship; Serbian medieval studies; Cultural memory; Memory agents; Bi-modal networks; Dual-projection approach<\/p>\n\n\n\n This poster presentation approaches the production of cultural memory of Middle Ages, understood as an entanglement of cultural memory agents – specialist memory makers and institutions (Assmann 2008). Remembering the Middle Ages has been an important aspect of ideological mobilization in the modern and contemporary European history, with scholars acting as distinguished memory makers. The research focuses on medievalists dealing with Serbian medieval history since the nineteenth century, observed as nodes in a network relative to their institutional engagement, providing insights into the dynamics of the selected scholarship and revealing relevant agents contributing to the continuous production of knowledge\/cultural memory. The research aims to develop a network model offering a relational perspective on the history of scholarship and complementing other network models. References<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Assmann, Jan. \u201cCommunicative and Cultural Memory.\u201d In: Astrid Erll, Ansgar N\u00fcnning (eds.). Media and Cultural Memory. Berlin, 2008. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u0106irkovi\u0107 Sima, Mihalj\u010di\u0107 Rade (eds.). Enciklopedija srpske istoriografije. Belgrade, 1997. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Everett G., Martin. \u201cCentrality and the dual-projection approach for two-mode social network data.\u201d Methodological Innovations Volume 9\/1\u20138, 2016. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Haas Jessica, Malang Thomas. \u201cBeziehungen und Kanten.\u201d In: Christian Stegbauer, Roger H\u00e4u\u00dfling (eds.). Handbuch Netzwerkforschung. Wiesbaden, 2010. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Lemercier, Claire. \u201cFormal network methods in history: why and how?\u201d in: Social Networks, Political Institutions, and Rural Societies. (https:\/\/halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr\/halshs-00521527v2<\/a>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Mutschke, Peter. \u201cZentralit\u00e4tsanomalien und Netzwerkstruktur. Ein Pl\u00e4doyer f\u00fcr einen \u2018engeren\u2019 Netzwerkbegriff und ein community-orientiertes Zentralit\u00e4tsmodell\u201d. In: Christian Stegbauer (ed). Netzwerkanalyse und Netzwerktheorie: Ein neues Paradigma in den Sozialwissenschaften. Wiesbaden, 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stefan Trajkovic Filipovic Place and Time: Thursday, 01.07., 16:00\u201317:00, Room 1Session: Poster Session – Institutions and Institutionalisation Keywords: History of scholarship; Serbian medieval studies; Cultural memory; Memory agents; Bi-modal networks; Dual-projection approach Download the poster as PDF: HNR2021Poster_Trajkovic-Filipovic This poster presentation approaches the production of cultural memory of Middle Ages, understood as an entanglement of cultural memory agents – specialist<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/hnr2021.historicalnetworkresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/HNR2021Poster_Trajkovic-Filipovic.jpg\")
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Data, obtained from the Encyclopedia of Serbian Historiography (\u0106irkovi\u0107, Mihalj\u010di\u0107 1997), contains 214 scholars born between 1800 and 1960 and institutions of their education and work. The data-set is further expanded with lists of publishers scholars published with, obtained from bibliographic entries (https:\/\/www.cobiss.net\/ – regional integrated library catalogs). Starting from the interactions-affiliations networks, approaching actors based on their physical\/ideal presence at the same space-time, I work towards a bi-modal network of individuals participating in collective endeavors (Haas, Malang 2010). Data is organized into a relational database, connecting scholars with institutions (work, education, publishing). Distributing the scholars into six generations addresses data\u2019s temporal aspect, offering a balanced distribution (number of scholars steadily increasing over generations). Using Gephi, the database is made into undirected, non-weighted bi-modal networks of scholars\/institutions (nodes) and institutional engagements (edges), and further converted into projections with Multimode Network Transformation plugin. Projections turn a bi-modal network into two one-modal networks, making one node type from the bi-modal original into an edge (Everett 2016). I focus on the projection in which institutions become edges, connecting scholars through shared involvement within the same generation. I calculate centrality (degree and weighted degree, as edges gain weight in projections) and visualize communities. The (weighted) degree centrality acts as a local network property, reflecting its importance when basing the quality of edges on theoretical considerations (Mutschke 2010), as well as the individuals\u2019 limited perspective regarding their effect in a network (Lemercier 2011). Communities\u2019 visualizations allow visual inspection and evaluate networks based on their number. Finally, I compare the projection results to the results of the same calculations\/visualizations for the bi-modal original.
The research combines a relational database of memory agents with dual-projection approach, offering new perspectives on the dynamics of knowledge\/cultural memory production and complementing future\/existing network models (e.g. citation network). The poster presents chronologically arranged visualizations for each generation of scholars, both for the bi-modal originals and projections, with corresponding metrics, revealing the differences in centrality\/relevance of individual scholars before and after projections. Unlike linear historiography overviews, outlining the significance of selected authorities, this network model distributes the attention on scholars who might not be authorities, but through their institutional engagement and connections to their peers actively participate in the production and dissemination of cultural memory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n