Apologies for cross-posting!
Hi all,
In just a few weeks 'The Connected Past: people, networks and complexity in archaeology and history' will take place at the University of Southampton's Faculty of Humanities (24-25 March 2012). There are still a few places available, registration will remain open until Monday 12 March (http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/registration/). The full schedule is now available online (http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/schedule/) and included below this email. We are looking forward to contributed papers and posters by scholars from a wide range of disciplines, as well as to our keynote speakers Carl Knappett, Irad Malkin and Alex Bentley.
More information on the event can be found online: http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/
Kind regards,
Tom, Anna and Fiona
http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/
Saturday 24 March
8-9.00 Registration
9-9.15 Introductions
9.15-10.00 First keynote
10-10.15 Coffee
10.15-11.30 First session: Theoretical and methodological concerns
Tom Brughmans
“Networks of networks: A critical review of formal network methods in archaeology through citation network analysis and close reading”
Johannes Preiser-Kappeller
“Luhmann in Byzantium. A systems theory approach for historical network analysis”
Andrew Bevan
“When nodes and edges dissolve. Incorporating geographic uncertainty into the analysis of settlement interactions”
11.30-11.45 Coffee
11.45-1 First session: Theoretical and methodological concerns
Astrid Van Oyen
“Actors as networks? How to make Actor-Network-Theory work for archaeology: on the reality of categories in the production of Roman terra sigillata”
Søren Sindbæk
“Contextual network synthesis: Reading communication in archaeology”
Marten Düring
“How reliable are centrality and clustering measures for data collected from fragmentary and heterogenuous historical sources? A case study”
1-1.45 Lunch and poster session
1.45-3 Second session: Big data and archaeology
Barbara Mills et al.
“Dynamic Network Analysis: Stability and Collapse in U.S. Southwest, A.D. 1200-1500″
Herbert Maschner et al.
“Food-webs as network tools for investigating historic and prehistoric roles of humans as consumers in marine ecosystems”
Mark Depauw and Bart Van Beek
“Authority and Social Interaction in Graeco‐Roman Egypt”
3-3.15 Tea
3.15-4.55 Second session: Big data and archaeology
Eivind Heldaas Seland
“Travel and religion in late antiquity”
Alessandro Quercia and Lin Foxhall
“Weaving networks in pre-Roman South Italy. Using loom weight data to understand complex relationships and social identities”
Angus Mol and Corinne Hofman
“Networks Set in Stone: Lithic production and exchange in the early prehistoric northeastern Caribbean”
Craig Alexander
“Networks and intervisibility: a study of Iron Age Valcamonica”
4.55-5.10 Break
5.10-5.55 Second keynote (and wine reception)
6.00-7.00 Reception
7 onwards Dinner and drinks in The Crown pub
Sunday 25 March
9-9.45 Third keynote
9.45-10 Coffee
10-11.15 Third session: Dynamic networks and modelling
Ray Rivers
“Can we always get what we want?”
Anne Kandler and Fabio Caccioli
“The effects of network structure on cultural change”
Qiming Lv et al.
“Network-based spatial-temporal modelling of the first arrival of prehistoric agriculture”
11.15-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.45 Third session: Dynamic networks and modelling
Tim Evans
“Which Network Model Should I Use? A Quantitative Comparison of Spatial Network Models in Archaeology”
Juan A. Barceló et al.
“Simulating the Emergence of Social Networks of Restricted Cooperation in Prehistory. A Bayesian network approach”
Marco Büchler
“Generation of Text Graphs and Text Re-use Graphs from Massive Digital Data”
12.45-1.30 Lunch and poster session
1.30-2.45 Fourth session: Personal, political and migration networks
Wilko Schroeter
“The social marriage network of Europe’s ruling families from 1600-1900″
Ekaterini Mitsiou
“Networks of state building: State collapses and aristocratic networks in the 13th century Eastern Mediterranean”
Evi Gorogianni
“Marrying out: a consideration of cultural exogamy and its implications on material culture”
2.45-3 Tea
3-4.35 Fourth session: Personal, political and migration networks
Elena Isayev
“Edging beyond the shore: Questioning Polybius’s view of Rome and Italy at the dawn of the ‘global moment’ of the 2nd century BC”
Claire Lemercier and Paul-André Rosental
“Networks in time and space. The structure and dynamics of migration in 19th-century Northern France”
Amara Thornton
“Reconstructing Networks in the History of Archaeology”
Katherine Larson
“Sign Here: Tracing Spatial and Social Networks of Hellenistic Sculptors”
4.35-4.45 Break
4.45-5.30 Discussion (and wine reception)
5.30 onwards Dinner and drinks at The Crown pub
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