Update for the upcoming Connected Past conference, via Tom Brughmans:
The Connected Past 2017 is a multi-disciplinary, international two-day conference that aims to provide a friendly and informal platform for exploring the use of network research in the study of the human past.
We would like to notify you that the conference and workshop programmes for The Connected Past 2017 are now available (see below), and that registration is open.
The Connected Past 2017: the future of past networks?
Bournemouth University (UK), August 24-25th 2017
Practical Networks Workshop, August 22nd-23rd 2017
Registration (£35 conference, £20 workshop): http://connectedpast.net/other-events/bournemouth-2017/registration/
Conference programme: http://connectedpast.net/other-events/bournemouth-2017/conference-programme/
Workshop programme: http://connectedpast.net/other-events/bournemouth-2017/workshop/
We look forward to seeing you in Bournemouth!
Tom, Anna, Fiona
http://connectedpast.net
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WORKSHOP PROGRAMME
Tuesday 22 August
10-12: an introduction to network science in archaeology. Key concepts, methods, and history of research (Tom Brughmans).
12-13: lunch
13-15: exploratory network analysis with Visone. Import archaeological data as network, network visualisation, network analysis (Tom Brughmans).
15-15:30: coffee break.
15:30-16:30: applying network approaches in archaeological research: personal experiences, advantages, pitfalls (Anna Collar, Fiona Coward).
16:30 onwards: informal project consultation in the pub. Discussions on how network science could work within your research context. Bring your data and fascinating research ideas and let’s talk.
Wednesday 23 August
9-10: an introduction to agent-based modelling in archaeology. Key concept, methods, hands-on tutorials, overlap and differences with network research (Iza Romanowska).
10-12: agent-based network modelling with Netlogo. First steps tutorial, simulate processes over networks, generate different network structures, importing networks, geographical layouts (Tom Brughmans).
12-13: lunch.
13-14: network visualisation. Key concepts, diverse approaches, temporal and multi-modal data, demonstration of NetworkCube as an example (Benjamin Bach).
14-14:30: coffee break.
14:30-15:30: Spatial Interaction Modelling I : Motivation and Description (Ray Rivers)
Spatial Interaction Models (SIMs) provide a useful framework for dynamical networks when data is too poor for Data modelling and when geography is important. The models described will range from intrinsically Bayesian Constrained Entropy/Gravity models through Intervening Opportunity Models to Cost-benefit Analysis.
15:30-16:30: Spatial Interaction Modelling II : Applications (Tim Evans)
In this session we look at some examples which illustrate the virtues and limitations of different models. In particular, we show how, despite uncertainties in the inputs and the stochastic ambiguities of the outputs, it is possible to develop robust outcomes.
16:30 onwards: informal project consultation in the pub. Discussions on how network science could work within your research context. Bring your data and fascinating research ideas and let’s talk.
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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
August 24th 2017
Timeslot
Paper author(s)
Title
10-10.15am
Registration and coffee
10.15-10.30am
Welcome: Tom Brughmans, Anna Collar, Fiona Coward
Session 1: Ego-networks and individuals
10.30-11am
Matthew Hammond & Cornell Jackson
Analysis of Ego-Networks of Witnesses to Medieval Charters: Opportunities and Challenges
11-11.30am
Lena Tambs
Mixing Emic and Etic Perspectives for Studying Small-Scale Communities of the Past: The Case of Pathyris (c. 165-88 BCE)
11.30-12pm
Esther Lewis
Was Bristol a ‘hotbed of heresy’?: a discussion of the use of networks in the pursuit of medieval heresy.
12-1pm
Lunch
Session 2: Accounting for temporal change
1-1.30pm
Ray Rivers & Tim Evans
Is machine time historical time?
1.30-2pm
Elisa Grandi
Social networks and path dependency in the international economic advising. The World Bank first mission in Colombia and its aftermaths (1949-1954)
2-2.30pm
Cécile Rivals
The modeling of urban spatial dynamics in long time spans: The use of graph theory in Saint-Antonin- Noble-Val (Tarn-et-Garonne, France) from the 14th to the 19th centuries
2-2.30pm
Coffee
Session 3: Networks and Geographical Space
3-3.30pm
Denis Hakszer
Networks vs. Ideology: Network transformation in Caria and the Dodecanese during the Classical Period
3.30-4pm
Katherine Crawford
Movement within the Cityscape: the potential of applying network methods
4-4.30pm
Mark Groenhuijzen & Philip Verhagen
(Finding the Limits of) Network Approaches to Local Transport in the Dutch Part of the Roman Limes
4.30-5.30pm
Keynote: Eleftheria Paliou
August 25th 2017
Timeslot
Paper Author(s)
Title
Session 4: Categorisations and Material Similarity Networks
9-9.30am
Beatrijs De Groot
Networks of ceramic assemblage similarity and the Neolithisation of South-East Europe
9.30-10am
Clara Filet, Fabrice Rossi & Aurélia Feugnet
Co-presence Analysis and Significance Scores:
when network studies highlight choices of Iron Age elites
10-10.30am
Fiona Coward
‘All things being equal?’ Material networks of the early Neolithic in the Near East
10.30-11am
Coffee
Session 5: Methodological Decision making and the consequences of research design
11-11.30am
Christine Johnston
Choice and Consequence in Research Design: Ceramic Networks and the Study of Political Economies
11.30-12pm
Lennart Linde
Networks, Agents and Interactions: How to use Agent Based Models to Investigate Archaeological Network Formation
12-12.30pm
tbc
tbc
12.30-1.30pm
Lunch
Session 6: Modelling movement and transportation
1.30-2pm
Ignacio Morer, Luce Prignano, Francesca Fulminante, Sergi Lozano
Modelling transportation networks in protohistoric scenarios: assessing the impact of incomplete datasets
2-2.30pm
Christina Williamson & Onno van Nijf
Whose network? The complexities of multiscalar festival networks in the Graeco-Roman world
2.30-3pm
Carrie A. Fulton
Adding Shipwrecks into Maritime Networks: Shipping Meat in the Roman Mediterranean
3-3.30pm
Discussion