Dear member of the HNR community,

This CfP might be of interest to you, via dr. Matthew Hammond:

CALL FOR PAPERS

DEADLINE: 18 September 2023

International Medieval Congress,

University of Leeds,

1-4 July 2024

Social Network Analysis Researchers of the Middle Ages (SNARMA) is looking for proposals for a strand entitled ‘Network Analysis for Medieval Studies’ at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds in 2024. The precise number of sessions and themes of each session will be decided based on the submissions. We would like to encourage the submissions to be as interdisciplinary as possible: the strand is very much open to those working on networks in language, literature, archaeology, etc., as well as history. We would also like to encourage submissions spanning the whole breadth of the Middle Ages chronologically. Papers may be focussed on particular case studies or on methodological questions such as the challenges proposed by fragmentary sources. We hope to present sessions which showcase a variety of different historical source types, such as charters, letters, chronicles, literary sources, and so forth. Papers should engage with either mathematical social network analysis or the theory of social network analysis.

Please email medievalSNA@gmail.com with a title and abstract up to 250 words, as well as your name, position, affiliation, and contact details, by 18 Sept. 2023.

Topics may include but are not confined to:

• Using SNA to define borders within datasets
• Temporal, dynamic, or stochastic networks
• Geographical networks
• Diffusion models of disease spread
• Diffusion models of religious beliefs
• Data modelling with historical sources
• Opportunities and challenges of assigning motivations to historical actors using social network theory
• Digital prosopography and SNA
• Advantages and disadvantages of particular software packages
• SNA as a visualization tool
• SNA as an heuristic tool
• ‘Learning curve’ issues in the Humanities
• Networks of:
  • Objects or artefacts
  • Manuscripts or texts
  • Political elites
  • Kinship and marriage
  • Trade and commerce
  • Block modelling with medieval communities
  • Religious dissent or pilgrimage/ cults of saints
  • Literary worlds; eg. Norse sagas or French chansons de geste