Historical Network Research Events

HNR Conferences

HNR Conference 2026 in Turin, Italy. Conference website

HNR Conference 2025 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Conference website

HNR Conference 2024 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Conference website

GrapHNR 2023 in Mainz, Germany. More informations

Historical Networks – Réseaux Historiques – Historische Netzwerke conference 2021 in Luxembourg (Online Conference). Conference website

HNR Conference 2020 in Luxembourg (Virtual Keynote Event). Conference website

HNR Conference 2018 in Brno, Czech Republic. More informations

HNR Conference 2017 in Turku, Finland. More informations

HNR Conference 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal. More informations

HNR Conference 2014 in Ghent, Belgium. More informations

HNR Conference 2013 in Hamburg, Germany. More informations

If you are interested in hosting a HNR conference, please check our conference guidelines and contact us at events ät historicalnetworkresearch.org.

HNR Workshops

The 14th HNR Workshop in Lausanne on “Réseaux historiques” (2023). More…

The 13th HNR Workshop in Mainz on Time and Space (2019). More…

The 12th HNR Workshop in Bremen on Communication (2018). More…

The 11th HNR Workshop in Augsburg on Stories and Structures (2018). More…

The 10th HNR Workshop in Düsseldorf on Networks in the History of Knowledge (2016). More…

The 9th HNR Workshop in Bochum on Text Mining (2015). More…

The 8th HNR Workshop in Berlin: From texts to networks and back (2014). More…

The 7th HNR Workshop in Munich on Data extraction and modeling (2012). More…

The 6th HNR Workshop in Dresden on HNR-specific challenges (2012). More…

The 5th HNR Workshop in Zurich at the Conference “Applications of Social Network Analysis (ASNA)” (2011). More…

The 4th HNR Workshop in Saarbrücken on Space (2011). More…

The 2nd HNR Workshop in Essen on Sources (2010). More…

The 1st HNR Workshop in Cologne on Visualization (2009). More…

Other HNR events

The Barcelona Past Networks Summer School 2025, organised with the Connected Past (Barcelona 2025). BPNSS website

Historical Networks session at Sunbelt conference (Paris 2025). More informations

Histonet satellite event at NetSci conference (Maastricht 2025). Event website

The Barcelona Past Networks Summer School 2024, organised with the Connected Past (Barcelona 2024). BPNSS website

Tagung “Graphentechnologien. Neue Perspektiven für die Digital Humanities” (Mainz, 2017). More informations

Network Analysis and the Cultural Heritage Sector (Luxembourg, 2016). More informations

Please get in touch at events ät historicalnetworkresearch.org if you are interested in organising a HNR Special Event.

HNR Online lectures

From January 2021 onwards, monthly online lectures will shed a spotlight on recent research and ideas from the field of historical network analysis to promote discussion among the HNR community. More about lunch lectures.

Nov 24th, 2022 Anastasia Glawion, Retrieving online memory practices: an network analysis pipeline

Sept 15th, 2022 Sébastien de Valeriola, Can historians trust centrality?

Jun 16th, 2022 Bernardo Buarque, Roberto Lalli, Malte Vogl & Dirk Wintergrün, Modelling socio-epistemic networks: Tool-oriented proposals for strengthening the community building in HNR

Mar 10th, 2022 John R. Ladd, Comparing Networks of Biography: Six Degrees of Francis Bacon and John Aubrey’s Brief Lives

Jan 20th, 2022 Erik Hornung & Allard Mees, Roman Transport Network Connectivity and Economic Integration

 

and many more!