The HNR community is pleased to share that the Research Centre for Comparative History of Religious Orders (FOVOG) at Dresden University of Technology and the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities are organising a joint lecture series starting on 14 October 2026. Lectures will intertwine historical network research with artificial intelligence methods and are aimed at historians, especially those specialising in medieval studies, as well as representatives from related disciplines such as the digital humanities, computational linguistics and many others.
All events in the series will be held in English and online. The first and final sessions will also be held in a hybrid format at the SAW in Leipzig.
Lecture program here below:
Lecture Series: Nodes of Time. Historical Networks and Artificial Intelligence
Organised by: Saxon Academy of Sciences (SAW) / Research Center for Comparative History of Religious Orders (FOVOG Dresden)
Please contact the following email address to receive the access link: nodesoftime@saw-leipzig.de
Wednesday 14 October 2026, 6:00 pm (CEST) – hybrid event at SAW and online
Welcome Address: Hans-Joachim Knölker (SAW Leipzig)
Lecture: Alexander Lasch (TU Dresden)
Structuring the Unstructured: Knowledge Graphs as a Tool
Moderated by: Uwe Kretschmer (SAW Leipzig)
Wednesday 28 October 2026, 6:00 pm (CET)
Lecture: Noah Kim-Baumann (HU Berlin)
From Timetables to Temporal Graphs: AI-Assisted Reconstruction and Analysis of Cold War Berlin’s Public Transport Networks
Wednesday 11 November 2026, 6:00 pm (CET)
Lecture: Robert L. J. Shaw (Masaryk University Brno)
Automating the inquisition: network data extraction from medieval heresy trial records using LLMs
Wednesday 25 November 2026, 6:00 pm (CET)
Lecture: Katia Riccardo (Masaryk University Brno)
From Testimony to Structure: Social Network Analysis of the Apostolic Movement in Bologna, 1291–1310
Wednesday 9 December 2026, 6:00 pm (CET)
Lecture: Linus Ubl (Eutin State Library)
Towards a Digital Transmission History – Mechthild of Hackeborn’s Medieval Manuscripts as Case Study
Wednesday 13 January 2027, 6:00 pm (CET)
Lecture: Elaine Treharne (Stanford University) / Mateusz Jakub Fafinski (University of Erfurt)
Hidden relationships: Medieval Networks of Memory in Thirteenth-Century England
Wednesday 27 January 2027, 6:00 pm (CET)
Lecture: Marcella Tambuscio (University of Graz)
From Sources to Networks: AI-assisted Data Creation and Sustainable Modelling in Managing Maximilian
Wednesday 10 February 2027, 6:00 pm (CET) – hybrid event at SAW and online
Lecture: Katrin Rösler / Sandra Groß / Mirko Breitenstein (all SAW Leipzig / FOVOG Dresden)
More than just nodes and edges: The potential of AI in historical network analysis from the perspective of the project ‘St Mary at Helfta’
Moderated by: Franziska Naether (University of Leipzig)
For further information: https://www.saw-leipzig.de/en/
