The Sunbelt 2025 conference, the premier event for social network analysis, will take place in Paris from 23 to 30 June 2025. Three sessions will be dedicated to historical network research.

The HNR community is pleased to announce that the following papers will be presented during the sessions on Wednesday, 25 June.

Session OS-30: Historical Networks – Wednesday,  June 25,  8:00am – 9:40am

• “Co-occurrence Networks in Historical Research” by Taylan Yenilmez.
• “A Network of One’s Own: Recovering Women Scientists through Historical Network Analysis” by Silvia Jolien Donker and Mathilde Contreras Latorre.
• “Consumer Credit Networks in Renaissance Florence” by Paul Douglas McLean.
• “Derailed: The Collapse of Pacific Electric (1911 – 1961)” by Stephanie Zhang.
• “Gender bias in medieval inquisitions and its place in shaping knowledge about the heterodox” by Davor Salihović and José Luis Estévez.

Session OS-141: Historical Networks 2 – Wednesday,  June 25, 10:00am – 11:40am

• “Investigations and Conspiracies in Pre-War Warsaw: The Historical Networks of Criminal Fiction” by Daniel Platek.
• “Modeling Medieval Incrimination Networks: Quasi-States, Events or Hyperevents?” by Zoltan Brys,Robert L. J. Shaw and David Zbíral.
• “Nanohistory.org: a Prototype Network Data Model and Method for History-as-Data” by Matthew Milner.
• “Networks of Power. Social capital of political institutions in the Dutch Cape Colony (1668-1688)” by Maarten F. Van Dijck.
• “Reconstruction of Social Networks through the Analysis of Diaries from the Reform War (1858-1860) in Mexico” by José Antonio Motilla, Diego Espitia, Edgardo Galán, Edgardo Ugalde and Martín Zumaya.

OS-142: Historical Networks 3 –  Wednesday,  June 25, 1:00pm – 2:40pm

• “The Social Network of the ‘Righteous Among the Nations’: A Computational Analysis of Holocaust Rescuers “ by Tomer Sagie, David Silberklang and Gilad Ravid.
• “Tracking the paw prints of death: A network analysis of the god Anubis in the Roman Empire through three local case studies” by Simon Bralee.

The three sessions will be chaired by  Demival Vasques Filho.

More details can be found on the conference website.