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        Date: 2024-11-26 09:39:01+00:00
        From: Tom Brughmans <t.b@cas.au.dk>
        Subject: Barcelona Past Networks Summer School 1-4 July 2025: open for applications

Call for applications

The Barcelona Past Networks Summer School 1-4 July 2025

  *   Annual 4-day summer school in Barcelona
  *   Teaching the theory and practice of network research
  *   For those studying the human past (historians, archaeologists,
classicists, …)
  *   Developed and delivered by leading communities and experts
https://www.pastnetworks.net/team/
  *   75 EUR registration fee, bursaries available
  *   Register here before 26 January 2025 https://www.pastnetworks.net/

Network approaches are commonly used in diverse studies of the human past:
analyzing letter correspondence in 16th century England, mapping the similarity
of material culture in the prehispanic US Southwest, reconstructing ancient
Roman family ties as revealed through funerary inscriptions, and much more. Such
research is supported by thriving international
communities<https://historicalnetworkresearch.org/>, conference
series<https://connectedpast.net/>, a
journal<https://jhnr.uni.lu/index.php/jhnr>, and
textbooks<https://archnetworks.net/>. But dedicated training in the theory and
practice of network research is missing in most history and archaeology degree
programmes.

The Barcelona Past Networks Summer School addresses this educational gap. It
provides an annually recurring opportunity to learn what network research is,
how it can be usefully and critically applied to the study of the human past,
through hands-on practicals and critical lectures. The content is curated and
delivered by leading experts<https://www.pastnetworks.net/team/#people> in the
field, and the summer school is a joint effort of the main international
scholarly communities in past networks research. The summer school is developed
for those establishing or developing their studies and research on the human
past (archaeologists, historians, classicists, …).
If you aim to perform network research but your own institutional or educational
context cannot support you in this specialism, then this summer school is
perfect for you. No prior mathematical, computational or coding experience is
needed, but a willingness to work with and learn computational and coding
approaches is necessary, given the strong practical focus of the summer school.

Made possible thanks to

  *   The Past Social Networks Project<https://projects.au.dk/pastnetworks>
  *   The Carlsberg Foundation<https://www.carlsbergfondet.dk/en>’s Young
Researcher Fellowship (CF21-0382)
  *   The Connected Past<https://connectedpast.net/>
  *   The Historical Network Research<https://historicalnetworkresearch.org/>
community
  *   The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History
(C2DH)<https://www.c2dh.uni.lu/>
  *   Universitat de Barcelona Institute of Complex Systems
(UBICS)<http://ubics.net>
  *   Université de Lausanne<https://www.unil.ch/index.html>
  *   Aarhus University<https://international.au.dk/>
  *   Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG)<https://www.ieg-
mainz.de/>
  *   Heuristica<https://www.heuristica.barcelona/>


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