IATDH Networks conference Oct 20-22 UCLA

IATDH 2011 – Bounceback Symposium

“Networks and Network Analysis in the Humanities”

October 20-22, 2011

Preliminary Schedule

Thursday, October 20

3:30-5:30—Session 1 (Royce Hall 314)

  1. Helmreich, Anne (The Getty Research Institute) “Network Analysis and the Art Market”
  2. Akdag, Almila (The Virtual Knowledge Studio) and James Abello (DIMACS/Rutgers University) “Curatorial Practices in Deviant Art”
  3. Worthey, Glen (Stanford University) “Before Beginning the Beguine: Expressing Complex Data as Edge Lists for Network Analysis”
  4. Broadwell, Peter (UCLA) “DFL 2.0”

6:00-8:00 Dinner/Reception: IPAM Lobby

  1. Opening Remarks: Tim Tangherlini & Russ Caflisch

Friday, October 21: Royce Hall 314 (unless otherwise noted)

8:00-9:00—Breakfast for participants only (Royce 306)

9:00-10:30—Session 2

  1. Erlin, Matt (Washington University, St. Louis) “The Semantics of Literary History: Topic Modeling the German Novel 1731-1864”
  2. Weingart, Scott (Indiana University) “Modeling Knowledge Propagation Across Early Modern Scientific Networks”
  3. Howard, Rob (University of Wisconsin, Madison) “The VAX CON Network: Graphing Medical Conspiracy Discourse”

10:30-10:45—Coffee
Break

10:45-12:15—Session 3

  1. Parsons, Elaine (Duquesne University) and Hossein Azari (Harvard University) “Exploring Three Moments of Crisis in the Criminal Subculture of Union County, South Carolina: 1856, 1859, 1870”
  2. Nelson, Robert (University of Richmond) “Of Monsters and Men: Visualizing Sectionalism and Patriotism in the Civil War News”
  3. Lewis, Barbara (University of Massachusetts, Boston) “Proximity on the Hill: Beauty, Enterprise, and the Fabric of Slavery”

12:30-2:00—Lunch for participants only (Royce 306)

2:00-3:30—Session 4

  1. Vareschi, Mark (University of Texas, San Antonio) and Robin Valenza (University of Wisconsin, Madison) “Network Analysis for Topic Detection in Eighteenth-Century Novels”
  2. Horton, Russell (University of California, San Diego) “Ever since nineteen, had a perfect rhyme scheme: A corpus study of English rap rhyme”
  3. Rydberg-Cox, Jeff (University of Missouri, Kansas City) “Social Networks As A Tool For Visualizing Linguistic Data in Greek Tragedy”

3:30-3:45—Coffee
Break

3:45-5:30—Session 5

  1. Roy, Carrie (The University of Wisconsin, Madison) “Seeing Stories: A look at character threads in Bandamanna saga”
  2. Sack, Graham (Columbia University) and David Mimno (Princeton University) “Quantifying Imaginary Social Forms: Character Networks in the 19th Century British Novel.”
  3. Eliassi-Rad, Tina (Rutgers University) "It’s Who You Know: Graph Mining Using Recursive Structural Features"

5:30-7:00—Dinner for participants only (Royce 306)

7:00-8:00—Keynote Lecture

Jon Kleinberg (Cornell University), "Tracing the Flow of Information through Complex Networks"

8:00-9:00—Reception (Royce 306)

Saturday, October 22: Royce Hall 314 (unless otherwise noted)

8:00-9:00—Breakfast for participants only (Royce 306)

9:00-10:30—Session 6

  1. Brose, Michael (University of Wyoming) “Networks of Elites in Mongol Yuan China”
  2. Cha, Javier (Harvard University) “Marriage Networks and Figurations of Power in Late Medieval Korea”
  3. Horowitz, Sarah (Washington and Lee University) “Social Networks and Political Life in Post-Revolutionary France”

10:30-11:00—Coffee Break

11:00-12:30—Session 7

  1. Laudun, John (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) “The Thread of Verbosity and the History of Folkloristics”
  2. Lynch, John (UCLA) “Reading Between the Lines: The Challenges of Cuneiform Literature and Network Analysis”
  3. Chen, Jack (UCLA) “Visualizing Data from an Early Medieval Chinese Anecdote Collection”

12:30-2:00—Lunch for participants only (Royce 306)

2:00-4:00—Session 8

  1. Wilder, Colin (Brown University) “The Hessian Social Network Project”
  2. Long, Hoyt (Bard College) “Mapping Influence and Affiliation in Japan’s Modernist Poetry Networks”
  3. Miller, Ian (Harvard University) “Big History and the View from Beijing: Topic Modeling and Statistical Analysis on 500 Years of Chinese Court Records”
  4. Chen, Song (Bucknell University) “From Magnates to Bureaucrats: Affinal and Intellectual Networks of the Meizhou Elite, 1020-1235”

4:00-4:30—Coffee
Break

4:30-6:30—Session 9

  1. Leonard, Peter (University of Chicago) “Networks and Large-Scale Text Analysis”
  2. McGee, Micki (Fordham University) “Compatible Databases: Fostering Standards for Interoperable Data for Personcentric Network Visualizations
  3. Beavers, Anthony (University of Evansville) and Chris Harrison (University of Evansville) “Hybrid Networks: Transforming Networks for Social and Textual Analysis into Teleodynamic and Predictive Mechanisms”
  4. Stephenson, Barbara (Idaho State University) “Point and click data mining”

6:30-8:00—Concluding dinner for participants only (Royce 306)