2026 Program

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Wednesday, September 23^rd – Afternoon

Session 1 – Texts, communication, and mobility in the ancient world

Time	Name	Title
1:30–1:50	Virginia Martos Armenteros	“Should I Stay or Should I Go?”: Tracing Migration Routes and Travel Concerns in the Hellenistic Period through the Oracular Tablets of Dodona
1:50–2:10	Tom Francis, Muhammad Rehan	Modeling Alphabet Diffusion and Community Interactions in Ancient Italy with Spatiotemporal Point Processes
2:10–2:30	Adam Schor	The Social Reach of Roman Elite Men (350–430 CE): Letter Collections, Ego-Network Comparison, and Static Network Simulation
2:30–2:50	Emma Glenister	Understanding the Viziers of Egypt’s Early Middle Kingdom through Social Network Analysis
2:50–3:10	Discussion

Coffee Break 3:10–3:40

Session 2 – Relational ecologies, landscapes, and archives

Time	Name	Title
3:40–4:00	Francisco Rivera	Archives of Migration and Disrupted Connections during Northern Chile’s Industrial Mining Expansion
4:00–4:20	Marcony Alves, Carl Knappett	The Affordances of the Amazonian Floodplain in the Late Precolonial Period (CE 1000–1600)
4:20–4:40	Agnieszka Brylak	Connecting Nahua Gods: Network Analysis in the Study of Pre-Hispanic Religion
4:40–5:00	Discussion

5:00–6:00 Keynote Lecture

Barbara Mills – Connecting Chaco: How Network Analysis Changed my View of the Chaco World

Reception 6:10–8:00

Thursday, September 24^th – Morning

Session 3 – Settlements, landscapes, and regional systems

Time	Name	Title
8:30–8:50	Khaled Abu Jayyab, Elizabeth Gibbon, Lisa Wolff, Lianna Sternklar, Deniz Dernek, Koushan Amir-Khosravi, Emmett Kohl McPherson, Rowan Berrian, Aly El Hemasy, Brittany Mayers	The Structure of Domestic Life: A Multivariate and Network Analysis of Chalcolithic Houses in Mesopotamia
8:50–9:10	Fatemeh Javanmardi	Missing Sites, Shifting Centers? Evaluating Network Robustness in Akkadian Landscape in Southern Mesopotamia
9:10–9:30	Kristina Donnally	People, Place, Palace: Integrating Spatial and Social Networks within the Middle Bronze Age Palace at Mari (Tell Hariri, Syria)
9:30–9:50	Camilla Mazzucato, Ricardo Alba, Dan Chamberlin, Ramazan Parmaksız, Lisa Yeomans, Beatrice Demarchi	Human-avian hybrid communities within socio-material-ecological networks: the case of Çatalhöyük
9:50–10:10	Discussion

Coffee Break 10:10–10:30

Session 4 – Materials, cult, and community in the Near East and Egypt

Time	Name	Title
10:30–10:50	Yulia Prozorova	Pottery Decoration and the Interaction Sphere of the Yarmoukian Culture in the Neolithic Levant: A Network Analysis Approach
10:50–11:10	Fiona Coward, Nina Maaranen	Cities as networks: using network analysis to explore the development of urban networks at Middle Bronze Age Levant
11:10–11:30	Rocio Da Riva	Moving gods and elusive temples in Late Babylonia
11:30–11:50	Luisa Garcia Gonzalez	Beyond the Macro: A Graph-Based Approach to Model Material-Social Intersections in tomb QH35p of Elephantine (Egypt)
11:50–12:10	Discussion

Time	Name	Title
1:10–1:30	Ana Arzelier, A. Menuge, D. Linard, M.-H. Pémonge, F. Mendisco, M. Legros, A. Blin, M.-F. Deguilloux, M. Gandelin, V. Ard, M. Pruvost	Connecting the dead: kinship, mobility, and social networks in Neolithic dolmens of South-Western France
1:30–1:50	Emma Buckingham	Networks of Ancestrality: Funerary Assemblages and Elite Self-Fashioning in South Italy and the Adriatic
1:50–2:10	Tamas Czuppon	Avar networks. Analysing burial customs to model regional networks
2:10–2:30	Inga Utkina-Wöhrl	Looking at hoards through networks: First results of the network research on early medieval depositions in the Middle Dnieper Area
2:30–2:50	Discussion

Time	Name	Title
3:50–4:10	Sarah Ahmed	John Wesley’s Global Medical Networks
4:10–4:30	Anna Penkała-Jastrzębska	The Formation of a Network of Political Allegiance, Social Relations, and Magnate Influence in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the First Half of the Eighteenth Century — preliminary research
4:30–4:50	Ke Ma	Mapping Chinoiserie: A Data Modelling Approach to Chinese Cabinets in the Court Architecture of the Holy Roman Empire, ca. 1650–1800
4:50–5:10	Discussion

Time	Name	Title
3:20–3:40	Youp van den Beld	The emergence of socio-political complexity in early Mycenaean Laconia: a bottom-up story?
3:40–4:00	Giulia Michienzi	Networks in Motion: Modelling Interactions in the Bronze Age Central Mediterranean
4:00–4:20	Karl Smith, Linda Hulin, Max MacDonald	Agent-Based Sailing Models as a Basis for Network Analysis: a Case Study from The Practical Mariner
4:20–4:40	Discussion

Time	Name	Title
8:30–8:50	Shawn Graham, Pedro Trapero Fernandez	Travellersim Redux: Generating Networks from Archaeological Data
8:50–9:10	Paula Gheorghiade, Tom Brughmans, Michele Coscia, Nikos Salamanos	How Similar is “Similar”? Bridging Theory and Method in Ceramic Network Analysis
9:10–9:30	Ray Rivers	Possibilistic and Probabilistic Uncertainty in Modelling Exchange Networks
9:30–9:50	Adrian Proestos, Stephen Smith	Re-evaluating stratigraphic relationships at Gravina di Puglia through network analysis
9:50–10:10	Discussion

Time	Name	Title
10:30–10:50	Colin Patrick Omilanowski	On the Trails of Pausanias: Experimental Least Cost Path Network Mapping of Arcadian Sanctuaries and Towns
10:50–11:10	Steven van Ens	Integrating Diachronic Road Networks and Archaeological Survey Data in the Roman Hinterland
11:10–11:30	Antonio Merola	Mapping Romanization: Social and Spatial Networks in the Peligna Valley
11:30–11:50	Discussion

Time	Name	Title
2:10–2:30	Alice Capobianco	From Living Practices to Ancient Networks: Ethnoarchaeology for the reconstruction of Roman unguent and incense production
2:30–2:50	Sebastian Kheml	Economic and Military Drivers of the Worship of Asclepius in Roman Dacia: A Quantitative Approach
2:50–3:10	Jing Chao	From regional diversity to multi-center integration: structural transformation and social complexity of settlement networks in the middle Yangtze River from the Daxi to Qujialing cultures
3:10–3:30	Discussion