The conference program booklet is found here.
Thursday, October 3rd: Green College Coach House
5:00 pm Opening remarks and Keynote Address by Dr. Anna Collar (University of
Southampton): “Meaningful Networks: Who Do you Trust?”
7:00 pm Reception, Green College Graham House
Friday, October 4th: Green College Coach House
8:00-9:00 Registration
Session 1: Networks and Religious Diffusion – Chair: TBD
9:00-9:05 Welcome
9:05-9:30 Barbara Mills, “Internal Frontiers and Broad Bridges: Spatial and Social Networks of Religious Innovation and Diffusion in the Ancient U.S. Southwest”
9:30-9:55 Andrew F. Ward, “Modelling Ritual Adoptions in a Colonial Middle Ground – Western Sicily”
9:55-10:20 Zach Buck, “Polis and Patron: Modelling Patron Deities and Cultic Spread in
Ancient Greece using Hansen’s Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis”
10:20-10:40 Coffee Break
Session 2: Networks and Identity – Chair: Matt McCarty
10:40-10:45 Welcome
10:45-11:10 Emma Buckingham, “(Criss-)Crossing Cultural Frontiers: A Social Network Approach to Early Archaic Religious Sites in Sicily”
11:10-11:35 Lindsey A. Mazurek, “Micronetworks: Statue Groups, Identity, and Agency in the Kalindoia Sebasteion”
11:35-12:00 Benjamin Winnick, “Clique Structures of Mythic Genealogies as Indicators of Ancient Greek Ethnogenesis”
12:00-1:30 Lunch
Session 3: Networks and Religious Change – Chair: Jelena Todorovic
1:30-1:35 Welcome
1:35-2:00 Thierry Petit, “The Sphinx in the Ancient Mediterranean Network of the
Phoenicians”
2:00-2:25 Fiona Coward, “From forager ideologies to agricultural religions? A networked approach to the spread of religious effects across the Epipalaeolithic and early Neolithic of southwest Asia”
2:25-2:50 Georgia Landgraf, “Origins of the Omphalos: Delphi in the Age of Colonies”
2:50-3:10 Coffee Break
Session 4: Thinking Through “Data” – Chair: Teresa Luther
3:10-3:35 Zeba Crook, “Locating Paul’s Ekklēsiai among Occupational Associations”
3:35-4:00 Rocío Da Riva, “Political Change, Archival Networks and Religious Festivities in I millennium BCE Mesopotamia”
4:00-4:25 Edward Slingerland, “Durkheim with Data: The Database of Religious History (DRH)”
4:25-4:50 Megan J. Daniels, “Visualizing religious networks in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Intercultural Iconographies Project”
Saturday, October 5th: C. K. Choi Building, Room 120
8:00-9:00 Registration
Session 1: Networks in Literary and Epigraphic Sources 1 – Chair: Alessandro Intropido
9:00-9:05 Welcome
9:05-9:30 Sandra Blakely, “The power of powerful friends: Eigenvector centrality, Chios, and the Samothracian Networks”
9:30-9:55 Francesca Mazzilli and José Carlos López-Gómez, “Interplay between Religious, Social, and Spatial Networks in Lusitania”
9:55-10:20 Colin Omilanowski, “Creating the Social Network of the Self: Negotiating Marcus Agrippa’s Public Identities through His Inscribed Media”
10:20-10:40 Coffee Break
Session 2: Networks in Literary and Epigraphic Sources 2 – Chair: TBD
10:40-10:45 Welcome
10:45-11:10 Raúl Sánchez Casado and Émilie Martinet, “Funerary cult as a social structuring
factor during the Old Kingdom”
11:10-11:35 Hakan Özlen, “Navigating Identity: Christian Selfhood and Rejection in
‘Octavius’”
11:35-12:00 Jamie Wood, “Named and unnamed intermediaries in the making of the Church in late antique Iberia”
12:00-1:30 Lunch
Session 3: Networks and Social Complexity 1 – Chair: Kevin Fisher
1:30-1:35 Welcome
1:35-2:00 Aleksa Alaica, “Non-Human Networks: Herding, Mobility and Moche Religious Impact”
2:00-2:25 Mariana Egri, “Networks of power and authority in the lower Danube basin during the 1st century AD”
2:25-2:50 Elizabeth A. Keyser, “The Role of Rhyta in Mycenaean Networks of Ritual Practice and Power”
2:50-3:10 Coffee Break
Session 4: Networks and Social Complexity 2 – Chair: Lisa Cooper
3:10-3:35 Adrian T. Proestos, “Reconstructing Regional and Local interaction of the Ancient Oenotrians”
3:35-4:00 Sarah Wilker, “Contagious Cups: Investigating the Impact of Complex Contagions on Wine Vessels, Wine Drinking, and Community Social Networks in the Ancient World”
4:00-4:25 Dermot Grant, “Sailing to Sanctuaries. Locating Aegean Sanctuaries as Nodes on Trade Networks and Waypoints on Navigation Routes”
4:25-4:50 Lindsay Der, “From heterarchy to emergent social inequality: Çatalhöyük and human-animal relationships”
Sunday, October 6th: C. K. Choi Building Room 120
8:00-9:00 Registration
Session 1: Networks and Religious Landscapes 1 – Chair: Alex Hagler
9:00-9:05 Welcome
9:05-9:30 M. Ali Akman, “Understanding Territories of the Divine: A Network Perspective on the Influence of the Hittite Gods”
9:30-9:55 Christine Johnston, “Under the Watchful Eye of the Lady of the Horizon”
9:55-10:20 Lana Radloff, “Sacred Seafaring: Intervisibility, Cult Sites, and Maritime
Mobility”
10:20-10:40 Coffee Break
Session 2: Networks and Religious Landscapes 2 – Chair: Georgia Landgraf
10:40-10:45 Welcome
10:45-11:10 Lilly Hickox, “Iconographic Transformations in the Northern Apennines: A Network
Analysis of Etruscan Bronze Votives, from the 7th-5th Centuries BCE”
11:10-11:35 Emma Bentley and Sarah A. Cox, “Protection for the Ladies: Diffusion of Egyptian Bes and Taweret to Minoan Beset and Genii during the Bronze Age”
11:35-12:00 Kristine Mallinson and Matthew Harder, “Computational Approaches to Minoan Peak Sanctuaries Outside of Crete”
The Vancouver 2024 conference program is also available here.