Past Editions
The first edition of the Barcelona Summer School took place from 25th to 29th June 2024. Twenty-eight people participated in the school.
Venues 2024
The school took place in the Centre Cívic Convent de Sant Agustí, in the city centre of Barcelona and in the University of Barcelona Physics Faculty.
The closing dinner was held on Friday 28th in the restaurant Buenissimo.
Programme 2024
The school is structured around theoretical lectures and computational practicals, alongside many socials.
Day 1 – Welcome & Introduction
- Opening social
- Lecture 1: Introduction to the summer school - what, why, and how of past network research
- Practical 1: Computational basics - set up coding workspace, and read network data
Day 2 – Data & Methods
- Practical 2: How to obtain, create, and clean network data
- Lecture 2: Network analysis and methods
- Practical 3: Exploratory network analysis
- Practical 4: Network visualization techniques 1: plotline/ggplot2
Day 3 – How to tackle a project?
- Lecture 3: Research design
- Practical 5: Networks as a model, a tool to gain insight into phenomena and data. Poster creation
- Practical 6: Network visualization techniques 2: Gephi tutorial
- Practical 7: Best practices: data and results deposition and documentation
Day 4 – Projects & Critical Perspectives
- Practical 8: Work on projects
- Lecture 4: Critical perspectives on historical and archaeological data
- Practical 9: Work on projects or elective advanced tutorial
- Practical 10: Work on projects or elective advanced tutorial
Day 5 – Discussion & Moving Forward
- Developing your own future past network research projects. Discussion and evaluation
- How to take the next steps in the past networks community – conferences, resources and publications