Programme
At a glance
The programme for the 2025 edition is being developed. Please have a look at the programme of the 2024 edition for more details.
The 4-day programme will consist of lectures and discussions, hands-on practicals, and socials.
Lectures and discussions
- Introduction to the summer school - what, why, and how of past network research
- Network analysis and methods
- Research design
- Critical perspectives on historical and archaeological data
- 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
Practicals
- Computational basics - set up coding workspace, and read network data
- How to obtain, create, and clean network data
- Exploratory network analysis
- Network visualization techniques
- Networks as a model, a tool to gain insight into phenomena and data. Poster creation
- Best practices: data and results deposition and documentation
- Work on projects
- Elective advanced tutorials
Socials
- Welcome and introductions
- Historical tour of Barcelona
- Joint dinner included