The Connected Past

The Connected Past Coimbra 2025 was a resounding success. We would like to thank our speakers and our colleagues Joel, Tania, Riccardo, and Carlos who helped host the event in Coimbra. Stay tuned for updates on Connected Past events and for next year's event in Toronto, Canada!
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The Connected Past 2025 Coimbra conference had its last session focused on Egypt with Chana Algarvio discussing iconography in the Achaemenid Empire and Hossam Hegazi and Tamer Ali presenting religious networks. Thank you and well done everyone!

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Yet more network explorations of the ancient Hittite, Italian, and Roman Dacian worlds offered unique insight into the past through pottery and mortuary finds. Thank you so much to Dylan G. Winchell, Stephen J. Smith, and Marina Musteața!

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Yet more wonderful presentations came in the second session of Day 3 covering Ancient Greek temple architecture, Hittite prosopography, and Etruscan epigraphy by George Veloudios, Lucas G. Freire, and Tom Francis. Thank you everyone!

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We are so glad that you had such a great experience!

Day 3 began with three talks on material networks with talks which applied network analysis to datasets of materials recovered in the archaeological record from Bronze Age China, Iron Age Italy, and the Roman world by Yating Liao, Adrian Proestos, and Bogdan Lăpușan.

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Our final session of Day 2 featured two insightful presentations on religious networks from Late Antiquity in the Near East and the early Middle Ages of Spain by Jamie Wood and Irina Barash. Thank you for such intriguing papers!

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The afternoon of Day 2 began with three exciting presentations exploring technological development, epistolary networks of 20th century China, and models of Bronze Age Aegean from Cristina Pattuelli, Marcus Bingenheimer, and Ray Rivers. Well done everybody!

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The second day of presentations continued with three talks showing outlining innovative applications of network analysis to oral histories, inter-state communication, and linguistic mobility by Jiajie Zhang, Alessio Cardillo, and Olga Solovova.

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Day 2 began with intriguing papers that used network analysis to explore documentary and textual evidence from the 16th to the 20th centuries from the local to continental scale by Kristiyan Simeonov, Ana Isabel Ribeiro, Joel Santos and Tânia Casimiro. Well done everybody!

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A big thank you to our keynote speaker Fiona Coward who presented her paper 'Diversifying networks, new kinds of relationships: comparing bio-social and socio-material windows on urbanisation processes in the Bronze Age Levant' to cap-off the first day of talks

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A wonderful second session of talks featuring topics on the Venice Charter, Renaissance Venetian printing, and museum collections of prehistoric Australian artifacts by Claudine Houbart and Pierre-Henri Lefebvre, Emilio Cammarata, and Friederike Schmidt

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A big thank you to Nathan Cornish, Ana Margarida Dias da Silva; Maria Teresa Gonçalves, John R. Schaefer, and Gabriel Tober for getting The Connected Past in Coimbra 2025 started with their exploration of plants, gardens, and modern farming through networks!

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Strong start to the first full day of the #ConnectedPast2025 with a talk by Kristiyan Simeonov on 19th Century Bulgarian Historical Correspondence! #Coimbra @theconnectedpast.bsky.social

Followed by a talk by Ana Isabel Ribeiro on the interpellation of decision-making processes in historical contexts in 18th and 19th century Coimbra #ConnectedPast2025 @theconnectedpast.bsky.social #Coimbra #Portugal #Networks

A thought provoking talk on LLM use and oral histories in a collaborative paper by Jiajie Zhang, Frieda Schmidt & colleagues (shorturl.at/5pZpk) @ the #ConnectedPast2025 in #Coimbra @theconnectedpast.bsky.social

A wooden platter covered in delicious pastel de nata, a custard tar in flaky pastry characteristic of Portugal

Table covered in delicious-loomking foods, especially cakes

Oh no, not more pastel de nata @theconnectedpast.bsky.social! Oh, go on then... Possibly the best-catered Connected Past event to date?!

We love to hear a conversation about how research comes together between Joel Santos and Tânia Casimiro @theconnectedpast.bsky.social in #Coimbra #ConnectedPast2025

Yesterday we also heard from Alessio Cardillo & co. on inter-state communication dynamics and roles in the networks of the
International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation @ the #ConnectedPast2025 @theconnectedpast.bsky.social #Portugal #Coimbra

And it was incredible to learn from Olga Solovova that the small town of Kirkenes in #Norway is a melting-pot with 70 languages!
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📢Only one month left to register for The Connected Past in Coimbra 2025! Scan the QR code or click the link below to join our conference from September 16 to 19 in Portugal!

Register here: shorturl.at/ZY21T

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Poster advertising that registration for the Connected Past Coimbra is now open. Features the Connected Past website (www.connectedpast.net) and a QR code for registration. Early bird registration is open until June 30, 2025, with regular registration open until September 5, 2025. Poster also notes that "the conference workshop is free and runs Sept. 16-17, but requires registration as spaces are limited. Register as soon as possible to secure a spot!"

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Coimbra is now OPEN! Register using the QR below or this link! shorturl.at/qp2MT

📣 Join us in Coimbra, Portugal 🇵🇹 for the 2025 Connected Past Conference — Sept 16–19! Explore network analysis, digital methods in the study of the past. 🏛️🌐

✅ Registration open now: shorturl.at/ZY21T
Or use the QR code below!
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TWO DAYS LEFT!
📢 Call for Papers: The Connected Past 2025
Coimbra, Portugal | Sept 16-19, 2025

We invite submissions for studies in network approaches in history and archaeology.

📅 Deadline: March 15!
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📢 Call for Papers: The Connected Past 2025
Coimbra, Portugal | Abstracts due soon!

We invite submissions for studies in network approaches in history and archaeology.

📅 Abstract deadline: March 15, 2025
connectedpast.net/other-events...
#connectedpast #ConnectedPast2025 #archaeology #history