9:10 – 9:20 (EET)Opening
9:20 – 9:30 Introduction
SESSION 1: Chair Helen Dawson, FU Berlin
9:30 – 9:50 Martina Massimino, Durham University: Network Analysis: a new answer to old questions? Identifying spatiotemporal changes in copper supply networks of Anatolia and Northern Mesopotamia during the Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age
9:50 – 10:00 Q & A
10:00 – 10:20 Stefan Smith, University of Helsinki: An unusual case of networks observable in situ: Visualising pathways in the “Black Desert” of Eastern Jordan
10:20 – 10:30 Q & A
10:30 – 10:50 Amy Richardson, University of Reading: Networks of materials and practice in the Neolithic Zagros
10:50 – 11:00 Q & A
11:00 – 11:20 Coffee
11:20 – 12:30 Discussion, moderator: Marta Luciani, University of Vienna
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
SESSION 2: Chair Antti Lahelma, University of Helsinki
14:00 – 14:20 Camilla Mazzucato, University of Copenhagen: Socio-material network methods as a tool for investigating the social fabric of large Neolithic settlements
14:20 – 14:30 Q & A
14:30 – 14:50 Steven Edwards, Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS) in Nova Scotia: Towards a network-based theory of state formation
14:50 – 15:00 Q & A
15:00 – 15:20 Dries Daems, Middle East Technical University, Ankara: Networks of pots in Mediterranean archaeology
15:20 – 15:30 Q & A
15:30 – 15:45 Coffee
15:45 – 16:05 Amy R. Gansell, St. John’s University, N.Y.: The unique utility of Network Analysis, the benefit of interdisciplinary collaboration, and the value of qualitative contextualization
16:05 – 16:15 Q & A
16:15 – 17:00 Discussion, moderator: Marco Bonechi, CNR Rome
18:30 – Dinner at restaurant Strindberg, Pohjoisesplanadi 33 (Registration for dinner is closed)
SESSION 3: Chair Maria-Gabriella Micale, FU Berlin
9:30 – 9:50 Lena Tambs, University of Helsinki: People and things on the move: tracking paths with SNA
9:50 – 10:00 Q & A
10:00 – 10:20 Marlena Whiting, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz: Networks and the city: network perspective in Procopius De Aed. I and the archaeology of 6th Century Constantinople
10:20 – 10:30 Q & A
10:30 – 10:50 Elizabeth Gibbon, University of Toronto: Visualizing and exploring material similarity networks in the Late Neolithic Levant: node and edge deletion methods for evaluating community structure and resilience
10:50 – 11:00 Q & A
11:00 – 11:20 Bérangère Redon, Jennifer Gates-Foster, and Darcy Hackley, CNRS Lyon and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Weak ties on old toads: Inscribed stopping-places and complex networks in the Eastern Desert of Graeco-Roman Egypt
11:20 – 11:30 Q & A
11:30 – 11:45 Coffee
11:45 – 12:30 Discussion, moderator: Antti Lahelma, University of Helsinki
12:30 – 12:40 Concluding remarks
12:40 Lunch and farewell