[AI Summary]: Fernanda Alvares Freire from BBAW’s TELOTA will present how Social Network Analysis (SNA) can be applied to study social interactions in historical letter corpora at the virtual DH Colloquium. Using the Zenon archive—one of the largest Hellenistic period collections—as a case study, the presentation demonstrates how combining qualitative text analysis with SNA enables modeling and visualization of interpersonal relations, administrative and economic networks, and historical community structures. The talk addresses both the potential and challenges of applying network analysis to large-scale epistolary datasets.
Virtual talk on September 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM Berlin time. The presentation will be held in English.
- Speaker: Fernanda Alvares Freire (BBAW, TELOTA)
- Format: Virtual presentation via GWDG Meet
- Access: DH-Kolloquium BBAW
- Registration: Not required
- Language: German/English
- Institution: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW)