Historical Network Research Afternoon Tea Lecture: John  Ladd

Historical Network Research

HNR Afternoon Tea Lecture  by John Ladd: Comparing Networks of Biography: Six Degrees of Francis Bacon and John Aubrey (March 10)

The Historical Network Research community is pleased to announce another event in the HNR Lunch Lectures Series. From January 2022 onwards, bi-monthly online lectures will shed a spotlight on recent research and ideas from the field of historical network analysis to promote discussion among the HNR community. The next lecture will be on March 10. Our speaker will be <a href="https://jrladd.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">John Ladd</a>, Visiting Assistant Professor in Data Analytics at Denison University. Because of the time difference, we decided to turn our lunchlecture into an afternoon tea lecture. The seminar will start at 4:00 pm CET (10 am EST / 3 pm GMT) and finish one hour later. <h3>Comparing Networks of Biography: Six Degrees of Francis Bacon and John Aubrey’s Brief Lives</h3>John Aubrey devotes a distinct subset of the biographical sketches in Brief Lives to famous authors of his recent past, helping to cement a developing early modern canon. By contrast, Six Degrees of Francis Bacon contributes to a tradition of expanding canons by reorganizing its data—drawn from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography—as a network of early modern relationships. Using role detection, in contrast to traditional community detection techniques, I consider the status of authors within Aubrey’s single-source network of biographies and the much larger secondary-source-based SDFB network. I argue that Aubrey presents authorship as a series of social interactions and collaborations, and likewise early modern social networks reveal that the work of authorship is distributed across a system that includes writers and a diverse group of other professionals. Drawn from my book project, Network Poetics, this talk will cover the generation of networks from biographical sources, the uses and limitations of the SDFB data set, and the application of role detection to small and large historical networks.

Image: A portion of the SDFB network, using role detection for node color

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