Virtuelles DH-Kolloquium an der BBAW

Im Rahmen des DH-Kolloquiums an der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften laden wir Sie herzlich zum nächsten Termin am Montag, den 29. September 2025, 16 Uhr c.t., ein:

Fernanda Alvares Freire

(Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften)

Exploring Social Interactions in Letters through Social Network Analysis: The Zenon Archive as a Use Case

This presentation explores how Social Network Analysis (SNA) can be applied to study social interactions as represented in historical letter corpora. By combining qualitative text analysis with Social Network Analysis (SNA), the approach models and visualizes interpersonal relations to investigate patterns of interaction, the roles of key actors, and the structure of historical communities. As one of the largest collections from the Hellenistic period, the letters and documents of the Zenon archive provide rich information about administrative, economic, and personal networks and serve as an exemplary use case to the approach. Applying SNA to this corpus highlights the potential and challenges of working with large corpora of written communication and serves as an example of how this framework can be extended to other epistolary datasets.

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