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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">[Saa levittää edelleen!]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Connected Past (https://connectedpast.net/other-events/helsinki-2023/) – Helsinki, 12-15 September 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Theme:
<i><span style="color:black">Digital Methods for Studying Networks and Complexity in the Humanities<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The last decade has seen an explosion in the application of digital methods in the humanities from LiDAR scanning of
archaeological features, 3D models for visualizing artefacts, to network science applications for exploring interaction and mobility, and even textual data. Despite many cross-disciplinary successes, the reality remains that many of these new tools of analysis
are borrowed from other disciplines – computer science, sociology, physics, and/or ecology – highlighting the need for building cross-disciplinary bridges. This is especially true for historians and archaeologists working diachronically across large geographic
areas and time periods, with incomplete and fragmentary data requiring thinking outside the box. This conference aims to do just that, with a focus on recent and current work conducted on the east Mediterranean and the ancient Near East.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">By bringing together scholars from a wide range of fields and academic disciplines, our goal is to engage in friendly
and informal dialogue on the application of digital methods for studying networks and complexity in past societies. In addition to the two days of talks, we also offer a series of hands-on workshops in the two days leading up to the conference, through which
you can further develop your skills and broaden your digital horizons. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Although our focus is on the eastern Mediterranean and the ancient Near East, we welcome any contribution that discuss,
address, and/or explore historical and archaeological networks from a wide range of digital perspectives. What new approaches or tools have you been using to explore your data and what collaborations (if any) did you find most fruitful in this goal?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Contributions can include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">New digital methods or tools for studying historical, archaeological, or lexical datasets<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:105%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Modelling - spatial, statistical, material datasets<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:105%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Geospatial analysis, methods, and applications<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:105%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Exploring trade routes, mobility, interaction, migration of people, things and ideas<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:105%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Integration of spatial and material datasets<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:105%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Diachronic, multi-scalar analyses using digital methods<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:105%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Traditional Social Network Analysis (SNA) applied to historical datasets<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:105%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Agent Based Modelling (ABM)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:105%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Digital materiality<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:105%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Text mining and analysis<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:105%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Novel visualization methods and analysis of datasets<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:105%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Digital methods and community archaeology/heritage management in the Middle East<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:105%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ANE imperial dynamics and social networks<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please submit your abstract (max. 300 words) to
</span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="mailto:ConnectedPastHelsinki@gmail.com"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0563C1">ConnectedPastHelsinki@gmail.com</span></b></a></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
by <b>16 April 2023</b>. Unsure if your paper topic would be a good fit? Send us an email, and we will be happy to clarify.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Connected Past 2023 will take place
<b>at the University of Helsinki from 12-15 September</b>. Conference registration will open in May, with more detailed information on offered workshops. We endeavour to provide fair and accessible registration fees. Registration costs will range from 25-50
euros (concessionary, regular). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:FI">-- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:FI">Antti Lahelma<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:FI">University lecturer in archaeology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:FI">Director of the MA program in Cultural Heritage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:FI">Vice-director of ANEE (http://www.helsinki.fi/ancient-near-eastern-empires)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:FI">Department of Cultures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:FI">PO Box 59 (Unioninkatu 38F)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:FI">FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:FI">+358 40 7412436, antti.lahelma@helsinki.fi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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