Theory Workshop November 2009

From TracingNetworksWiki

Aim: Thories of networks in Archaeology and Computing

Date: Week of 9.-15- November 2009, 2 days: Friday/Saturday?

Format: invite 8 key people for a lecture; pre-circulate papers/abstracts for discussion

Themes and issues

Scale

Multi-scalar networks - how do we investigate them? Comparability of networks at different scales - can we link together activity at different scales? Non-scalar networks?

Agency

How do we identify agency in networks? How do we transcend the problem of precessualism and being mechanistic when identifying the operation of networks? Dynamism: how can we identify a network without it becoming static?

Cultural encounters and changing habits

How does such contact and exchange alter behaviours, making a permanent impact on the habits of those engaged in such encounters, and thus on the trajectory of wider cultural developments? Engendering desire? Fashions, trends, materiality and identities?

Program

1st day morning: 2 x sociology/management people

1st day afternoon: 2 x mathematics/computing/social networking people

2nd day morning: 2 x Mediterranean archaeologist

2nd day afternoon: 2 x Archaeologists woring in different regions

Name suggestions

Somebody explaining social networking sites like facebook, etc. - yes, yes!! (LF)

Carl Knappet

Colin Renfrew

Lambros Malafouris

Stephen Shennan

Sue Sherratt

Bruno Latour

Kristian Kristiansen

Uzy Smilansky

Ezra Zubrow

Joseph Maran

Peter Wells

School of Management, Leicester Steve Conway

Interested in nature and role of social and organisation networks in innovation, technology diffusion, entrepreneurship, and knowledge creation and sharing, as well as the graphical representation of such networks. More recently his research has also looked at the formation and flow of narrative and rhetoric through networks. Informal organisation and social/informal networks (in and around organisations) - including their graphical representation.

Joanna Brewis

The intersections between the body, identity, sexuality, consumption, culture and processes of organizing, as articulated in work on topics such as sexual harassment, sex work, women’s experiences of embodiment within and outwith the workplace, fast food, organizational projects of the self, relationships at work and representations of organizations in popular culture.

Valérie Fournier

Her current research interests centre on alternative organizations and economies and include: rural economies and sustainable development, alternative forms of exchange and markets, co-operative and communal organizational structures, and critical pedagogy.

Simon Lilley

Research interests turn around the relationships between (human) agency, technology and performance, particularly the ways in which such relationships can be understood through post-structural approaches to organisation. These concerns are reflected in a continuing focus upon the use of information technologies and strategic models in organisations and he is currently pursuing these themes through investigation of the regulation and conduct of financial and commodity derivatives trading.

Jon Keating (Mathematics, Bristol) - he invented the 'netwoeks' theme for Leverhulme

Irad Malkin - Tel Aviv University - has a book out on netwok theory and classical antiquity

Søren Sindbæk - University of York; works on Viking Networks

Tim Evans - Imperial College London; models networks in the Med: http://155.198.210.128/~time/networks/arch/index.html

Networks workshop in Dublin: http://www.tcd.ie/Classics/cnagw/programme.php

Shawn Graham - University of Manitoba, includes a very nice NetLogo based simulation using an agent based generalisation of the ideas of Rihll and Wilson. http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~grahams/

Leif Isaksen - Oxford Archaeology; has done a Network Analysis of Transport Vectors in Roman Baetica.