Save the Date: Virtual keynote event of HNR 2020, June 19th 2020

Dear all,

After all the cancellations of events due to COVID-19, we are pleased to announce that the HNR 2020 conference may be moved to 2021, but the keynotes will be delivered online this year! On June 19th, our three keynote speakers have kindly agreed to record their papers to help us all think about how network theory and analysis can be applied in historical research.

As we have written before, the HNR conference will no longer take place in Luxembourg on 16-19 June 2020, but has been rescheduled to summer 2021. Precise dates and a new deadline for a second Call for Papers will be announced later this year. The HNR conference series explores the challenges and possibilities of network research in historical scholarship and serves as a platform for researchers from various disciplines to meet, present and discuss their latest research findings and to demonstrate tools and projects. To keep up-to-date about the state of HNR2021, please visit our conference website.

Even if the planned presentations had to be moved, the keynote speakers event of the 2020 edition of the HNR conference will still take place and be entirely online. Keynotes will be streamed on Zoom and afterwards, uploaded to the HNR Youtube channel. There will also be Q&A-sessions following each presentation on Zoom.

To give attendees the best possible experience, we will use three programs/channels of communication:

Zoom – program and Q&A
Slack – HNR-gang.slack.com (see instructions below)
Youtube – Trailers (and soon keynotes) on the HNR Youtube channel

Please do not hesitate to contact the organizing team for any questions you may have at HNR2020@historicalnetworkresearch.org or direct your questions directly at our HNR Slack channel #hnr2020 (see instructions bellow)

Registration

To attend, please register before June 17, 2020 so we can share the online conferencing channel with you and keep you updated about the virtual keynote event: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/historical-network-research-30207659732 

Program, June 19th 2020

Keynotes will be 30 minutes with 30 minutes Q&A-session.

14:30-15:00 (CET): Welcome

15.00-16:00 (CET): Marieke van Erp – KNAW Humanities Cluster DHLab – https://twitter.com/merpeltje 

16:00-17:00 (CET): Ruth Ahnert – Queen Mary University London – https://twitter.com/RuthAhnert 

17:00-18:00 (CET): Petter Holme – Institute of Innovative Research at Tokyo Institute of Technology – https://twitter.com/pholme 

18:00-19:00 (CET): Closing Remarks and Virtual Reception (bring some wine!)

HNR-gang slack workspace

The virtual event continues in the HNR-gang slack workspace! It has been created to give researchers from various disciplines a space to meet, to ask questions, to share their knowledge, to discuss their latest findings, or to simply talk about anything related to networks and more. To join the channel, follow these instructions:

1 – Follow the invite link: https://join.slack.com/t/hnr-gang/shared_invite/zt-erd4n2wg-OKYZy951_CSN1xrYVGrUXA 
2 – Enter HNR-gang.slack.com or add HNR-gang as a workspace to the Slack app (https://slack.com)
3 – Change your “Display Name” to Firstname Lastname – Affiliation.
4 – Use the #general channel as you would use a regular conference lobby.
5 – Visit the thematic channels.
6 – Right-click a channel to mute it.
7 – Engage in one-on-one conversations with anyone inside HNR2020 slack!