Via Simon Mahony:
The first of this Summer’s Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies seminars is this Friday.
Tom Brughmans (University of Southampton)
‘Exploring visibility networks in Iron Age and Roman Southern Spain with Exponential Random Graph Models’Friday June 7 at 16:30
Room G37, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HUAre lines of sight between Roman towns important for explaining their location? Through a case study on visibility patterns between urban settlements in Iron Age and Roman Southern Spain, this paper will discuss how Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGM) can help explore hypothetical past processes of interaction and site location. With these models the frequency of certain subnetworks in random networks and the empirically attested network is compared, to examine the probability that the subnetworks might have emerged through random processes. This paper will critically evaluate the potential and limitations of such an approach for archaeology.
The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.
All are welcome
The full 2013 programme is at <http://digiclass.cch.kcl.ac.uk/wip/wip2013.html>
