This workshop on networks and the study of religion will be of interest to those reading this blog. I recently met the team behind the Brno-based GEHIR project. They are great and are working on some original and interesting ways of studying the past diffusions of religions using network science techniques. A very multi-disciplinary and innovative project, so worth exploring it through this workshop.
Network Theory and Computer Modeling in the Study of Religion
International Workshop
August 29–September 4, 2016
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
In collaboration with the Department for the Study of Religion, Masaryk University, Brno and the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, Toronto
Organizing committee: Tamás Biró, Aleš Chalupa, István Czachesz
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
This workshop continues the program of previous meetings that explored the relationship between network theory and cognitive science and the implications of that nexus for historiography. The primary intention of this workshop is to explore modeling techniques that can be used in the study of religion, identify aspects of religion (with an emphasis on cognitive features in the history of religions) that are good candidates to be captured by such models, and discuss what data is needed from historians, philologists, and archaeologist so that meaningful models can be created.
WORKSHOP PROGRAM
(Draft, June 13, 2016)
Monday Aug 29
Travel day, Reception
Tuesday Aug 30
9am–10.30am Opening panel and discussion
11.00am–12.30pm Tutorials
2pm–3.30pm Tutorials
4pm–5pm Paper presentations
Wednesday Aug 31
A Generative Historiography of the Ancient Mediterranean
(GEHIR Project, Brno)
Thursday Sept 1
9am–2pm Lab visits and presentations at ELTE University
3pm–5pm Paper presentations
Friday Sept 2
9am–12.30pm Paper presentations
2pm–5pm Concluding panel and discussion
Saturday Sept 3
Archeological trip
Sunday Sept 4
Sightseeing, travel day
Archaeological Networks 
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