International Conference on Urban History, 'Reinterpreting Cities' -
European Association for Urban History, Helsinki, Finland, August
24 - 27, 2016
Deadline: Oct 31, 2015

[1] Mapping Networks in Historical Cultural Markets: Methods and Tools

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From: Claartje Rasterhoff
Date: Jun 26, 2015
Subject: CFP: Mapping Networks in Historical Cultural Markets: Methods
and Tools

This interdisciplinary session explores how networks helped to
establish, expand, and sustain markets for cultural products such as
books and art, as well as theatre, music and cinema productions.
Although the study of social ties among market participants is by no
means new, it is becoming increasingly prominent due to
historiographical and methodological developments. Recent studies on
cultural markets and urban creativity, for instance, testify to the
importance of local and interlocal networks for innovation and market
development (cf. Davids & De Munck 2014; De Marchi & Raux 2014).
Moreover, analyses of historical networks have been reinforced by the
spilling over of the method of 'network analysis' from the social
sciences as well as the advent of computational techniques in

historical research (e.g. Graham, Milligan & Weingart 2013). Despite
this recent interest, there is still much ambiguity around the concept
of networks. The term is often used as a catch-all denoting many
different relationships in cultural markets and although most
historians are by now familiar with digital network visualization and
spatial mapping, their analytical potential and limitations deserve
further examination. Papers are, therefore, invited to reflect on
issues of methodology and digital techniques, e.g. means of collecting,
analyzing, and presenting data pertaining to the relationship between
networks and cultural market development. We welcome contributions on
Europe and beyond, across different periods, and on miscellaneous
cultural markets.

The following themes fit particularly well with the aims of the session:
- Different uses of networks by individuals and firms (promotion,
information collection, subcontracting, reputation building, etc.);

- Comparisons of network structures across time, space, and cultural
industries;
- Tracing cultural exchange and transmission across inter-local and
cross-sectoral networks;
- Relationships between networks, affiliations and institutions in
cultural markets;
- Processes of intermediation in cultural markets.

Session organizers: Claartje Rasterhoff, University of Amsterdam, Dries
Lyna, Radboud University Nijmegen, and Karol Jan Borowiecki, University
of Southern Denmark.

Deadline paper proposals: October 31, 2015.
Notification of paper acceptance: December 15, 2015

Abstracts of paper proposals should not exceed 300 words. To submit a
paper proposal, registration in the conference management system is
required: https://www.conftool.pro/eauh2016/. The session organisers
will decide on the contents of their session and will make the final
selection of papers. The authors of the accepted paper proposals will
be invited to submit the full text (max. 5000 words) to the conference
management system. Deadline for full text submissions: August 15, 2016.
The papers will be made available to all participants of the conference
in a restricted web area. Paper proposals and full texts can only by
submitted online, via the EAUH2016 website:
https://eauh2016.net/programme/call-for-papers/.