Other Talks

Some talks have interesting applications or tie-ins to mine. These require further investigation and thought.

1. Networks in Literary History: The Salons Project, Melanie Conroy
   • Drawing a map of Europe’s salons over a 400-year period.
     • how is she using time?
   • Social connections between authors, artists, and others through salons, academies, and clubs
   • VIAF and ULAN resources
   • Change in networks over time and distance using Gephi and Palladio
     • Palladio
2. The New Woman Network: Visualizing the Discursive Development of a Feminist Ideal, Hannah Jacobs
   • Words in their requency or aberrance and syntactical relationship to the term “New Woman”
   • Characterizing the term’s change over time, across space, and between publications
   • Text analysis and strategies to visualize: maps, timelines, graphs
   • (Part of a master’s dissertation)
3. Applying Network Visualization: Women and Socialism in the 1840s U.S., Kathryn Tomasek
   • (Bad grammar in the abstract, though)
   • Asking questions such as how participation in the movement for Fourierist Association overlapped with other reform movements of that time. How did one affect the other, was one dominant?
     • These are similar questions to our marriage vs ecclesiastical office discussion? Which affected the other?
     • How to look at these different movements across time and compare