Call for Papers: Spatiality and Networks in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
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23. April 2026
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Call for papers
Spatiality and Networks in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Meeting of the Working Group “Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages” (AGSFM) at the joint conference of MOVA, WSVA and NWVA from September 21 to 25, 2026 in Bonn
Bonn, 21-22 September 2026
Submission Deadline: 30 April 2026
From the North Sea to the Mediterranean, from the Atlantic to the Black Sea: The spatial distribution of late Roman and early medieval material culture demonstrates the era’s long-distance human connections.
New finds, as well as methodological and theoretical developments, allow us to analyse them from a new perspective.
The rise of the digital humanities has brought an immense range of possible network analyses, and the innovations of the science turn enable us to visualize connections between humans and animals, or between nature and material culture, on a large scale and with variable time scales. Theoretical Archaeology, in turn, offers perspectives on networks related to concepts of Actor Network Theory, entanglement, agency and enchainment.
It is hoped that the new possibilities and perspectives will help to deconstruct the limiting factors of spatial or geopolitical boundaries.
For this year’s AGSFM meeting we invite you to reflect on networks and perspectives of network analysis in late Roman and early medieval studies.
On September 21 and 22, 2026, this year’s meeting of the Working Group for Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages (AGSFM) will give space to these questions. The meeting will be a forum to present new results or projects on these topics. We also aim to identify and discuss related challenges, problems and questions.
We welcome contributions in German and English. Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes. Proposals for papers (400-600 characters) should be submitted to a.flueckiger@unibas.ch by April 30, 2026.
Organisation
Dr. Michaela Helmbrecht, Dr. Christoph Lobinger, Valerie Palmowski M. A.,
Dr. Roland Prien, Mag. Dr. Bendeguz Tobias (advisory board), Dr. Anna Flückiger (speaker)
Contact
a.flueckiger@unibas.ch
The complete Call for Papers can be found at the blog of the Working Group for Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages (AGSFM).
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