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A two-day international inter-disciplinary conference featuring 46 talks about network research on a wide variety of topics including Archaeology, Physics, History and Computer Science.Registration: https://connectedpast.net/registration-2/Programme: https://connectedpast.net/other-events/oxford-2018/programme/Vous pouvez lire ici des comptes rendus en français de l'édition 2017When? 6-7 December 2018Where? University of Oxford, United KingdomKeynotes? Dr. Nathalie Riche (Microsoft Research) and Dr. Matthew Peeples (Arizona State University)How do social networks evolve over huge time-scales? How did geography constrain or enhance the development of past social networks? These are fundamental questions in both the study of the human past and network research, yet our ability to answer them is severely hampered by the limited development of spatiotemporal network methods. PastNet is an inter-disciplinary network that aims to stimulate the development and application of such methods through networking meetings, a conference and a workshop.Network research is also becoming more common in disciplines concerned with the study of past human behaviour: archaeology, classics and history. These disciplines have a strong tradition in exploring long-term human behavioural change and spatial phenomena, despite being forced to use fragmentary textual and material sources as indirect evidence of such phenomena.By bringing together network researchers from archaeology, classics, computer science, digital humanities, history, mathematics, network science, oriental studies, physics, psychology, and sociology, The Connected Past 2018 conference in Oxford aims to foster cross-disciplinary exchange to push network research further. The historical disciplines will contribute new spatiotemporal approaches and datasets to network research, whereas the traditional network research disciplines will further stimulate the critical application of network approaches to the study of the human past.Topics might include, but are not limited to:- Spatial networks- Temporal networks- Archaeological network research- Historical network research- Missing and incomplete data in archaeological and historical networks- What kinds of data can archaeologists and historians use to reconstruct past networks and what kinds of issues ensue?- Formal network analysis vs qualitative network approaches: pros, cons, potential, limitations