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SUMMARY:"Who's afraid of scientism? – A Network Framework of Cultural Hi
 story!"
DTSTART:20150617T131500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Maximilian Schich\nAssociate Professor\, Arts and Technolo
 gy\nFounding member\, Edith O'Donnell Institute for Art History\nThe Unive
 rsity of Texas at Dallas\nThe emergent processes driving cultural history 
 are a product of complex interactions among large numbers of individuals\,
  determined by difficult-to-quantify historical conditions. To characteriz
 e these processes we have reconstructed aggregate intellectual mobility ov
 er two millennia through the birth and death locations of more than 150\,0
 00 notable individuals. The tools of network and complexity theory were th
 en used to identify characteristic statistical patterns and determine the 
 cultural and historical relevance of deviations. The resulting network of 
 locations provides a macroscopic perspective of cultural history\, which h
 elps us to retrace cultural narratives of Europe and North America using l
 arge-scale visualization and quantitative dynamical tools and to derive hi
 storical trends of cultural centers beyond the scope of specific events or
  narrow time intervals.\nThe presentation is based on a paper that appeare
 d in Science Magazine in August 2014\, and an animation Charting Culture o
 n the Nature video channel. According to Altmetric\, the paper ranks among
  the top 1% of all papers ever published in Science\, while the video has 
 accumulated 1 million views so far.\nFree access to the paper and video: h
 ttp://www.cultsci.net/
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