"Who's afraid of scientism? – A Network Framework of Cultural History!"

Event details
Date | 17.06.2015 |
Hour | 13:15 |
Speaker |
Dr. Maximilian Schich Associate Professor, Arts and Technology Founding member, Edith O'Donnell Institute for Art History The University of Texas at Dallas |
Location | |
Category | Conferences - Seminars |
The emergent processes driving cultural history are a product of complex interactions among large numbers of individuals, determined by difficult-to-quantify historical conditions. To characterize these processes we have reconstructed aggregate intellectual mobility over two millennia through the birth and death locations of more than 150,000 notable individuals. The tools of network and complexity theory were then 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 helps us to retrace cultural narratives of Europe and North America using large-scale visualization and quantitative dynamical tools and to derive historical trends of cultural centers beyond the scope of specific events or narrow time intervals.
The presentation is based on a paper that appeared in Science Magazine in August 2014, and an animation Charting Culture on 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.
Free access to the paper and video: http://www.cultsci.net/
The presentation is based on a paper that appeared in Science Magazine in August 2014, and an animation Charting Culture on 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.
Free access to the paper and video: http://www.cultsci.net/
Practical information
- General public
- Free