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Expansion of the traditional focus, insights into the world-wide complexity of historic developments.

Network analysis aims to visualise and interpret (social) relationships. A network is always an abstraction of the world view or categories into which we categorise the world. Accordingly, almost everything can be transferred into a network. Letters, for example, are the central source for reconstructing communication networks of all kinds; if no correspondence is available, business records of merchants, for example, can reveal economic networks such as supply and sales channels; or criminal records can show the connections between criminals. The range of questions, sources and approaches in network analysis is therefore very broad. The systematic analysis of networks of relationships between people is essential.

Entangled history (Histoire croisée) represents a multi-perspective approach. It examines constantly effective, reciprocal influences. In contrast to transfer history, interactions are particularly emphasised here and self-referentiality is already included in the researcher's survey. In contrast to comparative history, which relates supposedly clearly delimited spaces to one another, the 'usual' spatial frame of reference - such as Austria, Tyrol or other provinces or crown lands - is kept more open in the case of interweaving history, when connections and influences are enquired into. Interweaving thus means taking at least two perspectives into account for each question or for the treatment of each problem and allowing the interactions resulting from the intersection of perspectives to flow into the analysis situation itself.

The aim of this lecture series is therefore to present and discuss these two central historical approaches in the form of applied examples.

This course is organised by the Doctoral Programme "Austrian Studies". Its primary aim is to approach the concept of "Austria" beyond conventional spatial and historical norms.

Frontal lecture, followed by the opportunity for discussion

Combined. Details will be given in the first lesson and will be announced via OLAT at the beginning of the semester.

·         Ahnert, Ruth u. a., The Network Turn. Changing Perspectives in the Humanities, Cambridge 2020, “Culture is Data”, S. 43–56.

·         Werner, Michael/Zimmermann, Bénédicte, Vergleich, Transfer, Verflechtung. Der Ansatz der Histoire croisée und die Herausforderung des Transnationalen, in: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 28/4 (2002), 607–636.

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one lecture in English