Who Do You Trust?

More information on this lecture will be posted closer to the event date. This is the keynote lecture for 2024 conference of The Connected Past: People, Networks and Complexity in Archaeology and History.

Anna Collar is an associate professor in Roman Archaeology at the University of Southampton. She works on the material culture of religious practice, pilgrimage, sacred landscapes, mobility and migration, emotion and experience, social networks and network analysis. She is a pioneer in the use of social network analytical methods to interpret religious movements in antiquity, and a founding member of The Connected Past. She has numerous publications on the application of network approaches in archaeology, notably Networks and the Spread of Ideas in the Past (2022), The Connected Past: Challenges to Network Studies in Archaeology and History (with Tom Brughmans and Fiona Coward, 2016), and Religious Networks in the Roman Empire (2013).