Complex R.O.M.E. 2026

Important Dates

September 4th, 2026 September 13th, 2026

Abstract submission deadline

September 11th, 2026 September 18th, 2026

Results for the abstract selection

September 28th, 2026

Registration

September 30th, 2026

Complex R.O.M.E. Workshop

Keynote Speakers

Débora Zurro Hernández

HUMANE (Human Ecology and Archaeology)
Institución Milá y Fontanals de Investigación en Humanidades (IMF-CSIC)

Peter Turchin

Project Leader, Complexity Science Hub-Vienna
Professor Emeritus, University of Connecticut
Research Associate, School of Anthropology, University of Oxford

Schedule

Complex R.O.M.E. 2026 workshop schedule
Time	Session	Speaker	Presentation
09:15	Keynote speaker	Débora Zurro Hernández	Archaeology as Blue Sky Discipline within the Humanities: A Review of Transdisciplinary and Modeling Approaches to Long-Term Data
10:15	Prehistory	Eulàlia Rafart-Vidal	Did Palaeolithic Hunter-Gatherers Cross the Ice? A Bayesian Approach to the Estimation of Glacier Movement Costs in the Pyrenees
		María Coto Sarmiento	Beyond Blue Past Economies: An Ecological Framework for Understanding Complex Coastal Adaptations and Marine Resource Exploitation along the Atacama Coast
	Bronze Age	Deborah Priß	Inferring Social Processes and System Resilience in Ancient Settlement Networks
		Pallavee Gokhale	Agent-Based Modelling of Harappan Artefacts: Exploratory Study into Past Scenarios and Present Material
		Areti Michalopoulou	Against the Current: From Maritime Potential to Regional Connectivity in the Bronze Age North Aegean
30-minute break
11:45	Iron Age and Classicity	Olga Palacios	Quantifying Historical Evidence in Agent-Based Models: The Islamic Green Revolution in Egypt
		Laura van der Knaap	Understanding Settlement and Demography Dynamics in the Tiel Micro-Region: Combining Agent-Based Modelling, Settlement and Cemetery Data
		Luce Prignano	Settlements, Power and Transport Networks: A Complex-Systems Approach to Early Urbanisation in Central Italy
		Santiago Tuñas-Corzón	A New GIS Tool to Study Human-Environment Interactions in Past Landscapes: The Iron Age Societies of NW Iberia as a Case Study
		Samuel Nión-Álvarez	Finding the Gap: A Chronometric Approach to the Early–Late Iron Age Transition in Northern Iberia (450–350 BCE)
		Dries Daems	Tracing Complex Material Networks through Mutual Information: A Case Study from the Late Hellenistic and Early Roman Mediterranean
		Rocío Da Riva	Meshing Gods and Temples in Late Babylonia
Lunch break
14:30	Middle Age and Modernity	Inga Utkina-Wöhrl	Looking at Hoards through Networks: A New Approach to Research Early Medieval Depositions in the Middle Dnieper Area
		Nick Gotts	Modelling the Spread of Moveable-Type Printing in Europe
	Early Contemporaneity	Fernando Diaz-Diaz	Topological Fingerprints of Historical Events in International Relations Networks
		Marcella Tambuscio	Towards Computational Prosopography: From Semantic Modelling to Historical Networks
		Garo Kerdelian	Mapping the Armenian Diaspora Network
	Contemporaneity 1	Vivian Rambihar	Historical evolution of excess and premature Heart Disease across the SA diaspora reported 1959-2026: fractal and complexity modelling
		Edgar Camargo	Complex Networks Analysis in Mexican Nationalist Music
30-minute break
16:00	Contemporaneity 2	Jacob Billings	Adaptive Redundancy in Documentary Systems: A Complex Systems Model of the Book of Mormon's Transmission Architecture
		Dario Zarcone	Dynamics of Media Discourse: Timescales, Thematic Trajectories and Stochastic Models
		Marcelo del Castillo Mussot	Analysis of the Nine Dimensions of National Power of Seventy-Four Countries
		Julián Villaseñor Ibáñez	Dynamical Regimes of Armed Conflict: A Temporal Network Study
		Luis Alberto Sanchez Zacateco	Market Complexity State Vector: A Hybrid Regime-Aware Symbolic Framework for Probabilistic S&P 500 Forecasting
	General	Nevio Dubbini	AI-Assisted Extraction of Archaeological Knowledge from Legacy Records
		Santiago Lamata Otín	Dynastic Dynamics: Modelling Powerful Naming Choices with Stochastic Prestige
		Andrea Agosta	A Simulation Model for Historical Evolution of Geopolitical Entities
17:30	Keynote speaker	Peter Turchin	TBD

Authors are listed in session order.

Call for Presentations

We invite researchers from various disciplines to submit abstracts for presentations at Complex R.O.M.E. 2026, with contributions that explore the application of complex systems approaches to the study of historical phenomena.

The abstracts should not necessary be a finished work, but could be a preliminary report of ongoing research, a presentation of a new dataset, or a proposal of a new method or technique for studying historical phenomena, or a position paper.

Both senior and junior researchers are encouraged to submit their work.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Mathematical and computational models of historical phenomena
Modelling societies in history
Application of network analysis to the study of historical phenomena
Cliodynamics
Application of computational social science to history
Presentation of new systems, techniques, and datasets for studying historical phenomena
Utilization of Large Language Models (LLMs) to study and interpret historical phenomena
Application of AI to historical studies
Other related topics

Submission

Use the form to register and submit your abstract to the workshop. The abstract should be maximum 2 pages (bibliography not included).

Remember that you could register and participate even if you do not submit an abstract.

Register and/or Submit Abstract

Organizing Committee

Francesco Bertolotti

Department of Philosophy, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Intelligence, Complexity, Technology Lab (ICT Lab), LIUC - Università Cattaneo

Sabin Roman

Center for the Study of the Existential Risk, University of Cambridge
Institut Jožef Stefan

Pablo Rosillo-Rodes

Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems IFISC (UIB-CSIC),
University of the Balearic Islands

General information: ccs25history@gmail.com