"On Practices and Discourses: Early Modern Scholarship as a Network"

The binational research project "Resonating Networks" at the University of Basel and Humboldt University of Berlin, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the German Research Foundation (2023–26), investigates the origins, constitution, and implications of research paradigms in Old Norse studies. Using methods of discourse analysis and network-theoretical approaches such as Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory (ANT), it explores how networks of people, places, texts, and discourses have influenced Old Norse research across time and boundaries. The project focuses on research paradigms from the 17th to the 20th century.

The first workshop aims to bring together scholars from related fields to discuss various approaches to the study of discursive networks. It will explore the applicability of ANT and related theories to synchronous and diachronic knowledge networks. Contributions may include comparisons of ANT with other network theories, its interaction with other theories (e.g., discourse analysis, media theory, material philology), and methodological questions regarding the use of ANT and other approaches, including methods from the digital humanities.