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Yanne Broux Born in Lier, Belgium on October 28 1985.
PATRIMONIVM ERC project Institut Ausonius Université
Bordeaux-Montaigne [email protected]
[email protected]
Mercatorpad 10 bus 602
3000 Leuven +32 494 39 13 38
personal website: www.trismegistos.org/staff/broux blog:
historicaldataninjas.com
CURRENT POSITION
2017 - 2020 Postdoctoral researcher, PATRIMONIVM, Université
Bordeaux-Montaigne Associated member of the department of Ancient
History, KU Leuven
PREVIOUS POSITIONS AND COLLABORATIONS
2016 – 2017 Postdoctoral researcher, department of Ancient
History, KU Leuven 2013 – 2016 Postdoctoral researcher (Research
Foundation Flanders [FWO]) at the
department of Ancient History, Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven 2015
Postdoctoral researcher at the Papyrological Institute, Leiden
University 2012 – 2013 Postdoctoral researcher
(KU Leuven Research
Council) at the department of
Ancient History, Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven
EDUCATION
2008 – 2012 PhD in Ancient History, Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven
2007 – 2008 Master in Ancient History (summa cum laude)
Faculty of
Arts, KU Leuven
2004 – 2007 Bachelor in History: major Ancient
History/ minor Syro-Mesopotamia (magna
cum laude) Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven
FUNDING
2016 ‘Krediet aan navorsers’ (€20,900) by the Research
Foundation Flanders (FWO)
AWARDS
2015 Digital Humanities Awards 2014: ‘Best Blog Post or Series
of Blog Posts’ 2014 The YouReCa Challenge by the KU Leuven Career
Center (2nd runner up)
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PHD SUPERVISION
2015 – 2021 N. Dogaer, ‘Ptolemaic State Monopolies: Predation or
Prosperity?’
PhD in Ancient History (Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven),
co-supervisor
PHD COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS
2017 – 2021 W. Verdonk, ‘The Intercultural Dynamics throughout
the Ancient Mediterranean. A Comparative Study of the Goddesses
Athena and Ἁnath’ PhD in Ancient History (Faculty of Arts, KU
Leuven)
2013 – 2017
G. Baetens, ‘Dispute Resolution in Ptolemaic
Egypt: Adjudicative and Consensual Strategies towards Order in
Classical Society’
PhD in Ancient History (Faculty of Arts, KU
Leuven)
2013 – 2017 A. Blasco-Torres, ‘Rendering of Egyptian Names in
Greek: Regional Differentiation’ PhD in Ancient History (Faculty of
Arts, KU Leuven in co-direction with Salamanca)
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2018 – 2019 Master thesis, Master of Digital Humanities, KU
Leuven (1 student) 2018 – 2019 Historical Data Management: database
layout, Master of History, KU Leuven 2018 – 2019 Introduction to
DH: network analysis, Master of Digital Humanities, KU
Leuven 2017 – 2018 Introduction to DH: network analysis, Master
of Digital Humanities, KU
Leuven 2017 – 2018 Social Network Analysis, Sunoikisis Digital
Cultural Heritage
2015 – 2016 Bachelor thesis, Bachelor of History, KU Leuven (5
students) 2014 – 2015 Master thesis, Master of Ancient History, KU
Leuven (2 students) 2012 – 2016 Ancient Greek historical texts A:
reading and grammar, Bachelor of History,
KU Leuven 2010 – 2011 Ancient Greek historical texts B: grammar,
Bachelor of History, KU Leuven
IT EXPERIENCE
Software: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), Filemaker
Pro 7-17, Gephi, UCINET, R Mark-up and programming languages:
HTML5, CSS3, PHP, MySQL, Javascript, basic XML
DATABASE MANAGEMENT (TRISMEGISTOS [TM])
2017 – 2020 TM Ousiai, integrated in the Atlas Patrimonii
Caesaris (patrimonium.huma-num.fr/atlas/index): a database of
imperial estates in Egypt
2016 – now Supervision parsing Latin inscriptions: 895,412
clusters in 451,860 texts 2015 – now TM Networks management 2014 –
now TM People management 2014 Updating TM People with geographical
identifiers: 4,830 places of residence 2012 – now Updating TM
People with status markers: 3,523 titles 2012 Review of
genealogical identifiers in TM People: 14,514 attestations 2011
Setting up a prosopography of individuals with a double name:
8,383
attestations of 4,515 different people
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2010 – 2011 Prosopographical identification of individuals and
extraction of genealogical information from texts: 7,594 texts and
103,374 attestations
2009 – 2010 Review of anthroponyms and toponyms in texts to
solve ambiguities and omit residue (theonyms, numbers, …): 98,840
forms
2009 Updating TM’s onomastic structure on the basis of the
extraction of names from the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri:
42,114 variants of 33,904 names
PUBLICATIONS
Books as author • BROUX, Y. (2015). Double Names and Elite
Strategy in Roman Egypt (Studia Hellenistica 54),
Leuven, 312 pp. • BROUX, Y. (2015). Double Names in Roman Egypt:
A Prosopography (Trismegistos Online
Publications 8), Leuven, 368 pp. ().
Books as editor • BODARD, G., BROUX, Y. and TARTE, S. (eds.)
(2016), Digital Classics: Special Edition (Bulletin of
the Institute of Classical Studies 59.2), London (in print). •
DEPAUW, M., BROUX, Y. (eds.) (2014). Acts of the 10th International
Congress of Demotic
Studies. Leuven, 26-30 August 2008 (Orientalia Lovaniensia
Analecta 231), Leuven, 390 pp.
Articles in international peer-reviewed journals and books •
BROUX, Y., PIETOWSKI, F. (2019), ‘Trismegistos’ TOMATILLO. A New
Tool to Visualize Related
Data in an Online Environment’, M. BÁRTA and V. DULÍKOVÁ (eds.),
Social Network Analysis: The Case of Ancient Egypt, Prague
(accepted).
• BROUX, Y. (2019), ‘An Improved Weighed Dates Method for
Ancient People’, Ancient Society (accepted).
• BROUX, Y. (2019), ‘Things Can Only Get Better for Socrates and
his Crocodile. How Onomastics Can Benefit from Digital Humanities’,
Classical Quarterly (accepted).
• BROUX, Y. (2019), ‘Ἀπάτορες in Roman Egypt. A Mexican
Standoff?’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik
(accepted).
• BROUX, Y. (2019), ‘Tracing the Elite from Ptolemy to
Diocletian. Identifiers as clues of Privileged Status in
Graeco-Roman Egypt’, R. GUICHAROUSSE, P. ISMARD, M. VALLET and
A.-E. VEÏSSE (eds.), Identification des personnes dans le monde
grec, Paris, 2019, 91-110.
• BROUX, Y. (2019), 'Life Portraits: People of a Multicultural
Generation', K. VANDORPE (ed.), A Companion to Greco-Roman and Late
Antique Egypt (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World), Malden,
395-403.
• BROUX, Y. (2019), ‘From prosodos to ousia’, Zeitschrift für
Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 210 (2019), 201-211.
• BROUX, Y. (2017), ‘Ancient Profiles Exploited. First results
of Named Entity Recognition Applied to Latin Inscriptions’, M.
NOWAK, A. ŁAJTAR and J. URBANIK (eds.), Tell Me Who You Are:
Labeling Status in the Graeco-Roman World (Studia Źródłoznawcze
16), Warsaw, 11-33.
• DEPAUW, M., BROUX, Y. (2017), ‘Identification in Graeco-Roman
Egypt: The Modalities of Expressing Filiation’, M. NOWAK, A. ŁAJTAR
and J. URBANIK (eds.), Tell Me Who You Are: Labeling Status in the
Graeco-Roman World (Studia Źródłoznawcze 16), Warsaw, 35-56.
• BROUX, Y. (2017), ‘Egyptian Names and Networks in Trismegistos
(800 BC – AD 800)’, G. ROSATI and M.C. GUIDOTTI (eds.), Proceedings
of the XI International Congress of Egyptologists: Florence, Italy
23-30 August 2015 (Archeopress Egyptology 19), Oxford, 64-68.
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• BROUX, Y. (2017), ‘Local Trade Networks in the Eastern Desert
of Roman Egypt’, H.F. TEIGEN and E. H. SELAND (eds.) Sinews of
empire: Networks in the Roman Near East and Beyond, Oxford –
Philadelphia, 137-146.
• BROUX, Y. (2017), ‘Towards a Universal Facebook of the Ancient
World’, S. ORLANDI et al. (eds.), Digital and Traditional Epigraphy
in Context. Proceedings of the EAGLE 2016 International Conference
(Antichistica 36), Rome, 343-352.
• BROUX, Y., CLARYSSE, W. (2016), ‘Would You Name Your Child
After a Celebrity? Arsinoe, Berenike, Kleopatra, Laodike and
Stratonike in the Greco-Roman East’ Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und
Epigraphik 200, 347-362.
• BROUX, Y. (2016), ‘Locating Ancient Sites with the Help of
Network Analysis: A Lost Cause?’, Ancient Society 46, 27-38.
• BROUX, Y. (2016), ‘Detecting Settlement Communities in
Graeco-Roman Egypt’, Bulletin of the American Society of
Papyrologists 53, 271-288.
• DEPAUW, M., BROUX Y. (2016), ‘Cultural Exchanges in Greek and
Roman Egypt’, 美美与共:宗教交流与全球文明.
• DEPAUW, M. BROUX, Y. (2016), ‘Editions and Editors of Greek
Papyrological Texts: 1708-2015’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und
Epigraphik 198, 202-210.
• BROUX, Y., GEENS, K. (2015). 'The Archive of Petaus, Village
Scribe of Ptolemais Hormou and Surrounding Villages', K. VANDORPE,
W. CLARYSSE and H. VERRETH (eds.), Graeco-Roman Archives from the
Fayum (Collectanea Hellenistica 6), Leuven, 285-288.
• BROUX, Y. (2015), ‘Graeco-Egyptian Naming Practices: A Network
Perspective’, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 55, 706-720.
• BROUX Y. (2015), ‘Re: apatores. Identification Issues and Loss
of Status in Roman Egypt’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und
Epigraphik 194, 212-214.
• BROUX, Y., DEPAUW, M. (2015), 'Developing Onomastic Gazetteers
and Prosopographies for the Ancient World through Named Entity
Recognition and Graph Visualization: Some Examples from
Trismegistos People’, L.M. AIELLO and D. MCFARLAND (eds.), Social
Informatics. SocInfo 2014 International Workshops, Barcelona,
Spain, November 10, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in
Computer Science 8852), Heidelberg, 304-313.
• BROUX, Y., DEPAUW, M. (2015), ‘The Maternal Line in Greek
Identification. Signalling Social Status in Roman Egypt’, Historia:
Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte 64, 467-478.
• BROUX, Y., COUSSEMENT, S. (2014). 'Double names as indicators
of social relations in Graeco-Roman Egypt', M. DEPAUW and S.
COUSSEMENT (eds.), Identifiers and identification methods in the
ancient world: legal documents in ancient societies III (Orientalia
Lovaniensia Analecta 229), Leuven, 119-139.
• BROUX, Y. (2013). 'Bemerkungen zu Papyri', Tyche: Beiträge zur
Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 28, 204-207.
• BROUX, Y. (2013). 'Creating a New Local Elite: The
Establishment of the Metropolitan Orders of Roman Egypt', Archiv
für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 59, 142-152.
• BROUX, Y. (2013). 'Explicit Name Change in Roman Egypt',
Chronique d'Égypte 88, 313-336. • BROUX, Y. (2012). 'Ὁ τοῦ: An
Alternative for the Greek Patronymic in Egypt', The Journal of
Juristic Papyrology 41, 49-61. • BROUX, Y., COUSSEMENT, S.,
DEPAUW, M. (2010). 'Καὶ ὡς χρηματίζει and the Importance of
Naming in Roman Egypt', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und
Epigraphik 174, 159-166. • CLARYSSE, W., BROUX, Y. (2009). 'Two
Greek Funerary Stelae from Lydia and the Antonine
Plague', Tyche: Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und
Epigraphik 24, 27-33.
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PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
Invited presentations and workshops • ‘Trismegistos People 2.0:
New Directions in Ancient Onomastics’, Celtic Conference in
Classics. Coimbra, June 27 2019. • ‘Network analysis with
Gephi’, workshop for the department of history of the University
of
Antwerp, March 25 2019. • ‘TM Networks and the TOMATILLO’.
Social Network Analysis: The Case of Ancient Egypt.
Prague, September 22 2018. • ‘”Walk like a Greco-Egyptian
Egyptian”. Glocalization of Naming Practices in Roman Egypt’,
Theorizing Contacts in the Roman Empire. Edinburgh, December 8-9
2017. • ‘Advances in Digital Classics. Organizing Data: A
Trismegistos Case Study’, preconference
workshop, Theorizing Contacts in the Roman Empire. Edinburgh,
December 7 2017. • ‘Untangling the Past: An Introduction to
Databases and Network Analysis for Ancient Data’,
workshop for the Sonderfoschungsbereich 933 Material Text
Cultures. Heidelberg, May 5-8 2017 (workshop).
• ‘Taking the “Social” out of Network Analysis: Making Networks
of Entities besides People and Places’, Digital Infrastructure for
Geospatial and Prosopographic Data. Leipzig, January 11-13
2017.
• ‘Ancient Profiles Exploited. Local and Global Mechanisms
Behind Identity Formation in the Roman Empire’, What’s in the name?
Presenting and describing people in the Graeco-Roman World. Warsaw,
December 19-21 2016.
• ‘Philokles’ Local Trade Network with the Didymoi Army Camp’,
Sinews of empire: Networks and regional interaction in the Roman
Near East. Athens, December 2-4 2015.
• ‘From Papyri to Spaghetti Monsters: Networks Al Dente’, Papyri
in a Changing World. Leiden, October 29-31 2015.
• ‘Identifying Individuals in Trismegistos People with Network
Analysis’, Per una prosopografia dell’Egitto romano: metodi,
problemi, proposte. Padua, July 23-24 2015.
• ‘Changes in Personal Identification Methods in Early Roman
Egypt’, Enonciation et preuve d’identité dans le monde grec. Paris,
June 19-20 2015.
International conferences and meetings • ‘Patrimonivm Caesaris.
The continuity of local traditions on imperial estates in Roman
Egypt’, Twelfth International Congress of Egyptologists (ICE
XII). Cairo, November 3 – 8 2019.
• ‘Patrimonivm: Geography and Economy of the Imperial Properties
in the Roman World’, 29th International Congress of Papyrology.
Lecce, July 28 – August 8 2019.
• ‘Trismegistos workshop’, 29th International Congress of
Papyrology. Lecce, August 1 2019; with M. Depauw.
• ‘The Julio-Claudian ousiai in Egypt’, L’Égypte et l’économie
impériale romaine. Bordeaux, March 13-14 2019.
• ‘Trismegistos People. The Extended Version’, XVth
International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy. Vienna, August
28 – September 1 2017.
• ‘Trismegistos goes global: inscriptions, places and people’,
XVth International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy. Vienna,
August 28 – September 1 2017; with M. Depauw and H. Verreth.
• ‘Named Entity Recognition and Latin Inscriptions: First
results’, DH Benelux 2017. Utrecht, July 3-5 2017.
• ‘Trismegistos Networks’, 28th International Congress of
Papyrology. Barcelona, August 1-5 2016.
• ‘Towards a Universal Facebook of the Ancient World’, EAGLE
2016 International Conference on Digital and Traditional Epigraphy.
Rome, January 27-29 2016.
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• ‘An Introduction to Social Network Analysis and TM Networks’.
Beijing, November 9 2015. • ‘Egyptian Names in Trismegistos (800 BC
– AD 800) and Social Network Analysis’,
International Congress of Egyptologists XI. Florence, August
23-30 2015. • 'Editions and editors of Greek papyrological texts',
DH Benelux 2015. Antwerp, June 8-9
2015; with M. Depauw. • ‘Applying social network analysis to
names in Trismegistos People. Part Two: Social
Network Analysis’, Digital Classicist New England. Boston, March
23 2015. • ‘Linking Digital Tools for the Ancient World through
Trismegistos Stable Identifiers’, Greek
and Latin in an Age of Open Data. Leipzig, December 1 2014; with
M. Depauw. • 'Developing Onomastic Gazetteers and Prosopographies
for the Ancient World through
Named Entity Recognition and Graph Visualization: Some Examples
from Trismegistos People’, HistoInformatics 2014 – 2nd
International Workshop on Computational History. Barcelona,
November 10 2014; with M. Depauw.
• ‘Preparing your Dataset for Network Analysis: A General
Introduction’, Historical Network Research Conference 2014. Gent,
September 15-19 2014; with M. Depauw and S. Vanbeselaere.
• ‘Identifying Individuals through Network Visualization’, 1st
European Conference on Social Network Analysis. Barcelona, July 1-4
2014; with S. Vanbeselaere.
• ‘Defining the Elite in Roman Egypt’, XXXIV Sunbelt Social
Networks Conference of the International Network of Social Network
Analysis. St. Pete Beach, February 18-23 2014.
• ‘Social Network Analysis and the Zenon Archive’, 27th
International Congress of Papyrology. Warsaw, July 29 - August 3
2013; with S. Vanbeselaere.
• ‘Authority and Social Interaction in Ptolemaic and Roman
Egypt: Social Network Analysis and the Zenon Archive’, XXXIII
Sunbelt Social Networks Conference of the International Network of
Social Network Analysis. Hamburg, May 21-26 2013.
• ‘Quantifying Cultural Changes in Graeco-Roman Egypt (and
beyond) on the basis of Trismegistos’, MediterraneoS 2012:
International Conference of Junior Researchers in Mediterranean and
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. Madrid, November 21-23 2012;
with G. Jennes.
• ‘Double Names and Identity in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt’,
Legal Documents in Ancient Societies: Identifiers and
Identification Methods. Leuven, September 23-25 2010; with S.
Coussement.
• ‘Creating Identities through Double Names in Ptolemaic and
Roman Egypt’, 26th International Congress of Papyrology. Geneva,
August 16-21 2010; with S. Coussement.
• ‘Creating Identities in Graeco-Roman Egypt: Double Names in
Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt’, Current Research in Egyptology XI.
Leiden, January 5-8 2010; with S. Coussement.
• ‘Creating Identities in Graeco-Roman Egypt’, Second Third
Century Colloquium. Leuven, September 3-4 2009.
Local conferences and meetings • ‘Imperial estates in Egypt
under the Antonines (2): Hadrian’, PATRIMONIVM. Twelfth
meeting. Bordeaux, July 3 2019. • ‘Imperial estates in Egypt
under the Antonines (1): Trajan’, PATRIMONIVM. Eleventh
meeting. Bordeaux, May 16 2019. • ‘Imperial estates in Egypt
under the Flavians’, PATRIMONIVM. Tenth meeting. Bordeaux,
February 5 2019. • ‘Imperial vs non-imperial ousiai in Egypt’,
PATRIMONIVM. Eighth meeting. Bordeaux,
October 17 2018. • ‘People Involved in the Julio-Claudian
Ousiai’, PATRIMONIVM. Seventh meeting. Bordeaux,
July 3 2018. • ‘Imperial Estates in Egypt under the
Julio-Claudians’, PATRIMONIVM. Sixth meeting.
Bordeaux, June 12 2018.
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• ‘The Earliest Attestations of Imperial Estates in Egypt II’,
PATRIMONIVM. Fourth meeting. Bordeaux, March 27 2018.
• ‘The Earliest Attestations of Imperial Estates in Egypt I’,
PATRIMONIVM. Third meeting. Bordeaux, February 27 2018.
• ‘Looking for Imperial and Public Land in Egypt’, PATRIMONIVM.
Second meeting. Bordeaux, January 30 2018.
• ‘Land Status in Egypt’, PATRIMONIVM. First meeting. Bordeaux,
November 28 2017. • ‘Trismegistos Networks: An Introduction’,
Towards DARIAH-BE: a kick-off meeting with the
launch of the Digital Humanities Research Community Flanders.
Antwerp, November 27 2015.
• ‘Databases and Network Analysis (SNA)’, Digital Humanities
Summer School 2015. Leuven, September 7-8 2015.
• ‘Trismegistos: an Interdisciplinary Portal Site of Ancient
Data’, DH Spring Event. Leuven, April 28-29 2015.
• ‘Networks and Trismegistos’, Digital Humanities Summer School
2014. Leuven, September 8-10 2014.
• ‘Personal Identification and Social Status in Roman Egypt’,
IKS doctorandi voormiddag. Leuven, May 14 2014.
• ‘Identifying Individuals through Network Visualization’,
Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Leuven, March 12
2014; with S. Vanbeselaere.
• ‘Social Network Analysis @oudheid.kuleuven.be’, OIKOS
Oudhistorici dag. Leuven, February 7 2014.
• ‘Elite Strategy vs Popular Characterization: Double Names in
Roman Egypt (30 BC – AD 800)’, Postgraduate Seminar. Leuven, April
20 2011.
ORGANIZING AND/OR PROGRAM COMMITTEE OF SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES
AND MEETINGS
2019 DH Benelux. Liège, September 11-13 (program committee) 2019
L’Égypte et l’économie impériale romaine. Bordeaux , March 13-14
2019. 2018 DH Benelux. Amsterdam, June 6-8 (program committee) 2017
DH Benelux. Utrecht, June 9-10 (program committee) 2016 DH Benelux.
City-of-Science-Belval, June 9-10 (program committee) 2014 OIKOS
(National Research School in Classical Studies in the Netherlands)
seminar
for ancient historians. Leuven, February 7 2013 Two workshops on
‘SNA for Dummies’. Leuven, June 6 and December 18
SCIENCE COMMUNICATION
• Six degrees of spaghetti monsters: or how to make noodly
graphs based on the all-inclusive Trismegistos database
• The Trismegistos Tabloid
• ‘Rondjes draaien in de woestijn’, oudegeschiedenis.be,
September 4 2018
• ‘Beeldige wetenschap: Mondiaal vuurwerk? Bebloede
designlamp?’, Campuskrant, November 19 2014
• ‘Social Network Analysis for Dummies’, KULeuven Blogt, April 3
2014