The ECA team participated in a joint seminar orgnizesd by the ERC team of the research project ‘Social Networks of the Past: Mapping Hispanic and Lusophone Literary Modernity, 1898-1959‘. The seminar allowed both teams to present their projects, objectives, data collections and methods of analysis. This was followed by a discussion on the contribution of the projects in current theoretical debates and methodological and practical issues both projects faced when for instance confronted with transnational comparison. The seminar was attended by the ECA team and 11 researchers from the ERC project including Prof. Diana Roig Sanz (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) and Prof. Malte Hagener (Philipps Universität Marburg).