[Corpora-List] 2nd Call: Phylogenetic approaches, 22nd November 2012, Bern, Switzerland

[Ruprecht von Waldenfels]

*Second Call for Papers - *Deadline extended*
Workshop -- Phylometric and phylogenetic approaches in the humanities
Date: November 24th, 2012
Location: University of Bern, Switzerland

The use of phylogenetic algorithms for the analysis of large sets of 
genetic data has a long tradition in biology. Only in the recent past, 
methods developed in this context have been gaining importance also in 
the humanities. In a a variety of disciplines, including linguistics, 
literary studies, anthropology and others, they have been used for the 
visualisation and analysis of diverse data sets such as comparative word 
lists, translated texts, manuscript traditions and other types of 
cultural artefacts (see below for references). However, these methods 
are seldom compared from a interdisciplinary, methodological perspective 
in the humanities.

We would like to bring together contributors from different disciplines 
who have applied phylogenetic methods in the humanities.  We are 
especially interested in methodological issues that have relevance 
across the disciplines; this may also include case studies focusing on 
the applicability of these methods to specific data types and research 
questions.

The following invited speakers have confirmed:
Teemu Roos (Computer Science, University of Helsinki)
Michael Cysouw (Linguistic typology, Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Jamie Tehrani (Anthropology, University of Durham)
T.B.A.

EXTENDED DEADLINE:
If you would like to present a paper, please send an abstract (500 
characters at maximum) by October 14th, 2012 to bernphylogeny at gmail.com.
If you would like to attend without presenting, please let us know by 
October 20th so we can plan ahead.
Further information can be found at http://bernphylogeny.blogspot.ch/. 
Please feel to contact us at the above email address in case of questions.

Organizers:
The Center for the Study of Language and Society (CSLS), Univ. Bern - 
www.csls.unibe.ch

Kathrin Chlench, Institut für Germanistik, Universität Bern
Gabriel Viehhauser, Institut für Germanistik, Universität Bern
Ruprecht von Waldenfels, Institut für slavische Sprachen und 
Literaturen, Universität Bern
Manuel Widmer, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Bern


References:
McMahon and McMahon (2005), Language Classification by Numbers. Oxford: 
Oxford University Press.
Nichols and Warnow (2008), Tutorial on Computational Linguistic 
Phylogeny. Language and Linguistics Compass, 2: 760--820.
Windram, Shaw, Robinson, Howe (2008): Dante's Monarchia as a test case 
for the use of phylogenetic methods in stemmatic analysis. LLC 23(4): 
443-463.
Tehrani, Collard and Shennan (2010), The cophylogeny of populations and 
cultures: reconstructing the evolution of Iranian tribal craft 
traditions using trees and jungles. Philosophical Transactions of the 
Royal Society 365(1559): 3865-3874.
Howe and Windram (2011): Phylomemetics -- evolutionary analysis beyond 
the gene. PLoS Biology 9: 1-5.

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Institut fuer slavische Sprachen und Literaturen
Universität Bern Laenggassstr. 49 CH 3005 Bern 9
Tel: +41  31 631 35 83 /  Fax: +41 31  631 39 90
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