[Corpora-List] 2nd Call: phylogenetic approaches, Tutorial and Workshop, Bern, 22-24 November 2012

[Ruprecht von Waldenfels]

(Please excuse the premature posting an hour ago)
Phylometric and phylogenetic approaches in the humanities
Tutorial: Thursday/Friday, Nov. 22nd/23rd 2012
Workshop: Saturday, Nov. 24th 2012

The use of phylogenetic algorithms for the analysis of large sets of 
genetic data has a long tradition in biology. 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 approaches 
are seldom compared from a interdisciplinary, methodological perspective.

In order to advance these methods and discuss their application, we are 
holding a three-day event composed of a tutorial and a workshop.

The tutorial on Nov 22/23 offers an hand-on introduction to phylogenetic 
methods for interested advanced students and researchers. The tutorial 
is based on genuine data sets used in the study of manuscript tradition 
(stemmatology) and linguistics (parallel texts and dialectological 
data). It is lead by:
- Heather Windram (Cambridge University, Biology Department; 
stemmatological data)
- Christoph Wolk (FRIAS, Freiburg University; linguistic data)

If you would like to participate, please register by October 20, 2012. 
The tutorial is free of charge, and we may be able to supply private 
accomodation for a limited number of participants. For more details, 
please visit our web site at http://bernphylogeny.blogspot.ch/

In the workshop on the next day, Nov 24, we would like to bring together 
both junior researchers and established specialists from different 
disciplines to discuss and exchange ideas about applications, benefits 
and limitations of "phylomemetics" (Howe and Windram 2011) in different 
disciplines and with different types of data 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.

List of invited speakers:
- 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 don't hesitate to contact us at bernphylogeny at gmail.com in case 
of further 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. OEP
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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