<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px">Dear colleagues,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Our Spring School last year was a great success and we're delighted to announce another outing for the <span style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-m_-4412040995946903223gmail-il" style="font-weight:bold">Spring</span><b> </b><span class="gmail-m_-4412040995946903223gmail-il" style="font-weight:bold">School</span><b> </b><span class="gmail-m_-4412040995946903223gmail-il" style="font-weight:bold">on</span><b> </b><span class="gmail-m_-4412040995946903223gmail-il" style="font-weight:bold">Quantitat<wbr>ive</span><b> </b><span class="gmail-m_-4412040995946903223gmail-il"><b>Methods </b>at the<b> </b></span></span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b>Max Planck Institute for the </b><span class="gmail-m_-4412040995946903223gmail-il" style="font-weight:bold">Science</span><b> of </b><span class="gmail-m_-4412040995946903223gmail-il" style="font-weight:bold">Human</span><b> </b><span class="gmail-m_-4412040995946903223gmail-il"><b>History. </b>The recently-opened (2015) Institute is located in Jena, Germany.</span></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Running from May 8th to 14th, the seven-day residential intensive course will be open to postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers. The <b>course is aimed at researchers whose projects concern cultural and linguistic evolution</b>, and we welcome applications from scholars in anthropology, linguistics, and other relevant disciplines. Attendees will be tutored by researchers who are expert users of a range of relevant <span class="gmail-m_-4412040995946903223gmail-il">methods</span> and skills, including: </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Databases and software pipelines </span><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Phylogenetic inference and phylogenetic comparative <span class="gmail-m_-4412040995946903223gmail-il">methods</span></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">A range of statistics relevant for linguistic and cultural data</span><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Visualisation</span><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Asking good research questions</span></li></ul><span style="font-size:12.8px">Attendees will benefit from a highly interactive mixture of theoretical and conceptual material, practical hands-<span class="gmail-m_-4412040995946903223gmail-il">on</span> exercises, and the chance to workshop their own research project and data with a varied group of experts. </span><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Only <u>15 places are available</u> as the <span class="gmail-m_-4412040995946903223gmail-il">Spring</span> <span class="gmail-m_-4412040995946903223gmail-il">School</span> is residential at the <span class="gmail-m_-4412040995946903223gmail-il">MPI</span>-SHH in Jena, <span class="gmail-m_-4412040995946903223gmail-il">Germany</span>, and <u>all <span class="gmail-m_-4412040995946903223gmail-il">on</span>-site accommodation and economy travel will be fully-funded</u>. Places are therefore competitive by application and we particularly encourage applications from qualified students at institutions in low- and middle-income countries. Attendees will benefit from both the skills of tutors and their wide range of collaborative ties across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. The <span class="gmail-m_-4412040995946903223gmail-il">Spring</span> <span class="gmail-m_-4412040995946903223gmail-il">School</span> will also feature guest plenary lectures, tailored micro-sessions, group work, and numerous opportunities to socialise and network with fellow attendees, tutors, and researchers at the <span class="gmail-m_-4412040995946903223gmail-il">MPI</span>-SHH.<br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Please circulate this notice and attached flyer to your networks and to any PhD students, postdoctoral or early-career researchers you think might benefit. Apologies should you receive this through multiple channels!</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Further information, including the application form, is at the <span class="gmail-m_-4412040995946903223gmail-il">MPI</span>-SHH website: <a href="http://www.shh.mpg.de/304502/quantitative-methods-spring-school-2017" target="_blank">http://www.shh.mpg.<wbr>de/304502/quantitative-<wbr>methods-spring-school-2017</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">. Applications close <b>January 20th</b>. Finally, informal enquiries to the <span class="gmail-m_-4412040995946903223gmail-il">Spring</span> <span class="gmail-m_-4412040995946903223gmail-il">School</span> Directors should be sent via Kerstin Schück-Tittmann (</span><a href="mailto:schueck@shh.mpg.de" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">schueck@shh.mpg.de</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">).</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">With apologies for cross-posting.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Very best wishes,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Fiona Jordan</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Russell Gray</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Directors </div><div class="gmail-m_-4412040995946903223gmail-yj6qo gmail-m_-4412040995946903223gmail-ajU" style="font-size:12.8px;margin:2px 0px 0px"></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">
<p><font size="2"><a href="http://www.bristol.ac.uk/school-of-arts/people/fiona-m-jordan" target="_blank"><b>Fiona Jordan</b></a><br><b>Professor of Anthropology</b><br>Department of Archaeology and Anthropology<br>University of Bristol<br>43 Woodland Road<br>Bristol BS8 1UU<br>Tel: +44 (0)117 954 6078</font></p><p><font size="2"><a href="https://excd.org" target="_blank">Evolution of Cross-Cultural Diversity Lab</a><br>twitter: @fiona_jordan</font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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