[Linganth] 2nd Spring School on Quantitative Methods May 2017 | MPI Science of Human History, Germany

[Fiona Jordan]

Dear colleagues,

Our Spring School last year was a great success and we're delighted to
announce another outing for the Spring School on Quantitative *Methods *at
the *Max Planck Institute for the *Science* of *Human *History. *The
recently-opened (2015) Institute is located in Jena, Germany.

Running from May 8th to 14th, the seven-day residential intensive course
will be open to postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers. The *course is
aimed at researchers whose projects concern cultural and linguistic
evolution*, 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 methods and skills,
including:

   - Databases and software pipelines
   - Phylogenetic inference and phylogenetic comparative methods
   - A range of statistics relevant for linguistic and cultural data
   - Visualisation
   - Asking good research questions

Attendees will benefit from a highly interactive mixture of theoretical and
conceptual material, practical hands-on exercises, and the chance to
workshop their own research project and data with a varied group of
experts.

Only *15 places are available* as the Spring School is residential at the
MPI-SHH in Jena, Germany, and *all on-site accommodation and economy travel
will be fully-funded*. 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 Spring School 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 MPI-SHH.

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!

Further information, including the application form, is at the MPI-SHH
website: http://www.shh.mpg.de/304502/quantitative-
methods-spring-school-2017. Applications close *January 20th*. Finally,
informal enquiries to the Spring School Directors should be sent via
Kerstin Schück-Tittmann (schueck at shh.mpg.de).

With apologies for cross-posting.

Very best wishes,

Fiona Jordan
Russell Gray
Directors

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*Fiona Jordan*
<http://www.bristol.ac.uk/school-of-arts/people/fiona-m-jordan>
*Professor of Anthropology*
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
University of Bristol
43 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1UU
Tel: +44 (0)117 954 6078

Evolution of Cross-Cultural Diversity Lab <https://excd.org>
twitter: @fiona_jordan
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