Analysing Manuscripts – Textual Scholarship and the Sciences

29th May 2009, University of Berne, Switzerland
University Main Building, Room 215
Hochschulstrasse 4, CH-3012 Berne

Conference Organizers

Prof. Dr. Michael Stolz
(University of Berne, Department of German Studies)

Prof. Dr. Chris Howe, Dr. Heather Windram
(University of Cambridge, Department of Biochemistry)

Programme

9.15 Opening
9.30 –10.15 Michael Stolz (University of Berne, Department of German Studies):
Copying Processes. Phylogenetic and Philological Aspects [Abstract]
10.15 –11.00 Caroline Macé, Ilse De Vos, Erika Gielen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven):
Phylogram versus Stemma. Comparing Methods [Abstract]
11.00 –11.30 Coffee Break in the ‘Cafeteria Maximum’
11.30 –12.15 Kaspar Riesen (University of Berne, Department of Information Technology and Applied Mathematics): Analysis of Complex Data by Means of Graph Edit Distance. Basic Properties and Applications in Pattern Recognition [Abstract]
12.15 –13.00 Heather Windram (University of Cambridge, Department of Biochemistry):
A Phylogenetic Analysis of Poetry by Robert Herrick, a 17th Century English Poet [Abstract]
13.00 –14.15 Lunch in the ‘Bistro UniS’
14.15 –15.00 Wendy J. Phillips-Rodriguez (National Autonomous
University of Mexico, Institute for Philological Re-search): Scripts vs. Manuscripts. Two independent speciation processes in the Mahābhārata textual tradition [subject to confirmation][Abstract]
15.00 –15.45 Andreas Fischer (University of Berne, Department of Information Technology and Applied Mathematics): Automatic Transcription of Handwritten Medieval Documents [Abstract]
15.45 –16.15 Coffee Break in the ‘Bistro Bar UniS’
16.15 –17.00 Tuomas Heikkilä (Helsinki University, Department of History):
Comparing and using Methods of computer-assisted Stemmatology. A Manuscript Scholar’s View [Abstract]
17.00 –17.30 Conclusion
19.00 Dinner in the ‘Restaurant Altes Tramdepot’ (near the Bärengraben)

Contact

Prof. Dr. Michael Stolz
University of Berne
Department of German Studies
Länggass-Str. 49
CH-3000 Berne 9

Tel: +41 31 631 83 04
Fax: +41 31 631 37 88
E-mail: michael.stolz@germ.unibe.ch
URL: http://www.parzival.unibe.ch/stolz/

Sponsors

The Leverhulme Trust
Maria Bindschedler Donation