Helsinki, Finland

Practical Information

Accommodation

Rooms are reserved for the invitees at Hotel Klaus K, Bulevardi 2–4, Helsinki. Map with important locations.

Workshop Venue

The workshop will take place in Auditorium VII of the Main Building of the University of Helsinki, Unioninkatu 34. (Same place as the first workshop.)

Bibliography

Please click here for a list of relevant papers by the participants of Studia Stemmatologica. Please feel free to submit bibliographic references to your own papers to Teemu Roos.

Workshop Programme

Wednesday 27 June

20.00 Dinner
Restaurant Toscanini (Bulevardi 2/4)

Thursday 28 June

9.30-11.00 Session 1

• Introduction and Welcome — Tuomas Heikkilä and Teemu Roos
• Peter Robinson: The Limits of Philology and of Phylogenetics
• Thomas Bein: Limits of Stemmatology — A case study
• Tara Andrews: But is it a Tree? Application of Graph Analysis to Texts and their Stemmata

11.00-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30-13.00 Session 2 Demonstrations

• Demonstration 1: Semstem Web Facility — Teemu Roos and Simo Linkola
• Demonstration 2: Stemmatological Vocabulary — Odd Einar Haugen

13.00-14.00 Lunch
Restaurant Sunn

14.00-15.30 Session 3

• Aidan Conti: Wherefore a Typology of Variants
• Barbara Bordalejo: The Reluctancy of some Scholars to use Phylogenetic Methods
• Wendy Phillips-Rodriguez: Genomic Editions: Some Concluding Remarks about a Case Study in Sanskrit Literature

16:30 Transportation to Sauna

17:30 Sauna and Dinner
Villa Vuosanta, Hallkullanniemi 8

Friday 29 June

9.30–11.00 Session 4 Hands on stemmatological analysis I
Heather Windram, Chris Howe, Barbara Bordalejo, Peter Robinson, Teemu Roos

• Step 1: Choosing and Processing the Material
• Step 2: Stemmatological Analysis using Different Techniques

11.00-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30–13.00 Session 5 Hands on stemmatological analysis II

• Step 2 continued
• Step 3: Comparing the Results
• Step 4: Discussion

13.00-14.30 Lunch
Restaurant Nuevo, Sofiankatu 4

14.30–16.30 Session 6

• Vincent Moulton: How can Phylogenetic Networks help in Stemmatology?
• Daniel Apollon: Wikipedia Text Evolution
• Gerd Haverling: Latin Manuscripts, Indo-European Languages and Phylogenetics

19.15 Boat transportation to Restaurant NJK (map; look for the anchor symbol)

A group lead by Petri & Marko will take a tram from Hotel Klaus K at 18:45.
Meet at the tram stop in front of Klaus K (on the other side of the Bulevardi street, we will be taking Tram 3B going left/west) at 18:45. If you feel like walking, the boat to NJK leaves from behind the Olympic Terminal, which is about 2 km from the hotel — but note that it is to the right/east towards the Esplanadi park and the workshop venue; see the map above.

Saturday 30 June

12.00-13:00 Session 7
Note: Time changed from previously announced. Place: Sundmans Krog, Eteläranta 16
Not at the same place as the other sessions.

• Discussion: Publication, funding for future collaboration

13.00 Farewell Lunch
Sundmans Krog

Organizers

• Tuomas Heikkilä
• Teemu Roos
• Petri Myllymäki

Other links:

• "Unveiling Finland's mediaeval secrets"
• STAM Project
• Computer-assisted stemmatology challenge