Uppsala, Sweden

The second workshop takes place in Uppsala, June 20–23, 2010.

Practical Information

Accommodation

Rooms are reserved for the invitees at Clarion Hotel Gillet, Dragarbrunnsgatan 23, Uppsala. In Google Maps.

Workshop Venue

The workshop will take place at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS). All sessions are located in Room 'Thunbergssalen', at street address Thunbergsvägen 2. Click here for walking directions from hotel (ca. 13 minutes).

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 Program

Sunday 20 June

19.00 Welcoming Dinner
Restaurant Lingon, Svartbäcksgatan 30, Uppsala. (directions, ca. 4 min from hotel).

Monday 21 June

9.00–11.00 Session 1
Thunbergssalen, SCAS

• Opening of the Workshop:

  Director, Prof. Björn Wittrock / SCAS

  Prof. Tuomas Heikkilä / Univ. Helsinki & SCAS

  Prof. Petri Myllymäki / Univ. Helsinki

  Dr. Teemu Roos / HIIT Helsinki

• Odd Einar Haugen: Stemmatology: what comes before, what comes after?
• Peter Robinson: Using stemmatics to solve real questions about real manuscripts: the case of Dante's Commedia
• Philipp Roelli: To what extent is the Lachmannian method algorithmical?

11.00–11.30 Coffee Break

11.30–13.00 Session 2: Discussion: "What is a Textual Tradition?"

• Introduction: Barbara Bordalejo
• Chair: Chris Howe

13.00 Lunch
SCAS Restaurant (at the workshop venue)

14.30-16.00 Session 3

• Chris Howe: Extraction of DNA from parchment
• Heather Windram: A Phylogenetic and Stemmatic Analysis of the 'Sack' Poems by Robert Herrick — a 17th century English Poet
• Wendy Phillips-Rodriguez: What is the use of a stemmatologist once a critical edition has been made?

19.00 Dinner
Villa Anna, Odinslund 3, Google Maps

Tuesday 22 June

9.30–11.00 Session 4
Thunbergssalen, SCAS

• Hendrik Blockeel: From Decision Trees to Phylogenetic Trees
• Gabriel Viehhauser: Parzival and the Lachmannian Tradition
• Kathrin Chlench: Building Stemmata from Phylograms

11.00–11.30 Coffee Break

11.30–13.00 Session 5: Discussion: "Before and After Stemmatic Analysis"

• Introduction: Odd Einar Haugen & Philipp Roelli
• Chair: Tuomas Heikkilä

13.00 Lunch
SCAS Restaurant (at the workshop venue)

14.30–15.30 Session 6

• Steven Schwager: Entropy Information in Refining the Reconstruction of Classical Texts, and the Anticipation of Information Theory by Early Philologists
• Jamie Tehrani: Phylogenetic analysis of oral traditions: a case study of Little Red Riding Hood

16:45-22:00 Cruise on Steam-boat M/S Sjösala to Skokloster Castle (note times)
Boat leaves by the Islandbro Bridge, next to the Pumphuset Museum
Click here for Google Maps.

• Note the times, and please be on time: the boat leaves at 17:00.
• Trip includes a dinner.
• Remember to dress warmly.

Wednesday 23 June

9.30–11.00 Session 7
Thunbergssalen, SCAS

• Gerd Haverling: Gregory of Tours and the manuscript to the Decem libri historiarum
• Daniel Apollon: Joint representation of readings and source documents manuscripts families
• Marina Buzzoni: Is reductio ad unum always desirable? The Hêliand stemma revisited

11.00–11.30 Coffee Break

11.30–13.00 Session 8: Final Discussion "What's Next? — Making Plans for the Future"

• Chair: Tuomas Heikkilä

13.00 Lunch
SCAS Restaurant (at the workshop venue)

Extracurricular Activities

MUSEUMS, CHURCHES & CETERA:

• Uppsala cathedral, Domkyrkoplan, open daily 8–18
  
  
• University Museum Gustavianum, Akademigatan 3, open Tue–Sun 10–16
  
  
• Carolina Rediviva Library, Dag Hammarsköldsväg 1, exhibition hall open Sun 11–16, Mon–Thu 9–18.30
  
  
• Gamla Uppsala (prehistoric remains and medieval church 5 kms away from the centre)
  
  
• Uppsala castle (housing an art museum), Drottning Christinas väg 1 (you cannot miss it), open Sun 12–16.30, Tue 12–16, Wed 12–20
  
  
• Linnéträdgården (Carl von Linné's garden and home museum), Svartbäcksgatan 27, open Tue–Sun 11–17

Organizers

• Tuomas Heikkilä
• Teemu Roos
• Petri Myllymäki

Other links:

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