Bridging Disciplines: Evolution and Classification in Biology, Linguistics and the History of Science
- Ort: Wissenschaftszentrum der Universität Ulm, Schloss Reisensburg (Günzburg)
- Beginn: 24.06.11
- Ende: 26.06.11
- Disziplinen: Sprachwissenschaft, Medien-/Kulturwissenschaft
- Sprachen: Sprachenübergreifend
Although network images depicting the development of species and languages can be traced back to the 18th century in both linguistics and biology, models of reticulation instead of the powerful tree representations have only recently gained growing interest in the sciences and humanities and are now widely used on a formalized basis. In biology, research in procaryot evolution suggests lateral gene transfer as a major feature in the development of bacteria. In the field of linguistics, mutual borrowings between languages, the wave-like distribution of lexical innovations and the diffusion of lexical and morphological features seem to be rather the rule than the exception. In the humanities, networks are employed as an alternative to established phylogenetic models to express the hybridization of cultural phenomena.
Our international conference to be held at Reisensburg intends to encourage further interdisciplinary exchange between scholars from the sciences and humanities and is organized as part of the research project Classification and Evolution in Biology, Linguistics and the History of Science funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Participants will explore in detail whether networks might provide a more appropriate model describing processes of evolutionary development than pedigree models.
Therefore, biologists, linguists, historians and philosophers of science will present new research results and engage in discussions.
Program
14:00 Welcome and introduction
William Martin, Hans Geisler, Heiner Fangerau (Düsseldorf / Ulm)
New ideas of evolution: Networks in Biology
Chair: William Martin (Düsseldorf)
14:30 Phylogenomic networks
Tal Dagan (Düsseldorf)
15:15 Coffee Break
15:45 What genes can tell us about the evolutionary history of species
Ingo Ebersberger (Vienna)
16:30 Gene network: how can they inspire linguistics
Philippe Lopez (Paris)
17:15 Coffee Break
17:30 Directed networks reveal genomic barriers and DNA repair bypasses to lateral gene transfer among prokaryotes
Ovidiu Popa (Düsseldorf)
Phylogenetic classifications and network approaches in linguistics
Chair: Hans Geisler (Düsseldorf)
09:00 Lexicostatistics as a basis for language classification: increasing the pros and reducing the cons
George Starostin (Moscow)
09:45 The shape and fabric of human history
Simon Greenhill (Auckland)
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 On Feature Transmission in Linguistic Areas: The Case for Co-Evolution
David Erschler (Tübingen)
11:30 Language networks and reconstructed protolanguages
Michael Dunn (Nijmegen)
12:30 Lunch (Reisensburg)
14:00 Networks uncover hidden lexical borrowing in Indo-European language evolution
Shijulal Nelson-Sathi (Düsseldorf)
14:30 What can dialect geography tell us about diachronic variation of language?
Jelena Prokić (Munich)
15:00 Coffee Break
15:30 Multiple Sequence Alignment in Historical Linguistics - A Sound Class Based Approach
Johann-Mattis List (Düsseldorf)
16:00 Increasing accuracy of syntactic distances in the biolinguistic perspective
Gabriele Rigon (Trieste)
16:30 'Evaluating Phylogenetic Methods for the Purposes of Historical Linguistics'
Norbert Endres (Greifswald)
Scientific concepts and investigative practices - Networks in science
Chair: Heiner Fangerau (Ulm)
09:00 Translating natural selection
Thierry Hoquet (Paris)
09:30 Evolution of the term "genetic information" - following Darwins theory?
László Kovács (Tübingen)
10:00 Coffee Break
10:15 Metaphors and Artefacts: Archaeological Practice between Biology and History
Katja Rösler (Freiburg)
10:45 Bridging disciplines: Creation of concepts in interdisciplinary groups
Hanne Andersen (Aarhus)
11:30 Historical network analysis can be used to construct a social network of 19th-century evolutionists
Matthis Krischel (Ulm)
12:00 Coffee Break
12:15 Common traditions in mapping human linguistic and biological diversity – a result of bridging borders between scholarly disciplines and personal networks of scientists
Frank Kressing (Ulm)
12:45 Summarizing discussion:
Genes, words, ideas: Is a unified evolutionary theory reasonable?
William Martin, Hans Geisler, Heiner Fangerau (Düsseldorf / Ulm)
Publiziert von: Kai Nonnenmacher