The 2024 conference on computational phylogenetics and stemmatology

Wednesday 6th 

First session (30 minutes presentation + 15 minutes discussion): 

Philology and stemmatology 

12am: Welcome lunch 

1:30-2 pm: Coffee and welcome talk - Sophie Robert-Hayek, University of Lorraine 

2:00-2:45 pm: The Stemma of Ben Sira's Hebrew Manuscripts as a Test Case for Computational Stemmatology - Frédérique Rey, University of Lorraine 

2:45-3:15 pm: The Relevance of Minor Variants for the Validation of Stemmatic Relations – “and” in Isaiah as a Test Case - Benjamin Ziemer, University of Halle

3:15-4:00 pm: Genealogical Trees in Biblical Textual Studies Phylogenetic Insights from Kennicott’s Collation of the Hebrew Bible - Luigi Bambaci, EPHE 

4:00-4:30 pm: Break and informal discussion: 30 minutes 

4:30-5:30 pm: First keynote: Jean-Baptiste Camps, Ecole des Chartres (45 minutes + 15 minutes discussion) Imbalanced evolutionary trees and lost manuscripts 

7:30 pm: Dinner at the Theatris 

Thursday 7th 

Second session (30 minutes presentation + 15 minutes discussion): 

Computational approaches to stemmatology 

9:00-9:45 am: Beyond Singular Readings: Priors on Scribal Habits from Non-substantive Readings - Joey McCollum, Australian Catholic University 

9:45-10:30 am: Classifying transcriptional changes using Large Language Models - Robert Turnbull, Australian Catholic University 

10:30-11:15 am: Exploring phylogenetic models for stemmatology applications - Jacques Istas, Université Grenoble Alpes 

11:15-11:45 am: Break and informal discussion: 30 minutes 

11:45-12:15 am: The Importance of Metric Selection for the Benchmarking of Stemmatology Algorithms - Sophie Robert-Hayek, University of Lorraine 

12:30-2:30 pm: Lunch break 

2:30-3:15 pm: Localization of new textual variants within an existing stemma using neural networks - Armin Hoenen, independent scholar 

3:15-4:00 pm: Imi Khily in Khanty Folklore: A Phylogenetic Approach to Tale Type Identification in Ob Ugric Narratives - Anna Grinevich, Institute of Philology 

4:00-4:30 pm: Break and informal discussion: 30 minutes 

4:30-5:30 pm: Second Keynote: Philipp Roelli, University of Zurich (45 minutes + 15 minutes discussion) Some Methodological Considerations Concerning Computational Tools in the Reconstruction of the Stemma codicum. 

6:00-7:00 pm: Visit of Metz 

7:30 pm: Dinner 

Friday 8th 

Third session (30 minutes presentation + 15 minutes discussion): 

Current trends in phylogeny and applications 

9:00 - 10:00 am: Third Keynote (45 minutes + 15 minutes discussion) Models of biological sequence of evolutions, beyond independence between sites - Bastien Boussau, LBBE 

10:00 - 11:15 am: Fourth Keynote: Robin Ryder (1 hour + 15 minutes discussion) Bayesian Methods in Historical Linguistics: a Workflow Phylogenetics of Primate Call Functions: a methodological proposal and case study - Valentin Thouzeau, Guillaume Dezecache, Philippe Schlenker, Ewan Dunbar, Emmanuel Chemla and Robin Ryder 

11:30 - 12:30 am: Coffee break and round table and discussion around further collaborations 

12:30 am: Goodbye lunch