Workshop. Baby names for modelling cultural and linguistic change

13:00-13:15

Welcome to the workshop, CIRCUS & the Swedish Baby Names project

13:15-13:45

Anne Kandler, Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig: “Cultural Transmission of Baby Names: Mechanistic Insights from Mismatches between Neutral Theory and Data”

13:45-14:15

Birgit Eggert, Ass. Prof., Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen: “Connected Names: An Illustration of Linguistic Relations between Given Names in a Danish Digital Name Lexicon”

14:15-14:45

Coffee/tea break

14:45-15:15

Gareth Roberts, Ass. Prof., Penn Linguistics, Director of the Cultural Evolution of Language Lab, University of Pennsylvania: “Why are Some Words Replaced More than Others? A Simple Laboratory Experiment on Selection and Drift in Language Change”

15:15-15:45

Michael Piotrowski, Ass. Prof., Language and Information Sciences, University of Lausanne: “Schism or Renaissance? On the Relationship between Computational Humanities and Digital Humanities”

15:45-16:00

Short break

16:00-16:30

Harald Hammarström, Prof., Centre for the Human Past, Dept. of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University: “How can a Language Be Large?”

16:30-16:45

Short break

16:45-17:15

Alexandra Petrulevich, Ellinor Lindqvist, Per Sjödin & Shaobo Jin: Swedish Baby Names Project, Uppsala University: “Swedish Baby Names and Modelling of Cultural and Linguistic Change”