Surnames as Quantitative Evidence
April 26/27
University College London
Cruciform Building, Foyer Seminar Room
1
Gower Street
Please see below for details on the coming
CASA seminar on Surnames as Quantitative Evidence. It
will be hosted at UCL in the Cruciform Building, Foyer
Seminar Room 1 on Gower Street (please click here
for a map of the local area). As details change
or are confirmed, this page will be updated to reflect
them.
Papers for particular talks will come
available for downloading as they arrive, and these
can be accessed through the link in the menu, or by
clicking on the relevant paper titles below.
For those who need accommodation for the
night of the 26th UCL has a special rate at the Radisson
Edwardian Grafton Hotel on Tottenham Court Road. This
is the nearest hotel to the restaurant that we have
an arrangement. If you wish to book a room here please
visit the following site http://www.radissonedwardian.com/uclrate.
If you have any problems or wish any assistance in reserving
a room please contact Sarah
Shepherd, but please note that she will be out of
the office until the 14th April.
(The programme can be downloaded from
here)
Programme (22 April draft)
Start 14.00 on April 26th
End 16.15 on April 27th
Participants will include:
Kevin Schurer, UK Data Archive, University of Essex
Ken Tucker, Carleton University, Ottawa
Martin Ward, Experian
Grant Lewison, Bibliometrics, City University
Daryl Lloyd, CASA, UCL
Richard Webber, CASA, UCL
Paul Longley, CASA, UCL
Alan Tapp, Business School, University of West of
England
Malcolm Smith, University of Durham
Ian Gregory, Department of Geography, University
of Portsmouth
Beat Glauser, University of Heidelburg
Rich Harris, Department of Geography, University
of Bristol
Richard Pinchin, Forensic Science Agency
Mike Batty, CASA, UCL
Tom Williamson, Institute of Criminal Justice Studies,
University of Portsmouth
Mike Weale, Centre for Genetic Anthropology, Department
of Biology, UCL
Joseph Ryu, Chung-Ang University, Korea
Christiana Dankwa, Department of Anthropology, UCL
Philip Dance, University of Portsmouth
26th April Day One
1400 Introduction to the quantitative analysis
of names
Welcome to the group and introduction of participants
1 KS : Setting the scene in name analysis : pathways,
perspectives, issues
2 RW : ESRC quantitative analysis of names project :
context; objectives; design
3 DL : Contemporary
and international data sources
4 KS : Historic data sources
1515 Name size distributions
5a KT : Name
size distribution patterns
5b MB/PL : Name size distributions and fractal patterning
1550 Break for tea
1600 Names over space : cultural heartlands
- cultural divides (1)
6. KS : The notion of
cultural 'fault lines' - alternative approaches, linguistic,
economic, migratory
7. RW : Measuring the 'epicentre' of names
8. DL : Name
concentration and dispersion and how these vary by name,
region and level of geographical granularity
9. DL :'Adjusted'
variations - enabling comparisons across names and places
1700 Names over time
10 KS Name rank order frequencies - how they have changed
over time - what can we learn from this
1730 Review of issues day one
1745 End formal sessions day one
1745 Opportunities to look at maps of distributions
of names and of name types
1900 Dinner: Navarros, Charlotte Street
27th April Day Two
0900 Names and nationalities
11. KT : Defining the ethnicity of names - clever ideas
12. MW : Using neighbourhood type to classify names
13 GL : Citation indexes
and the classification of names
14 RW : Using international and historical differences
to infer ethnic names
1000 Classifying names
15 RW : The how and
why of a taxonomy of names
1030 Tea
1045 Names over space (2) : barriers and attractors
16 RW/DL : The inertial effect of distance
17 RW/DL : Using gravitational modelling to infer economic
linkages
1145 A Social Anthropological Perspective
18 MW : Review by Mike Weale
1230 Lunch
1320 International migration
19 DL Uneven patterns
of emigration among the Anglophone diaspora
20 RW Cornish
emigration patterns
21 MS Population structure and isonymy
1420 Language and linguistics
22 KS/RW Can geographic analysis be used to identify
synonyms
23 KS/RW Trade names and cultural divides
+ others
1520 Wrap up discussion
24 All : Candidate research projects which apply the
new ESRC names database infrastructure to new applications
1545 Tea and coffee
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