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 do contact Sarah Shepherd, but please note that she will be m out of the office until the 14th April.
Programme (29 March 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
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
End
