LINGUIST List 33.120
Sat Jan 15 2022
Summer Schools: Summer Institute for Cross-Cultural Anthropological Research / USA
Editor for this issue: Sarah Goldfinch <sgoldfinchlinguistlist.org>
Date: 12-Jan-2022
From: Sean Roberts <RobertsS55
cardiff.ac.uk>
Subject: Summer Institute for Cross-Cultural Anthropological Research / USA
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Coordinating Institution: Yale University
Website: https://hraf.yale.edu/summer-institutes-for-cross-cultural-anthropological-research-2022/
Dates: 18-Jul-2022 - 05-Aug-2022
Location: New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Focus: The instruction at the institute will cover all phases of regional and worldwide comparisons from project conception through statistical analysis that are consistent with scientific principles. Topics include: - The logic and types of comparisons (including collaborative projects), and the types of research questions asked by cross-cultural researchers; - Reviews of available data and databases (including a concordance of cross-cultural samples), as well as data management and design of coding materials; - How to derive testable hypotheses and design appropriate measures from specified theoretical principles; - Approaches to minimize random and systematic error, sampling strategies and issues of independence; - Introduction to a wide range of statistical approaches. While the focus is on questions in Anthropology, methods involving linguistic information such as phylogenetics and language family classifications will be covered.
Minimum Education Level: MA
Special Qualifications: Positions will be prioritised for faculty, researchers, and advanced graduate students.
Description:
The National Science Foundation, in a grant to the Human Relations Area Files (BCS #2020156), is supporting a Summer Institute for Cross-Cultural Anthropological Research. These Summer Institutes will train faculty, researchers, and advanced graduate students in the theory and state-of-the art methods for conducting regional and worldwide comparative research. The aim is for these methods to be incorporated into educational courses and cross-cultural research using anthropological data. The second three-week Summer Institute will be held from July 18 to August 5, 2022 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.[1] The program will include lectures, discussion, hands-on exercises and each participant will design and execute a pilot project during their time at an institute. The primary instructors are Carol R. Ember (Human Relations Area Files at Yale University, USA), Fiona Jordan (University of Bristol, UK) and Séan Roberts (Cardiff University, UK). Tentatively, additional lectures will be delivered by Damian Blasi, Alexandra Brewis Slade, Joshua Conrad Jackson, Jeremy Koster, Eleanor Power, and Amber Wutich.
Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
Historical Linguistics
Tuition: 0
Tuition Explanation: We anticipate supporting 12 applicants each summer for this intensive course.
Participants will be reimbursed for all or most of their economy travel to and
from the Institute and they will receive free room and board (probably on the
Yale University campus) during the term of the Institute.
Registration: 12-Jan-2022 to 01-Mar-2022
Contact Person: Sean Roberts
Email: RobertsS55
cardiff.ac.uk
Registration Instructions:
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