4 Sessions:

1 Lachmann, Lachmannism, and the evolutionary ideas of the 19th and 20th centuries.
The interrelations of nonlinear and linear concepts of genealogy in science and linguistics (J.B. de Lamarck, Ch. Darwin, A. Schleicher) – environmental impact and ‘local texts’ (B.H. Streeter) – the ideas of a ‘living text’ and ‘narrative textual criticism’ (D.C. Parker).

2. Stemmatology beyond conventional textual criticism: interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary aspects.
Stemmatology in musicology, art history, folklore, library studies (reading frequencies) – stemmatology transcending homogeneous texts (e.g., Virgil’s Aeneid) by including translations in other languages, or adaptations in art and music.

3. Stemmatology and digital editing.
The impacts of the use of cladistic software on phylogenetical and stemmatological concepts – technical challenges and limitations – terminological biases and constraints – the construction of (un)rooted trees as a base of digital editions.

4. ‘Familiy’ – ‘tree’ – ‘corruption’: a critique of stemmatological metaphors.
Diverse metaphorical fields (family relationship and descent; classification: ‘species’, ‘tribes’, ‘races’; deterioration: ‘contamination’, ‘corruption’; communication: ‘transcription’, ‘translation’) – ‘stemma’ as metaphor – potentials, limits, and risks of using metaphors for knowledge purposes.