Indo-European Events at UC Berkeley

The Indo-European Language and Culture Working Group is funded by the Townsend Center for the Humanities.

For further information, contact D. Anderson at <dwanders(at)berkeley(dot)edu>.

2005–2006

Note: For the academic year 2005–2006, the IE Working Group is on sabbatical. Events of interest will still be posted.

Of related interest: (at UCLA) Thursday–Friday, October 28–29, 2005. UCLA Indo-European Conference, please see <http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/pies/IEC.html>.

Monday, November 15, 2005. Eystein Dahl, University of Oslo, “The Vedic Injunctive: Indo-European Inheritance or Structural Borrowing?” 4 p.m., Dwinelle 182 (sponsored by the Dept. of Linguistics).

2004–2005

Monday, September 13, 2004. Silvia Luraghi, University of Pavia, “Greek prepositions: patterns of polysemization and semantic bleaching,” 4 p.m., Dwinelle 182 (co-sponsored with the Dept. of Linguistics).

Of related interest: (at UCLA) November 5–6. Indo-European Studies Conference at UCLA. For further information, please see <http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/pies/IEC.html>.

2003–2004

Tuesday, September 16. Richard Salomon, Prof. of Asian Languages and Literatures, U. of Washington, “Doing Linguistics Through Philology: Reconstructing the Gandhari (Northwest Prakrit) Language,” 5 p.m. in Dwinelle 370.

Sunday, October 5. Claudia Chang, Prof. of Anthropology, Sweet Briar College, “Digging the Eurasian Steppe: Ten Years of Excavations and Surveys in the Talgar Region of Southeastern Kazakhstan,” 3 p.m. in Dwinelle 370 (co-sponsored with the Archaeological Institute of America and the Archaeological Research Facility).

Of related interest: (at UCLA) November 7–8. UCLA Indo-European Conference, Royce Hall 314. Details at <http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/pies/IEC.html>.

Monday, March 15. Brian Joseph, Professor of Linguistics, and Kenneth E. Naylor, Professor of South Slavic Linguistics, Ohio State University, “How verb endings get reshuffled — evidence from South Slavic, Greek, and Albanian,” 4 p.m., Dwinelle 182 (co-sponsored by the Dept. of Linguistics and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, with support from the Diebold).

Of related interest: A workshop on “Language and Dialect in Archaic Italy,” Friday–Saturday, March 12–13, 2004, Faculty Club, UC Berkeley.

2002–2003

Tuesday, November 12. Elena Kuzmina, Institute for Cultural Research, Moscow, “Genesis of the Indo-Iranians: Archaeological and Linguistic Aspects,” 4 p.m., 271 Barrows (co-sponsored with the Department of Near Eastern Studies, the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, the Central Asia/Silk Road Working Group, and the Caucasus and Central Asia Program).

Tuesday, November 26. Deborah Anderson, Researcher, Dept. of Linguistics, UCB, “Ancient Near Eastern Scripts, Indo-European and Unicode,” 12 noon, 1229 Dwinelle Hall.

Monday, March 17. Ronald Kim, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Linguistics, Cornell University, “The Value of Slavic for the Reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European Verbal Accentuation,” 4 p.m., 219 Dwinelle Hall (co-sponsored with the Department of Slavic, the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, and the Department of Linguistics).

Wednesday, April 12. Bryan Hanks, University of Sheffield, “Fractured Realities: Zooarchaeological Modeling and the Socio-Economic Complexity of Eurasian Steppe Pastoral Nomads,” 12 noon, 2547 Channing Way (co-sponsored with the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, ARF, the Silk Road Working Group, and the Center for Eurasian Studies).

Thursday-Sunday, April 3-6. 25^th Annual Celtic Conference, UC Berkeley (Program: < http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/celtic/CCC25_%20Program_March_161.htm>).

2001–2002

Thursday, September 20. Carl-Martin Bunz, Institute of Comparative Indo-European, Linguistics and Indo-Iranian Studies, University of Saarland, “Creating a Critical Edition in Digital Form: Reconsidering Traditional Techniques with an Example from Avestan Philology,” 5 p.m., Dwinelle Hall 3401.

Thursday, November 1. Douglas Q. Adams, Department of English, University of Idaho, “A New Way of Counting in Tocharian B Poetry: Discovery and Analysis,” 5 p.m., Dwinelle Hall 3401.

Of related interest: February 6, 13, 20, 27, March 6 and 13. Sather Lectures by Gregory Nagy, Professor of Classics at Harvard University. These lectures, on “Homer the Classic,” will take place on the above dates.

Of related interest: Thursday, April 4. Theo Vennemann, Germanic and Theoretical Linguistics, University of Munich, “Why are German and English Different?,” 5:15 p.m., 370 Dwinelle Hall (sponsored as part of the German Department’s Bonwit-Heine Lecture Series).

Of related interest: Friday–Saturday, April 5–6. Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable. See for details and the program: < http://german.berkeley.edu/news/conferences.html>.

Of related interest: On Friday–Saturday, April 12–13, a conference on Greek Linguistics, “The New Look of Ancient Greek,” organized by Andrew Garrett will take place in the O’Neill Room, Faculty Club, UCB. Speakers at the Friday session, “Sound, Grammar, and Structure” will be Helma Dik (Chicago), Gary Holland (Berkeley), Paul Kiparsky (Stanford), Philomen Probert (Oxford), Donca Steriade (MIT/UCLA), and Brent Vine (UCLA). The Saturday session, “Dialect, Language, and Society,” will have talks by Stephen Colvin (Yale), Anna Morpurgo-Davies (Oxford), Eleanor Dickey (Columbia), Andrew Garrett (Berkeley), R. J. E. Thompson (Cambridge), Leslie Threatte (Berkeley), and Rudolf Wachter (Basel). For further information, please check: <http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~garrett/Greek.htm>.

Friday, April 26. Joshua Katz, Dept. of Classics, Princeton, “A Badger in Winter: Remarks on the Structure of Works and Days 504–35,” noon, 3335 Dwinelle Hall (co-sponsored by Classics).

Thursday, May 2. Sergei Starostin, Russian State University for the Humanities and Santa Fe Institute, will discuss his “Evolution of Human Languages” project, the on-line Leiden Indo-European Database, and Internet cooperation, 5 p.m., 3401 Dwinelle Hall.

Of related interest: Friday, May 3. James P. Mallory, Queen’s University Belfast, will speak on Indo-European archaeology. Further information to follow (sponsored by ARF).

2000–2001

Monday, September 11. Carl-Martin Bunz, Institute of Comparative Indo-European,Linguistics and Indo-Iranian Studies, University of Saarland, “TITUS: A pioneering project using computers in Historical and Comparative Linguistics,” 5 p.m., Dwinelle Hall 3401.

Thursday, October 19. Peter Ian Kuniholm, Prof. of History of Art and Archaeology and Director, Aegean Dendrochronology Project, Cornell University, “Evidence for the Date of the Eruption of Thera/Santorini,” 4 p.m., Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall (sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America-San Francisco Society, Dept. of Classics, ARF, the Near Eastern Studies Department, the Indo-European Language and Culture Working Group, and the Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology).

Wednesday, March 7. Leonid T. Yablonsky, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences, “Funeral Rites of the Ancient Central Asian Zoroastrians,” 12 noon, 270 Stephens Hall (co-sponsored with the Institute of Slavic and E European and Eurasian Studies).

Thursday, March 15. C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Professor of Archaeology and Curator of Near Eastern Archaeology in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, “Bronze Age Indo-Iranians? From the Eurasiatic Steppes to the Persian Gulf,” 4 p.m., 271 Barrows Hall (co-sponsored with the Institute of Slavic and E European and Eurasian Studies and the Archaeological Research Facility).

Friday-Sunday. March 16–18. Twenty-Third Annual Celtic Studies Conference, Dwinelle Hall 370 and 371. For the schedule, see <http://www.indo-european.org/celtic.html>.

Sunday, April 1. Adrienne Mayor. “The Monster of Troy: Fossil Discoveries in Classical Antiquity,” 3:00 p.m., 370 Dwinelle Hall (co-sponsored with AIA-SF Society, Center for the Study of Eurasian Nomads, the Department of Classics, and the Archaeological Research Facility).

Wednesday, April 4. Alexander Leskov, Former Head of the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Art, Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow, “The Caucasus as a Cultural Bridge Between the Near East Civilizations and the World of the Nomads,” 12 noon, 106 Moffitt Hall (sponsored by the Institute of Slavic and E European and Eurasian Studies, CSEES, CCAsP, and the Archaeological Research Facility).

Monday, April 16. Stefan Zimmer, Sprachwissenschaftliches Institut, Univ. of Bonn, “A uo penn bit pont — Aspects of Leadership in Celtic and Indo-European,” 5 p.m., Dwinelle 370. Abstract:

A famous Middle Welsh saying, lit. ‘He who is head, let him be a bridge,’ is still a riddle for modern philology. It may be brought nearer to an acceptable explanation if compared with requirements for leaders expressed in Old Indo-European literatures, including Vedic Sanskrit and Latin. The solution proposed is corroborated by archeological evidence.

(Co-sponsored with the Celtic Colloquium.)

Tuesday, April 17. Marek Zvelebil, Professor of archaeology, Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Sheffield, “Eurasian Shamanism and Hunter-Gatherer Ritual Landscapes: An Archaeological Perspective,” 12 noon, Gifford Room, 221 Kroeber Hall (co-sponsored with the Institute of Slavic and E European and Eurasian Studies, CSEES, and CCAsP).

Thursday and Friday, May 3–4. Ivo Hajnal, Univ. of Innsbruck. Two lectures:

Thursday, May 3. “Early Greek Dialectology: Methods and perspectives,” 5 p.m., room TBA (co-sponsored with the Department of Classics).

Friday, May 4. “Lydian: Late Hittite or Neo-Luvian?” time and room TBA.

1999–2000

Wed., August 25. Marek Zvelebil, Prof. of Archaeology, Dept. of Archaeology and Prehistory, Univ. of Sheffield, will give a lecture entitled “Indo-European Origins and the Social Context of Early Agricultre,” 12 noon, Geballe Room (Townsend Center), 220 Stephens Hall (co-sponsored with the Center for Slavic and East European Studies and the Archaeological Research Facility).

Sunday, October 3. Lynn Roller, Prof. of Classics, University of California, Davis, will give an illustrated lecture on “Mother Cybele and her Eunuch Priests in Ancient Anatolia, Greece and Rome,” 3 p.m., 370 Dwinelle Hall (co-sponsored with the Archaeological Institute of America and the Archaeological Research Facility).

Friday, January 28. Alexander Lehrman, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Delaware, “The Laryngeals of Proto-Indo-Hittite, and What Her Two Daughters, Proto-Anatolian and Proto-Indo-European, Did With Them,” 4 p.m., 1229 Dwinelle Hall.

Tuesday, February 1. Maya Vassileva, Institute of Thracology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, “The Thracian Tombs of Central Bulgaria: New Evidence for Old Questions,” 4 p.m., 370 Dwinelle Hall (co-sponsored with ARF, Center for Slavic and East European Studies, and the Center for the Study of Eurasian Nomads).

Of related interest: Feb. 9–March 15: Anna Morpurgo-Davies, Oxford, will be the Sather lecturer. The series is entitled “Names and Naming in Ancient Greece: Language, Culture and Continuity.”

Wed., February 9. “Why Names? Why Greek?” 8:10 p.m., 2050 Valley Life Sciences Building

Wed., February 16. “Men, Women and Animals: How Were They Called?” 8:10 p.m., 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building

Wed., February 23. “Naming and Attitudes to Names,” 8:10 p.m., 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building

Wed., March 1. “Names and Ethnicity: Variety and Continuity,” 8:10 p.m., 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building

Wed., March 8. “The Greeks and the Foreigners,” 8:10 p.m., 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building

Wed., March 15. “Onomastic Change and Lexical Change,” 8:10 p.m., 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building

Of related interest: Monday, Feb. 28. Gordon Whittaker, Univ. of Göttingen, “Euphratic: An Indo-European Answer to the Sumerian Question?” 4:10 p.m., 182 Dwinelle Hall. This is part of the Dept. of Linguistics Colloquium series. Abstract:

“In the talk I will be presenting controversial new evidence bearing on the so-called Sumerian Problem, the question as to whether the Sumerians were the first to settle Southern Mesopotamia. Loanwords in the Sumerian language and the phonetic characteristics of the writing system point to a solution of this century-old problem. The language behind not only the sign values of the future cuneiform system but also the majority of identifiable non-Semitic loans in Sumerian is apparently a member of the Indo-European family, indeed the earliest known representative by over a millennium and a half. This was the language of the Euphrateans.”

Of related interest: Monday, Feb. 28. Martin Schwartz, Near Eastern Studies, UCB, “From the Dead Sea Scrolls to Arabic Magic: The Fallen Angels and Gilgamesh Rise Again,” 5:00 p.m., Room 101 Moffitt Undergraduate Library.

Thursday, April 6. Peter Schrijver, University of Munich, “British Celtic and the Rise of English,” 4 p.m., 2125 Dwinelle Hall (co-sponsored with Celtic Studies, the Department of Linguistics, and the Medieval Studies Program).

Friday, April 7. Peter Schrijver, Univ. of Munich, “Insular Celtic Morphology,” 4 p.m., 1229 Dwinelle Hall (co-sponsored with Celtic Studies, and the Department of Linguistics).

Friday, May 5. José Luis García-Ramón, Univ. of Köln, will give two talks: “Indo-European Continuity in Mycenaean Personal Names,” 12 noon, 3119 Dwinelle Hall (co-sponsored with Department of Classics), and “Aktionsart and Aspect in Indo-European Reconstruction,” 4 p.m., 1229 Dwinelle Hall (co-sponsored with the Department of Linguistics).