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August 11–15. International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL). University of Copenhagen. Thematic sections will include "Internal Reconstruction in Indo-European: Methods, results and problems" (organized by Jens Elmegård Rasmussen, with Jay Jasanoff as the invited plenary speaker), and sessions on Greek and Latin and Old Germanic syntax. Contact: ichl@hum.ku.dk; WWW: http://www.hum.ku.dk/ichl2003.

August 15–21. International Congress of Slavists, 13th. Ljubljana, Slovenia. Themes for the conference will include: "Linguogenetic, Ethnogenetic and Historical-Philological Aspects," "Areal Aspects," and "Structural, Typological and Comparative Aspects (all levels)." Contact: Michael S. Flier, Dept. of Slavic Langs. and Lits., Harvard U, Barker Ctr, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138; e-mail: flier@fas.harvard.edu; WWW: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~slavic/acs.

August 16–18. "The First International Conference on the Ancient Cultural Relations Between Iran and Western Asia." Tehran, Iran. The papers are divided into the prehistorical and historical periods (4th–1st millennium and the Uruk period, Bronze and Iron Ages) and few miscellaneous categories. This is part of a series of six conferences on "The History of Iranology and Its Achievements up to the Present" that will take place through Winter 2004. Contact: A. M. Arfaee, Scientific Committee Secretary of the Conference, e-mail: ficiwa@ficiwa.org; WWW: http://www.iranologyfo.net/.

August 24–30. International Congress of Celtic Studies, 12th. University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Theme: Crossing Boundaries. Contact: Dr. Dana Edwards, Organiser, 12th International Congress of Celtic Studies, Department of Welsh, Old College, King Street, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales, SY23 2AX; fax: (01970 622976); e-mail: celt@aber.ac.uk; WWW: http://www.aber.ac.uk/celt/.

August 28–31. Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas Colloquium. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Contact: Dr. Nicola McLelland, Dept. of Germanic Studies, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland; e-mail: nicolamc@tcd.ie; WWW: http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/EngLang/HSS/Dublin.html.

August 29–30. Comparative Diachronic Syntax. University of Leiden, The Netherlands. Contact: Wim van der Wurff, Conf. Comparative Diachronic Syntax, Dept. of English, P.O. Box 9515, NL-2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands; e-mail: w.a.van.der.wurff @let.leidenuniv.nl; WWW: http://www.let. leidenuniv.nl/ulcl/events/compdiachr/.

September 1–3. Celtic Linguistics Conference, 4th. Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, UK. Deadline for registration: August 5. Contact: David Willis, Fourth Celtic Linguistics Conf., Dept. of Linguistics, University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA; e-mail: dwew2@cam.ac.uk; WWW: http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~louisa/celtic/clc4.html.

September 1–12. Summer School in Linguistic Typology, University of Cagliari, Italy. This summer school will include a session on the typology of the classical languages (Ancient Greek and Latin) by Paolo Ramat (U Pavia) and Pierluigi Cuzzolin (U Bergamo), as well as 15 other courses on other groups of languages and aspects of typology. (Note: The Association for Linguistic Typology conference will be held September 15–18 following this summer school. See website below for further information.) Contact: Roberto Reccia, Dipartimento di Linguistica e Stilistica, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Via Is Mirrionis, 1 – 09123 – Cagliari, Italy; phone: +39 070 6757337; fax: +39 070 6757330; e-mail: segrling@unica.it; WWW: http://www.summerschoolaltconference.it/.

September 4–6. International Conference on English Historical Dialectology (ICEHD), 1st. Bergamo, Italy. Contact: Marina Dossena; e-mail: marina@unibg.it; fax: (++39) 035 246443 (Attn. Prof Marina Dossena); WWW: http://www.unibg.it/anglistica/slin/ehd1-home.html.

September 4–7. Societas Linguistica Europaea, 36th. Lyon. Theme: "Linguistics and Data: Types of data and language comparison." Contact: Afifa Zenati, ENS Lettres & Sciences Humaines 15, parvis René-Descartes, BP 7000, 69342 Lyon cedex – France; phone: 33 4 37 37 60 86; fax: 33 4 37 37 60 28; e-mail: Afifa.Zenati@ens-lsh.fr; WWW: http://www.ens-lsh.fr/sle2003/eng/indexen.htm.

September 10–14. European Association of Archaeologists, 9th. St Petersburg, Russia. Sessions will include: "The European Steppe in the Bronze Age: Complex approaches to the study of sites," "New Achievements in Study of Ancient Farmers of Old World," and "The Complications of Complexity: the Roots of Social Complexity in the Eurasian Steppes and the Caucasus in the 2nd Millennium BC." Contact: Dr. Nicholas Petrov, Meeting Secretariat, EAA AM 2003, European University at St. Petersburg, 3 Gagarinskaya st., St. Petersburg 191187 Russia; phone: +7 812 279 44 08; fax: +7 812 275 51 39 or +7 812 279 44 08; e-mail: info@eaa2003am.spb.ru; WWW: http://www.eaa2003am.spb.ru/.

October 2–5. Joint Meeting of the International Conference on Armenian Linguistics, 7th, and International Conference on Modern Western Armenian, 1st. Ann Arbor, Michigan. Papers from the conference are expected to be published. Contact: Julie Septrion, Armenian Studies Program, 1080 South University, Suite 3663 Ann Arbor, MI 48109; phone: 734-764-1825; fax: 734-763-9154; e-mail: septrion@umich.edu.

October 6–11. Societas Iranologica Europaea, 5th. Ravenna, Italy. This conference will include papers on Ancient Iranian Studies, Middle Iranian Studies, Classical Persian Studies and contemporary Iranian Studies, each with subsections on archaeology, religious studies, and philology, and other topics. Papers will be given by R. Schmitt, X. Tremblay, M. Schwartz, N. Sims-Williams, and others. Contact: Dr. Paolo Ognibene, Dipartimento di Storie e Metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali, Via degli Ariani n. 1, 48100 Ravenna, Italy; phone: 0039- 349 8770890; fax: 0039- 0544.484717; e-mail: isiaora@excite.com; WWW: http://www.societasiranologicaeu.org/Sito%20Conferenza/home.html.

October 9–12. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAVE), 32nd. University of Pennsylvania. Theme: "Language History and Language Contact." Contact: NWAVE 32 Organizing Committee, Linguistics Laboratory, 3550 Market St. #250, Philadelphia, PA 19104; e-mail: nwave@babel.ling.upenn.edu; WWW: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/NWAVE/.

October 10–12. Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 23rd. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. The Vernam Hull Lecture will be given by Dr. Marged Haycock, Dept. of Welsh, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, on Oct. 9, 2003. Contact: Dept. of Celtic Langs. and Lits., Harvard University, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138; phone: 617-495-1206; fax: 617-495-1010; e-mail: hcc@fas.harvard.edu; WWW: (Celtic Dept.) www.fas.harvard.edu/~celtic and (conf.) www.fas.harvard.edu/~hcc.

October 16–18. DIATYPE: Symposium on diachrony, dialectology and typological linguistics. Helsinki, Finland. The aim of the symposium is to explore connections between these three fields of research, looking for ways in which historical linguists and dialectologists could learn from insights to be gained from typological studies, and vice versa. Contact: Dept. of English, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 24 (Unioninkatu 40 B), FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland; e-mail: diatype-organizers@helsinki.fi; WWW: http://www.eng.helsinki.fi/varieng/main/diatype/index.htm.

October 22–24. Arbeitstagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft (Society for Indo-European Studies/Société des études indo-européennes). École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. Theme: "Indo-European Poetic Language." Contact: Prof. Dr. Georges-Jean Pinault at ppgeorges9@aol.com. Provisionary schedule is available at: http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/curric/paris03a.doc.

November. "Iron Age in the Iranian World." Ghent. Sponsored by Ghent Univ., the Royal Museum for Art and History, Brussels, and the Iran Heritage Foundation, London. The focus is on the pre-Achaemenid period. Contact: Prof. Dr. E. Haerinck, Near Eastern Art and Archaeology, Ghent University, Sint-Pietersplein 6, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium; phone: 00.32.(0)9.264.41.33; fax: 00.32.(0)9.264.42.71); e-mail: ernie.haerinck@rug.ac.be; WWW: http://www.umich.edu/~aos/uitncon1.html.

November 1–4. The International Symposium of Slavic Studies. University of Plovdiv. Papers will cover the field of linguistics, literatures, cultures and history of Slavic peoples. The working languages of the symposium will be all Slavic languages. Contact: Plovdiv University Paisii Hilendarski, Department of Slavic Studies, 24 Tsar Assen Str., 4002 Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Contact: phone + 359 32 630 955; + 359 32 261 217; fax: + 359 32 630 955; e-mail: filpol@pu.acad.bg or jtcholakova@yahoo.fr; WWW (Call for papers): http://slovo.pu.acad.bg/30/call_conf.htm.

November 7–8. Indo-European Conference, 15th. UCLA. Papers on both interdisciplinary and specific topics (e.g., typology, methodology, reconstruction, the relation of Indo-European to other language groups, the interpretation of material culture, etc.) were invited. Abstract deadline was June 30.  Contact: Indo-European Conference Committee, UCLA Program in Indo-European Studies, 100 Dodd Hall, 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90095-1417; e-mail: vine@humnet.ucla.edu; phone: 1 (310) 825-4171 (weekdays, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. US Pacific Time); fax: 1 (310) 206-1903; WWW: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/pies/IEC.html.

December 27–30. Modern Languages Association. San Diego, CA. The MLA will include a Discussion Group for Germanic Philology session.

January 2–5. American Philological Association, 135th, and Archaeological Institute of America, 105th. San Francisco. A special session on Greek and Latin Linguistics will be held at the APA. The AIA often has a session on Linear B. WWW (for APA): http://www.apaclassics.org/APA-MENU.html, (for AIA): http://www.archaeological.org/.

January 8–11. Linguistic Society of America, Annual Meeting. Sheraton Hotel, Boston, MA. Abstract deadline: September 2, 2003. Submissions should be addressed to: LSA Secretariat, 1325 18th St, NW, Ste. 211, Washington, DC 20036-6501. Guidelines for abstract submission: http://www.lsadc.org/web2/2004annmeet/index.html. Registration fee required to attend the conference. WWW (for LSA): http://www.lsadc.org/.

March 2–4. Studienkreis "Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft" (SGdS), 16th. Humboldt University of Berlin. Registration deadline: October 31, 2003. This conference will have a general section on the history of linguistics and a special section on "Historical and cultural dimensions of technical texts and languages for special purposes," for which papers from classical philologists are particularly welcome. Contact: Dr. Thorsten Fögen, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Institut für Klassische Philologie, Unter den Linden 6, D-10099 Berlin; phone:  +49-[0]30-2093-2507; fax:  +49-[0]30-2093-2718; e-mail: thorsten.foegen@rz.hu-berlin.de; WWW: http://home.t-online.de/home/dutz.nodus/03-rb.htm#dt.

March 4–7. University of California Celtic Studies Conference, 26th. UCLA and other Southern California sites. Participating in the organization of the event will be California State University Bakersfield, Antelope Valley campus, Loyola Marymount University, and the University of Southern California. Invited speakers include Damian McManus (Trinity College Dublin) and Jennifer Miller (UC Berkeley). A call for papers will be issued in Fall 2003, but in the meantime those seeking more information should contact Joseph Falaky Nagy, e-mail: jfnagy@humnet.ucla.edu.

March 12–15. American Oriental Society, 214th. Mission Valley, Double Tree, San Diego. Abstract deadline: November 1, 2003. Contact: Jonathan Rodgers, Secretary, American Oriental Society, Hatcher Graduate Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-1205; phone: 734-647-4760; e-mail: jrodgers@umich.edu; WWW: (AOS) http://www.umich.edu/~aos/.

April 2–3. Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable. UC Berkeley. Contact: Irmengard Rauch, Department of German, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720; phone: 510-642-2003; fax: 707-746-7480; e-mail: irauch@socrates.berkeley.edu.