Indo-European Studies Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

Seventeenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference

Featured Speakers:

Michael Janda (Universität Münster) “The Religion of the Indo-Europeans”

&

Katheryn Linduff (University of Pittsburgh) “Through the Looking Glass: Remaining Sogdian in China”

The conference is free of charge and open to the public. For more information, including a complete program, please visit:

-- submitted by (jenny@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/pies/IECProgram.html

28th Annual UC Celtic Studies Conference/Annual CSANA Conference

28th Annual University of California Celtic Studies Conference and Annual Meeting of the Celtic Studies Association of North America

THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2006 ROYCE HALL 314, UCLA

1:00 Opening Remarks

1:15 PM Session 1, SARAH WHITTEN, CHAIR MATTHIEU BOYD (Harvard University), “What’s New in the City of Is?” AMY C. EICHHORN-MULLIGAN (University of Memphis), “Moses and the Celts - Chosen Peoples from Taliesin to Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill” LIZABETH JOHNSON (University of Washington), “Family Feuds and Dynastic Stability in Medieval Wales”

2:45 PM ANGELA GLEASON (Union, ME), “The Mentally and Physically Disabled in Early Irish Society”

3:45 PM Break

4:00 PM Session 2, REBECCA BLUSTEIN, CHAIR PHILLIP A. BERNHARDT-HOUSE (University College Cork), “Israelites, Lawyers and Cath Maige Tuired” JUDITH BISHOP (Mills College), “Transgendered Abbesses, Cross-Dressing Nuns: Gender-Bending Motifs in Early Irish Hagiography with Reference to Greek and Latin Source Materials” TIMOTHY BRIDGMAN (Binghamton University), “Celtic Names of Peoples and Naming Conventions in the Writings of the Ancient Greco-Roman Authors” LESLIE E. JONES (Los Angeles), “Who Are You? Reincarnations and Doppelgangers in Celtic Mythology”

6:00 PM Dinner Break

7:00-9:00 PM Session 3, MALCOLM HARRIS, CHAIR CHARLES DOHERTY (University College Dublin), “Village and Town in Early Medieval Ireland” SARA ELIN ROBERTS (University of Wales, Swansea), “The Virtual Dafydd ap Gwilym”

FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 2006 ROYCE HALL 314, UCLA

8:30 AM Coffee and Pastries

9:00 AM Session 4, KAREN BURGESS, CHAIR BENJAMIN BRUCH (Harvard University), “Word and Music in Medieval Cornish Drama” MICHAEL HONCHOCK (Virginia Tech), “Early Welsh Gnomic Poetry: Issues of Form and Function” KATJA RITARI (University of Helsinki), “The Question of Holiness in the Lives of St Brigit” MARINA SMYTH (University of Notre Dame), “The Nature of the Human Body according to an Early Medieval Irish Scholar”

11:00 AM Break

11:15 AM JACQUELINE BORSJE (University of Utrecht), “Miraculous Magic in Medieval Ireland: The Epaid ‘Spell’”

12:15-1:15 PM Lunch Break

1:30 PM Session 5, KELLY RANDELL, CHAIR SARAH MCKIBBEN (University of Notre Dame), “The Spectator’s Imperative and the Hybrid Muse: Palestinian-Irish Poetry” CHARLENE M. SHIPMAN (Harvard University), “The Letters ‘S.D.’ and Patterns of Ascription in the Corpus Iuris Hibernici” LENORA TIMM (UC Davis), “Chanter la patrie: Constructing Breton Nationalism in 19th-c. Lyric Poetry”

3:00 PM Break

3:15 PM Session 6, SHERRYLYN BRANCHAW, CHAIR BRONAGH NÍ CHONAILL (University of Glasgow), “Pregnant Women, Criminal Intentions and the Odd Craving in Medieval Irish Law” JOSEPH F. ESKA (Virginia Tech), “A Leak in Hispano-Celtic Morphology” KRISTEN OVER (Northeastern Illinois University), “Is Survival Heroic? Gwynedd and Literary Kingship in Historia Gruffudd ap Cynan”

4:45 Break

5:00 PM NIALL Ó CIOSÁIN (NUI Galway), “The Celtic Languages in Print 1700-1900: Contrasting Fortunes” (hosted by the University of Southern California)

6:00-7:00 PM “USC at UCLA” Reception

7:00-7:30 PM DOROTHY BRAY (McGill University), “Apostles to the Irish”

7:30-8:30 PM EDEL BHREATHNACH (UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute), “Tara: The Enigma Uncovered/Revealed”

SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 2006 ROYCE HALL 314, UCLA

8:30 AM Coffee and Pastries

9:00 AM Session 7, HEATHER LARSON, CHAIR LEE FOLLETT (University of Georgia), “The Earliest Evidence for Female Religious Life in Ireland” PATRICK K. FORD (Harvard University), “The Ruin at Morfudd Arms” EDGAR SLOTKIN (University of Cincinnati), “Can We Critique Folktales? The Case of Éamon A Búrc’s Eochair mac Rí in Éirinn” DAN M. WILEY (Hastings College), “A Medieval Irish Ghost Story”

11:00 AM Break

11:15 AM ANN PARRY OWEN (Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd), “Bring with you a faithful war-band from the Dauphin's land!: Gruffudd ap Maredudd’s Plea to Owain Lawgoch”

12:15-1:30 PM Lunchtime Symposium “Teaching the Modern and Medieval Pronunciation of Celtic Languages,” Charles MacQuarrie (CSU Bakersfield), moderator (sponsored by CSU Bakersfield)

1:30 PM Seminar “Medieval Celtic Literature in the High School Curriculum,” PATRICK P. LYNCH (Marymount High School), moderator

2:30 PM Break

2:45 PM MÍCHEÁL Ó FLAITHEARTA (University of Uppsala), “Pre- Celtic Indo-European Ireland?”

3:45 PM Break

4:00 PM Session 8, EMILY RUNDE, CHAIR KATHRYN KLAR (UC Berkeley), “Arglwydd and Arglwyddes: Branwen's Lordly Counterpart” CATHERINE MCKENNA (Harvard University), “The Crow that Clings to the Cliffs: Aspects of Spatial Organization in Branwen ferch Llyr” GERALDINE PARSONS (University of Cambridge), “Acallam na Senórach and Pre-Acallam Fianaigecht”

5:30 PM CSANA Business Meeting

8:00 PM Banquet (by reservation only)

SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 2006 ROYCE HALL 314, UCLA

9:30 AM Coffee and Pastries

10:00 AM Session 9, VICTORIA SIMMONS, CHAIR LAWRENCE ESON (Denver), “A Voice from the Grave: Poetic Knowledge from the Dead in the Myrddin Poems and ‘The Finding of the Táin’” BARBARA HILLERS (Harvard University), “Cuckolds and Faithful Wives: The Genesis of the Gaelic Ballad of ‘Peadar and Peigín’” ANTONE MINARD (Design Institute of San Diego), “Meeting Medb's Mother-in-Law: Aquatic Monsters in Celtic Mythology and Hagiography” JOHN PATRICK MONTAÑO (University of Delaware), “Civilize This: Irish Responses to the Tudor Plantations”

12:00-1:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM Session 10, ANTONE MINARD, CHAIR MORGAN DAVIES (Colgate University), “Dindshenchas, Invention, and Memory” SARA ELIN ROBERTS (Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd), “‘You Son-of-a-bitch’: The Poetic Debate between Dafydd ap Gwilym and Gruffydd Gryg” VICTORIA SIMMONS (Los Angeles), “The Tricks of the Trade: Tricksterism, Exchange, and Identity in the Tochmarc Étaíne” THOMAS CLANCY (University of Glasgow), “A Fond Farewell to Last Night's Literary Criticism: Reading Niall Mór Mac Mhuirich”

GENERAL INFORMATION: Advance registration is not required, and there is no registration fee for the conference. Campus parking permits may be purchased ($8) from a UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend the Celtic Studies Conference in Royce Hall.

For directions to UCLA and Royce Hall, please see http://www.ucla.edu/map/.

All of this information and updates to the program are available at http://www.csub.edu/~cmacquarrie/csana/.

For any other questions, please contact Professor Joseph Nagy of UCLA at jfnagy@humnet.ucla.edu or call the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 310.825.1880.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact jfnagy@humnet.ucla.edu.

18th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference

Featured Speakers: Charles de Lamberterie (Université de Paris-Sorbonne; École Pratique des Hautes Études) - "Comparison and Reconstruction"

&

Johanna Nichols (University of California, Berkeley) - "A Typological Geography for Proto-Indo-European"

The conference is free of charge and open to the public. For more information, including a complete program, please visit:

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/pies/IECProgram.

-- submitted by Heather Gould (gould@humanities.ucla.edu)

19th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference

Admission is free and open to the public; there is no charge for participation; pre-registration is not required.

FRIDAY, 2 NOVEMBER 2007

• 8:45–9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks

• 9:00–10:30 Panel I (chaired by Tim Dempsey, UCLA)

9:00–9:30, Jay Jasanoff, Harvard University: “Analogy as Sporadic Sound Change”

9:30–10:00, Kanehiro Nishimura, UCLA: “A Historical Analysis of Latin Vowel Reduction: Prosody, Phonetics, and Analogy”

10:00–10:30, Nikolai Kazansky, Institut lingvisticheskikh issledovanij RAN: “Syntactic Position and Syncope in Archaic Latin”

• 10:30–10:45 Break

• 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m., Panel II (chaired by Moss Pike, UCLA)

10:45–11:15, Todd C. Clary, Cornell University: “Restrictions on the Use of the Figura Etymologica in Ancient Greek Epic”

11:15–11:45, Edwin D. Floyd, University of Pittsburgh: “Posin endon eonta: Etymology and Literary Analysis at Odyssey 19.477”

11:45–12:15, Ana Galjanic, University of Zagreb: “Save the Best for Last: Greek Priamel and Enumerative Sets”

• 12:15–1:45, Lunch

• 1:45–2:45, Featured Speaker, Asko Parpola, University of Helsinki: ”Proto-Indo-European Speakers As the Inventors of Wheeled Vehicles: Linguistic and Archaeological Considerations“

• 2:45–3:00, Break

• 3:00–4:30, Panel III (chaired by Anna Pagé, UCLA)

3:00–3:30, Jared S. Klein, University of Georgia: “Numeral Repetition in the Rigveda and the Evolution of Rigvedic Style”

3:30–4:00, Benedicte Nielsen, Cambridge University: “The Origins of the Compositional Type Ved. bharádvāja ”

4:00–4:30, Carlotta Viti, University of Pisa: “The Verb- Initial Word Order in the Early Poetry of Vedic and Ancient Greek”

• 4:30–4:45, Break

• 4:45–6:15, Panel IV (chaired by Kaspars Ozolins, UCLA)

4:45–5:15, Hans Henrich Hock, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: “Early Germanic Agreement with Mixed- Gender Antecedents”

5:15–5:45, Adam Hyllested, University of Copenhagen: “Indo-European Substrates in Balto-Slavic Revisited”

5:45–6:15, Joshua Katz, Princeton University: “Not Very Indo-European: Russian ochen' ”

SATURDAY, 3 NOVEMBER 2007

• 9:00–10:30 a.m., Panel V (chaired by Andrew Byrd, UCLA)

9:00–9:30, Benjamin Fortson, University of Michigan: “The ‘Double Nasal’ Presents in Celtic and Indo- European”

9:30–10:00, Jeremy Rau, Harvard University: “The Nature of the IE Decade-Formation”

10:00–10:30, Alan J. Nussbaum, Cornell University: “The End of Some Compounds in Greek”

• 10:30–10:45, Break

• 10:45 a.m. –12:15 p.m., Panel VI (chaired by Elizabeth Thornton, UCLA)

10:45–11:15, Patrick Taylor, Houghton Mifflin: “Bhiṣma on the Plain of Olympia: Indic Perspectives on Some Fragments of the Hesiodic Corpus”

11:15–11:45, Timothy Barnes, Harvard University: “Av. hauruuatāt- amərə(ta)tāt-, Gk. ἀνδροτῆτα καὶ ἥβην: On the Prehistory of Greek Ritual Language”

11:45–12:15, Sherrylyn Branchaw, UCLA: “Pwyll and Puruṣamedha : Human Sacrifice in the Mabinogi”

• 12:15–1:45, Lunch

FAIES Meeting 12:15–12:30

• 1:45–2:45, Featured Speaker, Elisabeth Rieken, Universität Marburg: “apel, bili-, ebeli : The Origins of Pronominal -l- in Anatolian”

• 2:45–3:00, Break

• 3:00–4:00, Panel VII (chaired by Sherrylyn Branchaw, UCLA)

3:00–3:30, Vyacheslav Ivanov, UCLA: “Old Assyrian tuzinnum, Hittite tuzzi and Indo-European *teut- ”

3:30–4:00, Rebeca Solís Berni, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and Carlos Molina Valero, Universidad de Murcia: “Collective in Lycian”

• 4:00–5:00, Panel VIII (chaired by Kanehiro Nishimura, UCLA)

4:00–4:30, Ilya Yakubovich, University of Chicago: “The Origin of Luvian Possessive Adjectives”

4:30–5:00, David Goldstein, University of California, Berkeley: “The Dative of Agent in Ancient Greek”

• 5:00–5:15, Closing Remarks

The Nineteenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference is funded by the Campus Programs Committee of the Program Activities Board. We would like to thank the UCLA Graduate Student Association. The conference is also made possible through the generosity and/or efforts of the A. Richard Diebold, Jr. Endowment in Indo-European Studies, Friends & Alumni of Indo-European Studies (FAIES), the UCLA Program in Indo-European Studies, the UCLA Indo-European Studies Student Alliance (IESSA), the Dodd Humanities Group, and the Annual Indo-European Conference Student Organizing Committee.

-- submitted by Heather Gould (gould@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact dcgunkel@gmail.com

Between Conception and Perception--Egyptology Lecture

Between Conception and Perception

Egyptology lecture--Kara Cooney

Egyptology Lecture--Elizabeth Waraksa