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- This page was last modified on March 1, 2008.
PAST EVENTS & VISITORS
Past events and visitors, sponsored in whole or in part by the Program, with the support of the A. Richard Diebold, Jr. Endowment in Indo-European Studies, include the following (affiliations are from the year of the visit; see also the programs of past Annual Indo-European Conferences).
2008
- Dr. Benjamin W. Fortson,
IV (University of Michigan)
- Lecture
- “Notes on Adpositional Syntax in Italic”
2007
- Dr. Eystein Dahl (University of Oslo/Stanford University)
- Lecture
- “Semantics or Pragmatics? Aspect and Temporal Remoteness in Early Vedic and Beyond”
- Prof. Edward L. Keenan (Dept. of Linguistics, UCLA)
- Lecture
- “The Historical Creation of Reflexives in English”
2006
- Prof. Arlo Griffiths (Institut
Kern, Universiteit Leiden; Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
- Lecture
- “Tumburu: A Deified Tree”
- Prof. Michael Janda (Westfälische
Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
- Lecture
- “Succession in Heaven: The Linguistic Prehistory of Uranos, Kronos, and Zeus”
- Seminar
- “From Proto-Indo-European to Tocharian: The Verbal Endings”
- Prof. Joshua T. Katz (Princeton
University)
- Lecture
- “Aeschylus the Trojan”
- Seminar
- “The Epic Adventures of an Unknown Particle”
- Prof. Melanie Malzahn (Universität
Wien)
- Lecture
- “The Secret Archaic Manuscripts of Tocharian B”
- Seminar
- “Tocharian Desire”
- Prof. Arek Marciniak (Institute
of Prehistory, University of Poznan)
- Lecture
- “The Spread of Neolithic and Chalcolithic Groups in Central Anatolia: The Indo-European Hypothesis Contextualised”
- Prof. H. Craig Melchert (University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- Lecture
- “Fosterage in Lycian and Luvian Societies”
- Seminar
- “Anatolian Local Adverbs from an Indo-European Perspective”
- Prof. Anna Morpurgo Davies (Oxford
University)
- Block Seminar
- “Hieroglyphic Luvian and Related Topics”
2005
- Prof. Ludmila Koryakova (Ekaterinburg
State University, Russia)
- Lecture
- “On the Northern Periphery of the Nomadic World: Archaeological Research in the Trans-Urals (Russia)”
2004
- Prof. Ignasi Adiego
Lajara (Universitat de Barcelona)
- Lecture
- “The Etruscan Tabula Cortonensis: A Tale of Two Tablets?”
- Valentina Cambi (Scuola
Normale Superiore, Laboratorio di Linguistica)
- Visiting Student
- Fall quarter
- Dr. Yakiv Hershkovych (Kiev;
Fulbright Scholar, Wellesley College)
- Lecture
- “Cultural Development and Economic and Ecological Systems of the Bronze Age from the Balkans to the Urals during the 2nd Millennium BC”
- Prof. Brian Joseph (The
Ohio State University)
- Lecture
- “How Verb Endings Get Reshuffled—IE Archaisms and
Balkan Innovations in South Slavic, Greek, and Albanian”
[co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures]
- Prof. Gerhard Meiser (Martin-Luther-Universität
Halle-Wittenberg)
- Lecture
- “Etruscan and Umbrian Rituals: Linguistic Parallels and Their Interpretation”
- Prof. Richard Salomon (University
of Washington)
- Lecture
- “Languages Behaving Badly: Reconstructing the Gandhari Language”
- Lecture
- “The Senior Scrolls: A New Collection of Gandharan Manuscripts of the Second Century A.D.”
2003
- Dr. Deborah Anderson (Editor, UCLA
Indo-European Studies Bulletin)
- Presentation
- "Indo-European Studies and the Internet"
- Prof. Aharon Dolgopolsky (University
of Haifa)
- Lecture
- "Reconstructing the Typology of Nostratic: Synthetic or Analytic?"
- Lecture
- "The Origin of Gender in the Nostratic Languages"
- Prof. Joseph Eska (Virgina
Polytechnic Institute & State University)
- Two-Week Course
- "The Earliest Celtic Languages: Linguistics and Texts"
- Dr. Hélène Perdicoyianni-Paléologou (Hellenic
College)
- Lecture
- "Conversational Exchange in Plautus: ego/nos versus tu/vos"
2002
- Dr. Benjamin W. Fortson,
IV (Houghton Mifflin Co.)
- Lecture
- "Fidelholtz's Trombones and Other Issues in Historical Linguistics"
- Prof. Joshua T. Katz (Princeton
University)
- Lecture
- "A Badger in Winter: Remarks on the Structure of Works and Days 504-35"
- Seminar
- "The Origin of the Greek Pluperfect"
- Prof. Paul Kiparsky (Stanford
University)
- Lecture series
- "The Architecture of Panini's Grammar"
[co-sponsored by the Department of Linguistics]
- Prof. Gregory Nagy (Harvard
University; Sather Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley,
Spring 2002)
- Lecture
- "Homer and the Song Culture of Lesbos: A Window on
the Bronze Age"
[co-sponsored by the Department of Classics]
- Prof. Sergei Starostin (Russian
State University for the Humanities and Santa Fe Institute)
- Lecture
- "Etymological Databases on the Web"
- Seminar
- "Word Prosody in Caucasian Languages and Beyond"
2001
- Prof. Nikolay P. Grintser (Russian
State University for the Humanities, Moscow)
- Lecture
- "Language of Men and Language of Gods: An Indo-European
Poetic Model in Greek Perspective"
[co-sponsored by the "Oral Tradition and Mythology Studies Group" and the Department of Classics]
- Prof. Ivo Hajnal (University
of Innsbruck)
- Lecture
- "Early Greek Dialectology: Methods and Perspectives"
[co-sponsored with the Department of Classics] - Seminar
- "Lydian: Late Hittite or Neo-Luvian?"
- Prof. Stephanie Jamison (Harvard
University)
- Lecture
- "Vedic Uśanā Kāvya,
Avestan Kauui Usan, and Friends: Mythology and Grammar"
[co-sponsored with the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures and the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures] - Seminar in Two Parts
- "Part I: An Anagram in the Gāthās"
- "Part II: Uśanā Kāvya in the Rig Veda: Metrical Evidence and Grammatical Evidence"
- Prof. Alexander Leskov (Visiting
Scholar in Near Eastern Studies, University of California at
Berkeley; Head of the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Art,
Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow [1981-1987])
- Lecture
- "The Ancient Iranian Tribes in Southeastern Europe During the Second Millennium BC"
- Lecture
- "The Evidence of Herodotos and New Discoveries of
Scythian Monuments"
[sponsored by the Department of Classics]
- Prof. Thomas G. Palaima (University
of Texas, Austin)
- Lecture
- "Inside the Mind of a Mycenaean Scribe: Hand 2 and
the Ta Series 3200 and 50 Years Later"
[co-sponsored with the Department of Classics]
- Dr. Rahim Shayegan (Junior
Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University)
- Lecture
- "Epic and History in Ancient Iran"
- Dr. Philippe Swennen (Fyssen
Foundation Fellow, Collège de France)
- Seminar
- "Yasht 5.7, and the existence of Indra in the Indo-Iranian pantheon"
- Lecture
- "The Horse and the Dawn: Hierogamy and Eschatology in Old Indo-Iranian Religions"
- Dr. Xavier Tremblay (University
of Vienna)
- Seminar
- "Rig-Veda, hymn VII.33"
- Lecture
- "Did Zarathustra Really Exist? or: On the Unity of the Gâthâs and the Yasna Haptañhâiti"
- Dr. Fjodor Uspenskij (Russian
Academy of Sciences)
- Lecture
- "Towards the Further Interpretation of the Primordial Cow Audhumla"
- Dr. Leonid T. Yablonsky
(Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences; Fulbright Scholar, 2000-2001)- Lecture
- "The Earliest Cattle-Breeders of the Kara Khum Oasis: Culture, Physical Anthropology, Language"
- Lecture
- "The Funeral Rite of the Ancient Central Asian Zoroastrians"
[co-sponsored with the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology]
- Prof. Stefan Zimmer (University
of Bonn)
- Lecture
- "Gerald of Wales: A Medieval Linguist"
- Lecture
- "Aspects of Leadership in Celtic and Indo-European Traditions"
- Seminar
- "More Indo-Celtic Connections"
[co-sponsored with the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Deptartment of English]
2000
- Juan José Carracedo
Doval (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
- Visiting Student
- Fall quarter
- Prof. Pietro Dini (Pisa)
- Lecture
- "The Imposition of Latin as an Official Language of 16th-Century Lithuania"
- Visiting Scholar
- Slavic 251 (Introduction to Baltic Linguistics) course meeting
- Prof. José Luis García
Ramón (Universität zu Köln)
- Lecture
- "Mycenaean Greek Personal Names and Poetic Phraseology"
- Seminar
- "On Verbal Suppletion, Aktionsart and Aspect in Indo-European Reconstruction"
- Prof. Andrew Garrett (University
of California at Berkeley)
- Lecture
- "Latin Morphological Structure and the Levelling of
Vowel Weakening"
[co-sponsored with the Deptartment of Linguistics]
- Prof. Alexander Lehrmann (University
of Delaware)
- Lecture
- "The Laryngeals of Proto-Indo-Hittite, And What Her Two Daughters, Proto-Anatolian and Proto-Indo-European, Did with Them"
- Prof. Silvia Luraghi (Università
di Pavia)
- Lecture
- "The Greek Dative: Its Origin, Development and Loss in the Light of the Economy of Greek Nominal Paradigms"
- Prof. Anna Morpurgo
Davies (Oxford University)
- Lecture
- "Ancient Greek Names: Onomastic Change and Lexical Change"
- Prof. Peter Schrijver (University
of Munich)
- Lecture
- "British Celtic and the Rise of English"
- Seminar
- "More Evidence for PIE VRH# > V:R#"
- Prof. Michael Shapiro (Brown
University)
- Lecture
- "Peircean (Historical) Linguistics"
- Miguel Villanueva
Svensson (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
- Visiting Student
- Fall quarter
- Prof. Gordon Whittaker (Göttingen)
- Lecture
- "Euphratic: An Indo-European Answer to the Sumerian Question?"
1999
- Prof. Lyle Campbell (Universtiy
of Canterbury, New Zealand)
- Lecture
- "Typology, Areal Linguistics, Genetic Relationship, and How They Interact"
- Prof. Stephanie W. Jamison (Harvard
University)
- Lecture
- "Living Between the Lines: Reconstructing the History of Women in Ancient India"
- Visiting Scholar
- Indo-European Studies 280B (Seminar in Indo-European Linguistics: Introduction to Vedic Sanskrit) course meeting
- Prof. Vladimir Orel (Bar-Ilan
University, Israel)
- Lecture
- "Deciphering Indo-European texts of the Eastern Mediterranean"
- Visiting Scholar
- Indo-European Studies 250B (Seminar: Indo-European Linguistics: Indo-European Dialect Grouping and Restsprachen) course meeting
- Prof. Albrecht Wezler (University
of Hamburg)
- Lecture
- "Should the Adopted Son Be a Close Relative?: On the interpretation of Vasistha-Dharma-Sutra 15.6"