On November 15th, 2019, the Program in Indo-European Studies was pleased to be able to co-sponsor (in partnership with the Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures) a conference honoring the memory and the scholarship of Vyacheslav Ivanov, a longtime core faculty member of the Program in Indo-European Studies. A dozen scholars from around the world offered contributions addressing (in the words of the event’s title) assessments, reassessments, and reflections on Ivanov and his immense oeuvre.
Day 1: Friday, November 15, 2019
Introductions:
David Schaberg (Dean, UCLA Division of the Humanities),
Ronald Vroon (Chair, UCLA Dept. of Slavic, E. European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures),
Brent Vine (Chair, UCLA Program in Indo-European Studies)
Indo-European and General Linguistics I
Brent Vine (Professor, Dept. of Classics; Chair, UCLA Program in Indo-European Studies)
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9:15–9:45 AM
H. Craig Melchert
Professor Emeritus, UCLA
“Pluti” and Poetry
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9:45–10:15 AM
Nikolai Kazansky
Professor, St. Petersburg University; Head of Russian Academy of Sciences’ Dept. of Indo-European Comparative Linguistics, Institute for Linguistic Studies
Hittite Relations with the Aegean and Vyacheslav Ivanov’s Anatolian Etymologies
Break
Indo-European and General Linguistics II
Brent Vine (Professor, Dept. of Classics; Chair, UCLA Program in Indo-European Studies)
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10:30–11:00 AM
Anna Dybo
Professor, Moscow State University; Department Head, Division of Ural-Altaic Languages, Russian Academy of Sciences
Vyacheslav Ivanov’s Role in the Reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European Culture: A Look from the Inside, a Look from the Outside
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11:00–11:30 AM
Ilya Yakubovich
Lead Researcher, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
Vyacheslav Ivanov and Two Classes of Proto-Indo-European Verbal Roots
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11:30–12:00 PM
Georges-Jean Pinault
Professor, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris Sciences et Lettres
Language and Myth in the Indo-Iranian Area: About Indra Again
Lunch
Semiotics of Culture and Poetics I
Ronald Vroon (Professor and Chair, UCLA Dept. of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures)
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1:00–1:30 PM
Tatiana Tsivian, Nataliya Zlydneva
Head of the Dept. of Russian Culture, Institute of World Culture, Moscow State University; Chief Research Fellow, Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Chief Research Fellow, Institute of World Culture, Moscow State University; Head of the Dept. of the History of the Cultures of the Slavic Peoples, Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Vyacheslav Ivanov’s Last Project: (The) Living Stone
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1:30–2:00 PM
Mihhail Lotman
Professor of Semiotics, Tallinn University; Research Professor, University of Tartu
Finno-Ugric Verse and its Relations with Indo-European Verse
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2:00–2:30 PM
Henryk Baran
Professor Emeritus, SUNY Albany
Vyacheslav Ivanov’s Approaches to Khlebnikov: Achievements, Problems, Broader Perspectives
Break
Semiotics of Culture and Poetics II
Ronald Vroon (Professor and Chair, UCLA Dept. of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures)
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3:00–3:30 PM
Yury Tsyvian
William Colvin Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Cinema and Media Studies, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Dept. of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
Synthèse: Vyacheslav Ivanov and Sergei Eisenstein
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3:30–4:00 PM
Barry P. Scherr
Professor Emeritus, Dartmouth College
Vyacheslav Ivanov and the Analysis of Russian Verse Rhythm
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4:00–4:30 PM
Willem Weststeijn
Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam
Vyacheslav Ivanov on the Problem of Time in Modern Culture
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4:30–5:00 PM
Igor Pilshchikov
Professor, UCLA, Dept. of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures
Vyacheslav Ivanov and the Moscow-Tartu / Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics