WeCIEC 10

This is the schedule of the 10th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Commonly referred to as a “West Coast Indo-European Conference” (WeCIEC), this installment took place on May 21–23, 1998 at the University of California, Los Angeles.

For papers with the    symbol, a revised version was published in the conference’s proceedings volume; the symbol links to the program’s publication page, also available here.

Day 1: Thursday, May 21, 1998

8:15–8:30 PM

Opening Remarks by Brent Vine (UCLA)

Invited Guest

  • 8:30 PM-?

    Calvert Watkins

    Harvard University

    A Celtic Miscellany

Day 2: Friday, May 22, 1998

Panel I, chaired by Sheila Embleton (York University)

  • 9:00–9:30 AM

    Bridget Drinka

    University of Texas, San Antonio

    Early PIE: Active or Accusative

  • 9:30–10:00 AM

    Ilya Yakubovich

    University of California, Berkeley

    Stative Suffix -āi in the Sanskrit Verb

  • 10:00–10:30 AM

    Dean A. Miller

    Rochester University

    Kings Communicating: Royal Speech and the Fourth Function

10:30–10:45 AM

Break

Panel II, chaired by Sanjay Kumar (UCLA)

  • 10:45–11:15 AM

    Jason Railsback

    University of Texas, Austin

    Mycenaean Theophoric Names

  • 11:15–11:45 AM

    Darya Kavitskaya

    University of California, Berkeley

    Vowel Epenthesis and Syllable Structure in Hittite

  • 11:45–12:15 PM

    Vyacheslav V. Ivanov

    UCLA

    Palatalization of Indo-European Labiovelars in Luwian

12:15–1:30 PM

Lunch

Feature Speaker, introduced by Karlene Jones-Bley (UCLA)

  • 1:30–2:45 PM

    Elizabeth Barber

    Occidental College

    New Approaches to What the Xinjiang Mummies Spoke

2:45–3:00 PM

Break

Panel III, chaired by Heidi Waltz (UC Riverside)

  • 3:00–3:30 PM

    Martin E. Huld

    CSU Los Angeles

    On *Hr̥tk̑os

  • 3:30–4:00 PM

    Carol F. Justus

    University of Texas, Austin

    Latin habēre ‘have’ and capiō ‘take’: An Etymological Chronology

  • 4:00–4:30 PM

    Apostolos N. Athanassakis

    UC Santa Barbara

    Ōkeanos: Mythic and Linguistic Origins

7:00 PM–?

Conference Dinner

Day 3: Saturday, May 23, 1998

Panel IV, chaired by Deborah Anderson (University of California, Berkeley)

  • 9:00–9:30 AM

    Ralph F. Gallucci

    UC Santa Barbara

    Studies in Homeric Epic Tradition

  • 9:30–10:00 AM

    Thomas R. Walsh

    Occidental College

    Potions and Poetics: Indo-European Comparanda and Helen’s Cup

  • 10:00–10:30 AM

    Edwin D. Floyd

    University of Pittsburgh

    Cometas, on Lazarus: A Resurrection of Indo-European Poetics

10:30–10:45 AM

Break

Panel V, chaired by Martin E. Huld (CSU Los Angeles)

  • 10:45–11:15 AM

    Sarah P. Morris

    UCLA

    From Anatolia to Athens: Hittite Antecedents for Greek Cult Statuary

  • 11:15–11:45 AM

    Karlene Jones-Bley

    UCLA

    A Celtic Sculpture with a Steppe Heritage

  • 11:45–12:15 PM

    Jeannine Davis-Kimball

    American-Eurasian Research Institute, Inc.

    Priestesses, Enareis, and Other Statuses among Indo-Iranian Peoples

12:15–1:30 PM

Lunch

Featured Speaker, introduced by Karlene Jones-Bley (UCLA)

  • 1:30–2:45 PM

    Andrew Sherratt

    Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University

    Echoes of the Big Bang

2:45–3:00 PM

Break

Panel VI, chaired by Mona Dallas Reddick (UCLA)

  • 3:00–3:30 PM

    Bill J. Darden

    University of Chicago

    On the Spread of Indo-European in Northern Europe

  • 3:30–4:00 PM

    Edwin F. Bryant

    Harvard University

    The Indo-Aryan Invasion Debate

4:00–4:15 PM

Closing Remarks by Karlene Jones-Bley (UCLA)