This is the schedule of the 11th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Commonly referred to as a “West Coast Indo-European Conference” (WeCIEC), this installment took place on June 4–5, 1999 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: Friday, June 4, 1999
Opening remarks
Panel I, chaired by Heidi Waltz (UC Riverside)
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9:00–9:30 AM
Anatoly Liberman
University of Minnesota
Glottalized Consonants in Germanic and Indo-European Laryngeals
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9:30–10:00 AM
Ilya Yakubovich
University of California, Berkeley
Laryngeals and Velar Stops: a Dialectal Development in Hittite
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10:00–10:30 AM
Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen
University of Copenhagen
The Growth of Indo-European Ablaut: Contrastive Accent and vṛddhi
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10:30–11:00 AM
Harold Koch
The Australian National University
The Ablaut Pattern of Athematic Verbs in Proto-Indo-European: Some Methodological Considerations
Break
Panel II, chaired by Natalie Operstein
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11:15–11:45 AM
Jay Friedman
UCLA
The Indo-European Gender System in Light of Noun-Class Typology
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11:45–12:15 PM
Carol F. Justus
University of Texas, Austin
The Age of Indo-European Medio-Passive -r
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12:15–12:45 PM
Alexander Nikolaev
St. Petersburg State University
Proto-Indo-European Ergativity and the Genitive in -osyo
Lunch
Featured Speaker, introduced by Raimo Anttila
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2:00–3:00 PM
Jorma Koivulehto
University of Helsinki
Finno-Ugric Reflexes of Northwest Indo-European and Early Stages of Indo-Iranian
Break
Panel III, chaired by Christopher M. Stevens
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3:15–3:45 PM
Vyacheslav V. Ivanov
UCLA
Early Slavic/Indo-Iranian Lexical Contacts
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3:45–4:15 PM
Olga Petrova
University of Iowa
Grimm’s Law in Optimality Theory
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4:15–4:45 PM
Betsy McCall
Indiana University
Metathesis, Deletion, Dissimilation, and Consonant Ordering in Proto-Greek
Conference Dinner
Day 2: Saturday, June 5, 1999
Panel IV, chaired by Antone Minard (UCLA)
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9:00–9:30 AM
Karlene Jones-Bley
UCLA
Chariots with Horses: Form and Function
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9:30–10:00 AM
John C. Franklin
Oxford University
Harmonia and Yoga: Cognate Sciences
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10:00–10:30 AM
John Leavitt
University of Montreal
The Cow of Plenty in Indo-Iranian and Celtic Myth
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10:30–11:00 AM
Victoria Simmons
UCLA
The Wolf at Your Door: the Domestic and the Wild in Celtic Tradition
Break
Panel V, chaired by Jay Friedman
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11:15–11:45 AM
Joshua T. Katz
Princeton University
Evening Dress: the Metaphorical Background of Latin vesper and Greek ἕσπερος
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11:45–12:15 PM
Martin E. Huld
California State University, Los Angeles
Reinventing the Wheel: Indo-European Transportation Terminology
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12:15–12:45 PM
Sandra Olsen
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Expressions of Ritual Behavior at Botai, Kazakhstan
Lunch
Featured Speaker, introduced by Hanns-Peter Schmidt (UCLA)
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2:00–3:00 PM
Stephanie Jamison
Harvard University
On Translating the Rig Veda
Break
Panel VI, chaired by Sheila Embleton (York University)
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3:15–3:45 PM
David Atkins
UCLA
An Alternative Principle of Succession in the Hittite Monarchy
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3:45–4:15 PM
Kristin Reichardt
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Curse Formulae in Hittite and Hieroglyphic Luvian
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4:15–4:45 PM
Christopher Wilhelm
UCLA
On the Possible Origins of the Philistines