This is the schedule of the 20th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Commonly referred to as a “West Coast Indo-European Conference” (WeCIEC), this installment took place on Oct. 31 – Nov. 1, 2008 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, October 31, 2008
Opening Remarks
Panel I, chaired by Philippe Gagnon (UCLA)
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9:15–9:45 AM
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9:45–10:15 AM
David Goldstein
University of California, Berkeley
Wackernagel’s Law in Greek: The Case of ἄν
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10:15–10:45 AM
Tim Barnes
Harvard University
Homeric μῶλος Ἄρηος, Hittite ḫarrai mallai: on the Etymology and Function of Ares in Mycenean, Homeric Epic and Aeolic Lyric
Break
Panel II, chaired by Tim Dempsey (UCLA)
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11:00–11:30 AM
Kanehiro Nishimura
Kyoto University
Vowel Deletion in Latin: A Phonological History of Its Triggering Contexts
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11:30–12:00 PM
Lunch
Featured Speaker
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1:30–2:30 PM
James Mallory
Queen’s University, Belfast
The Anatolian Homeland Hypothesis and the Neolithic
Break
Panel III, chaired by Randall Gordon (UCLA)
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2:45–3:15 PM
Silvia Luraghi
University of Pavia
The Reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European Gender System and the Anatolian Evidence
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3:15–3:45 PM
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3:45–4:15 PM
Break
Panel IV, chaired by Jessica DeLisi (UCLA)
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4:30–5:00 PM
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5:00–5:30 PM
Day 2: Saturday, November 1, 2008
Panel V, chaired by Sherrylyn Branchaw (UCLA)
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9:00–9:30 AM
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9:30–10:00 AM
Philip Baldi, Pierluigi Cuzzolin
Pennsylvania State University; University of Bergamo
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10:00–10:30 AM
Break
Panel VI, chaired by Anna Pagé (UCLA)
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10:45–11:15 AM
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11:15–11:45 AM
Martin Schwartz
University of California, Berkeley
Gāthic Serial Recursive Textual Composition and Indo-European Etymology
Lunch
Featured Speaker
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1:30–2:30 PM
Joshua Katz
Princeton University
Wordplay
Break
Panel VII, chaired by Bernhard Koller (UCLA)
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2:45–3:15 PM
Hans Henrich Hock
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Labiopalatalization in Indo-European Languages
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3:15–3:45 PM
Sverre Johnsen
Harvard University
The Development of Voiced Labiovelars in Germanic
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3:45–4:15 PM
Jens Elmegård Rasmussen
University of Copenhagen
A Note on Anatolian i-Mutation (‘i-Motion’)
Break
Panel VIII, chaired by Elizabeth Thornton (UCLA)
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4:30–5:00 PM
Adam Hyllested
University of Copenhagen
Fenno-Ugric *-š- as Laryngeal Substitution in Words of Indo-European Provenance
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5:00–5:30 PM
John Greppin
Cleveland State University
The Hurro-Urartian Substratum in Armenian