This is the schedule of the 28th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Commonly referred to as a “West Coast Indo-European Conference” (WeCIEC), this installment took place on Nov. 11–12, 2016 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, November 11, 2016
Opening Remarks
Panel I, chaired by Canaan Breiss (UCLA)
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9:15–9:45 AM
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9:45–10:15 AM
Break
Panel II, chaired by Corey Barnes (UCLA)
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10:30–11:00 AM
Jared Klein
University of Georgia
Synchronic and Comparative Remarks on Some Lesser-Studied Features of Relativization in the Rigveda
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11:00–11:30 AM
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11:30–12:00 PM
Sampsa Holopainen
University of Helsinki
On the Stratification of Indo-Iranian Borrowings in the Uralic Languages
Lunch
Featured Speaker, introduced by Brent Vine (UCLA)
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1:30–2:30 PM
Break
Panel III, chaired by Anahita Hoose (UCLA)
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2:45–3:15 PM
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3:15–3:45 PM
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3:45–4:15 PM
Break
Panel IV, chaired by Teigo Onishi (UCLA)
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4:30–5:00 PM
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5:00–5:30 PM
Marek Majer
Harvard University
*dĭl-gŭ ‘long’ : *dĭl-jĭš– ‘longer’ and Other Caland Phenomena in the Slavic Comparative
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5:30–6:00 PM
Tyler Lau
University of California, Berkeley
The Role of Frequency in Morphological Mergers & Shift: A Case Study in Romance
Remembrance: Paula Powers Coe
Day 2: Saturday, November 12, 2016
Panel V, chaired by Angelo Mercado (Grinnell College)
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9:15–9:45 AM
Teigo Onishi, Kanehiro Nishimura
UCLA; Kobe City University of Foreign Studies
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9:45–10:15 AM
Francesco Burroni
Cornell University
Cutting Roots: PIE *k̑erh₁/₃-, PIE *(s)ker-, and the Umbrian Month Name Çersiaru
Break
Panel VI, chaired by Ian Hollenbaugh (UCLA)
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10:30–11:00 AM
Andrea Lorenzo Covini
Università per Stranieri di Siena/Universität zu Köln
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11:00–11:30 AM
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11:30–12:00 PM
Margaret L. Eismeier
UCLA
The Color of Blood in Hittite Religious Ritual: An Interpretation of the Pāpanikri Ritual
Lunch
Featured Speaker, introduced by Stephanie Jamison (UCLA)
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1:30–2:30 PM
Melanie Malzahn
University of Vienna
Indo-European and Indo-Europeanists — The First Two Hundred Years of Indogermanistik
Break
Panel VII, chaired by Margaret Eismeier (UCLA)
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2:45–3:15 PM
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3:15–3:45 PM
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3:45–4:15 PM
Break
Panel VIII, chaired by Éloïse Lemay (UCLA)
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4:30–5:00 PM
Riccardo Ginevra
Università per Stranieri di Siena/Universität zu Köln
Old Norse Brokkr, Sanskrit Bhr̥gu-, and PIE *(s)bʰr̥h₂eg– ‘crackle, roar’
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5:00–5:30 PM