This is the schedule of the 29th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Commonly referred to as a “West Coast Indo-European Conference” (WeCIEC), this installment took place on Nov. 3–4, 2017 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: November 3, 2017
Opening Remarks
Panel I, chaired by Teigo Onishi (UCLA)
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9:15–9:45 AM
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9:45–10:15 AM
Break
Panel II, chaired by Ian Hollenbaugh (UCLA)
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10:30–11:00 AM
Joseph F. Eska
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Celto-Germanic Lexis in Light of Laryngeal Realism
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11:00–11:30 AM
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11:30–12:00 PM
Lunch
Featured Speaker, introduced by Brent Vine (UCLA)
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1:30–2:30 PM
Daniel Petit
École Normale Supérieure/École Pratique des Hautes Études
Accentual Mobility in Lithuanian and its Implications for PIE
Break
Panel III, chaired by John Clayton (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
Peter J. Barber
University of Oxford
Asymmetry, Neutralisation and Analogical Change in Ancient Greek
Break
Panel IV, chaired by Anahita Hoose (UCLA)
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4:30–5:00 PM
Riccardo Ginevra
Università per Stranieri di Siena/Universität zu Köln
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5:00–5:30 PM
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5:30–6:00 PM
Remembrance: Hanns-Peter Schmidt (Stephanie Jamison)
Day 2: November 4, 2017
Panel V, chaired by Chengzhi Zhang (UCLA)
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9:15–9:45 AM
Laura Massetti
Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University
Another Avatar of Mātariśvan? On the Hesychian Gloss ῎Ιθας, ῎Ιθαξ (ι 387 L.)
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9:45–10:15 AM
Julia Sturm
Harvard University
Prothetic /h/ Before Word-Initial /u/ in Attic: A Word-Initial Constraint
Break
Panel VI, chaired by Margaret Eismeier (UCLA)
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10:30–11:00 AM
Lucien van Beek
Leiden University
Dialectal or Artificial Forms in Epic Greek? The Alleged Aeolism ἐσσί ‘thou art’
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11:00–11:30 AM
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11:30–12:00 PM
Lunch
Featured Speaker, introduced by Anthony Yates (UCLA)
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1:30–2:30 PM
Petra Goedegebuure
University of Chicago/Oriental Institute
The Universal Packagers –ant– and –a-, and Split Ergativity in the Anatolian Languages
Break
Panel VII, chaired by Thomas Motter (UCLA)
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2:45–3:15 PM
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3:15–3:45 PM
Phillip Barnett, Andrew Miles Byrd
University of Kentucky
A Markedly Different Solution: Perceptual Confusability Explains the Rarity of PIE */b/
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3:45–4:15 PM
Thomas Olander
University of Copenhagen
Connecting the Dots: The Indo-European Family Tree as a Heuristic Device
Break
Panel VIII, chaired by Milena Anfosso (UCLA, Sorbonne University Paris)
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4:30–5:00 PM
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5:00–5:30 PM