This is the schedule of the 33rd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Commonly referred to as a “West Coast Indo-European Conference” (WeCIEC), this installment took place on Nov. 12–13, 2022 on Zoom by the University of California, Los Angeles.
Day 1: Saturday, November 12, 2022
Opening Remarks
Panel I, chaired by Arjun Srirangarajan (UCLA)
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9:15–9:45 AM
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9:45–10:15 AM
John McDonald
University of Missouri
Telegonos’ Stingray and Sāmba’s Grass: Old Age and Death from the Sea at the End of Epic
Break
Panel II, chaired by Valentina Lunardi (UCLA)
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10:30–11:00 AM
Carl Erixon
Uppsala University
Lexical Semantics and the Extension of Caland Morphology: The Case of Latin –idus adjectives
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11:00–11:30 AM
Reuben J. Pitts
Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) & Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
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11:30–12:00 AM
Lunch
Featured Speaker, introduced by David Goldstein (UCLA)
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1:30–2:30 PM
Russell Gray
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Language trees with sampled ancestors support a new “hybrid hypothesis” for origin of the Indo-European languages
Break
Panel III, chaired by Elisa Migliaretti (UCLA)
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2:45–3:15 PM
Sander van Hes
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
The Ancient Greek Local Suffixes -θεν, -θε(ν), -θι and -σε: Function and Origin
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3:15–3:45 PM
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3:45–4:15 PM
Paolo Sabattini
UCLA
Mycenaean or/ro story: Directionality of PIE liquid vocalization in Mycenaean Greek
Break
Panel IV, chaired by Laura McLean (UCLA)
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4:30–5:00 PM
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5:00–5:30 PM
Joseph F. Eska
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Day 2: Sunday, November 13, 2022
Panel V, chaired by Joel Erickson (UCLA)
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9:15–9:45 AM
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9:45–10:15 AM
Ronald I. Kim
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
Relative Chronology and the Earliest Iranian Loanwords in Tocharian
Break
Panel VI, chaired by Paolo Sabattini (UCLA)
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10:30–11:00 AM
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11:00–11:30 AM
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11:30–12:00 PM
Valérie Jeffcott and Logan Neeson
Leipzig University; Montréal, Québec, Canada
Lunch
Featured Speaker, introduced by Anthony D. Yates (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München & UCLA)
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1:30–2:30 PM
David Anthony
Hartwick College & Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Break
Panel VII, chaired by Alex Roy (UCLA)
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2:45–3:15 PM
Ryan Sandell
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
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3:15–3:45 PM
Break
Panel VIII, chaired by Chengzhi Zhang (UCLA)
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4:00–4:30 PM
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4:30–5:00 PM
Anthony D. Yates
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München & UCLA
The Unexceptional Word-Prosody of the “Endingless Locative” in Indo-European