WeCIEC 5

This is the schedule of the 5th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Commonly referred to as a “West Coast Indo-European Conference” (WeCIEC), this installment took place on May 27–29, 1993 at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Day 1: Thursday, May 27, 1993

9:50–10:00 AM

Opening Remarks by Hartmut Scharfe (UCLA)

Panel I, chaired by Patrick McReynolds (UCLA)

  • 10:00–10:30 AM

    Nikolai N. Kazansky

    Center of Hellenic Studies

    The Indo-European Onomastics as an Historical Source

  • 10:30–11:00 AM

    Bridget Drinka

    University of Texas, San Antonio

    Morphological Layering and the Origin of the Latin Perfect System

  • 11:00–11:30 AM

    Karlene Jones-Bley

    UCLA

    Age and Grave Goods: A Correlation of Evidence from the South Russian Steppe

11:30–1:30 PM

Lunch

Featured Speaker, introduced by Karlene Jones-Bley (UCLA)

  • 1:30–2:45 PM

    David W. Anthony

    Hartwick College

    The New Archaeology of Indo-European Origins: New Discoveries from the Steppes

2:45–3:00 PM

Break

Panel II, chaired by Heidi Waltz (UCLA)

  • 3:00–3:30 PM

    George K. Giannakis

    UCLA & Loyola-Marymount University

    On the Indo-European Formula *(H)nomn dheH ‘put / make a name’

  • 3:30–4:00 PM

    Carol F. Justus

    San Jose State University

    Historical Linguistics in its Indo-European Context: A Course for Junior Level General Education

  • 4:00–4:30 PM

    Henning Andersen

    UCLA

    Indo-European *e, *a, and *o- in Baltic and Slavic

5:10 PM–?

Reception Buffet

Day 2: Friday, May 28, 1993

Panel III, chaired by Henning Andersen (UCLA)

  • 10:00–10:30 AM

    Henrik Birnbaum

    UCLA

    Balto-Slavic Revisited: On the Compatibility of Various Approaches

  • 10:30–11:00 AM

    Anatoly Liberman

    University of Minnesota

    Old English funde, Old Icelandic kjøri: The Pluperfect and the Subjunctive Mood in Early Germanic

  • 11:00–11:30 AM

    Martin E. Huld

    California State University, Los Angeles

    Grassmann’s Law in Messapic

11:30–1:30 PM

Lunch

Featured Speaker, introduced by Raimo Anttila (UCLA)

  • 1:30–2:45 PM

    Andrew Sihler

    University of Wisconsin, Madison

    Five Gleanings from a Work in Progress

2:45–3:00 PM

Break

Panel IV, chaired by Cheryl Steets (UCLA)

  • 3:00–3:30 PM

    Dean A. Miller

    University of Rochester

    Defining and Expanding the Indo-European Vater-Sohns-Kampf Theme

  • 3:30–4:00 PM

    Udo Strutynski

    Udo Strutynski

    The Sins of Siegfried: Echoes of Indo-European War Crimes in the Nibelungenlied and Its Analogues

  • 4:00–4:30 PM

    Edgar C. Polomé

    University of Texas, Austin

    Indo-European and non-Indo-European Elements in Germanic Religion and Myth

Day 3: Saturday, May 29, 1993

Panel V, chaired by George K. Giannakis (UCLA)

  • 10:00–10:30 AM

    Joseph F. Eska

    University of Pennsylvania

    Remarks on the Thematic Genitive Singular Desinences in Hispano-Celtic and Lepontic

  • 10:30–11:00 AM

    Deborah Anderson

    UCLA

    The Vision of Past, Present, and Future in Indo-European

  • 11:00–11:30 AM

    Vyacheslav V. Ivanov

    UCLA

    Interference of Indo-European Dialects: Hittite and Luwian Language

11:30–1:30 PM

Lunch

Featured Speaker, introduced by Bengt Löfstedt (UCLA)

  • 1:30–2:45 PM

    Klaus Strunk

    University of Munich

    Relative Chronology and the Indo-European Verb System: The Case of Present- and Aorist-Stems

2:45–3:00 PM

Break

Panel VI, chaired by Tomoyuki Inoue (UCLA)

  • 3:00–3:30 PM

    Todd Compton

    Todd Compton

    Violence, Possesion, Poetry; Dumézil’s Indo-European Warriors as Poet

  • 3:30–4:00 PM

    Angelique Gulermovich

    UCLA

    Lleu, Atri, Erichthonius: Miscarriages and Miraculous Births in Indo-European Tradition

  • 4:00–4:30 PM

    Patrick McReynolds

    UCLA

    The Differential Treatment of Kronos and Ouranos by Homer and Hesiod

4:30–4:45 PM

Closing Remarks by Christopher M. Stevens (UCLA)