This is the schedule of the 7th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Commonly referred to as a “West Coast Indo-European Conference” (WeCIEC), this installment took place on May 26–27, 1995 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, May 26, 1995
Opening Remarks
Panel I, chaired by Raimo Anttila (UCLA)
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9:00–9:30 AM
Joshua T. Katz
Harvard University
How to be a Dragon in Indo-European: Cognate Language and Inherited Myth from the Anatolians to the Geats, by way of Greece and Rome
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9:30–10:00 AM
Martin E. Huld
California State University, Los Angeles
ON draugr and the Etymology of English beam
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10:00–10:30 AM
Henrik Birnbaum
UCLA
Did PIE have a Reduced Ablaut Grade?
Break
Panel I, chaired by Raimo Anttila (UCLA)
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10:45–11:15 AM
Bill J. Darden
University of Chicago
Baltic and Slavic Preterites in Long *aː and *eː
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11:15–11:45 AM
Angela Della Volpe
California State University, Fullerton
Problems of Semantic Reconstruction: PIE *deyḱ- ‘to show’
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11:45–12:15 PM
Christopher M. Stevens
UCLA
On the Consonants of Proto-Germanic and the Second Sound Shift in German
Lunch
Panel II, chaired by George K. Giannakis (UCLA)
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1:30–2:00 PM
John D. Frauzel
UCLA
Impersonal Absolutes in Indo-Iranian, Baltic, Greek and Latin and the Origin of the Indo-European Absolute Construction
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2:00–2:30 PM
Sandy Cash
University of North Carolina
Underspecification and Constraints on Greek Syllables
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2:30–3:00 PM
Gayané Hagopian
Language Institute, Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan
On the Etymology of a Sociocentric Kin-term: The Classical Armenian Term Skndik
Break
Panel II, chaired by George K. Giannakis (UCLA)
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3:15–3:45 PM
Julius Purczinsky
Hunter College
English ‘do’ and Its Cognates as an Indo-European Causative in West Germanic
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3:45–4:15 PM
Marianna Nikolaidou
UCLA
Religious Symbols in Minoan Scripts and Iconography: Elements of Formulaic Expression?
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4:15–4:45 PM
Anatoly Liberman
University of Minnesota
Etymological Scum in Germanic and Its Implications for Indo-European
Day 2: Saturday, May 27, 1995
Panel III, chaired by Deborah Anderson (UCLA)
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9:00–9:30 AM
Dean A. Miller
University of Rochester
Destroyer or Builder and Other Bifurcations: Notes on I-E Sovereignty
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9:30–10:00 AM
Angelique Gulermovich
UCLA
The Morrigan and the Valkyries: Part 2
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10:00–10:30 AM
Leigh Jellison Hansen
Marlborough School
Scapegoat and Sacrifice in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogion
Break
Panel III, chaired by Deborah Anderson (UCLA)
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10:45–11:15 AM
Mary Lynn Wilson
UCLA
Winter and Death in Germanic Religion
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11:15–11:45 AM
Christopher Wilhelm
UCLA
Prometheus Poikilos: The Prometheus Myth as Presented by Hesiod
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11:45–12:15 PM
Miriam Robbins Dexter
UCLA
Born of the Foam
Lunch
Panel IV, chaired by Karlene Jones-Bley (UCLA)
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1:30–2:00 PM
Vyacheslav V. Ivanov
UCLA
Some Indo-European Hydronyms
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2:00–2:30 PM
Yelena Izbitser
Yelena Izbitser
Wheeled Vehicles and the Homeland of Indo-European
Break
Panel IV, chaired by Karlene Jones-Bley (UCLA)
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3:15–3:45 PM
Yevgeniy Novitskiy
St. Sergius Academy
Semantic Analysis of the Early Metal Period Sculpture of the Norther Black Sea Region
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3:45–4:15 PM
Henning Andersen
UCLA
The Celestial Rowan and the Chthonic Grouse: An Excursion in Slavic Paleomythology
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4:15–4:45 PM
Jeannine David-Kimball
Kazakh/American Research Project, Inc.
Burial Practices Among the Iranian Sarmatians