WeCIEC 8

This is the schedule of the 8th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Commonly referred to as a “West Coast Indo-European Conference” (WeCIEC), this installment took place on May 25–26, 1996 at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Day 1: Saturday, May 25, 1996

9:15–9:30 AM

Opening Remarks

Panel I, chaired by Christopher M. Stevens (UCLA)

  • 9:30–10:00 AM

    Joshua T. Katz

    Harvard University

    Urbi et Orbi: A New Latin Sound Law

  • 10:00–10:30 AM

    Raimo Anttila

    UCLA

    Greek ἀγαπητός

10:30–10:45 AM

Break

Panel I, chaired by Christopher M. Stevens (UCLA)

  • 10:45–11:15 AM

    Martin E. Huld

    California State University, Los Angeles

    Indo-European Magic and Nudity

  • 11:15–11:45 AM

    Tim Pulju

    Rice University

    Indo-European *dA > *dh

11:45–1:00 PM

Lunch

Featured Speaker, introduced by Sheila Embleton (UCLA)

  • 1:00–2:00 PM

    Andrew Sihler

    University of Chicago

    Did Proto-Indo-European have Palatal Stops?

2:00–2:15 PM

Break

Panel II, chaired by Sheila Embleton (UCLA)

  • 2:15–2:45 PM

    Anatoly Liberman

    University of Minnesota

    Squaw Valley in Germanic and Balto-Slavic

  • 2:45–3:15 PM

    Bill J. Darden

    University of Chicago

    Slavic Past-Tense Stems and IE Aspect

3:15–3:30 PM

Break

Panel II, chaired by Sheila Embleton (UCLA)

  • 3:30–4:00 PM

    Bridget Drinka

    University of Texas, San Antonio

    Sanskrit Injunctives and Aorists: Implications for Indo-European Aspect

  • 4:00–4:30 PM

    Deborah W. Anderson

    University of California, Berkeley

    Vessel Names in Linear B: Evaluating the IE Evidence

6:00 PM–?

Conference Dinner

Day 2: Sunday, May 26, 1996

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

  • 9:30–10:00 AM

    Henning Andersen

    UCLA

    Slavic Migrations: How the West was Won

  • 10:00–10:30 AM

    Jon C. Billigmeier

    California State University, Los Angeles

    Κύπρις, Κύπρος, Ku-pi-ri-jo

10:30–10:45 AM

Break

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

  • 10:45–11:15 AM

    Albert Watanabe, Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande

    University of Memphis; University of Illinois

    Ganga, Thetis and Immortality

  • 11:15–11:45 AM

    Yevgeniy Novitskiy

    St. Sergius Academy

    The Elements of the Ancient Indo-European Cult of Bull in the Hercules Sixth Labor

11:45–1:00 PM

Lunch

Featured Speaker, introduced by Angela Della Volpe (UCLA)

  • 1:00–2:00 PM

    Igor Manzura

    Institute of Archaeology and Ancient History, Academy of Sciences of Moldova

    Long Before Rig Veda

2:00–2:15 PM

Break

Panel IV, chaired by Angela Della Volpe (UCLA)

  • 2:15–2:45 PM

    Jeannine David-Kimball

    Kazakh/American Research Project, Inc.

    New Gender Identities for Sauro-Sarmatian Nomadic Women

  • 2:45–3:15 PM

    Karlene Jones-Bley

    California State University, Los Angeles

    Arma Feminamque Cano

3:15–3:30 PM

Break

Panel IV, chaired by Angela Della Volpe (UCLA)

  • 3:30–4:00 PM

    Rainer Berger, Andrea Parker

    UCLA

    The Age of Irish Ringforts

  • 4:00–4:30 PM

    Mary R. Bachvarova

    University of Chicago

    The Case of Influence of Dravidian Morphemes on Sanskrit: The Proto-Dravidian Causative Marker *-pp and the Sanskrit Causative Affix -p-aya

4:30–4:45 PM

Closing Remarks