WeCIEC 9

This is the schedule of the 9th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Commonly referred to as a “West Coast Indo-European Conference” (WeCIEC), this installment took place on May 23–24, 1997 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 23, 1997

8:45–9:00 AM

Opening remarks by Raimo Anttila (UCLA)

Panel I, chaired by George K. Giannakis (Loyola-Marymount University)

  • 9:00–9:30 AM

    Joshua T. Katz

    Harvard University

    Hittite takšu- and the Indo-European Word for ‘Badger’

  • 9:30–10:00 AM

    Kazuhiko Yoshida

    Kyoto University

    Assibilation in Hittite

  • 10:00–10:30 AM

    Bill J. Darden

    University of Chicago

    On the Irrelevance of Hittite for Two Conjugation Types in Proto-Indo-European

10:30–10:45 AM

Break

Panel II, chaired by Deborah Anderson (University of California, Berkeley)

  • 10:45–11:15 AM

    Brent Vine

    UCLA

    The Etymology of Greek κώμη and Related Problems

  • 11:15–11:45 AM

    Martin E. Huld

    California State University, Los Angeles

    Albanian Evidence for the Sigmatic Aorist

  • 11:45–12:15 PM

    Konstantin G. Krasukhin

    Institute of Linguistics, Moscow

    Five Periods of Proto-Indo-European Accentuation

12:15–1:30 PM

Lunch

Featured Speaker

  • 1:30–2:45 PM

    Theo Vennemann

    Munich University

    The Apples of the Hesperides

2:45–3:00 PM

Break

Panel III, chaired by Brent Vine

  • 3:00–3:30 PM

    Jon C. Billigmeier

    California State University, Los Angeles

    On Similar Words for ‘Bull’, ‘Horn’, abd ‘Wine’ in Indo-European and Semitic

  • 3:30–4:00 PM

    Carol F. Justus

    University of Texas, Austin

    Constraints on the Indo-European Decimal Hypothesis

  • 4:00–4:30 PM

    Piotr Gasiorowski

    UCLA

    Strange Ablauts in Proto-Indo-European

6:00 PM–?

Conference Dinner

Day 2: Saturday, May 24, 1997

Panel IV, chaired by Sheila Embleton (York University)

  • 9:00–9:30 AM

    Antone Minard

    UCLA

    Of Horses and Humans: The Divine Twins in Celtic Mythology

  • 9:30–10:00 AM

    Victoria Simmons

    UCLA

    The Chaotic Worm: The Function of the Unformed Animal in Celtic Mythology

  • 10:00–10:30 AM

    Miriam Robbins Dexter

    UCLA

    The Brown Bull of Cooley and Matriliny in Celtic Ireland

10:30–10:45 AM

Break

Panel V, chaired by Mona Dallas Reddick (UCLA)

  • 10:45–11:15 AM

    Dean A. Miller

    University of Rochester

    The King, the Hero, and the Gods: The Functions and the Supernatural

  • 11:15–11:45 AM

    George K. Giannakis

    Loyola-Marymount University

    The Marriage-to-Death Theme in Greek and Indo-European Language and Culture

  • 11:45–12:15 PM

    Angeliki Petropoulou

    National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens

    Herakles’ Self-Sacrifice and the Indo-European Practice of Immortality by Fire

12:15–1:30 PM

Lunch

Featured Speaker

  • 1:30–2:45 PM

    Anatoly Liberman

    University of Minnesota

    Where Do (Indo-European) Words Come From?

2:25–3:00 PM

Break

Panel VI, chaired by Karlene Jones-Bley (California State University, Los Angeles)

  • 3:00–3:30 PM

    Vyacheslav V. Ivanov

    UCLA

    Indo-European Expressions of Totality and the Invitation to the Feast of All the Gods

  • 3:30–4:00 PM

    Anna Ranero

    Harvard University

    That is what Scáthach did not teach me: Aided Óenfir Aífe and an episode from the Mahābhārata

  • 4:00–4:30 PM

    Christopher Wilhelm

    UCLA

    Prometheans and the Caucasus: The Origins of the Prometheus Myth

4:45–5:00 PM

Closing Remarks