LINGUIST List 10.1765

Sat Nov 20 1999

Confs: Historical Ling:"The Hittites & Indo-European"

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1. Stuart Wheeler, Historical Ling:Greater Anatolia and the Indo-Hittite Language Familly

	Greater Anatolia and the Indo-Hittite Language Family

Announcement has already been made that on March 17-19 of 2000 a colloquium
on the above topic will be held at the University of Richmond in
Richmond, Virginia. The
program for the three-day colloquium has now been completed and is
published below. Assuming the Indo-Hittite theory as a point of departure,
the organizers hope that the colloquium will explore but also narrow the
possibilities for the relationship of Greater Anatolia (everything from the
Aegean to the Caspian, and from the Caucasus to the Jazirah) to both the
Anatolian and the "traditional" Indo-European branches of Indo-Hittite.


Public lecture at 7:30 PM on Friday, March 17, at the Virginia Museum of
Fine Arts:

	Professor Lord Colin Renfrew, Disney Professor of Archaeology, and
Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University
of Cambridge "Indo-European Origins: The Case for Anatolia"

Reception following the lecture. Classical World Galleries will be open.


Saturday morning session: 9:00AM - 12:00 noon, in Room 118, Jepson Hall,
University of Richmond

9:00: Welcome
		Stuart Wheeler, Chair, Department of Classical Studies,
University of Richmond
		David Leary, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences,
University of Richmond

9:15: Opening remarks
	Robert Drews, Professor of Classics and History, Vanderbilt University,
	and NEH Visiting Professor of Humanities, University of Richmond

	9:30: Elizabeth Barber, Professor of Linguistics and Archaeology,
Occidental College "The Clues in the Clothes: Some Independent Evidence
for the Movements of Families"

10:15: Intermission

	10:30: Paul Zimansky, Assoc. Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology,
Boston University "Archaeological Inquiries into Ethno-Linguistic
Diversity in Urartu"

	11:15: Peter Kuniholm, Professor of History of Art and Archaeology, and
Director of the Aegean Dendrochronology Project, Cornell University>
	"Pinning down the Date of the Black Sea Inundation"

Lunch 12:00 to 1:15

Saturday afternoon session: 1:15 to 4:30 PM, in Room 118, Jepson Hall,
University of Richmond

	1:15: Colin Renfrew, Disney Professor of Archaeology and Director
of the
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge
	"Proto-Indo-European in Anatolia: Some Problems and Questions"

2:00: Jeremy Rutter, Professor of Classics, Dartmouth College
	Critical response to the first four papers

2:30: Discussion

3:00: Intermission

3:15: Margalit Finkelberg, Professor of Classics, Tel Aviv University
	"The Language of Linear A: Greek, Semitic, or Anatolian?"

4:00: Alexander Lehrman, Associate Professor of Russian, University of
Delaware "Reconstructing Proto-Anatolian: Sister to Proto-Indo-European,
Daughterto Proto-Indo-Hittite"

Sunday morning session: 9:00 AM to 12:00 noon, in conference room at the
Omni Richmond Hotel

	9:00: Vyacheslav Ivanov, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures,
and Professor of Indo-European Studies, University of California, Los
Angeles>	"Southern Anatolian and Northern Anatolian as Separate
�Indo-Hittite'
Dialects, and Anatolian as a Late Linguistic Zone"

	9:45: Bill Darden, Professor of Linguistics and Slavic Languages,
University of Chicago "On the Question of the Anatolian Origin of
Proto-Indo-Hittite"

10:30: Intermission

10:45: Craig Melchert, Professor of Linguistics, University of North Carolina
	Critical response to the last four papers

11:15: Discussion


For information on registration and accommodations please visit the
colloquium's website at 	http://hermes.richmond.edu/anatolia
or contact Professor Stuart Wheeler at the Department of Classical Studies,
University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173 (swheelerrichmond.edu). For
more information on the program please contact Professor Robert Drews at
the Department of Classical Studies, Vanderbilt University
(robert.drewsvanderbilt.edu).