Full Title: AnatoLinks: Connections Within and Beyond Ancient Anatolia

Date: 04-Dec-2025 - 05-Dec-2025
Location: Oxford, United Kingdom

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics; Writing Systems

Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2025

We are pleased to invite submissions for AnatoLinks, a PhD / early career two-day conference dedicated to the study of Ancient Anatolia through the lenses of Linguistics, Philology, History, and Archaeology, to be held at the University of Oxford on 4–5 December 2025.

The conference aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and encourage meaningful exchange between different approaches to the ancient Anatolian world. We particularly welcome joint presentations by researchers from different fields engaging with shared material or questions.

While the focus is on Ancient Anatolia, we welcome contributions that explore broader regional dynamics, including interactions with neighboring areas such as Syria, Mesopotamia, the Aegean, and the Levant.

We strongly encourage submissions from PhD candidates and early career researchers whose work explores Ancient Anatolia through innovative methodologies, comparative frameworks, or new analytical tools.

The conference will feature the keynote lectures by David Sasseville (EPHE, Paris) and Giulia Torri (University of Florence)

To submit:
Please send an abstract (max. 500 words, excluding references), along with your name and affiliation, to [email protected] by 1 October 2025. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 10 October 2025.
Chosen applicants will be asked to provide some small amount of material for a booklet in advance of the conference, to be distributed to attendees.
For any inquiries, including those related to attendance support, please contact: [email protected]

Organizing Committee:
Emanuele Alleva (Ca' Foscari University of Venice), Giulia Cozzi, (University of Pavia), Sveva Elti di Rodeano (Ca' Foscari University of Venice), Romeo Gessaga (University of Oxford), Gabriele Giannecchini (University of Oxford), Olga Olina (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Jonathan Walls (University of Oxford), Leopoldo Fox-Zampiccoli (ISAW - NYU)

This conference is organized in collaboration between the Ancient Anatolia Network – University of Oxford, the ERC project CAncAn: Communication in Ancient Anatolia (project number 101088363) – University of Venice, the ISAW – New York University, and the PhD School of History – University of Pavia.