This is the schedule of the 15th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Commonly referred to as a “West Coast Indo-European Conference” (WeCIEC), this installment took place on Nov. 7–8, 2003 at the University of California, Los Angeles and produced a proceedings volume available here.
| Date | Panel Chair | Speaker | Talk | Time | Proceedings? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 7, 2003 | Opening Remarks | 8:30–8:45 AM | |||
| Paula Coe | Marc Vander Linden (Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique) | The Roots of the Indo-European Diaspora: New Perspectives on the North Pontic Hypothesis | 8:45–9:15 AM | ✔ | |
| Jared S. Klein (University of Georgia) | Phrasal Repetition in the Rigveda | 9:15–9:45 AM | |||
| Leroy Brockman (Dare Institute) | Canid Taxonomies in Some Ancient Indo-European Texts | 9:45–10:15 AM | |||
| Break | 10:15–10:30 AM | ||||
| Randall Gordon | John McDonald (University of Toronto) | Water, Milk, Eviscerated Eyes and Severed Heads: An Iconographic Pattern in Indo-European and Near-Eastern Mythology | 10:30–11:00 AM | ✔ | |
| Gregory E. Areshian (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA) | Herakles, the Sun-god-warrior, Tyr, and Kerberos | 11:00–11:30 AM | ✔ | ||
| Paul-Louis van Berg (Université Libre de Bruxelles) | Daedalus, Theseus and the Others: the Melding of Indo-European and Mediterranean Traditions | 11:30–12:00 PM | ✔ | ||
| Lunch | 12:00–1:30 PM | ||||
| Karlene Jones-Bley | E. J. W. Barber (Occidental College), P. T. Barber (Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA) | Why the Flood is Universal but only Germanic Dragons Have Halitosis: Using Cognitive Studies to Help Decode Myth | 1:30–2:45 PM | ✔ | |
| Break | 2:45–3:00 PM | ||||
| Natalie Operstein | Santeri Palviainen (Harvard University) | The Reconstruction and Development of the i-stem Genitive Plural in West Germanic | 3:00–3:30 PM | ||
| Aurelijus Vijūnas (UCLA) | The Latin alateiviae and the Development of Proto-Germanic *ei | 3:30–4:00 PM | |||
| Michael Rießler (Universität Leipzig) | On the Origin of Preaspiration in North Germanic | 4:00–4:30 PM | ✔ | ||
| Break | 4:30–4:45 PM | ||||
| Angelo Mercado | Mary Bachvarova (Willamette University) | Topics in Lydian Verse: Accentuation and Syllabification | 4:45–5:15 PM | ||
| Vyacheslav V. Ivanov (UCLA) | Indo-European Anatolian Materials in Kuel-Tepe Old Assyrian Texts (22nd–18th Cent. BC): New Data | 5:15–5:45 PM | |||
| Conference Dinner for Speakers | 7:00–10:00 PM | ||||
| Nov 8, 2003 | Aurelijus Vijūnas | Martin Huld (California State University, Los Angeles) | Swift Horses: A Demurrer | 9:00–9:30 AM | ✔ |
| Jay Friedman (UCLA) | Toch. B ñerwe 'today' | 9:30–10:00 AM | |||
| Break | 10:00–10:15 AM | ||||
| Jay Friedman | Hope C. Dawson (The Ohio State University) | On Generalization Lost and Found: -ā/-au Variation in Vedic i-stem Locatives | 10:15–10:45 AM | ✔ | |
| Paolo Milizia (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”) | Proto-Indo-European Nasal Infixation Rule | 10:45–11:15 AM | |||
| Joseph F. Eska (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) | The New Look of Proto-Celtic | 11:15–11:45 AM | |||
| Lunch | 11:45–1:30 PM | ||||
| Brent Vine | Olav Hackstein (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg) | From Discourse to Syntax: The Case of Compound Interrogatives in Indo-European and Beyond | 1:30–2:45 PM | ✔ | |
| Break | 2:45–3:00 PM | ||||
| Jerome Sigler | Hans Henrich Hock (University of Illinois) | Fish, Push, and Greek R + y Clusters: A Return to Danielson 1903 | 3:00–3:30 PM | ✔ | |
| Markus Egetmeyer (Université de Toulouse le Mirail) | The Organization of Noun-Stems, Cases, and Endings in Ancient Cypriote Greek | 3:30–4:00 PM | ✔ | ||
| Break | 4:00–4:15 PM | ||||
| Maria Kritikou | Philip Baldi (Pennsylvania State University), Pierluigi Cuzzolin (Università degli Studi di Bergamo) | Etymological, geographical and typological dimensions of 'have' verbs in Indo-European languages | 4:15–4:45 PM | ||
| Silvia Luraghi (Università di Pavia) | Definite Referential Null Objects in Greek and Latin, and the Relevance of Linguistic Typology for the Reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European | 4:45–5:15 PM | ✔ | ||
| Closing Remarks | 5:15–5:30 PM |