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      <div dir="ltr">Please find below the call for papers for the
        conference “<a
          href="https://sites.google.com/view/upld2025/home"
          moz-do-not-send="true">Uncovering past with linguistic data:
          methodological, typological and area-specific studies</a>”, to
        be held on <b>March 14–15, 2025</b> in Riga, Latvia.</div>
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      <div dir="ltr"><span
          style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Invited
          speakers:</span><b
          style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </b><a
          href="https://mguzmann89.gitlab.io/" moz-do-not-send="true"><b>Matías
            Guzmán Naranjo</b></a> (University of Freiburg), <a
          href="https://www.su.se/english/profiles/pva-1.184927"
          moz-do-not-send="true"><b>Pēteris Vanags</b></a> (University
        of Latvia, University of Stockholm), <a
          href="https://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/petkalli/"
          moz-do-not-send="true"><b>Petri Kallio</b></a> (University of
        Helsinki)<span
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        This conference aims at combining specific studies that are
        devoted to the reconstruction of the prehistorical past on the
        basis of linguistic data with the focus on methodology and
        area-specific studies. <span
          style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">We
          encourage submissions addressing (but not limited to) the
          following questions: </span><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font
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              <li style="margin-left:15px">methods and data to explore
                prehistorical past of particular areas including
                research on migrations, ethnic or social composition of
                past societies </li>
              <li style="margin-left:15px">how to combine linguistic
                evidence with the archeological and/or genetic evidence
                in order to produce reliable conclusions </li>
              <li style="margin-left:15px">how to combine the
                traditional toponymic research with quantitative
                approaches</li>
              <li style="margin-left:15px">specific case studies on
                particular areas and locations</li>
              <li style="margin-left:15px">research on human past along
                the Daugava river<br>
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            <div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Anonymized abstracts
                in PDF format should be submitted to the conference
                email at </span><a href="mailto:ling.archeo@gmail.com"
                class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">ling.archeo@gmail.com</a><span
                style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> by </span><b
                style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font color="#ff0000">December
                  1, 2024.</font></b></div>
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      <font face="arial, sans-serif">Abstracts must be written in
        English and should not exceed one page (using 11pt font),
        excluding references and figures.  One person may submit up to
        two abstracts</font>.<font face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
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      <font face="arial, sans-serif">Organizers: Ilja Seržant
        (University of Potsdam), Jens Schneeweiß (University of
        Gottingen),  Dmitri Sitchinava (University of Potsdam).</font>
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      <font face="arial, sans-serif">URL: <a
          href="https://sites.google.com/view/lcu2025/home?authuser=0"
          target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://sites.google.com/view/upld2025/home</a>
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      <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Prof. Ilja A. Seržant, dr., habil.
Chair Slavic linguistics
Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Potsdam
Am Neuen Palais 10, Haus 01, D-14469 Potsdam
Tel. + 49 331 977 4152; Room 1.1.2.06

URL: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/slavische-linguistik/team/serzant"
      moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/slavische-linguistik/team/serzant</a>

Potsdam Slavic Variation Lab: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/slavische-linguistik/slavic-variation-lab"
      moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/slavische-linguistik/slavic-variation-lab</a>

PoSla Typology Lab: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/slavische-linguistik/posla-typology-lab"
      moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/slavische-linguistik/posla-typology-lab</a></pre>
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