<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div id="m_-7255080288160072134m_-3937418616982634009gmail-:1y3" style="font-size:0.875rem;margin:15px 0px;clear:both;font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Please note that the abstract submission deadline for the conference <span style="font-size:0.875rem">“</span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/upld2025/home" style="font-size:0.875rem" target="_blank"><span>Uncovering</span> past with linguistic data: methodological, typological and area-specific studies</a><span style="font-size:0.875rem">”, to be held on </span><b style="font-size:0.875rem">March 14–15, 2025</b><span style="font-size:0.875rem"> in Riga, Latvia, </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">is extended until </span><b style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#ff0000">December 8, 2024</font></b><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">.</span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div id="m_-7255080288160072134m_-3937418616982634009gmail-:1y3" style="font-size:0.875rem;margin:15px 0px;clear:both;font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><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/" target="_blank"><b>Matías Guzmán Naranjo</b></a> (University of Freiburg), <a href="https://www.su.se/english/profiles/pva-1.184927" target="_blank"><b>Pēteris Vanags</b></a> (University of Latvia, University of Stockholm), <a href="https://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/petkalli/" target="_blank"><b>Petri Kallio</b></a> (University of Helsinki)<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">.</span><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p>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 style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><ul><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></li></ul><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" target="_blank">ling.archeo@gmail.com</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> by </span>

<b style="font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font color="#ff0000"><strike>December 1, 2024</strike>  </font></b><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font color="#ff0000"> December 8, 2024</font></b></div><div><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font color="#ff0000"><br></font></b></div></font></font></div><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></font><br><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:small">Organizers: Ilja Seržant (University of Potsdam), Jens Schneeweiß (University of Gottingen),  Dmitri Sitchinava (University of Potsdam).</font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>URL: <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/upld2025/home" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/view/upld2025/home</a> </div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Best regards,</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Dmitri Sitchinava</span></div></div></div>
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