Greater Anatolia and the Indo-Hittite Language Familly

[Stuart Wheeler]

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>       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
>ëIndo-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 (swheeler at richmond.edu).  For
>more information on the program please contact Professor Robert Drews at
>the Department of Classical Studies, Vanderbilt University
>(robert.drews at vanderbilt.edu).
>