[lg policy] calls: Aires Culturelles/Aires Linguistiques - Linguistic Area/Cultural Areas

[Harold Schiffman]

Aires Culturelles/Aires Linguistiques - Linguistic Area/Cultural Areas


Date: 09-Jun-2011 - 10-Jun-2011
Location: Brest / Brittany, France
Contact: Daniel Le Bris
Contact Email: alacatlantique at gmail.com
Meeting URL: http://univ-brest/bretagne-linguistique

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Genetic Classification;
Historical Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Indo-European; Insular Celtic
Meeting Description:

Aires Culturelles/Aires Linguistiques - Linguistic Area/Cultural Areas
Studies of matches in the Atlantic Zone of Western Europe

On June 9-10, 2011, the CRBC (Centre de Recherche Bretonne et
Celtique) will organize at the University of Brest (Brittany, France) an
international conference which will bring together several researchers
(archaeologists, linguists, geneticists) who will compare their viewpoints on
the connections between the populations living in Atlantic Europe and the
languages spoken there from the late Paleolithic period? The conference is
the introductory stage of an interdisciplinary collaboration between
archaeologists, linguists, paleo-anthropologists, historians, geneticists on
the same subject.

The received doctrine for the origin of the Celts in Western Europe was
centered upon the idea of an Indo-European Invasion in the Copper Age
(4th millennium B.C.), by horse-riding warrior pastoralists. The subsequent
process of Celtic language evolution would therefore have taken place in
the II and I millennium, that is in the Bronze and Iron Age. The evidence
collected by archaeology in the last thirty years overwhelmingly prove the
absence of any large scale invasion in Europe, and the uninterrupted
continuity of most Copper and Bronze Age cultures of Europe from
Neolithic, and of most Neolithic cultures from Mesolithic and final Paleolithic.
Some of the participants hold for the PCP (Paleolithic Continuity Paradigm) ,
which considers that the recent prehistory of Western Europe - from the
Megalithic culture through the Beaker Bell to the colonialistic La Tène - must
have all been Celtic. Consequently, the duration of the colonial expansion of
the Celts was much longer than thought, and its direction was from West to
East and not vice versa. Other participants will expound different
viewpoints.

Daniel Le Bris & Jean Le Dû, Linguistic Geography, Celtic Dpt, CRBC,
Brest, France.
e-mail: alacatlantique at gmail.com
www.univ-brest.fr/Recherche/Laboratoire/CRBC/
Université de Bretagne Occidentale.
http://univ-brest/bretagne-linguistique
Maison des Sciences de l'Homme en Bretagne (MSH-B), Pôle Mondes
Armoricains et Atlantiques.
www.mshb.fr/accueil/la_recherche/pole_mondes_armoricains_et_atlantiques
/aires_linguistiques_et_aires_culturelles

Liste des intervenants et programme de la manifestation

Jeudi 9 juin 2011
9h00 Accueil des participants
9h30

9h40: Ouverture du colloque par Jean Le Dû, professeur émérite de
celtique, CRBC, Brest.
Présentation du projet ALAC, Daniel Le Bris, maître de conférences de
celtique, CRBC, Brest.

10h00: The Atlantic Celts: Cumulative Evidence of Continuity from
Paleolithic' par Francesco Benozzo, chercheur en ethno-philologie,
Université de Bologne et Mario Alinei, professeur émérite de linguistique,
Université d'Utrecht.

11h00: 'Les Indo-Européens sont venus avec Cro-Magnon' par Marcel Otte,
chercheur et préhistorien, Université de Liège.

12h00: Repas

14h00: 'De la technique à l'ethnie : Mésolithique et Néolithique de la façade
atlantique de l'Europe' par Gregor Marchand, archéologue, chercheur
CNRS, UMR 6566, CREAAH, Rennes1.

15h00: 'Emprise territoriale des complexes socio-économiques de l'âge du
Bronze dans l'Ouest de la France' par Cyril Marcigny, archéologue,
chercheur CNRS, UMR 6566, Inrap.

16h00: Pause café

16h15: 'Tartessian as Celtic and Celtic from the West : both, only the first,
only the second, neither' par John Koch, professeur de celtique, CAWCS
(Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies), Université du Pays de
Galles, Aberystwyth.

17h15

19h00: Vin d'honneur

20h00: Dîner du colloque

Vendredi 10 juin 2011

9h00: Un substrat chamito-sémitique en celtique insulaire?' par Steve
Hewitt, linguiste, UNESCO, Paris.

10h00: 'The post-glacial peopling of the British Isles: how can 'Celtic' and
'Anglo-Saxon' physical intrusions be defined and measured?' par Stephen
Oppenheimer, généticien, Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary
Anthropology, Oxford.

11h00: Pause café

11h15: 'Le peuplement de l'Angleterre et la question des Anglo-Saxons vs
Brythons' par Gary German, professeur d'anglais, CRBC, Brest.

12h15: Repas

14h00: 'The language of the earliest agriculturalists in Central Europe' par
Peter Schrijver, professeur de celtique, Université d'Utrecht.

15h00: 'L'origine des langues celtiques : centreuropéenne ou atlantique'
par Xaverio Ballester, professeur de philologie latine, Université de
Valencia.

16h00: Table ronde : conclusions, perspectives de recherche.

17h00: Clôture du colloque.

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