[Lingtyp] CONF: Programme - Uncovering past with linguistic data (UPLD) - Riga (13-15 March 2025)

[Dmitri Sitchinava]

Dear all,

We are happy to announce the programme of the conference *Uncovering past
with linguistic data: methodological, typological and area-specific studies
<https://sites.google.com/view/upld2025/home.>, *to be held in Riga,
Latvia, on 13-15 March, 2025. Please see the programme below. The abstracts
have not yet been published on the website.

Invited speakers: *Matías Guzmán Naranjo*
<https://mguzmann89.gitlab.io/> (University
of Freiburg), *Petri Kallio*
<https://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/petkalli/> (University
of Helsinki).

Organizers: Ilja Seržant (University of Potsdam), Jens Schneeweiß (University
of Göttingen,  LEIZA-ZBSA),  Dmitri Sitchinava (University of Potsdam).

URL: https://sites.google.com/view/upld2025/home.

Registration is open until February 1, 2025. For the registration details,
see: https://sites.google.com/view/upld2025/registration

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at  <
ling.archeo at gmail.com> <ling.archeo at gmail.com>

We look forward to your participation!

Best regards,
Dmitri Sitchinava

March 13

13.20-13.30

Registration



13.30-13.50

Introduction



13.50-14.50

Invited talk: Petri Kallio

Substrates in Finnic: Another update

14.50-15.30

Coffee break



15.30-16.00

Outi Vesakoski, Michael Dunn

Synchronous and asynchronous development of linguistic and genetic
landscapes

16.00-16.30

Pavel Iosad

Phonological grammar and uncovering past language contacts

16.30-17.00

Ilja Seržant, Aigars Kalniņš, Dmitri Sitchinava, Daniil Skorinkin

Etymologies, semantics, and time depth in the Daugava place names dataset



17.00-17.30

Harald Hammarström, Guillaume Segerer

Toponyms and the Geographic Extension of Languages: A computational-visual
approach



March 14

10.00-10.30

Patrick O'Rourke

Reconciling linguistics and archaeology: case of Livonian prehistory

10.30-11.00

Anthony Jakob

The emergence of agriculture in the Eastern Baltic: an archaeolinguistic
synthesis

11.00-11.45

Coffee break



11.45-12.15

Þórhallur Eyþórsson

The Celtic heritage in Icelandic: a re-assessment in light of recent
linguistic and genetic studies

12.15-12.45

Natalia Perkova

The prehistoric landscape of Täby (Stockholm area): accumulation of
archaeological evidence in the context of the oldest place names

12.45-13.15

Bridget Drinka

Ancient Indo-European contact and migration: linguistic, archaeological,
and genomic evidence

13.15-13.45

Andrea Santamaria

The Greek migrations between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age: a fresh view
from linguistics, archaeology and paleogenetic

13.45-15.30

Lunch



15.30-16.00

Leonid Vyazov

Correlation of Archaeogenetic, Archaeological, and Linguistic Data Suggests
the Presence of a Slavic-Speaking Population in the Volga-Kama Region as
Early as the 2nd Century CE

16.00-16.30

Michal Schwarz

Linguo-religious complexes and their implications for the study of
linguistic past

16.30-17.00

Vladimir Panov, Anton Tunin

Aman aman bre: Co-occurrence of linguistic and cultural traits in
Persianate-Mediterranean macroregion



March 15

9.00-10.00

Invited talk: Matías Guzmán Naranjo

TBA

10.00-10.30

Aritz Irurtzun, Carlo Geraci, Giorgia Miotti, Ricardo Etxepare, Verónica
Fernández-Navarro, Diego Garate and Olga Spaey

Inferring the use of a sign language from Upper Palaeolithic hand stencils

10.30-11.00

Ian Joo

Southward Han migration from a linguistic perspective

11.00-11.45

Coffee break



11.45-12.15

Olesya Khanina, Asap Idimeshev

Linguistics and archaeology of the easternmost Uralic language area

12.15-12.45

John Peterson

Urbanization, kingship and the spread of Indo-Aryan across northern South
Asia

12.45-13.15

Jenni Santaharju, Timo Rantanen, Elina Salmela, Harri Tolvanen, Michael
Dunn, Reima Välimäki, Unni Leino, Päivi Onkamo, Outi Vesakoski

Drivers of the East-West human group boundary in Finland

13.15-13.45

Ilia Afanasev, Olga Lyashevskaya

12th – 14th century charters of the Baltic-Slavic contact region:
qualitative exploration of

quantitative analysis

13.45-15.30

Lunch



15.30-16.00

David Goldstein

Reconstructing the past with linguistic data: The case of ancient Greek

16.00-16.30

David Inman, Nico Neureiter, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, Marine Vuillermet,
Epifanía Arango, Chiara Barbieri, and Balthasar Bickel

A Bayesian analysis of linguistic areas in the Americas

16.30-17.00

Frederic Blum, Pilar Valenzuela, and Roberto Zariquiey

Tracing the Evolution of Pano Languages in Parallel with Archaeological
Changes in the Ucayali Basin
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