From egorka1988 at gmail.com Fri Jan 9 09:10:45 2026 From: egorka1988 at gmail.com (Egor Kashkin) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2026 12:10:45 +0300 Subject: [Ura-list] =?utf-8?q?TOC=3A_Ural-Altaic_Studies=2C_=E2=84=964=28?= =?utf-8?b?NTkpLCAyMDI1?= Message-ID: Dear colleagues, A new issue of the journal "Ural-Altaic Studies" has been published. The contents are provided below (titles in the language of an article). The full text and other relevant information are available on the websites http://ural-altai.ru/ and https://iling-ran.ru/web/en/publications/journals/ural-altai/issues . We will be glad to receive your submissions! CONTENTS ?. ?. ????, ?. ?. ????????, ?. ?. ?????????, ?. ?. ????????. ?????????? ???????????? ???????? ? ??????????? ? ???????? ?????: ???????????????????? ?????? (?? ?????? ??????????????? ????????? ???????????). ?. ?. ???????, ?. ?. ???????, ?. ?. ????????. ???????? ???? ?????? ??????????? ?????????????? ??????: ???? ????????????? ???????????. ?. ?. ?????. ?????????? ?????????? ??????? ????????? ????????? ???????? ?????????? ????????????. ???? ??? (?. ?. ????????). ????-????????? ??????? ????????? ?? ?????? 1823 ?.: ??????????? ??????? ? ??????????. ?. ?. ??????????. ????????? ? ??????? ????????????? ?????? ? ?????????????? ????. -- ura-list at helsinki.fi - list for Uralic linguistics and related disciplines to (un)subscribe, send majordomo at helsinki.fi a message: (un)subscribe ura-list my.own at email.address Mirror archive: http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ura-list/ From olesya.khanina at gmail.com Mon Jan 12 11:43:16 2026 From: olesya.khanina at gmail.com (Olesya Khanina) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:43:16 +0200 Subject: [Ura-list] CfP: a linguistics-archaeology workshop in Helsinki 17.04.2026 Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Kerkko Nordqvist and I are organising an informal workshop "What Do You Mean by That? Methods, assumptions, and limits in archaeology and linguistics" at the Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies (University of Helsinki) on April 17. It is aimed as an opportunity for a friendly methodological conversation between archaeologists and linguists. You can find a full description of the event at the end of the email. The event is planned as a full-day in-person meeting in Helsinki. We would be glad if you could contribute to the workshop as a presenter or a discussant. Please, let us know if you are interested by sending your preliminary title or topic(s) of interest before January 31. Unfortunately, there are no funds to cover anyone's travel expenses. With kind regards, Olesya Khanina What Do You Mean by That? Methods, assumptions, and limits in archaeology and linguistics 17 April 2026, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies Organisers: HCAS Core fellows Olesya Khanina & Kerkko Nordqvist Both historical linguistics and archaeology are interested in the human past. All of us aim at understanding past communities, their transformations in time and space, their interactions with neighbours, and the related mobilities of material, linguistic, as well as biological components. However, our methodological toolkits are quite distinct, which makes interpretation and integration of our results a tough enterprise. The methodological challenges have recently started being discussed more explicitly, e.g. introductory chapters to Kristiansen & Kroonen (2023) and Robbeets & Hudson (2025).With this workshop, we want to continue the conversation with a particular focus on North-Western Eurasia. What can each of us, as a scholar of the past, do to better understand the other discipline, its methods, its results, and its limitations? At big conferences and symposia, we are eager to present our achievements, whether disciplinary or interdisciplinary, but we rarely have an opportunity to talk about problems. For example, why is it so difficult to compare findings of the two disciplines? To what extent are they comparable at all? What do we expect from the other discipline? Are these expectations realistic? Are we satisfied with how representatives of the other discipline interpret our results? Or are we upset that they fail to notice our work at all? As a linguist and an archaeologist, we are organising this methodological workshop to create an opportunity for all participants to engage in an informal but critical dialogue. We believe that mutual curiosity and a willingness both to share and to learn can open new possibilities for collaboration and joint explorations of the human past. Rather than following the standard conference format of lengthy papers followed by brief discussion, we propose a structure that gives equal weight to problem-setting and subsequent conversation. Each concise presentation is followed by an open discussion in which all participants are encouraged not only to ask questions but also to offer tentative answers to the issues raised. Preliminarily, the slots are scheduled for 30 minutes, including 15 minutes for the presentation and 15 minutes for discussion. We invite presentations that reflect on the challenges and opportunities of combining archaeological and linguistic data, including but not limited to - generalizations over current practices: both effective approaches and those that prove more problematic, - recurrent issues in how our results are perceived by the other discipline, - assumptions and constraints within each discipline that may not be evident to outsiders, - the reliability of our findings and the information needed to evaluate that reliability, - the degree of comparability of our results, - ways to improve dialogue between the two disciplines. You can use the workshop as a platform to ask questions you have always wanted to ask representatives of the other discipline, or you can use it to provide answers to questions you have been waiting, so far in vain, for representatives of the other discipline to ask you. -- ura-list at helsinki.fi - list for Uralic linguistics and related disciplines to (un)subscribe, send majordomo at helsinki.fi a message: (un)subscribe ura-list my.own at email.address Mirror archive: http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ura-list/