This information I found is a bit dated but some of you may find it interesting. There may be transcripts of the proceedings available.
Letters to the speakers inviting them to join the group might be appropriate.
Best regards, John Piscopo
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Greater Anatolia and the Indo-Hittite Language Family
A Colloquium
March 17-19, 2000
at the University of Richmond
Speakers
(in alphabetical order)
Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with special reference to the Aegean. Princeton, 1991
Women's Work--The First 20,000 Years. Norton, 1994
The Mummies of Urumchi. Norton, 1999 You can learn more about Dr. Barber at http://www.oxy.edu/~barber.
Bill J. Darden is professor of Linguistics and Slavic Languages in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago. His research interests include phonological theory, comparative Slavic and Balto-Slavic, Lithuanian linguistics, and Russian linguistics. Relevant publications include:
"Laryngeals and Syllabicity in Balto-Slavic and PIE," Chicago Linguistics Society 26-2, 1990, 61-70
"Aspect, Tense, and Conjugation Class in PIE," Chicago Linguistics Society 30, 1994, 131-140 Additional information about Dr. Darden is available at http://hermes.richmond.edu/Anatolia/BDarden.html
Margalit Finkelberg is professor in Classics at TelAviv University. Author of many articles on Homer, oral poetics, Greek language and literature, and Aegean prehistory, including
"Anatolian Languages and Indo-European Migrations to Greece", Classical World, 1997
"From Ahhiyawa to Achaioi", Glotta 66, 1988, 127-134
"Minoan Inscriptions on Libation Vessels", Minos 25/26, 1990/91, 43-85. You can learn more about Dr. Finkelberg at http://spinoza.tau.ac.il/hci/vip/Finkelberg-Margalit.html and at http://spinoza.tau.ac.il/hci/dep/classics/people/people.htm
Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov is professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and professor of IndoEuropean Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has authored more than fifteen books and 1000 journal articles. Since 1992, he has been editor-in-chief of a new journal in Slavic studies: Elementa. Journal of Slavic Studies and Comparative Cultural Semiotics, which continues the tradition of the Moscow-Tartu school. Among his books is
V.V. Ivanov and T. V. Gamkrelidze. Indo-European and Indo-Europeans. Mouton de Gruyter, in 2 volumes, 1994-95.
Brent Vine and Vyacheslav Ivanov, ed. Comparative Notes on Hurro-Urartian, Northern Caucasian and Indo-European. UCLA Indo-European Studies. Vol.1. Los Angeles; University of California at Los Angeles, 1999, pp.147-264. You can learn more about Dr. Ivanov at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/slavic/faculty/ivanov/ivanovpage.html
Peter Ian Kuniholm is professor of History of Art and Archaeology and director of the Aegean Dendrochronology Project at Cornell University. Among his recent publications are
"Anatolian tree rings and the absolute chronology of the eastern Mediterranean, 2220-718 BC", Nature vol. 381, 27 June 1996, 780-783 (with Bernd Kromer, Sturt W. Manning, Maryanne Newton, Christine Latini, & Mary Jaye Bruce) and
"Long Tree-Ring Chronologies for the Eastern Mediterranean", Archaeometry '94: The Proceedings of the 29th International Symposium on Archaeometry, S.Demirci, A. M. Özer, and G. D. Summers, eds. TÜBÍTAK, 1996, 401-409. You can learn more about Dr Kuniholm at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/dendro/pikbib.html
Alexander Lehrman, an authority in Indo-European Linguistics, is associate professor of Russian at the University of Delaware. . Among his publications is
"Indo-Hittite Revisited," Indogermanische Forschungen 101, 1996, 73-88.
Indo-Hittite Redux. Studies in Anatolian and Indo-European Verb Morphology, Paleograph, 1998. Craig Melchert is professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on the Indo-European family, especially the ancient languages of Anatolia (Hittite, Luvian, etc.). He is currently working on problems of verbal aspect in the Anatolian languages and a newly discovered Carian-Greek bilingual text. His monographs pertinent to our colloquium include
Studies in Hittite Historical Phonology, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1984
Anatolian Historical Phonology, Rodopi, 1994 You can learn more about Dr. Melchert at http://www.unc.edu/~melchert/
Colin Renfrew, Professor Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, is Disney Professor of Archaeology and director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in the University of Cambridge, U.K. Among his relevant published books are
The Emergence of Civilisation: The Cyclades and the Aegean in The Third Millennium BC. Methuen, 1972
Before Civilisation, the Radiocarbon Revolution and Prehistoric Europe. Jonothan Cape, 1973. (Knopf, 1973; Penguin, 1976; Cambridge University Press, 1979; Iwanami Gendai Sensho, 1979; Flammarion, 1984)
Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of the Indo-European Origins. Jonothan Cape, 1987 (La Terza, 1989; Flammarion,1990; Editorial Critica, 1990; Cambridge University Press, 1991)
Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice. Thames and Hudson, 1991 (with Paul Bahn). You can learn more about Lord Renfrew at http://www-mcdonald.arch.cam.ac.uk/McD/Staff/Renfrew.htm
Jeremy Rutter is professor of Classics at Dartmouth College. His fields of interest include Classical art and archaeology, particularly the Stone and Bronze Age archaeology of the Aegean. Publications relevant to our colloquium include
"The Prepalatial Bronze Age of the Southern and Central Greek Mainland," American Journal of Archaeology 97, 1993, 745-797.
The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean [http://devlab.dartmouth.edu/history/bronze_age/] [Initially posted on the Web in 1996, but constantly being updated and added to, most recently in April 1998.] A series of notes designed to accompany 29 topically oriented lectures, each accompanied by full bibliographies sorted by subcategories of subject matter; ca. 525 scanned slides, mostly outdoor views of archaeological sites and architecture but also including some artifact photographs; search engine provides capability to locate sites, artifactual and architectural types, specific publications (by either author or title) in either the notes, the bibliographies, or the scanned slides, or in all three at once] You can learn more about Dr. Rutter at http://hermes.richmond.edu/Anatolia/JRutter/
Paul Zimansky is associate professor of Near Eastern archaeology at Boston University. His primary interest is the Bronze and Iron Age archaeology of Anatolia, Syria, and Mesopotamia with a special research focus on Urartian civilization and the archaeology of early imperialism. Among his publications are
"Ecology and Empire: The Structure of the Urartian State." Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization, no. 41. The Oriental Institute Press of the University of Chicago, 1985
Ancient Ararat. A Handbook of Urartian Studies. Caravan Books, 1998. You can learn more about Dr. Zimansky at http://www.bu.edu/archaeology/www/faculty/zimansky/zimansky.html
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