Roots of Europe > External activities

External activities

International conferences

During the project period two international conferences will take place in Copenhagen:

• The sound of Indo-European - phonetics, phonemics and morphophonemics
  (16 – 19 April 2009)

• Etymology and the European Lexicon
  (17 – 22 September 2012)

Block seminars

The following external lecturers will teach block seminars:

• Dr Mary Bachvarova:
  Classical Studies, Willamette University
  The roots of epic and tragedy - the Near Eastern component in literary genres of antiquity (16 – 18 September 2009)

• Dr Antje Casaretto:
  Department of Linguistics, University of Cologne
  Gothic word formation (25 – 27 February 2009)

• Professor Michael Janda:
  Institut für Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft, University of Münster
  Subject: Indo-European mythology

• Professor Joshua Katz:
  Department of Classics, Princeton University
  Subject: Indo-European lexicon

• Professor Martin Kümmel:
  Department of Indo-European and General Linguistics, University of Freiburg
  Problems in Indo-European Phonology (21 – 23 September 2011)
  

• Professor Alan Nussbaum:
  Department of Linguistics, Cornell University
  Subject: Indo-European morphology

• Professor Elisabeth Rieken:
  Institut für Orientalistik und Sprachwissenschaft, Philipps-Universität Marburg
  Subject: Nominal word formation

• Professor Brent Vine:
  Department of Classics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
  Subject: Italic

• Dr Paul Widmer:
  Institut für Orientalistik und Sprachwissenschaft, Philipps-Universität Marburg
  Subject: Indo-European morphology

Also, the internal and external researchers will give guest lectures and/or teach block seminars on their present research projects. All the guest lectures and block seminars will be announced in the calendar.