Past events

4 Dec. - 7 Dec. 2023

Crash course in Indo-European mythology and poetics

Riccardo Ginevra will give a crash course in comparative Indo-European mythology and poetics.

24 Nov. 2023, 16:00-18:00

Festlig Faglig Fredag with Matthew Scarborough: A New Tool for Investigating the Indo-European Lexicon

Matthew will give this Festlig Faglig Fredag talk, titled: »A New Tool for Investigating the Indo-European Lexicon: The Indo-European Cognate Relationships Database«

10 Nov. - 11 Nov. 2023

The Weather in Indo-European: Environment in Language and Culture

Conference.

13 Oct. 2023, 16:00-18:00

Festlig Faglig Fredag with Corinna Scheungraber: Word formation and the conundrum of root »extensions«

Corinna Scheungraber will give the talk Word formation and the conundrum of root »extensions«: Obscured univerbations involving the PIE roots *dʰeh₁- ‘put’, *deh₃- ‘give’ and *steh₂- ‘stand’ in Germanic and Indo-European

29 Sept. 2023, 17:00-19:00

Festlig Faglig Fredag with Seán Vrieland: Relative Chronology, Absolute Chronology and the Emergence of Faroese

Seán Vrieland will present the talk »Relative Chronology, Absolute Chronology and the Emergence of Faroese« at Festlig Faglig Fredag on September 29th.

18 Sept. - 19 Sept. 2023

Early Germanic Poetics and Religion from Linguistic and Comparative Perspectives

We are pleased to invite scholars, researchers, and enthusiasts to our highly anticipated conference, to be held at the NorS Department, University of Copenhagen, September 18-19, 2023.

8 Sept. 2023, 17:00-20:00

Festlig Faglig Fredag & Semesterstartsdrinks with Johan Ulrik Nielsen: From Tarḫunt and Tanaro to Fjǫrgynn and Parjánya

Johan Ulrik Nielsen will give the talk "From Tarḫunt and Tanaro to Fjǫrgynn and Parjánya: A survey of the evidence for and against a Proto-Indo-European theonym" in connection with Semesterstartsdrinks.

29 June - 30 June 2023

Seminar: Relative chronology in historical linguistics

The seminar discusses relative chronology in historical linguistics – not as a secondary tool for the examination of other topics, but as a primary object of investigation.

1 June 2023, 12:30-16:00

Workshop: Statistical analysis in R and application to linguistic data

Ron Nudel teaches a workshop at Roots of Europe.

26 May 2023, 16:00-18:00

Festlig Faglig Fredag with Robert Tegethoff: An Indo-Europeanists’ Tour of Northern Pakistan

This Festive Friday Talk “An Indo-Europeanists’ Tour of Northern Pakistan” will be about the languages of the Hindu Kush and held by Robert Tegethoff, doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute.

19 May 2023, 17:30-19:30

Matthew Scarborough at MASt - Meetings on Aegean Studies

Matthew Scarborough will give the talk "The Proto-Greek Labiovelars: An examination of an isogloss in the context of Ancient Greek dialect geography" at MASt - Meetings on Aegean Studies.

14 Apr. 2023, 16:00-18:00

Festlig Faglig Fredag with Sofus Skjærlund: Sigmatic Forms in Latin and Sabellic

Sofus Skjærlund will present the results from his BA thesis as a talk in the Festlig Faglig Fredag-series.

31 Mar. 2023, 15:15-16:00

A copenhagener in Leiden: Tobias Mosbæk Søborg at CIEL Seminar

Watch Tobias Mosbæk Søborg give a talk on his Conlang side quest in Leiden.

24 Mar. 2023, 16:00-18:00

Festlig Faglig Fredag with Ron Nudel: The Language of Genetics and the Genetics of Language

Geneticist Ron Nudel will give an introduction to genetic methods needed to understand papers on prehistoric migration - and he'll tell us about his current research in the genetics of language disorders.

24 Feb. 2023, 16:00-18:00

Festlig Faglig Fredag with Marcel Nowakowski: The developmn̥t of PIE syllabic nasals in Proto-Greek and beyond

Roots of Europe invites everyone for a Festlig Faglig Fredag with Marcel Nowakowski on February 24. The talk is entitled "The developmn̥t of PIE syllabic nasals in Proto-Greek and beyond".

23 Sept. 2022, 15:15-16:00

A Copenhagener in Leiden: Simon Poulsen at CIEL Seminar

A Copenhagener in disguise, Simon Poulsen is doing a research stay for his PhD at Universiteit Leiden. He will give the next online talk for the Comparative Indo-European Linguistics Seminar – online!

2 June - 3 June 2022

Seminar: “New Shoots from the Roots”

“New Shoots from the Roots: Ancient Indo-European Languages in Context” – seminar, 2–3 June 2022

6 May 2022, 16:00-18:00

Festlig Faglig Fredag with Nicolas Jansens: The early Slavic vowel system between notation and empiricism

Nicolas Jansens will give the talk "The early Slavic vowel system between notation and empiricism" for Festlig Faglig Fredag.

22 Apr. 2022, 16:00-18:00

Festlig Faglig Fredag with Anders Richardt Jørgensen: A Celtic hiatus: Making sense of causatives to laryngeal-final roots

Festlig Faglig Fredag returns after an Easter spring break with Anders Jørgensen shedding some light on some Celtic causatives.

25 Mar. 2022, 16:00-18:00

Festlig Faglig Fredag with Julia Sturm: Stormy weather: Preliminary observations on climate and weather in Indo-European

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3 Dec. 2021, 16:00-18:00

Festlig Faglig Fredag with Rasmus Bjørn: Indo-European goes East: Early loanwords in Turkic, Uralic, and Old Chinese

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12 Nov. 2021, 16:00-18:00

Festlig Faglig Fredag med Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead: -u̯ant-, -mant- … og Sturtevant - de indoiranske **u̯ant-/mant*-stammers paradoksale nominativ og vokativ singularis

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4 Dec. 2020, 16:01-18:00

Festlig Faglig Fredag: Rasmus Gudmundsen Bjørn, (Old) Balkanic and beyond: Semitoid traits in PIE

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13 Nov. - 14 Nov. 2020

Conference: Form and Meaning

Online conference.

6 Nov. 2020, 16:01-18:00

Festlig Faglig Fredag: Aigars Kalniņš, Lettisk komparativ dialektologi og hvad dialektkontinua kan lære os om sprogslægtskab

Aigars Kalniņš gives the talk "Lettisk komparativ dialektologi og hvad dialektkontinua kan lære os om sprogslægtskab" at Festlig Faglig Fredag on 6 November

23 Oct. 2020, 16:00-19:00

Festlig Faglig Fredag: Tobias Mosbæk Søborg

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25 Sept. 2020, 16:00-19:00

Festlig Faglig Fredag: Louise Skydsbjerg Friis: Tocharian Psycho: Tocharian Psycho: Dissecting an Indo-European participle in Tocharian

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29 May 2020, 16:00-19:00

Festlig Faglig Fredag: Riccardo Ginevra, The Rape of the Heavenly Maiden and an Ancient Sleeping Beauty

The Roots of Europe team organises a series of lectures under the title “Festlig Faglig Fredag” (“Festive Academic Friday”). The lecturers are members of the centre, present and former students as well as researchers associated with the centre.

15 May 2020, 16:00-19:00

Festlig Faglig Fredag: Laryngeal colouring in Indo-European

The Roots of Europe team organise a series of lectures under the title “Festlig Faglig Fredag” (“Festive Academic Friday”). The lecturers are members of the centre, present and former students as well as researchers associated with the centre.

22 Nov. 2019, 16:15

Festlig Faglig Fredag (iii)

Festlig Faglig Fredag (Festive Aacademic Friday) is a concept where you can give a talk in an informal environment, that being e.g. about a paper you wrote, an article you're working on, or as a rehearsel for a conference talk.

8 Nov. 2019, 16:00

Festlig Faglig Fredag (ii)

Festlig Faglig Fredag (Festive Academic Friday) is a concept where you can give a talk in an informal environment, that being e.g. about a paper you wrote, an article you're working on, or as a rehearsal for a conference talk.

25 Oct. 2019, 16:00

Festlig Faglig Fredag (i)

Festlig Faglig Fredag (Festive Aacademic Friday) is a concept where you can give a talk in an informal environment, that being e.g. about a paper you wrote, an article you're working on, or as a rehearsel for a conference talk.

11 Oct. - 12 Oct. 2019

Indo-European Religion and Poetics

Conference at Roots of Europe, Indoeuropean Studies.

27 Feb. 2019

Wine & Science

Wine & Science is recurring event by the Natural History Museum of Denmark. On this specific event titled ' 'Europas rødder: arkæologi, genitik, lingvistik' (Roots of Europe: archaeology, genetics and linguistic) the subject will be the prehistory of Europe.

7 Aug. 2018

Roots of Europe Summer Seminar

A new interdisciplinary course in linguistics, archaeology, anthropology and genetics.

29 June 2018, 14:00-18:30

10th Anniversary of Roots of Europe

The research centre Roots of Europe is happy to announce the celebration of our 10th Anniversary on Friday, 29 June 2018. This will be marked with an event at the Department for Nordic Studies and Linguistics.

13 Sept. - 15 Sept. 2017

The Split: Reconstructing Early Indo-European Language and Culture

Conference on 13–15 September 2017 at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen.

24 July - 6 Aug. 2017

RoE Summer School

For the third time, the Centre for Roots of Europe will host an interdisciplinary summer school: RoE Summer School.

15 May - 17 May 2017

Blockseminar on Tocharian

Dr. Michaël Peyrot (Leiden University) will give a Blockseminar on Tocharian at the INSS center for Roots of Europe

7 Apr. 2017, 15:30

Reception at INSS in Celebration of Birgit Anette Rasmussen’s 65th Birthday

On Friday, April 7^th at 15.30 there will be a reception on the administration floor in celebration of Birgit Anette Rasmussen’s 65^th birthday.

15 Feb. - 17 Feb. 2017

The Indo-European Family Tree

Within the framework of the research project The Homeland: In the footprints of the early Indo-Europeans, financed by the Carlsberg Foundation, we welcome you to the international workshop “The Indo-European family tree” presenting speakers from Copenhagen, USA (UPenn), Germany (Jena) and the Netherlands (Leiden og Utrecht).

17 May 2016, 10:00-16:30

Kin, clan and community - a symposium on Indo-European social institutions

As a part of our VELUX funded project, Individual, kin and family in prehistoric Europe: what words can tell, we throw a workshop entitled Kin, clan and community - a symposium on Indo-European social institutions on 17 May at the University of Copenhagen, Campus South, room 21.0.54. Everybody is welcome, also without prior registration.

7 Mar. 2016, 14:00-16:00

Gothic graffiti discovered on the Crimean Peninsula

Center for Roots of Europe organizes guest lecture.

6 Nov. 2015, 17:00-18:30

Indo-European origins and dispersal

The Talking Neolithic project has invited Chundra Cathcart (PhD, Berkeley) to come present a paper he coauthored about the origins and dispersal of the Indo-Europeans.

7 May - 8 May 2015

Third Conference on Elfdalian

The conference is arranged by the research centre Roots of Europe at the University of Copenhagen in partnership whith UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, and Kristianstad University.

16 Apr. - 18 Apr. 2015

Conference: Nordic TAG 2015

2015 marks the 30th year of Nordic TAG and the conference in Copenhagen will be the 15th in the conference series.

12 Sept. 2014, 1:00

Word Exchange at the Gates of Europe: Five Millenia of Language Contact

Adam Hyllested defends his PhD thesis.

20 June 2014, 1:00

Archaisms and innovations - four interconnected studies on Germanic historical phonology and morphology

Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen defends his PhD thesis.

13 June 2014, 2 p.m. exactly

Tilbage til rødderne (Back to the roots)

Birgit Annette Rasmussen has been assigned professor mso in Indo-European Studies at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics for which reason she gives an inaugural lecture.

26 Feb. 2014, 15:15-17:00

Interview with the dead: Reconstructing prehistoric Germanic r/n-stem inflection

Guest lecture by Jenne Klimp, University of Groningen.

The lecture, which will be held in English, will take place on 26 February 2014 at 15:15 at the University of Copenhagen at Amager (KUA), room 24.2.01.

Everybody is welcome.

Roots of Europe - Language, Culture, and Migrations

27 Oct. 2013, 15:30-17:30

The linguistic roots of Europe: Seminar on pre-Proto-Indoeuropean languages

Two lectures on Sardinian and Iberian languages by prof. Eduardo Blasco Ferrer, Cagliari.

10 Oct. 2013, 15:00-17:15

Indo-European rules

Mini conference with talks from Brent Vine, Joshua T. Katz, Michael Janda and Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead.

12 June - 14 June 2013

Reconstruction in time and space

A three-day seminar with professor Henning Andersen, UCLA.

15 May - 17 May 2013

Indo-European heroic poetry and Slavic epics - some mutual insights

A three-day seminar about Slavic and Indo-European etymology, mythology, and epic poetry by professor Aleksandar Loma, the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and PhD student Orsat Ligorio, Leiden University / University of Zadar.

12 Dec. - 14 Dec. 2012

Tracing the Indo-Europeans: Origin and migration

The research centre Roots of Europe kindly invites you to a three-day seminar featuring some of the leading scholars working in the interface between Indo-European language and culture. Together they will try to find a consensus on the indentification of an Indo-European homeland and the character of the Indo-European migrations.

11 Oct. 2012, 1:00-4:00

Indo-European words that matter

In 2009, we proudly proclaimed that Indo-European Matters. In 2010, we maintained that Indo-European Still Matters. Last year, in 2011, we firmly established that Indo-European Matters Even More.

This year, in order to truly substantiate our claims of the preceding three years, we have found some Indo-European Words That Matter! These words of undoubtedly incomparable importance will be presented to the public at an afternoon conference during the fourth annual visit of the Roots of Europe international advisory board.

Organizer: Roots of Europe

The lectures are open to the public.

8 Oct. - 10 Oct. 2012

Studies in Latin etymology and phonology

Studies in Latin etymology and phonology - a three-day seminar by Brent Vine (University of California, Los Angeles).

23 May - 25 May 2012

Celtic Spring in Copenhagen

Three-day seminar on Celtic languages and their history with general introductions to selected Celtic languages.

12 Apr. 2012, 14:00-16:00

The Genetic Evidence for the Origin of Homo Sapiens

Peter K.A. Jensen will deliver an updated version of what is known about the origin of the modern human being with emphasis on the genetic aspect (molecular anthropology), including what is known about a possible mixing of the modern gene pool with the gene pool of various archaic human types (ex. neanderthals).

10 Feb. 2012, 15:30-16:30

Animacy and Vedic accent in Kalashamon, an Indo-Aryan language in North-West Pakistan

Jan Heegård Petersen opens the spring semester with a lecture on Kalashamon

15 Nov. 2011, 16:00-18:00

Text transmissions and language history: hidden treasures and pitfalls

Guest lecture by associate professor and Ph.D. George Hinge on the transmission of text and oral traditions in Greek.

13 Oct. 2011, 13:00-17:30

Indo-European Matters Even More

On Thursday, 13 October, Roots of Europe will be both host to and the main actor in a one-day seminar entitled Indo-European Matters Even More.

28 Sept. - 5 Oct. 2011

Nominal derivation: a three-day block seminar

Associate professor Birgit Anette Rasmussen will be giving a three-day block seminar on nominal derivation for all interested.

More information available within; please note that the block seminar will be given in Danish.

21 Sept. - 23 Sept. 2011

Problems of Indo-European Phonology

Please note schedule change!

The phonology of Proto-Indo-European and its daughter languages is in large part well-attested and agreed-upon. However, there are still some issues that remain controversial and problematic. These issues are the focus of this seminar.

5 Sept. 2011, 16:00-17:00

Syllabic nasals in Mycenaean

A guest lecture by Ph.D. associate Christina Skelton from UCLA, interning at the Centre for Textile Research at the University of Copenhagen.

24 Aug. 2011, 11:00-13:00

Evidence of the older Runes

The older Runic inscriptions are the oldest direct sources to Germanic languages, but they are few and problematic.

9 June 2011, 16:00-18:00

The path of cheese-making through European linguistic and cultural history

Milk and dairy products have played an important role in human nourishment since ancient times. Unfortunately, our knowledge about how these products developed historically and spread geography is quite sparse, and archaeology can only occasionally furnish us with information about the development from the ancient Middle East through Greece and the Roman Empire into mediaeval Europe.

10 May 2011, 16:15-18:00

Linguistic discoveries in Sicilian Coinage

On Tuesday, 10 May 2011, Oliver Simkin, postdoc at the Roots of Europe project, will be giving a talk for the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen on the linguistic clues and gems Sicilian coins from the Classical Era have to offer.

27 Apr. - 30 Apr. 2011

Anatolian Spring in Copenhagen

Wednesday 27 - Saturday 30 April:
Seminar on Anatolian comparative linguistics and related matters with invited speakers.

10 Feb. 2011, 14:00-16:00

On Greek words for 'garlic' and a possible substrate between Greek and Semitic

Ph.d. Guus Kroonen, who has just joined the projet as a postdoc fellow, will give a lecture:

"On ἄγλις and γέλγις 'garlic' and the possibility of a linguistic substrate between Greek and Semitic"

10 Nov. - 12 Nov. 2010

Baltic Languages, Folk Belief and Natural Science

A block seminar by Dr. Bernd Gliwa, University of Latvia.

The seminar will take place on Wednesday 10 November at 15-17 in room 23.4.39, on Thursday 11 November at 10-12 in room 21.0.54 & at 15-17 in room 27.0.09 and on Friday 12 November at 15-17 in room 27.0.09 at the University of Copenhagen in Amager (KUA) and will be given in English.

Organizer: Roots of Europe.

Everybody is welcome.

14 Oct. 2010, 13:30-17:45

Indo-European still matters

Open mini-conference during the annual visit of the Roots of Europe international advisory board -- a follow-up on last year's "Indo-European matters". The event takes place in room 23.0.49.

Organizer: Roots of Europe

Everybody is welcome

11 Oct. - 13 Oct. 2010

Greek and Indo-European Religion

A block seminar by Professor Michael Janda, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.

The seminar will take place on Monday 11 October at 15-17 in room 23.4.39; Tuesday 12 October at 15-17 in room 23.4.39; Wednesday 13 October at 14-16 in room 21.1.21 at the University of Copenhagen in Amager (KUA) and will be given in English.

Organizer: Roots of Europe.

Everybody is welcome.

29 Sept. 2010, 14:15-16:00

Languages and Scripts of Ancient Spain: Europe before the Indo-Europeans

Lecture by Postdoc Oliver Simkin, University of Copenhagen.

The lecture will take place on Wednesday 29 September 2010 at 14:15 in room 23.4.39 at the University of Copenhagen in Amager (KUA) and will be given in English.

Organizer: Roots of Europe.

Everybody is welcome.

25 May - 27 May 2010

Albanian in Indo-European, Albanian in the Balkans: Archaisms and Innovations.

Block seminar by Professor Brian Joseph, Ohio State University.

The block seminar, which will be given in English, will take place on Tuesday 25 May in room 27.0.17, Wednesday 26 May in room 23.0.49, and on Thursday 27 May 2010 in room 27.0.17, at 15-17 on all days at the University of Copenhagen in Amager.

Organizer: Roots of Europe.

Everybody is welcome.

18 May - 20 May 2010

Morphology and Semantics of Some Indo-European Denominal Derivational Types

Block seminar by Professor Alan J. Nussbaum, Cornell University.

The block seminar, which will be given in English, will take place on Tuesday 18 May at 10-12 in room 21.1.21, on Wednesday 19 May at 15-17 in room 27.0.17 and on Thursday 20 May at 15-17 in room 27.0.17.

Organizer: Roots of Europe.

Everybody is welcome.

22 Apr. 2010, 15:15-17:00

The prehistoric expansion of Indo-European languages: an archaeological model

Guest lecture by Professor Kristian Kristiansen, University of Gothenburg.

Professor Kristian Kristiansen's lecture will take place on 22 April 2010 at 15:15 in room 23.4.39 at the University of Copenhagen in Amager (KUA) and will be given in Danish.

Organizer: Roots of Europe.

Everybody is welcome.

24 Mar. - 26 Mar. 2010

Middle Breton - New date

A block seminar by Anders Richardt Jørgensen, University of Copenhagen.

This event will take place at 11-12 & 13-16 on 24 March, 13-15 on 25 March and 10-12 on 26 March 2010 at the University of Copenhagen in Amager (KUA), room 22.5.26. It will be given in Danish (English only if requested in advance).

Organizer: Roots of Europe.

Everybody is welcome.

4 Mar. 2010, 14:15

Novgorod in the early Middle-Ages - language and society

Guest lecture by Professor Jens Nørgård-Sørensen, University of Copenhagen.

Professor Jens Nørgård-Sørensen's lecture will take place on 4 March 2010 at 14:15 at the University of Copenhagen in Amager (KUA) in room 22.5.04 and will be given in Danish.

Organizer: Roots of Europe.

Everybody is welcome.

25 Nov. - 27 Nov. 2009

Middle Breton

A block seminar by Anders Richardt Jørgensen, University of Copenhagen.

This event will take place on 25-27 November 2009 at the University of Copenhagen at Amager (KUA), room 22.5.26. It will be held in Danish (English only if requested in advance).

Attention: The block seminar has been cancelled due to illness and will probably be postponed to the spring term 2010!

Organizer: Roots of Europe.

Everybody is welcome.

9 Oct. 2009, 14:15-17:30

Indo-European matters

Four papers on comparative linguistics, etymology, and mythology.

This event will take place on 9 October 2009 at 2:15-5:30 PM at the University of Copenhagen at Amager (KUA), room 23.0.49. It will be held in English.

Organizer: Roots of Europe.

Everybody is welcome.

22 Sept. - 25 Sept. 2009

Nominal Composition

A block seminar by Benedicte Nielsen, University of Copenhagen.

This event will take place on 22-25 September 2009 at the University of Copenhagen at Amager (KUA), room 22.5.26 and/or 22.5.04. First class will be Tuesday 22 September at 13-15 in room 22.5.04.

The language will be Danish (English only if requested in advance).

Organizer: Roots of Europe.

Everybody is welcome.

16 Sept. - 18 Sept. 2009

The roots of epic and tragedy - the oriental component in literary genres of antiquity

A block seminar of three days and a guest lecture by Prof. Mary Bachvarova, Willamette University.

These events will take place on 16-18 September 2009 at the University of Copenhagen at Amager (KUA) and will be held in English.

Organizer: Roots of Europe.

Everybody is welcome.

14 July 2009, 13:15

Dates and dialects in the divergence of Indo-European

Guest lecture by Dr. Paul Heggarty, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.

Dr. Heggarty's lecture will take place on 14 July 2009 at 13:15 at the University of Copenhagen at Amager (KUA), room 27.0.09, and will be held in English.

Organizer: Roots of Europe.

Everybody is welcome.

18 June 2009, 13:15

Lexical and structural etymology of Proto-Germanic: the Semitic component

Guest lecture by Professor Theo Vennemann, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.

Professor Vennemann's lecture will take place on 18 June 2009 at 13:15 at the University of Copenhagen at Amager (KUA), room 23.4.39, and will be held in English.

Organizer: Roots of Europe.

Everybody is welcome.

17 June 2009, 13:15

Vasconic features in West Indo-European: structure and lexicon

Guest lecture by Professor Theo Vennemann, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.

Professor Vennemann's lecture will take place on 17 June 2009 at 13:15 at the University of Copenhagen at Amager (KUA), room 23.4.39, and will be held in English.

Organizer: Roots of Europe.

Everybody is welcome.

14 May 2009, 16:15

Indo-European before the Indo-Europeans? - new evidence from Mesopotamia

Guest lecture by Professor Gordon Whittaker, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

Professor Whittaker's lecture will take place on 14 May 2009 at 16:15 at the University of Copenhagen at Amager (KUA), room 23.4.39, and will be held in English. It is organized by Roots of Europe.

Everybody is welcome.

30 Apr. 2009, 13:15

Why Indo-Europeanists should know more about North-East Caucasian

Guest lecture by Professor Peter Schrijver, Departement Moderne Talen, Keltisch, Universiteit Utrecht.

Professor Schrijver's lecture will take place on 30 April 2009 at 13:15 at the University of Copenhagen at Amager (KUA), room 27.0.17, and will be held in English. It is organized by Roots of Europe.

Everybody is welcome.

29 Apr. 2009, 15:15

Why Indo-Europeanists should know more about Hattic

Guest lecture by Professor Peter Schrijver, Departement Moderne Talen, Keltisch, Universiteit Utrecht.

Professor Schrijver's lecture will take place on 29 April 2009 at 15:15 at the University of Copenhagen at Amager (KUA), room 23.0.49, and will be held in English. It is organized by Roots of Europe.

Everybody is welcome.

16 Apr. - 19 Apr. 2009

The sound of Indo-European - phonetics, phonemics, and morphophonemics

An international conference in comparative linguisitics, to take place at the University of Copenhagen, 16-19 April 2009.

Organizer: Roots of Europe

26 Mar. 2009, 13:15

Molecular anthropology

Guest lecture by Peter K.A. Jensen, clinical associate professor at the Institute of Human Genetics, University of Aarhus.

The lecture, which is held in Danish, will take place at the University of Copenhagen at Amager (KUA), on 26 March 2009 at 1.15, room 23.0.50.

Everybody is welcome.

6 Mar. 2009, 16:15

'Hunnic' modified skulls: physical appearance, identity and the transformative nature of migrations

Guest lecture to be given by Susanne Hakenbeck, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research/Newnham College, Cambridge.

Dr. Hakenbeck's lecture will take place on 6 March 2009 at 4:15 PM at the University of Copenhagen at Amager (KUA), room 23.4.39, and will be held in English. It will be arranged by The Danish Society for Central Asia and Roots of Europe.

Everybody is welcome.

25 Feb. - 27 Feb. 2009

Block seminar on Gothic word formation

A block seminar on Gothic word formation and a guest lecture on the Gothic language by Dr. Antje Casaretto, University of Cologne.

On 25-27 February 2009

Everybody is welcome.

3 Dec. - 5 Dec. 2008

Introduction to Indo-European Mythology and Poetics

On 3-5 December 2008, professor Peter Jackson, Universitety of Tromsø, will give a block seminar entitled Introduction to Indo-European Mythology and Poetics as well as a lecture in combination with the block seminar.

Everybody is welcome.

20 Oct. - 24 Oct. 2008

Introduction to the Lithuanian/Baltic language and its history

In week 43, postdoc fellow, Ph.D. Jenny Helena Larsson will give a block seminar entitled Introduction to the Lithuanian/Baltic language and its history.

Everybody is welcome.

Roots of Europe

Crash course in Indo-European mythology and poetics

Festlig Faglig Fredag with Matthew Scarborough: A New Tool for Investigating the Indo-European Lexicon

The Weather in Indo-European: Environment in Language and Culture

Festlig Faglig Fredag with Corinna Scheungraber: Word formation and the conundrum of root »extensions«

Festlig Faglig Fredag with Seán Vrieland: Relative Chronology, Absolute Chronology and the Emergence of Faroese

Early Germanic Poetics and Religion from Linguistic and Comparative Perspectives

Festlig Faglig Fredag & Semesterstartsdrinks with Johan Ulrik Nielsen: From Tarḫunt and Tanaro to Fjǫrgynn and Parjánya

Seminar: Relative chronology in historical linguistics

Workshop: Statistical analysis in R and application to linguistic data

Festlig Faglig Fredag with Robert Tegethoff: An Indo-Europeanists’ Tour of Northern Pakistan

Matthew Scarborough at MASt - Meetings on Aegean Studies

Festlig Faglig Fredag with Sofus Skjærlund: Sigmatic Forms in Latin and Sabellic

A copenhagener in Leiden: Tobias Mosbæk Søborg at CIEL Seminar

Festlig Faglig Fredag with Ron Nudel: The Language of Genetics and the Genetics of Language

Festlig Faglig Fredag with Marcel Nowakowski: The developmn̥t of PIE syllabic nasals in Proto-Greek and beyond

A Copenhagener in Leiden: Simon Poulsen at CIEL Seminar

Seminar: “New Shoots from the Roots”

Festlig Faglig Fredag with Nicolas Jansens: The early Slavic vowel system between notation and empiricism

Festlig Faglig Fredag with Anders Richardt Jørgensen: A Celtic hiatus: Making sense of causatives to laryngeal-final roots

Festlig Faglig Fredag with Julia Sturm: Stormy weather: Preliminary observations on climate and weather in Indo-European

Festlig Faglig Fredag with Rasmus Bjørn: Indo-European goes East: Early loanwords in Turkic, Uralic, and Old Chinese

Festlig Faglig Fredag with Corinna Scheungraber: Epithets, kennings, metonymies

The Copenhagen phylolinguistics workshop

Power, Gender and Mobility: Features of Indo-European Society

Festlig Faglig Fredag med Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead: *-u̯ant-, *-mant- … og Sturtevant - de indoiranske *u̯ant-/mant-stammers paradoksale nominativ og vokativ singularis

Festlig Faglig Fredag: Rasmus Gudmundsen Bjørn, (Old) Balkanic and beyond: Semitoid traits in PIE

Conference: Form and Meaning

Festlig Faglig Fredag: Aigars Kalniņš, Lettisk komparativ dialektologi og hvad dialektkontinua kan lære os om sprogslægtskab

Festlig Faglig Fredag: Tobias Mosbæk Søborg

Festlig Faglig Fredag: Louise Skydsbjerg Friis: Tocharian Psycho: Tocharian Psycho: Dissecting an Indo-European participle in Tocharian

Festlig Faglig Fredag: Riccardo Ginevra, The Rape of the Heavenly Maiden and an Ancient Sleeping Beauty

Festlig Faglig Fredag: Laryngeal colouring in Indo-European

Festlig Faglig Fredag (iii)

Festlig Faglig Fredag (ii)

Festlig Faglig Fredag (i)

Indo-European Religion and Poetics

Wine & Science

Roots of Europe Summer Seminar

10th Anniversary of Roots of Europe

The Split: Reconstructing Early Indo-European Language and Culture

RoE Summer School

Blockseminar on Tocharian

Reception at INSS in Celebration of Birgit Anette Rasmussen’s 65th Birthday

The Indo-European Family Tree

Kin, clan and community - a symposium on Indo-European social institutions

Gothic graffiti discovered on the Crimean Peninsula

Indo-European origins and dispersal

Third Conference on Elfdalian

Conference: Nordic TAG 2015

Word Exchange at the Gates of Europe: Five Millenia of Language Contact

Archaisms and innovations - four interconnected studies on Germanic historical phonology and morphology

Tilbage til rødderne (Back to the roots)

Interview with the dead: Reconstructing prehistoric Germanic r/n-stem inflection

The linguistic roots of Europe: Seminar on pre-Proto-Indoeuropean languages

Indo-European rules

Reconstruction in time and space

Indo-European heroic poetry and Slavic epics - some mutual insights

Tracing the Indo-Europeans: Origin and migration

Indo-European words that matter

Studies in Latin etymology and phonology

Celtic Spring in Copenhagen

The Genetic Evidence for the Origin of Homo Sapiens

Animacy and Vedic accent in Kalashamon, an Indo-Aryan language in North-West Pakistan

Text transmissions and language history: hidden treasures and pitfalls

Indo-European Matters Even More

Nominal derivation: a three-day block seminar

Problems of Indo-European Phonology

Syllabic nasals in Mycenaean

Evidence of the older Runes

The path of cheese-making through European linguistic and cultural history

Linguistic discoveries in Sicilian Coinage

Anatolian Spring in Copenhagen

On Greek words for 'garlic' and a possible substrate between Greek and Semitic

Baltic Languages, Folk Belief and Natural Science

Indo-European still matters

Greek and Indo-European Religion

Languages and Scripts of Ancient Spain: Europe before the Indo-Europeans

Albanian in Indo-European, Albanian in the Balkans: Archaisms and Innovations.

Festlig Faglig Fredag med Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead: -u̯ant-, -mant- … og Sturtevant - de indoiranske **u̯ant-/mant*-stammers paradoksale nominativ og vokativ singularis