We are pleased to announce that the next Arbeitstagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft will be held from 5 to 7 September 2022 at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. The event is currently planned to take place on site with the possibility of online attendance. In case travel proves difficult, we may shift to a hybrid or completely online event.

Theme

The field of Indo-European Linguistics currently finds itself at the center of a scientific revolution. Complementing the traditional arguments from archaeology and historical linguistics, advances in the study of ancient DNA and stable isotopes have opened a new line of evidence on the human past. It is the task of Indo-European linguistics to confront the resulting new challenges and opportunities. While the debate on the Proto-Indo-European homeland has been addressed by several large cross-disciplinary studies, key questions remain concerning the movements, settlements and secondary centers of spread of the Indo-European daughter branches. The aim of this conference is to evaluate existing and explore new linguistic hypotheses concerning the routes and secondary homelands of the branches of Indo-European after the split of the proto-language.

Keynote speaker(s)

Prof. David Emil Reich, Harvard Medical School, USA

Prof. em. James P. Mallory, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Submission

For this Arbeitstagung, we invite papers on the prehistoric movements of the individual Indo-European daughter languages and the secondary homelands of the various branches in particular. We welcome contributions from the fields of comparative-historical linguistics, and encourage cross-disciplinary papers. The deadline for the submission of abstracts through EasyChair is 31 January 2022. Abstracts should be anonymized and consist of no more than 400 words (including references). All of the submitted abstracts will be subject to a thorough review procedure, the result of which will be communicated by the end of March 2022.

Publication

Conference proceedings will be published with Reichert Verlag. The deadline for final drafts of accepted papers is 30 November 2022.

We look forward to welcoming you in Leiden!

The chairs,

Guus Kroonen & Michaël Peyrot — with the assistance of Axel I. Palmér & Louise S. Friis

On behalf of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft,

Daniel Kölligan, Agnes Korn & Birgit Olsen