linguistics

Name: UppTalk with Mattias Jakobsson
Start: 2025-06-03T12:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-06-03T12:30:00+02:00

December 2024
December 4, 2024 @ 14:15 – 16:30

Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar, Dec 4th, 2024: The Language Families of the World: Current State and Future Perspectives, speaker Harald Hammarström

Blåsenhus, UU, lärosal 21:136 von Kraemers allé 1, Uppsala, Sweden

Abstract The approximately 7,000 languages of the world is currently divided into no less than 422 lineages (= families + isolates) by the orthodox evidential criteria of Glottolog (glottolog.org). Should we believe this number? To what extent is it subjective, consistent in meta-properties and dependent on the amount of research and documentation? The time-depth of […]
February 2025
February 25 @ 10:15 – 12:00

SCAS SEMINAR – Pastoralists and Agriculturalists in the Rigveda and Beyond, speaker: Axel Palmér

Thunberg Hall, SCAS Thunbergsvägen 2, Uppsala, Sweden

Our Human Past Fellow Axel Palmér will deliver a talk on his current research project at one of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) seminars. Welcome!
April 2025
April 2 @ 15:15 – 16:30

Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar, 2nd Apr 2025: Uralic spread, Seima-Turbino and flower pots, speaker Outi Vesakoski

Blåsenhus, UU, lärosal 13:028 (plan 1)

Abstract The seminal paper by Grünthal et al. (2022) advances a new scenario of Proto-Uralic disintegration and spread. They suggest a rapid spread of Uralic languages through Common Uralic, a dialect continuum whose breakup formed the Finno-Ugric language families. They suggest that the vector for Uralic spread was the Seima-Turbino trading network (ST), within which […]
May 2025
May 21 @ 15:15 – 16:30

Mini-Seminar: Graves & Grammar. Interdisciplinary approaches to changes in material culture, burial practice and language in Upper Dalarna 500-750 CE, with Joakim Wehlin and Yair Sapir

Villa Lugnet von Kraemers allé 8, Uppsala, Sweden, Sweden

Speakers: Yair Sapir, PhD of Scandinavian Languages, Senior Lecturer of Swedish, Kristianstad University Joakim Wehlin, Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor, Archaeology, Uppsala University Summary Recent archaeological studies demonstrate changes in the material culture and burial practice in Upper Dalarna around 500-750 CE. The material culture and burial practice go from a previously locally distinctive tradition with influences […]
June 2025
June 3 @ 12:00 – 12:30

UppTalk with Mattias Jakobsson

Mattias Jakobsson is the guest at the next episode of the Uppsala University podcast series, UppTalk. Link to listen (Zoom): Vad kan forntida DNA avslöja om människans evolution? Mark your calendar! For more information, go to UppTalk: Mattias Jakobsson on the Uppsala University website