Center for the Human Past
Seminars
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Talks of the Past open seminar with David Goldstein, Human Past SCAS Senior Fellow (Title—TBA)
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Read more →: Talks of the Past open seminar with David Goldstein, Human Past SCAS Senior Fellow (Title—TBA)Abstract – TBA David Goldstein received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. His research lies at the intersection of language evolution, classical philology, linguistic theory, and computational […]
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Higher Seminar in Baltic Studies, Stockholm University, with Anthony Jakob
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Read more →: Higher Seminar in Baltic Studies, Stockholm University, with Anthony JakobThe Higher Seminar in Baltic Languages with Signe Rirdance (SU) and Anthony Jakob (SCAS). The seminar is split into two sessions (with a coffee break in between): 14:00-15:30 – Signe […]
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Mini-Seminar: Models, data, and their limits: What can we know about the deep history of language families? with Philipp Rönchen
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Read more →: Mini-Seminar: Models, data, and their limits: What can we know about the deep history of language families? with Philipp RönchenAbstract Computational methods are increasingly used to reconstruct the deep history of language families, yet different models often produce strikingly different answers. This reflects a general challenge in the historical […]
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Mini-Seminar: Using the dog to date Torricelli languages with linguistic paleontology, with Erik Elgh
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Read more →: Mini-Seminar: Using the dog to date Torricelli languages with linguistic paleontology, with Erik ElghAbstract The earliest archaeological dog remains in Melanesia found to date are from Babase Island, New Ireland, and are associated with the Early Lapita layers on the site, thus dating […]
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Talks of the Past Open Seminar: Understanding Yamnaya, in Archaeology, Genetics, and Linguistics, speaker Volker Heyd
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Read more →: Talks of the Past Open Seminar: Understanding Yamnaya, in Archaeology, Genetics, and Linguistics, speaker Volker HeydAbstract – TBA Seminar speaker: Volker Heyd, Department of Cultures, University of Helsinki; Volker Heyd’s publications on Google Scholar
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SCAS seminar with David Goldstein – A New Approach to the Diversification of Ancient Greek
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Read more →: SCAS seminar with David Goldstein – A New Approach to the Diversification of Ancient GreekABSTRACT The diversification of the ancient Greek dialects has long posed a major challenge for Greek linguistics. Core questions—how the dialects are related, when they diverged, and how they were […]
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Talks of the Past Open Seminar: Cultural Creolization in Ostrobothnia, Finland: An Interdisciplinary View on Burials, Exchange, and Social Identity, speaker Anna Wessman
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Read more →: Talks of the Past Open Seminar: Cultural Creolization in Ostrobothnia, Finland: An Interdisciplinary View on Burials, Exchange, and Social Identity, speaker Anna WessmanThe seminar was canceled due to unexpected events out of anyone’s control. We apologize for inconvenience. Abstract This talk explores a remarkable Iron Age burial from Pukkila in western Finland, […]
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Talks of the Past Open Seminar: Talking about food in prehistory: Linguistic evidence for dietary practices in Indo-European, speaker Julia Sturm
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Read more →: Talks of the Past Open Seminar: Talking about food in prehistory: Linguistic evidence for dietary practices in Indo-European, speaker Julia SturmAbstract What did prehistoric peoples eat? This question can be approached through various scholarly disciplines, including historical linguistics. More specifically, historical linguistics methodologies are tools for addressing the question of […]
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Human Past Interdisciplinary Retreat
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Read more →: Human Past Interdisciplinary RetreatThe main goal of the retreat is to strengthen collaboration between different disciplines and to learn about each other’s research through presentations and discussions. We hope this retreat will lay […]