Program
Tuesday, June 25
18:00 Informal reception in the Schanigarten of the Bierheuriger zum Gangl at the University's Campus, Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Wien
Wednesday, June 26 | |
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| Chair | Melanie Malzahn (University of Vienna) |
| 9:00-9:30 | Welcome Address |
| 9:30-10:30 | Keynote Address Georges-Jean Pinault (École pratique des hautes études, France) The formation of Buddhist languages as exemplified by the case of Tocharian |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| Chair | Dieter Maue (Cölbe/Schwarzenborn, Germany) |
| 11:00-11:30 | Lore Sander (Museum of Asian Art Berlin, Germany) Donors in Kizil Caves and Monks' Poetry |
| 11:30-12:00 | Fanny Meunier (École pratique des hautes études, France) Some aspects of the translation of Sanskrit compounds in Tocharian |
| 12:00-12:30 | Chen Ruixuan (University of Munich, Germany) Reading the Tocharian fragments about Dhūtaguṇa |
| 12:30-14:30 | Lunch Break |
| Chair | Georges-Jean Pinault (École pratique des hautes études, France) |
| 14:30-15:30 | Christoph Bross, Dieter Gunkel, Olav Hackstein (University of Munich, Germany), Kevin Ryan (Harvard University, USA) Tocharian B versification |
| 15:30-16:00 | Bernhard Koller (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Internal and External Sandhi as a Diagnostic for the Affixal/Clitic status of Function Morphemes in Tocharian A |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee Break |
| Chair | Jens Peter Laut (University of Göttingen, Germany) |
| 16:30-17:00 | Jens Wilkens (University of Göttingen, Germany) The Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā in Old Uyghur: Recent Identifications |
| 17:00-17:30 | Yukiyo Kasai (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany) The Old Turkish explanation on Buddha’s reunion with his father Śuddhodana |
| 17:30-18:00 | Andreas Waibel (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) Even still more contributions of the Old Uyghur Maitrisimit Nom Bitig to our understanding of the Tocharian Maitreyasamiti-Nāṭaka |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner at Maria Treu, Piaristengasse 52, 1080 Wien |
Thursday, June 27 | |
| Chair | Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany) |
| 9:00-9:30 | Irina Tunkina (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) An overview of the Oldenburg collection as source on the Russian expeditions to East Turkestan (on the basis of documents in the archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg) |
| 9:30-10:00 | Irina Popova (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) M.M. Berezovsky's Expedition in Kucha (1905-1908) |
| 10:00-10:30 | Douglas Q. Adams (University of Idaho, USA) Epigraphic Tocharian in Ladakh: the Drangtse Inscription |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| Chair | Irina Popova (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) |
| 11:00-12:00 | Keynote Address Victor H. Mair (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Archeological and linguistic evidence for the Tocharians in Eastern Central Asia |
| 12:00-12:30 | Xu Wenkan (Shanghai Society of Anthropology, China) On the Different Origin of Tocharians and Yuezhi: Advances in Archeology and Genetics |
| 12:30-14:30 | Lunch Break |
| Chair | Olav Hackstein (University of Munich, Germany) |
| 14:30-15:00 | Jay H. Jasanoff (Harvard University, USA) The Tocharian B Accent |
| 15:00-15:30 | H. Craig Melchert (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) The Tocharian s-Preterite |
| 15:30-16:00 | Ronald Kim (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland) What goes around comes around: Tocharian preterites with stem-final palatalization and the TA productive imperfect |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee Break |
| Chair | Victor H. Mair (University of Pennsylvania, USA) |
| 16:30-17:00 | Rong Xinjiang (Peking University, China) Investigations and research on the Tocharian manuscripts and wall inscriptions currently preserved in the Kucha region |
| 17:00-17:30 | Ching Chao-jung (Peking University, China & Visiting Scholar at Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany) Some observations on the Tocharian B secular texts found in Kucha |
| 17:30-18:00 | Hirotoshi Ogihara (Renmin University of China) Some results of the recent survey of the Brāhmī inscriptions found in the region of Ancient Kucha |
| 19:00 | Conference Party at the Department of Linguistics, Sensengasse 3a, 1090 Wien |
Friday, June 28 | |
| Chair | H. Craig Melchert (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) |
| 9:00-9:30 | Tijmen Pronk (Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, Croatia) The origin of the dual ending TA -(e)ṃ, TB -ne |
| 9:30-10:00 | Martin Kümmel (University of Freiburg, Germany) About the demonstrative system in Tocharian B |
| 10:00-10:30 | Gerd Carling, Anne Goergens (Lund University, Sweden) Tocharian typology, again. A look at structures of Tocharian nominal and verbal systems in the light of inheritance, areal influence and internal typological pressure |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| Chair | Abdurishid Yakup (Minzu University of China & Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany) |
| 11:00-12:00 | Keynote Address Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany) Manichaeism and Tocharian |
| 12:00-12:30 | Dieter Maue (Cölbe/Schwarzenborn, Germany) Tumschukische Miszellen II |
| 12:30-14:30 | Lunch Break |
| Chair | Jens Wilkens (University of Göttingen, Germany) |
| 14:30-15:30 | Jens Peter Laut, Ablet Semet (University of Göttingen, Germany) New Studies and Results Concerning the Tocharian Maitreyasamitināṭaka and the Old Uyghur Maitrisimit |
| 15:30-16:00 | Abdurishid Yakup (Minzu University of China & Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany) On some Tocharian loans in Modern Uyghur |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee Break |
| Chair | Jay H. Jasanoff (Harvard University, USA) |
| 16:30-17:00 | Svetlana Burlak, Ilya Itkin (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) 'Nevermore' in Tocharian A: towards determining the functions of the word śkaṃ |
| 17:00-17:30 | Christiane Schaefer (Uppsala University, Sweden) Towards Tocharian "glory": semantic aspects of TB perne/ TA paräṃ |
| 17:30-18:00 | Farewell Address |
| 20:00 | Reception with the Mayor and Governor of Vienna at s'Pfiff, Rathstraße 4, 1190 Wien |
Saturday, June 29
For the conference participants who stay on:
Outing to the Wachau
with a wine tasting at a traditional Austrian Heurigen
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