Event Date: November 15, 2019
The UCLA Dept. of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures and UCLA’s Program in Indo-European Studies are pleased to announce an international conference, “The Scholarly World of Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov: Assessments, Reassessments, Reflections,” on the occasion of the 90th year of his birth and the second anniversary of his passing. The conference will take place November 15, 2019 at the Faculty Center, UCLA Campus. Morning sessions will be devoted to Vyacheslav Ivanov’s contributions to Indo-European studies and general linguistics, and afternoon sessions – his contributions to semiotics of culture and poetics. Guest speakers include:
• H. Craig Melchert (UCLA),
• Nikolai Kazansky (St. Petersburg University)
• Anna Dybo (Moscow State University)
• Ilya Yakubovich (Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences)
• Georges-Jean Pinault (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris Sciences et Lettres)
• Tatiana Tsivian (Moscow State University; Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
• Nataliya Zlydneva (Moscow State University; Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
• Mihhail Lotman (Tallinn University; University of Tartu)
• Henryk Baran (SUNY Albany)
• Yuri Tsivian (University of Chicago)
• Barry P. Scherr (Dartmouth College)
• Willem Weststeijn (University of Amsterdam)
• Igor Pilshchikov (UCLA)
The full program may be accessed at:
https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/the-scholarly-world-of-vyacheslav-ivanov-assessments-reassessments-reflections/