Saturday, May 10, 9:30 am Room 212
Continental breakfast and coffee/tea.

ARCHAEOLOGY

Gregory Possehl: Central Asia, the Indus Valley and Baluchistan: Some points for discussion
Irene Good: Early South Asian Silk.
Barbara Cerasetti, Maurizio Cattani, Sandro Salvatori, Maurizio Tosi: The Murghab Delta in the Third and Second Millennia BC: the Historical Background for the Contact between Sedentary Farmers and Nomadic Herders

INDUS CIVILIZATION

Bryan Wells: Numbers of the Indus Script
Steve Bonta: Interpreting the Harappan "Fish" Signs

1:00 pm: Catered Lunch (room 212)

INDUS CIVILIZATION (cont.)

Steve Farmer: Five Cases of 'Dubious Writing' in Indus Inscriptions: Parallels with the Vinca Symbols and Cretan Hieroglyphic Seals

LINGUISTICS

B.K. Rana & S. Thapa: Recently recorded materials on the Kusunda language.
M. Witzel: A brief note on F. Southworth's /M.Witzel's proposal for a list of residual (substrate) vocabulary in South Asia (SARVA)

GENETICS

D. R. G. Raju: Variation of Interleukin genes among seven castes from Karnataka

Sunday, May 11, 9:30 am Room 212
Continental breakfast and coffee/tea.

RELIGION & VEDA

Arvind Sharma: The advent of the Aryans: interpreting the alleged silence of the Rgveda
G. Thompson: Central Asian origins of some prominent features of early Vedic religion
M. Witzel: The Rgvedic religious system and its Central Asian and Hindukush antecedents

1:00 pm: Catered Lunch (Yenching Common Room, 1st floor)

TEXTS & COMPUTING

JR Gardner: Suryavid: Search and Browse in Multiple File Types for Scholars with Personalization and Access Control

FURTHER PARTICIPANTS, topics TBA:

David Anthony
Sharry Clark
Peter Eltsov
Carl Lamberg-Karlovsky
Rafique Mughal
Philip Nichsolson
Rajiv Malhotra
Richard Meadow
Lloyd Anderson
N. Ravi

The Round Table will be held at the Yenching Institute, 2 Divinity Avenue.
For a map see: http://map.harvard.edu/level2/2ScienceLabs.shtml
(On this map, 2 Divinity is listed as the Yenching Library.)