The Fourth Harvard Roundtable
on the
Enthnogenesis of South and Central Asia
May 11-13, 2002
2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA
Sponsored by
The Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, The Asia Center at Harvard,
The Infinity Foundation & The Society for the Study of Language in Prehistory

 

Information for Invited Guests
 
 

Presentation Schedule

Saturday, May 11, 9:30 am (Breakfast available at 9:00 am)
Room 212

CENTRAL ASIA: ARCHAEOLOGY, LANGUAGE & GENETICS

E. Kuzmina: Indo-Iranians and Archaeology
A. Parpola: Proto-Aryan, Proto-Indo-Aryan and Proto-Iranian in archaeological perspective
C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky: Indo-Iranians and archaeology
M. Witzel: The Indo-Iranians: Archaeology and Linguistics
P. Francalacci: Mitochondrial DNA in Central Asia (Kirghiz, Kazhaks and Uighurs)
M. Cattani and M. Tosi: Farmers' towns and herders' campsites in Bronze Age Margiana:
A First Understanding of a Transitional Landscape from the Archaeological Record
E. Menghi and M. Tosi: Excavations at Kafir Kala and the Archaeological Survey of the Zeravshan Valley
to the South of Samarkand: First Results.
J. Bengtson: Macro-Caucasian Cultural Vocabulary (Basque, Burushaski, Caucasian)
V. Blazek: Elamo-Arica

Sunday, May 12, 9:30 am (Breakfast available at 9:00 am)
Room 212

INDUS CIVILIZATION

D.P. Agrawal: Significance of the Multidimensional Transformations c. 2000 BCE
R. Mughal: Archaeology of the Dead: Harappan and Non-Harappan about 1500-500 BC
S. Farmer: New Proofs of the Non-Linguistic Nature of the Indus Valley Inscriptions
S. Clark: Later Harappan Terracotta Figurines and Their South Asian Successors
A. Sharma: Religion in Harappan Culture
K. Young: Mesopotamian connections to Indus religion
B. Wells : Methods for Defining Indus Graphemes
P. Eltsov : Bridging the gap between protohistoric and early historic India; archaeology and texts
B. Brooks: The Date of the Buddha and Sino-Indian Chronology

Monday, May 13, 9:30 am (Breakfast available at 9:00 am)
1st Floor Common Room

SOUTH ASIA: LANGUAGE AND PREHISTORY

F. Southworth: A Prehistoric Language Map of South Asia
Bh. Krishnamurti: The Culture of Proto-Dravidian Speakers as Reconstructed from the
Dravidian Etymological Dictionary (DEDR)
B.K. Rana: The Kusunda Language
A. Daladier: k(v) and j(v) affixes in Austro-Asiatic, the AA notion "animate",
and some borrowings in Tibeto-Burmese and Vedic(?)
G. Anderson: Dravidian influence on Munda
M. R. Bachvarova: Dravidian Structural Influence in Sanskrit
S. Palaniappan: Indispensability of philology in resolving some Dravidian etymological problems
(additional texts: The Genesis of Status Differentiation Among the Performing Artists of Tamilnadu and Kerala; and
Påvai, and Tantra are available)
G. Thompson: Material Culture and the Poetics of the Rgveda

 

CONFERENCE LOCATION


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.)

 

WEATHER
 
Please click here for a 10-day forecast of Boston area weather.
 

REIMBURSEMENT PROCEDURE
 

If you have been approved by the department to submit for reimbursement
(i.e. you were approved to purchase your own tickets at a specified rate),
please take the following actions:

1. Retain your original bording passes and ticket reciept
2. Complete and sign a University Expense Form* Click here to download UE form
3. *If you are a foreign national, you must also complete a Foreign National Information Form
(in addition to the University Expense Form). Please click here to download FNI form
4. Return the original receipt and the appropriate form(s) to:
Sanskrit And Indian Studies
Harvard University, 2 Divinity Avenue Rm 132
Cambridge, MA 02138
5. Please call 617.496.8570 with any questions.

 

HOTELS
 Kindly find your name listed under the hotel in which you will stay
for the evenings of May 10, 11, 12, and 13.
You may look up the addresses below at mapquest.com or mapsonus.com
Please keep the appropriate address with you as you travel.
The Harding House
288 Harvard St. Cambridge, MA
phone: 617-876-2888, fax 617-497-0953

Agrawal, D.P.
Blazek, V
Brooks, E.B.
Daladier, A
Bengston, J.
Krishnamurti, G.
Malhotra, R.
Sharma, A.
Young, C.

A Better Bed And Breakfast


Lawergren, B.
Palaniappan, S.
Parpola, A.
Southworth, S.
Rana, B.K.
Thompson, G.

The Dana Palmer House
16 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Please collect the key from the Faculty Club, next door at 20 Quincy Street
phone 495-5758

Kuzmina, E.

The Mary Prentiss Inn
6 Prentiss Street
Cambridge, MA
phone: 617-661-2929

Francalacci, P
Farmer, S.
 

PARKING
 For local guests who come by car, you may park in the following lots during the prescribed hours only.
You will need to identify the event to the parking attendant as
'The 4th Harvard University Round Table on the Ethnogensis of South and Central Asia'.

For a map of the lots, please visit: http://www.uos.harvard.edu/transportation/par_map.shtml.
Andover is marked in red type in the upper right hand corner as 'ANDO'
and full directions to the Everett Street Garage are listed at the page bottom.

Saturday, May 11
8:30 am 6:00 pm Andover Lot

Sunday, May 12
8:30 am 6:00 pm Andover Lot

Monday, May 13
8:30 am 6:00 pm Everett Street Garage
 

MEALS
 The Conference will provide the following meals. Other dining is the responsibility of the invitee.
You may consult the following site for restaurants in the Harvard Square area
(select 'restaurants' from the left menu): http://www.cambridge-usa.org/visitor/visitorset.htm
Saturday, May 11

9:00 - Continental Breakfast - 2 Divinity Avenue, Room 212
A selection of freshly baked muffins, scones, coffee cake slices, turnovers,
bagels and croissants with freshly squeezed orange juice, gourmet coffee and tea.

1:00 - Lunch - 2 Divinity Avenue, 1st Floor Common Room
Vegetable Samosas
Mixed Vegetables and Chicken Korma (served with Naan and Rice)
Kheer
Assorted Beverages

Sunday, May 12

9:00 - Continental Breakfast - 2 Divinity Avenue, Room 212
A selection of freshly baked muffins, scones, coffee cake slices, turnovers,
bagels and croissants with freshly squeezed orange juice, gourmet coffee and tea.

1:00 - Lunch - 2 Divinity Avenue, 1st Floor Common Room
Vegetable Samosas
Saag-Paneer and Chicken Tikka Masala (served with Naan and Rice)
Kheer
Assorted Beverages

Monday, May 13

9:00 - Deluxe Breakfast - 2 Divinity Avenue, 1st Floor Common Room
A selection of freshly baked muffins, scones, croissants, bagels & coffee cake slices,
freshly squeezed orange juice, fresh fruit slices, gourmet coffee and tea.
 

INCIDENTAL EXPENSES
 The conference will provide lodging, airfare to and from Boston (that we arrange),
breakfasts and lunch, AV equipment (slide projector, overhead projector,
audio tape recorder), and parking permits.
We are not able to cover incidental expenses such as taxis, and other personal expenses.
 

CONTACT US
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