Dene (Athabaskan) Language Conference, Fairbanks, Alaska, June 6-7, 2016

10272486256_0643237267_mThe University of Alaska Fairbanks will be holding the Dene (Athabaskan) Language Conference from the 6th to the 7th of June 2016. The event will take place at the Explorer Hotel, in downtown Yellowknife. Bringing together linguists, language learners, educators, and language activists, this conference is one of the world’s most important for the student of Athabaskan languages. The theme for this year’s conference is “Language and History” with a special session on “Standardization and Variation”. The deadline for abstract submission is March 14, 2016.

Conference on Babylonian Names and Name-Giving, Leuven, Belgium, February 8-9 2016

9647288994_9b873b3d63_mFrom the 8th to the 9th of February 2016, a conference on Babylonian Names and Name-Giving will be held at the University of Leuven. The research question to be addressed at this event is “What do names tell us about social realities?” Talks examining Babylonia’s onomastic store using sociological frameworks such as Social Network Analysis are the scientific focus of this interdisciplinary event. The conference program is available online.