Friday 19 June 2026 to Sunday 21 June 2026
Taylor Institution Library and Wolfson College, Oxford
The conference will be free and open to everyone, but registration will be necessary for everyone except speakers.
Please, register at the following links:
In-person registration | deadline 8 June
Online registration | deadline 15 June
The East Coast Indo-European Conference (ECIEC), which first took place in the form of an “invitational conference” at Yale University in 1982 — attended by luminaries of Indo-European comparative linguistics such as Warren Cowgill, Anna Morpurgo Davies, and Calvert Watkins —, can now look back on a tradition spanning four decades. Since that initial gathering, ECIEC has been held at a variety of universities on the North American East Coast (including, in addition to Yale, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Georgia, among others) and has developed into one of the premier annual venues for research on historical-comparative Indo-European linguistics.
During the past decades, ECIEC has also periodically crossed the pond to Europe — primarily via European graduates of American universities —, first in 1991 to the University of Oxford, and more recently in 2025 the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; other European venues have included the Háskóli Íslands, the Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, and the Universität Wien.
In June 2026, ECIEC is returning to the University of Oxford, which continues a long legacy of scientific research in the field extending back to Max Müller, the first Professor of Comparative Philology, appointed in 1868, and including linguists such as Leonard Palmer and Anna Morpurgo Davies, and philologists in fields tightly connected to Indo-European linguistics, such as M. Monier Williams and J.R.R. Tolkien.
ECIEC 45 will be immediately followed by the 2nd Anatolian Languages and Linguistics Summer School".
Programme coming soon
Confirmed speakers include:
Tim Barnes (University of Oxford)
Marina Benedetti (Università per Stranieri di Siena)
Michele Bianconi (Universitet Uppsala / University of Oxford)
Joe Eska (Virginia Tech)
Benjamin Fortson (University of Michigan)
José Luis García Ramón (Universität Köln)
Petra Goedegebuure (University of Chicago)
David Goldstein (University of California, Los Angeles)
Olav Hackstein (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Mark Hale (Concordia University)
Stefan Höfler (Universität Wien
Stephanie Jamison (University of California, Los Angeles)
Jay Jasanoff (Harvard University)
Ronald Kim (Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu)
Sara Kimball (University of Texas, Austin)
Jared Klein (University of Georgia)
Daniel Kölligan (Universität Würzburg)
Martin Kümmel (Universität Jena)
Jesse Lundquist (Princeton University)
Melanie Malzahn (Universität Wien)
Marco Mancini (Università di Roma "La Sapienza")
Alexander Nikolaev (University of Cyprus)
Birgit Olsen (University of Copenhagen)
Georges-Jean Pinault (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)
Philomen Probert (University of Oxford)
Jeremy Rau (Harvard University)
Elisabeth Rieken (Universität Marburg)
Zachary Rothstein-Dowden (independent scholar)
Guðrun Thórhallsdóttir (Háskóli Íslands)
Anthony Yates (University of California, Los Angeles)
Should you have any questions, feel free to get in touch at eciec45@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk or email directly the organisers Tim Barnes (tim.barnes@classics.ox.ac.uk) and Michele Bianconi (michele.bianconi@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk).
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