SPHINX

SPHINX is a relatively new entity which has existed since the spring of 2024, but we currently have over 70 historical linguists in the network. Most of us work at one of the four departments at the Faculty of Languages at Uppsala University, though a handful of members are from other universities. The main goal of the network is to support and enrich each other’s research, teaching, and supervision in historical linguistics.

In December 2024 we will be welcoming Jenny Larsson, professor of Baltic languages in Stockholm, who will tell us about her project Language and Myths of Prehistory (LAMP) and the newly established Center for the Human Past (Center of Excellence, Swedish Research Council). Prof. Larsson will be the first of many speakers in our SPHINX lecture series. We have also invited Gerd Carling, professor and director of the Institute for Empirical Linguistics at Goethe University in Frankfurt, to be plenary speaker at a workshop (topic TBA) to be held in the spring of 2025.

In order to give network members in our various departments, especially doctoral students, the chance to present and share their research with colleagues, we plan to have a couple of evenings per year of ‘speed-lectures’. The idea is that presenters will have a maximum of 10 minutes to present some aspect of their research, with a maximum of perhaps 4 or 5 speakers in total. Presentations are followed immediately by refreshments and discussion. Speed-lecturers are not expected to present polished presentations. The idea is that such an event should be easy on presenters as far as the preparation required, while still offering a chance for useful discussion and quick feedback.

On the second Tuesday of every month we have an informal lunch meeting somewhere on campus (usually Kajutan, next to Matikum).

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Eric Lander

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