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ALPHA Seminars - Anatolian Linguistics, Philology, History and Archaeology

Designed for specialists in the field, ALPHA seminars provide a dedicated forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research on the ancient civilizations of Anatolia, approached from an interdisciplinary perspective. Each seminar brings together scholars working across linguistics, philology, history, and archaeology to address questions concerning language, writing, and cultural interaction in the ancient Anatolian world. By placing these disciplines in dialogue, ALPHA seminars reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the
CAncAn team and its commitment to understanding communication across the ancient societies of Anatolia. The series features invited lectures by leading researchers.

file pdf 15/04/2026 - "The Lydian word for ‘king’ and its origin"
Ignasi-Xavier, Adiego Lajara 		327 KB

Other events

2025

file pdf "AnatoLinks. Connections within and beyond Ancient Anatolia"
4-5 December 2025, Oxford (organizers: S. Elti di Rodeano, E. Alleva, G. Cozzi, R. Gessaga, G. Giannecchini, O. Olina, J. Walls, L. Fox-Zampiccoli). Online registration for 4-5/12/2025. 		2 MB
file pdf Venetonight 2025 - Didactic materials [ITA]
26 September 2025, "Venetonight - la notte della ricerca", Ca' Foscari University of Venice 		5 MB
file pdf Venetonight 2025 - Didactic materials: quiz [ITA]
26 September 2025, "Venetonight - la notte della ricerca", Ca' Foscari University of Venice 		417 KB
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file pdf “Interconnectivity and Communication. Cultural and Intellectual Transmission in Ancient Anatolia”
21-23 May 2025, Ca' Foscari University of Venice - Department of Humanities (organizers: A. Payne, Š. Velhartická, S. Elti di Rodeano, N. Lovejoy)
Ca’ Foscari Zattere, Dorsoduro 1392, Fondamenta Zattere, 30123 Venice 		786 KB
  • “State Formation and Re-Urbanisation in Iron Age Levant”
    25-28 November 2024, Conference Centre Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland (organizers: A. Berlejung, A. Meir, M. Novák, A. Payne)
  • “Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century”
    23-25 October 2024, Ca' Foscari University of Venice (organizers: S. Elti di Rodeano, Y. Haralambous)
file pdf Venetonight 2024 - Poster [ITA]
27 September 2024, "Venetonight - la notte della ricerca", Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Poster "Alla scoperta dell'antica Anatolia" 		5 MB
file pdf Venetonight 2024 - Didactic materials [ITA] 1 MB
file pdf Venetonight 2024 - Solutions [ITA] 369 KB
file pdf “Writing and Cognition in Interdisciplinary Perspective”
25-30 August 2024, Conference Centre Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland (organizers: R. Müri, K. Overmann, A. Payne) 		267 KB

Activities

  • “Visualizing Communication in Ancient Anatolia”, team presentation, 22/10/2025
  • Exhibition in Bedřich Hrozný Museum in Lysá nad Labem: "The 100th Anniversary of Bedřich Hrozný’s Archaeological Excavations in Syria and Türkiye", Š. Velhartická
  • Visiting Fellowship for Eastern Term 2026, VIEWS Project, Cambridge, S. Elti di Rodeano
  • “Luwian hieroglyphs: Initiation”, “Hittite I: Initiation”, S. Elti di Rodeano, Summer School in Oriental Languages 2025, Venice
  • "La narrativa degli Stati Neo-ittiti: riflessioni sulle teorie narratologiche applicate ai testi in luvio geroglifico", S. Elti di Rodeano, Pomeriggio della Ricerca (Venice), 18/06/2025
  • “Anatolian Hieroglyphic Classifiers” [POL], A. Payne, 23-25/06/2025, Warsaw
  • “Lydian Epigraphy”, lecture series by A. Payne, 16/06/2025, Oxford CSAD
  • “Lydian Bilinguals”, lecture series by A. Payne, 9/06/2025, Oxford Linguistics
  • National Geographic special issue - The Hittites, Š. Velhartická provided review and proofs of the Czech edition of the National Geographic journal with the main topic “The Hittites”
  • "...e gli armeni, che sono colòni dei frigi (Hdt. 7, 73). La traccia di una suggestione dalla storia classica", E. Alleva, XVIII Giornata di studi armeni e caucasici (Venice) [ITA], 15/05/2025
  • "Script, Language, and the Making of Identities in Syro-Anatolian Communities", N. Lovejoy for the Ancient Anatolia Network & Ancient World Research Cluster (Oxford), 19/05/2025
  • “Neo-Hittite Identities”, A. Payne, Halle, 27/03/2025
  • Talk given by Š. Velhartická at the conference at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin (Publizistik & Polemik. „Rethinking Governance in the Ancient Near East”)
  • Talk given by Š. Velhartická at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi, Türkiye, 25/02/2025
  • "Phoenician(s) in the Syro-Anatolian Region", N. Lovejoy, ASOR Annual Meeting, Boston, 20-23/11/2024
  • After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations Book Release: respondant and discussant given by N. Lovejoy
  • “Hieroglyphs and their attachment styles” [DEU], A. Payne, 12/11/2024, Vienna
  • “Classifiers in Anatolian Hieroglyphic”, A. Payne, 23/10/2024, Grapholinguistics Conference, Venice
  • “Writing Systems of Anatolia”, lecture series by A. Payne, 18-22/06/2024, Oxford Torch
  • “Hieroglyhic Luwian”, lecture series by A. Payne, 17/06/2024, Oxford Anatolia Network
  • “Drawing a Picture of the Ancient Mind”, lecture series by A. Payne, 30/10/2024, Oxford Torch
  • “Writing & Meta-Writing”, lecture series by A. Payne, 7/03/2024, Helsinki
  • “Hieroglyphs as Second Writing System”, lecture series by A. Payne, 1/03/2024, Bern
  • “Dating Lydian Inscriptions”, lecture series by A. Payne, 20/02/2024, Pavia
  • Talk given by Š. Velhartická at Ankara University, Türkiye, 23/11/2023
  • Talk given by Š. Velhartická at Koç University, Istanbul, Türkiye, 20/11/2023
  • “Chronology of Cilicia, History: 1st Millennium”, A. Payne