In addition to the papers listed below, the schedule includes the NAAHoLS business meeting which will occur on Saturday, 6 January, 3:00 PM.
Friday, 5 January
Session 1
10:00 Maria Tsiapera (U NC-Chapel Hill): The Logique & Port-Royal
10:30 Danilo Marcondes (Pontifical U, Rio de Janeiro): Language & knowledge in early modern philosophy: Between the 'abuse of words' & the 'veil of ideas
11:00 Zsuzsanna Fagyal (U IL-Urbana/Champaign): Articulatory phonetics for speaking machines: A brief history of teaching human sounds to automata from the Middle Ages to this day
11:30 Margaret Thomas (Boston C): Roger Bacon & Martin Joos: Often cited, but misconstrued
Session 2
2:00 Michael Mackert (German-Engl Lang Services): Horatio Hale's grammar of 'The poetic dialect of English'
2:30 Hiroyuki Eto (Nagano U/Georgetown U): George J. Adler’s (1821–1868) treatise on Wilhelm von Humboldt’s linguistic achievements
3:00 Daniel Davis (U MI-Flint): Zeuss & the redefinition of Celtic linguistics 1850-1900
3:30 David Boe (U NV-Reno): Lithuanian studies & 19th-century comparative philology
Saturday, 6 January
Session 3
9:00 Chris Hutton (U Hong Kong): Chinese & its dialects in Western eyes: One language or many?
9:30 Regna Darnell (U W ON): Americanist linguistics as handmaiden to ethnology
10:00 Thomas Broden (Purdue U): A. J. Greimas’ La Mode en 1830 (1948) & the development of modern French lexicology
10:30 Break
11:00 E. F. Konrad Koerner (U Ottawa): Origins of morphophonemics
11:30 Mark Amsler (E MI U): Humanism & linguistics”
Session 4 The Concept of Consciousness in the History of Linguistics
2:00 Joseph Subbiondo (CA Inst for Integral Studies): Benjamin Lee Whorf & the new millenium: Rereading Language, Thought, & Reality
2:30 Nadia Kerecuk (London): Language & consciousness in Potebnia