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LAMP Reflections: Illuminating a Paradigm Shift in Prehistoric Research

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Over the past decade, new discoveries in genetics, archaeology and linguistics have revolutionized our understanding of prehistory. This concluding event of the RJ-funded Languages and Myths of Prehistory (LAMP) programme brings together its core members to reflect on this transformation, present the programme publication and discuss future directions for cross-disciplinary research. The session ends with science journalist Karin Bojs’s perspective, Eyewitness to a Paradigm Shift, followed by the launch of the recently published book Indo-European Afterlives External link, opens in new window.. External link, opens in new window.

Pre-registration is required for the event by 1 December at the latest (see below).

PROGRAMME

14:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Dr. Mattias Bolkéus Blom

14:10
Building on the LAMP Programme and Looking Ahead: Introducing Ett fönster till det förflutna /A Window to the Past
Prof. Jenny Larsson

14:30
Panel Discussion:
Inside the Paradigm Shift: Interdisciplinary Insights and Future Directions
Panelists: Prof. Thomas Olander, Prof. Peter Jackson Rova and Prof. Anders Kaliff

15:00
Coffee/tea

15:30
Panel discussion continued.

16:30
Eyewitness to a Paradigm Shift
Karin Bojs

17:00
Reception & Book Launch: Indo-European Afterlives
Welcome
Prof. Anders Ekström


The event is organized within the framework of the research programme LAMP – Languages and Myths of Prehistory, the Centre for Studies in Indo-European Language and Culture at Stockholm University and the Center for the Human Past, in collaboration with SCAS.

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The Thunberg Lecture Hall