Plenary lectures

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06.2023    Martine Robbeets. Stepping up Towards Broader Historical Linguistics. Plenary lecture at the 21st International Congress of the Comité International Permanent des Linguistes (CIPL), Kazan, 25 June – 2 July 2023  

 

09.2022    Martine Robbeets. Linguistics and the Science of Human History. Plenary lecture at jubilee edition of the Poznań 50th Linguistic Meeting, 17–20 September 2022 (postponed due to Corona Pandemic)

 

09.2019    Martine Robbeets. The Transeurasian family: Wörter und Sachen und Gene. Plenary lecture at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) in Leipzig, 23 August 2019  

 

Invited talks

 

06.2022   東北アジアの言語・文化および民族の起源 l マルテイン . ロッベエツ 敎授(Prof. Martine Robbeets, Max-Planck-Institut(Germany) (Linguistic, cultural and ethnic origins in Northeast Asia) [in Japanese].

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04.2021    Martine Robbeets. Is Japanese “made-in-China”? Language, Culture and Genes. Lecture on invitation by The Brazilian Linguistic Association in the series Abralin ao Vivo– Linguists Online on 17 April 2021.

 

03.2020    Martine Robbeets. Transeurasian: Standing on Sergej Starostin’s Shoulders. Invited presentation at the 15th jubilee of the conference “Comparative-historical linguistics in memory of Sergej Starostin”, Moscow, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, March 26-27. (postponed due to Corona Pandemic).

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05.2019    Martine Robbeets. Ancestral Korean: a case of agriculture-driven language spread? Invited  presentation at the 2019 Global Korean Studies workshop at Seoul National University Department of Anthropology " Reconstructing life conditions through skeletal analysis from archaeological sites in Korea" 뼈로 읽는 과거사회: 옛사람 뼈를 이용한 과거사 연구방법.

 

05.2019    Martine Robbeets. Northeast Asia: from genetic profile to archaeolinguistic signature. Invited presentation at the conference "Centenary of human population genetics", Biology Department of Moscow State University  May 29-June 1, 2019. 

 

12.2018    Martine Robbeets. Millets, words, genes: The spread of the Transeurasian languages. 4th annual symposium " Ancient Connections in Eurasia" of the DFG Center for Advanced Studies "Words/bones /genes/tools" at the University of Tübingen (D).

 

06.2018    Martine Robbeets. North East China as the homeland of Transeurasian language, genes and  agriculture. School of Life Sciences, Jilin University (C).

    

03.2017     Martine Robbeets. How Japanese came to Japan. Workshop on human evolution through Genetics, Linguistics, and Archeology in Mishima (J). 

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12.2016.     Martine Robbeets. The origins of Korean people, language and (agri)culture. Department of Archaeology and Art History, Seoul National University (K).

 

10.2016.     Martine Robbeets. The dispersal of the Transeurasian languages; Züricher Kompetenzzentrum Linguistik, University of Zürich (S) 

 

01.2015     Martine Robbeets. The origins of Japanese. Conference “The origins of Japonesians. National Institute of Genetics, Sokendai Hayama Campus (J) 

 

12.2014    Martine Robbeets. Gierst, rijst en de verspreiding van het Japans. Nederlands Genootschap voor Japanstudiën, Leiden (N)

 

10.2014     Martine Robbeets. Korean and the Transeurasian type. Conference“The linguistic coordinates of Korean: diachronic typology” Research Institute of Asian Culture, Gachon University, Seoul (K)

 

07.2014    Martine Robbeets. Proto-Transeurasian: Where and when? Conference “Migrations and transfers in prehistory: Asian and Oceanic ethnolinguistic phylogeography”, University of Berne (S)

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Selected conference papers

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10.2018 Martine Robbeets. Prehistorical language shift on the Japanese Islands: from Jomon languages to Yayoi language. 24th Neolithic seminar "Neolithisation Processes in Eurasia: Retrospect and Prospect", University of Ljubljana, Dept. of archaeology

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08.2018 Martine Robbeets. A Bayesian approach to the classification of the Tungusic languages Workshop " TheTungusic language family through the ages: Interdisciplinary perspectives", SLE Talinn, Estonia  

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08.2018 Martine Robbeets. "Discovering (micro-)areal patterns in Eurasia", Stable structures of Transeurasian Workshop SLE Talinn

 

07.2018 Martine Robbeets. The eurasia3angle project. Historical and comparative linguistics in Jena. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena

 

06.2018 Martine Robbeets, Mark Hudson and Choongwon Jeong. Genetic footprint of pre-farming populations in the Korean peninsula and the Japanese archipelago. Presentation at the panel "Expanding Northeast Asian Prehistory: Integrating Linguistics and Genetics with Archaeology" held at the 8th conference of the SEAA in Nanjing, 8-11 June 2018

 

01.2018. Martine Robbeets. Introduction to the Workshop on the historical comparison of the Transeurasian languages. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena

 

01.2018 Martine Robbeets. Transeurasian Basic vocabulary Paper presented at the Workshop on the Historical Comparison of the Transeurasian Languages, MPI Jena 9-11 January

 

01.2018 Martine Robbeets, Evgeniya Korovina, Alexander Savelyev and Juha Janhunen  The homelands of the individual Transeurasian proto-languages: where, what and when? Paper presented at the Workshop on the historical comparison of the Transeurasian languages, MPI Jena 9-11 January

 

01.2018 Martine Robbeets.Transeurasian verbal morphology Paper presented at the Workshop on the Historical Comparison of the Transeurasian Languages, MPI Jena 9-11 January

 

01.2018 Martine Robbeets. The Transeurasian homeland: where, when and what?  Paper presented at the Workshop on the Historical Comparison of the Transeurasian Languages, MPI Jena 9-11 January

 

11.2017 Martine Robbeets. Introduction to the Mini-Bayesian Fall School; Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena

 

09.2017 Martine Robbeets. Transeurasian, a throw of the dice. Presentation at the 33. Deutscher Orientalistentag „Asien, Afrika und Europa“ 18.09.2017 - 22.09.2017;  Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena

 

09.2017 Martine Robbeets, Tao Li and Chuanchao Wang.  Triangulation and the spread of the Transeurasian languages with a special focus on Tungusic  Presentation at Session "Beyond simplistic narratives: can archaeology, linguistics and genetics go together?" at  23rd Annual Meeting of EAA, Maastricht, 01.09.2017

 

07.2017 Martine Robbeets. Introduction. Workshop Language shift and substratum interference in (pre)history. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena

 

07.2017 Martine Robbeets, Nataliia Neshcheret, Tao Li, Choongwon Jeong & Chuanchao Wang. An Asian North Pacific Coast substratum in the Transeurasian languages? Workshop Language shift and substratum interference in (pre)history. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena

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Teaching

 

2021 Martine Robbeets

Course: Archaeolinguistics

IMPRS Summer School “Doorways to Human History”

MA and PhD students in Linguistics, Archaeology and Genetics 

 

2019-2020-2021 Martine Robbeets

Course Origins and structure of Japanese

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (D)

Course for MA/BA and PhD students in Linguistics/ Japanese Studies  

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2019-2020  Martine Robbeets

Lecture series Transeurasian historical comparative linguistics in an interdisciplinary perspective

International Max Planck Research School & Friedrich Schiller University Jena (D)

Course for PhD students in Linguistics, Archaeology and Genetics enrolled at the University Jena or at the IMPRS  

 

2017-2018-2019 Martine Robbeets

MA/BA Seminar Historical Comparative Transeurasian Linguistics

JGU Mainz (D) Course for MA/BA and PhD students in Linguistics  

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