The University of Basel, its Department of Ancient Civilizations, and the Lectureship in Comparative-Historical Linguistics, together with the Institute for Slavic and Eastern European Studies of the University of Zurich, invite you to Tracing Albanian in Time, Space, and Texts, an international conference on Albanian historical linguistics and philology, which will take place in Basel, Switzerland, from June 8^th to 10^th, 2026. We bring together scholars and students studying the history of the Albanian language and its texts. Topics include:

❖ Old Albanian texts, their analysis, and their background

❖ Old Albanian linguistics

❖ The reconstruction of Proto-Albanian and its pre-stages

❖ Ancient, medieval, and modern language contact between Albanian and other languages

❖ (The history of) dialect variation within Albanian

❖ Albanian etymologies

For more details, please visit the conference website