09:00–09:15 Introductory remarks by Antonio Benítez-Burraco (Sevilla)
09:15–09:45 Andreas Baumann, Bernd Lenzner, Hannes Fellner, Franz Essl (Wien): Infectious disease burden is associated with more languages but fewer safe ones
09:45–10:15 Olesya Khanina (Helsinki): Linguistic dataset focused on diachronic change: towards comparison of diversification profiles across families
10:15–10:45 Sena Karachanak-Yankova (MU Sofia), Cristina Guardiano (Modena e Reggio Emilia & IUSS, Pavia) Giuseppe Longobardi (York), Dimitar Kazakov (York): Comparing Parametric Linguistic Distances and Genetic Population Structures in the Circumpontic Region
10:45–11:15 Coffee break and a poster presentation:
Marco Longhin (Modena e Reggio Emilia), Stefano Ghinoi (Modena e Reggio Emilia), Gaia Sorge (Modena e Reggio Emilia), Andrea Artioli (Modena e Reggio Emilia), and Cristina Guardiano (Modena e Reggio Emilia & IUSS, Pavia): Cross-parametric dependencies and social network analysis
11:15–11:45 Giuseppe Longobardi (York), Cristina Guardiano (Modena e Reggio Emilia & IUSS, Pavia), Marco Longhin (Modena e Reggio Emilia), Gaia Sorge (Modena e Reggio Emilia), Dimitar Kazakov (York), Guido Barbujani (Ferrara): Who likes to travel alone? Movements of populations and languages across Eurasia
11:45–12:15 Matthias Urban (CNRS, Lyon): Evolved Language Phylogenies Reflect General Characteristics as well as Lineage-Specific Circumstances of Linguistic Phylogenesis
12:15–12:45 Sihan Chen (MIT), Emanuela Li Destri (Modena e Reggio Emilia), Giuseppe Longobardi (York), and Antonio Benítez-Burraco (Sevilla): Sociopolitical complexity impacts on grammatical complexity: a preliminary analysis from syntactic parameters
12:45–13:15 Katherine Mudd (Stony Brook University): How the genetics of deafness and sociolinguistic ecologies of signing communities affect language persistence