Report on the 39th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL)

• Main Author: Pelkey, Jamin R.
• Other Authors: La Trobe University
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177939
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The 39th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL), hosted by the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington, Seattle, found itself in the hands of an able craftsman. Principal organizer Zev Handel, with the help of his amicable postgraduate detachment, infused the event with sensible, yet aesthetic, efficiency from the first circular to the last supper. From a tasteful-but-functional webpage design to a careful-but-flexible scheduling of events, Handel’s detailed attention to form enabled conference participants to focus their attention on academic and interpersonal content during the three-day event. Researchers from 61 universities and institutes based in 16 countries around the world presented 92 papers to the conference representing studies on more than 50 languages in the Sinosphere and Indosphere.