ILARA Themed Talks
ILARA Themed Talks are one of the formats offered on the ILARA Online YouTube channel, the virtual branch of the Institute for Linguistic Heritage and Diversity. They explore languages that are little described, little studied, little spoken, or extinct. They consist of introductory conferences or cycles of conferences on rare and precious languages and their cultures.
Check out the Themed talks playlist on our YouTube channel.
Decipherment in Progress: Ancient Scripts
These themed talks are devoted to the decipherment of scripts from the Ancient Near East, Africa, Europe, Asia, and even the Pacific, showcasing the diverse and often combined methods used in decipherment, including philology, historical linguistics, distributional and statistical techniques, computational approaches, and more.
Aramaic in All Its Forms
The aim of these themed talks is to present the various forms of Aramaic, their uses and their scripts from the first millennium BC to the present day.
Writing Systems in the Ancient World
These themed talks present some of these writings and the richness of their history. The talks, given by specialists in the writings in question, are aimed at a wide audience.
The Evolution of Linguistic Diversity
The broader goal of these themed talks is to establish a dialogue between linguists and philologists interested in the particularities of the languages they study, especially in cultural and historical contexts, and a general theory of how the world’s exuberant linguistic diversity has come into existence.
Jewish Languages
These sixteen themed talks given by internationally renowned specialists present Jewish languages and the richness of their history and their literary tradition.





