Summer School for Ancient Trans-Himalayan Languages (SSATH)

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The Summer School for Ancient Trans-Himalayan Languages (SSATH), hosted by the Centre for Asian Studies at Trinity College Dublin, is a two-week long summer school that features courses in ancient languages and historical linguistics within the scope of the Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan) family, and weekend workshops on two more languages. This year, the courses will include: Old Tibetan, Reconstructing Proto-(Western)-Kho-Bwa, Tangut, Yi Script, and Methods in Gyalrongic and Tangut Historical Linguistics. These courses will run for ten days over the course of two weeks. On both Saturdays, there will be additional supplementary workshops on Old Meitei and Old Burmese. As a general rule, courses will be open to everyone of all education levels, though, for some courses, certain background knowledge is preferred. Please click on the course title to learn more. This summer school will be of interest to those in the fields of Historical Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Palaeography, Religious Studies, Buddhist Studies, (Asian) History, and Ancient Literature. The instructors will include scholars both from Trinity College Dublin and from other institutions around the world. As such, the school will serve as a great opportunity to meet and connect with specialists in the fields mentioned above.