Giovanni Gobber, Konvergenz und Divergenz im Sprachwandel. Zum Beitrag der italienischen Sprachforschung, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Auffassungen von Vittore Pisani, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy.

Giorgio Graffi, Can Linguistics and Historiography of Linguistics Profit from Each Other?, Università di Verona, Italy.

Marco Mancini, Gli albori dell'iranistica in Italia: fra esotismo e scienza, The rise of Ancient and Middle Iranian Studies in Italy, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy.

Patrick Sériot, Type or descent? The Philosophical, Romantic, and Biological Sources of Typology in Soviet Linguistics of the 1920s-1940s, Universitè de Lausanne et de Saint Petersbourg, Switzerland and Russia