Several team members of the Institute for Semitic Studies at Freie Universität have been off to Heidelberg to participate in the International Conference "Aramaic Language Studies – Historical Dimensions and Universals". As part of this conference, they gave the following presentations:

• Prof. Dr. Shabo Talay: Anmerkungen zur Sprache der syrischen Inschriften aus dem Ṭur ʿAbdin
• Nikita Kuzin: The diminutive suffix -on/-un in Aramaic
• Dr. Yulia Furman: Der bestimmte Artikel im Ṭuroyo und seine Vorgeschichte im Syrischen