Daily Schedule

Sunday, July 20, 2026 - Arrival & Welcome

14:00 - 18:00

Registration & Check-in

Participants arrive and check into accommodation

19:00 - 21:00

Welcome Reception

Informal gathering, orientation, and meet & greet

Location: Hotel Terrace

Monday, July 21, 2026 - Theoretical Foundations

09:00 - 10:30

Opening Lecture: Introduction to Diachronic Linguistics

Prof. Nikolaos Lavidas (University of Athens)

Historical overview and methodological approaches

10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30

Lecture: Comparing Diachronies Across Languages

International Faculty

Cross-linguistic perspectives on language change

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30

Workshop: Corpus Methods in Historical Linguistics

Hands-on introduction to digital corpus tools

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30

Student Presentations (Session 1)

Research presentations by participants

Tuesday, July 22, 2026 - Ancient Languages

09:00 - 10:30

Lecture: Greek Diachrony from Ancient to Modern

Faculty

3000 years of Greek language evolution

10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30

Lecture: Latin and Romance Languages

International Faculty

From Latin to modern Romance languages

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 - 17:30

Excursion: Naxos Archaeological Sites

Visit to Temple of Apollo and Archaeological Museum

Optional cultural activity

19:00

Group Dinner

Traditional Taverna

Wednesday, July 23, 2026 - Medieval Languages

09:00 - 10:30

Lecture: Medieval Greek and Byzantine Texts

Faculty

10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30

Lecture: Old English and Germanic Languages

International Faculty

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30

Workshop: Text Analysis and Morphological Annotation

Practical session on medieval text analysis

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30

Student Presentations (Session 2)

Thursday, July 24, 2026 - Computational Methods

09:00 - 10:30

Lecture: AI and Machine Learning in Historical Linguistics

Faculty

Modern computational approaches to diachronic analysis

10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30

Workshop: Python for Historical Corpus Analysis

Hands-on programming session

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30

Lecture: Digital Humanities and Open Science

International Faculty

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30

Student Presentations (Session 3)

Friday, July 25, 2026 - Closing Day

09:00 - 10:30

Round Table: Future Directions in Diachronic Linguistics

Discussion with all faculty and participants

10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00

Closing Ceremony & Certificate Distribution

Concluding remarks and certificates

12:00 - 13:00

Farewell Reception

Hotel Terrace

14:00

Departure

Check-out and travel arrangements