The symposium Pano-Takana: Morfosintaxis Sincrónica y Diacrónica will be held as part of the Coloquio Internacional Amazonicas 4: La Estructura de las Lenguas Amazónicas: Fonología y Sintaxis, at the PUCP in Lima. From the announcement and call for papers:
It has long been recognized that the languages of the Panoan family (ca. 30 languages) and those of the Takanan family (5 languages) of the Amazonian lowlands of eastern Peru, western Brazil and northern Bolivia share an important number of phonological and lexical similarities. This has led to the hypothesis that the two families could be genetically related, an idea initially proposed by Schuller (1933) and later defended by Key (1968) and Girard (1971) through the application of the comparative method.