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CONFERENCE

Ethnic History of Turkic Peoples of Siberia..., Omsk, Russia

The Fourth International Scientific Conference on "The Ethnic History of Turkic Peoples of Siberia and Neighboring Territories" will be held in the city Omsk, Siberia, Russia on October 29-31, 1998.

Conferences on "The Ethnic History of Turkic Peoples of Siberia and Neighboring Territories" have been held in Omsk since 1979.  The main purpose of the conferences is the coordination of the activity of turkologists of Russia, CIS and Western countries, especially in present days, in the conditions of separation of scientific communities on the territory of former USSR.  Turcological conferences in Omsk are almost single forums, traditionally uniting the associations of turkologists from all Turkish republics of CIS, including, naturally, Russia, where the numbers of Turkic-language population occupies the second place after the Slavic population.

The Main Directions:

* The forming and the ethnic history of Turkic peoples of Russia and neighboring countries.
* Historical ethnology and contemporary culture of Turkic peoples.
* History and modern development of Turkic literatures.
* The problems of Old-Turkic archaeology, archaeological Turkic relics of Antiquities and Medieval time.
* Ethnic processes in Turkic societies in a New and Modern time.
* The problems of Turkic linguistics.
* The physical anthropology in the regions of Turkic peoples.

We await your submissions with the name (last, first), title, position, complete home and working addresses, phone, fax, e-mail, as well as the paper up to 5 pages on English or Russian by May 20, 1998.

The papers is will be published before the beginning of the conference.

Send your materials to address:

Dr. Alexander Seleznev
Pr. Mira 55 a
Omsk University
Chair of Ethnography and Museum Research
644077 Omsk
RUSSIA
tel.: [7](3812)664515, 695647
fax:  [7](3812)641201
e-mail: ilia@eawarn.omsk.su.