CONF./CFP- Archives in Oriental Studies, Moscow, May 21-23, 2008

Distrib. by: Central-Eurasia-L - Announcement List for Central Eurasian Studies

CONF./CFP- Archives in Oriental Studies, Moscow, May 21-23, 2008

Posted by: Alexander A. Stolyarov <astol007@gattamelata.com>

Dear Colleagues!

Orientalists' Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Institute of Asian and African Countries, Moscow State University
Russian State University for the Humanities

are holding the International Conference

"Archival Branch of Oriental Studies"
Moscow, May 21-23, 2008

Information Letter No. 1

The problems to be discussed at the Conference:
1. Source studies in archives as fundamental field of the native
Oriental studies.
2. Traditional and modern methods of handling the documents.
3. Oriental sources in the Russian and foreign archives: General
characteristics, description, cataloging, and safety.
4. Oriental MSS in Russian libraries and archives.
5. Studies of newly revealed in archives oriental documents and MSS.

Also at the Conference there will be:
- Roundtable on the problem of specialists training for working with
archival oriental documents;
- Presentations of periodical and reference media publishing archival
documents.

Deadline for sending your claims for participation and abstracts
(about 1 page) by electronic (Word editor) or ordinary mail is January
1, 2008.

Address of the Organising Committee:

Archival Publications Unit
History Department
Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS
12, Rozhdestvenka str.
Moscow 103031
Russia
Tel.: +7 (495) 621 80 03; +7 (495) 628 57 64
Fax: +7 (495) 625 77 88
e-mail: dmivas46@mail.ru

Organising Committee
of the International Conference
"Archival Branch of Oriental Studies"

Rostislav B. Rybakov (Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS) - chairman;
Vitaly Yu. Aphiani (Archive, RAS) - deputy chairman;
Alexander Sh. Kadyrbaev (Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS) - deputy chairman;
Alexander D. Vasilyev (Institute of Asian and African Countries, MSU)
- executive secretary;

D. Yu. Arapov (Historical Faculty, MSU)
V. V. Belyakov (Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS)
D. D. Vasilyev (Orientalists Society, RAS; Institute of Oriental
Studies, RAS; Russian State University for the Humanities)
G. V. Dluzhnevskaya (Institute for the History of Material Culture, RAS)
I. V. Zaitsev (Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS; M.I. Rudomino
All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature)
V. P. Kozlov (Federal Archive Agency)
T. V. Kotyukova (All-Russian Archival Science and Records Management
Research Institute)
A. P. Logunov (Russian State University for the Humanities)
M. E. Malevinskaya (Russian State Navy Archive)
M. S. Meier (Institute of Asian and African Countries, MSU)
V. S. Myasnikov (Russian Historians Archivists Society)
R. G. Pikhoya (Russian State Academy of State Service)
M. R. Ryzhenkov (Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts)
A. A. Stolyarov (Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS)
A. N. Khokhlov (Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS)
A. A. Chernobaev ("Istoricheskyi Arkhiv [Historical Archive]" magazine)
V. I. Sheremet (Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS)

_______________________________________________
Central-Eurasia-L mailing list
Central-Eurasia-L@lists.fas.harvard.edu
http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/central-eurasia-l