Jubilee Conference

From the Asiatic Museum to the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts — 190 Years of Oriental Studies

Saint Petersburg
April 11, 2008

Dear Colleagues,

On November 23, 2008 the oldest Orientalist institution of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which has followed a long and glorious route from the Asiatic Museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences through the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences to the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the RAS, will mark its 190th anniversary. In commemoration of this event, the Institute will host the Jubilee Conference on the history of Russian Oriental Studies, on the history and culture of the East and on its written heritage, which will be held from the 9th to the 11th December, 2008. The Conference will be organized in panels formed in accordance with both chronological and regional criteria such as Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Mediaeval Near and Middle Eastern Studies, South and South Eastern Studies, Far Eastern studies, etc.

Please send both your application for the Conference and the subject of the paper to the e-mail address of the Academic Secretary of the Steering Committee Dr Serge Frantsouzoff frants@spios.nw.ru, or to the post address of the Institute (18 Dvortsovaya emb., St Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation), or by fax (7 812) 3121465.

Additional information will be provided in the next letter by the Steering Committee.

Prof Dr Irina Popova
Chair of the Steering Committee
Director of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the RAS