Institute of Oriental Manuscripts
of the Russian Academy of Sciences

INFORMATION LETTER No. 1

On February 15–16, 2018,
the 200th anniversary of the IOM RAS,

the international academic conference
‘The Turko-Mongol World: History and Culture’

in memoriam of Serguei Grigoryevich Klyashtorny (1928–2014), the eminent Russian Turkologist, scholar with wide-ranging research interests, professor of a number of Russian and foreign universities who made a major contribution to the studies of the history and culture of Turkic and Mongolian ethnic groups, will be held in the IOM RAS.

The conference will focus on the urgent problems of the history, literature and languages of the Turkic and Mongolian ethnic groups that were studied by S.G. Klyashtorny.

The main aim of the conference is to present the latest achievements in the study of all aspects of the life of the Turkic and Mongolian ethnic groups, as well as to demonstrate the potential of modern research methods in this field.

Conference languages: Russian, Mongolian, Turkish, English.

Conference applications are to be submitted to the Organizing Committee by September 15, 2017.

In the application please state your full name, academic degree and title, affiliation, e mail address, phone numbe and the title of your paper.

A short abstract (300 words) should be send to the Organizing Committee by November 1, 2017.

The second circular will be sent after September 15, 2017.

The visa, transport and accommodation costs will be covered by the participants or their organizations. The publication of the conference proceedings is planned.

E-mail: klyashtorny_2018@mail.ru

Sincerely yours,

Secretary of the Organizing Committee
Anna A. Turanskaya