The Annual IOM Academic Session “The Written Heritage of the Orient as the Basis for Classical Tradition of Oriental Studies” will be held on December 1–3, 2025.

Address: The Institute of Oriental Manuscripts RAS
Dvortsovaya emb., 18, Saint Petersburg

The following topics will be discussed:

- written sources as the basis for classical Oriental studies;
- Oriental textology, translation principles and methods of textual criticism;
- source studies and historiography of the East;
- political, ethnocultural and socioeconomic history of the East;
- traditional religious, philosophical and legal systems of the East;
- literature, epic and folklore of the Eastern peoples;
- theories of structure and historical development of Oriental languages;
- methods of cataloguing and describing collections of Oriental manuscripts and documents;
- problems of manuscript preservation and restoration;
- creating electronic databases and using modern technologies to study Oriental texts.

Please send your application by November 26, 2025 to the following email:
etanona@yandex.ru

The application should include the following information:
Full name, academic degree, place of work and position, presentation title, phone number.

Organizing Committee