[Discussion] CONF./CFP- ESCAS VIII, Bordeaux, France, Sept. 25-28, 2002

[Gonul Pultar]

CONF./CFP- ESCAS VIII, Bordeaux, France, Sept. 25-28, 2002

ESCAS VIII
European Society for Central Asian Studies

September 25-28, 2002
University Campus of Talence - Bordeaux, France

Central Asia in transition: models, disruptions, centrality

Section I:   Questions of periodization: the centrality of Central Asia and
              the rewriting of history
Section II:  Political, economic and social models in the Central Asian history
Section III: Cultural and religious models
Section IV:  Colonial and Soviet disruptions
Section V:   Post-Soviet transformations

Organizing committee: the Board of the ESCAS (Mr. T. Atabaki, President, 
Mrs. G. Rasuly-Paleczek, Vice-president, Mrs. I. Baldauf, Mrs. C. Poujol, 
Mr. G. Rota, Mr. M. Tabor).

ESCAS VIII coordinator: Mrs. Catherine Poujol

How to participate:

Participation proposals:

They are to be submitted before April 15, 2002, by sending a summary of 
your paper in French or in English, a brief CV and your complete address 
(as well as your fax or phone number and e-mail address).

Please send your proposals:

  - To Mrs. Catherine Poujol
    cpoujol33@wanadoo.fr

  - To the ESCAS information centre in Central Asia
    escas8@ifeac.com.uz

Or to the following addresses:
  - Mrs. C. Poujol
    32 Quai des Chartrons
    33000 Bordeaux, France

  - IFEAC
    18A Rakatboshi
    700031 Tashkent
    Uzbekistan

  - IFEAC
    103 Furmanova
    480091 Almaty
    Kazakhstan

Confirmation by the Organizing Committee:

No final decision on your participation may be taken at the present 
moment.  A circular letter will be sent to you within 1 month after the 
deadline for proposals' submission, informing you of the decision of the 
Organizing Committee about your participation at the ESCAS VIII conference.

To present a paper:

Your paper in French or in English should not last more than 20 minutes, 
there will be also 10 minutes of discussion.  In each section, there will 
be from 4 to 6 papers per half-day.

How to fund your participation?

The Organizing Committee of ESCAS VIII encourages the participants to seek 
themselves for the funding of their participation at the conference, travel 
and living expenditures.