[Discussion] Oryantalist olmanin olumlu sayildigi bir evrenden

[Gonul Pultar]

CONF./CFP- Int'l Congress of Asian & North African Studies, Moscow, Aug.
2004

Circular Letter No 1

Dear Colleagues:

In accordance with the decision upheld by the International Union for
Oriental and Asiatic Research during the special proceedings held in
course
of ICANAS-36 which took place in 2000 in Montreal, ICANAS-37 will be
held in
Moscow from 16th to 21st of August 2004.

The ICANAS-37 will be held by the Orientalist Society of the Russian
Academy
of Sciences. The Society, being the national association of orientalists
and
comprising historians, philologists, anthropologists, culturologists,
economists, political analysts, art critics and other scholars, has
recently
celebrated its centenary.

The ICANAS-37 will be supervised by the supreme officials of the
Government
of Russian Federation.

The motto of the ICANAS-37 is going to be "Unity in Diversity"--this
symbolises the aggregation of all traditional cultural values, which all
peoples inhabiting Eurasia and Northern Africa enjoy equal rights to
share.

Further information on the terms of participation, visa requirements,
lodging, thematic workshops, sessions, cultural events such as trips to
other cities, and miscellaneous organisational issues will be
communicated
in Circular Letter No 2 to be sent out by the Secretariat of ICANAS-37
to
all the regular ICANAS participants before March 2003. Attached to the
Circular Letter No 2 there will be an individual form considered by the
Organising Committee an official application to participate in
ICANAS-37.
These applications will be accepted till September 1st, 2003.

The Circular Letter No 3, acting as the guarantee document of the
Organising
Committee, will confirm the participation in academic and cultural
programs
of ICANAS-37. This will be sent out in the first half of 2004.

The information contained herein is intended to serve as a preliminary
notification about the date of the ICANAS and the stages of its
progress.
Nonetheless your feedback would be greatly appreciated, and we will
welcome
any input on the organisation of special sessions, hearings, seminars
and
workshops. Please send all correspondence to Head of the Secretariat of
ICANAS-37, Professor Dmitry D. Vasilyev, at ICANAS-37, 12 Rozhdestvenka
st.
Moscow-103753, Russia, fax +7-(095)-925-7788, e-mail ivran@orc.ru.

President, ICANAS-37
President of the Orientalist Society
of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Professor
R. B. Rybakov