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CALL FOR PAPERS
International Conference
Anatolia-Caucasus-Iran: Ethnic and Linguistic Contacts
10 - 12 May, 2018
Yerevan, Armenia
Institute of Oriental Studies
(Russian-Armenian State University, Yerevan, Armenia)
in cooperation with the
Institute of Empirical Linguistics
(Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
The Anatolia-Caucasus-Iran region is distinguished by its multi-ethnic and multilingual nature. Languages in these areas belong to different language families — Indo-European, Turkic, Caucasian — and have long been in constant interactions, shaping various combinations of linguistic phenomena: substrate-superstrate-adstrate; language unions (Sprachbunds), like Armenian-Turkic-Caucasian, including within the same language continuum, as, for instance, South Caucasian-Aturpatakan Iranian Sprachbund. Moreover, nowhere in the world the spoken language is so actualized with regard to the ethnic issues than in the mentioned regions. The discussion of all these topics and their different aspects will be the target of this gathering.
Academics of any educational and professional level (MA, PhD, Post-Doc and beyond) are invited to submit papers and panel proposals relating to all aspects of linguistics and ethnography of Anatolia-Caucasus-Iran, including:
The working language of the Conference is English. Separate sessions may be organized in Persian or/and Russian.
Abtracts not exceeding 400 words alongside with a brief CV including contact details are to be emailed by March 15, 2018 to ethnic.linguistic.contacts@gmail.com, with the Subject “Anatolia-Caucasus-Iran: Ethnic and Linguistic Contacts”. If your abstracts includes non-Unicode symbols, we will appreciate if you send the abstract in both .doc and .pdf formats.
The scheduled time for keynote speeches is 40 minutes. Each presentation will last 20 minutes and 5 – 10 minutes will be available for Q&A.
Important dates
15 March, 2018 — Abstract submission deadline
30 March, 2018 — Notification of acceptance
Venue
Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian-Armenian University, 123 Hovsep Emin St., Yerevan 0051 (http://www.rau.am, http://orient.rau.am).
Participation fee
Participation fee for the conference is EUR 150, which includes, refreshments, meals, banquets, cultural programme during the days of the conference.
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