Call: Tenth Caucasian Colloquium of the SCE

[Wolfgang Schulze]

THE SOCIETAS CAUCASOLOGICA EUROPAEA

is happy to announce

THE TENTH CAUCASIAN COLLOQUIUM
MUNICH, JULY 2-5, 2000


FIRST CIRCULAR

The board of the Societas Caucasologica Europ¾a is pleased to announce
that the University of Munich shall be hosting the 10th Colloquium, from
Wednesday 2nd thru Saturday 5th of August 2000. Before continuing with
information about the conference and details concerning its topics, we
first like to give you an update of events since the colloquium in
Leiden in 1996.
Despite the efforts of our former president, Gadzhi Gamzatov, and the
organization committee in Makhachkala, it was not possible to gather in
Makhachkala in 1998; their proposal to postpone the meeting to 1999 met
with the same problems as the year before and only a local conference
was held instead. In March 1999 the board had an electronic meeting and
decided to choose Wolfgang Schulze as the new president, with all other
members of the board remaining on duty. The new venue was to be Munich.

1. Submission of abstracts and programme
Scholars working in the field of Caucasian linguistics are invited to
submit abstracts for 30 minute presentations, including at least 10
minutes of discussion. The organization committee intends to invite
several key note speakers.
The committee thinks of opening this meeting of the Societas towards
cultural studies related to the Northern Caucasus and Georgia, which
should in a first stage be limited to anthropology, literature, history,
musicology, mythology and folklore. Contributions in these fields are
warmly welcomed. The results of this experiment in extending the topics
of this meeting beyond linguistics should be discussed at the business
meeting. The business meeting will also have to include a discussion of
future activities of the Societas, a proposal for a new venue, a new
board, and a discussion of the possibilities for the installment of a
journal. Proposals and suggestion with regard to this can be adressed to
the secretary.

The home page for the tenth colloquium can be found at:
http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~wschulze/sce_10.htm .

Abstracts can be submitted in English, German, French or Russian. They
should not exceed one page, and should be in at least 12-point type with
one-inch (2.5 cm) margins all round. As the abstracts will be subjected
to peer review, please send two copies, one containing the author's name
and affiliation, one without the author's data. Since abstracts are to
be reproduced in the meeting handbook, they should be printed in clear
type. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 1st February 2000. You
will be notified if your paper has been accepted for presentation by 15
March 2000.

2. Conference fee
The conference fee of 80 DM covers the conference folder, the meeting
handbook, coffee or tea, and a reception. Additionally, the committee
plans to organize a diner party; information on this event will be given
in the second circular. Payment of the conference will only be accepted
at registration in Munich in German currency.
We hope we will be as fortunate as to be able to provide financial
support to some 10 colleagues from Russia and Georgia whose abstracts
have been accepted.

3. Preliminary registration and accommodation
All those who wish to attend the Colloquium should fill in the enclosed
registration form and return it by 1st February 2000. The second and
third circular will only be send to those who registered. In order to be
able to limit the mailing expenses, you are kindly requested to provide
us with your e-mail adress: future circulars will be send by regular
mail only to colleagues without an access to e-mail.
Abstracts and the registration form should be send to:

SCE10 Programme Committee
Helma van den Berg
Dept. of Comparative Linguistics
University of Leiden
P.O. Box 9515
NL-2300 RA  Leiden
The Netherlands

Please note: all communication about the the Colloquium, its programme,
the business meeting, abstracts etc. should be directed to the
secretary, with a copy to the president if so desired.
We will try to have special arrangement with hotels close to the venue.
Information on this will be given in a separate circular towards the end
of the year. Preliminary information on housing in Munich can be
retrieved from http://www.muenchen-tourist.de/index.html .
We look forward to being able to extend a warm welcome to a large number
of participants next summer. A second circular, with the preliminary
programme and further particulars will be sent out by 1st April 2000.
The organization committee:

Wolfgang Schulze                                Helma van den Berg

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