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                   SECOND NOTICE: CALL FOR PAPERS

          8th Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference
                       Indiana University

The deadline has been extended for submission of abstracts for the 8th
Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference at Indiana University and the
featured speaker has been announced. Noted historian Peter Golden of
Rutgers University will address "Ethnicity, Ethnogenesis and State
Formation in Medieval Turkic Eurasia."

Graduate students, faculty and independent scholars are invited to submit
abstracts of papers on Central Eurasian issues in all fields for
presentation at the conference. For purposes of this conference, Central
Eurasia is defined as the vast area including or corresponding to
present-day Mongolia, Western China (Xinjiang), Tibet, Central Asia
(Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and the
historic regions of Khorasan and northern Afghanistan), Azerbaijan,
Turkey, Hungary, Estonia, Finland, and other regions which include
Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic peoples.

Organized by the IU Association of Central Eurasian Students, the
conference will be held in Bloomington on March 31, 2001. This year's
conference will meet in conjunction with the 40th Annual Meeting of the
Mongolia Society. Ambassador to the US from Mongolia Jalbuu Choinhor will
participate. The work of Inner Mongolian-born artist Chaolun Baatar will
be exhibited at the IU Indiana Memorial Union Gallery during March, with a
reception the afternoon of March 30, 2001. Later that evening is an
opening reception for the Mongolia Society conference and for Gary
Tepfer's exhibition of photographs of Mongolia in the IU School of Fine
Arts gallery. A Mongolian film festival is planned. The Central Eurasian
Studies Conference has organized book displays by the IU Research
Institute for Inner Asian Studies (Uralic & Altaic Series), the IU Turkish
Publication Series, the Mongolia Society, and outside vendors.

The Mongolia Society is a non-profit, non-political organization promoting
the culture, language, and history of Mongolia. Indiana University is the
only US university offering a degree program in Mongolian Studies.

Send abstracts (up to two double spaced pages, with name, affiliation,
street address, email address, and telephone/fax number) to The 8th Annual
Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Goodbody Hall 157, Indiana
University, Bloomington, IN 47405-7005; telephone: 812-855-9510; fax:
812-855-7500; e-mail: aces at indiana.edu. The deadline is January 26, 2001.