Nineteenth Annual ACES Conference on Central Eurasian Studies Saturday, March 3, 2012 Indiana University, Bloomington
The Association of Central Eurasian Students (ACES) at Indiana University is pleased to announce the program for the 19th Annual Conference on Central Eurasian Studies, to be held on the Bloomington campus of Indiana University, Saturday, March 3, 2012. The conference is free and open to the public.
The formal program will run from 8:30 AM until 5:15 PM, with 16 panels and more than 60 speakers addressing issues pertaining to the Central Eurasian region, which for the purposes of this conference refers to the study of the historical and contemporary Afghan, Balto-Finnic, Hungarian, Iranian, Mongolic, Tibetan, Tungusic, and Turkic peoples, languages, cultures, and states.
The keynote lecture this year will be given by James Millward, Professor of Intersocietal History at the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. The topic of his talk will be "What is the Silk Road? Musings on Central Eurasian Studies and the Field of History."
Registration for presenters and chairs will commence at 7:30 AM in Woodburn Hall 104 and the first panel sessions will begin at 8:30 AM.
The full conference program and schedule may be found on our website at http://www.indiana.edu/~aces/index.php.
The ACES conference is sponsored by the Indiana University Student Association AID, the Department of Central Eurasian Studies, the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, the Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, the Center for the Study of the Middle East, the Islamic Studies Program, the East Asian Studies Center, the Department of History, the Department of Political Science, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and the Department of Linguistics.
Association of Central Eurasian Students Goodbody Hall 157 Indiana University
1011 East Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47405-7005
USA
Fax: (812) 855-7500
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