The Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science
The Kalmyk Institute for Humanities of the Russian Academy of Sciences

NEWSLETTER

Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to participate in the International scientific conference "Actualproblems of modern Mongolian studies", dedicated to 100 anniversary of the birth of
the famous scientist for Mongolian studies B.Kh. Todaeva (1915-2014).
Date: April 20-23, 2015
The suggested sections of the Conference:
1. Comparative and typological studies of the Mongolian and Turkic languages.
2. Linguistic source study and history of the Turkic-Mongolian languages.
3. Folk lexicography.
4. Folklore text and context: traditions and innovations.
5. Kalmyk heroic epic Dzhangar: conceptual and linguistic picture of the world.
In the framework of the conference it is planned to hold a round-table discussion
devoted to the preservation of endangered languages in terms of globalization.
Conference languages: Russian, Kalmyk, Mongolian and English.
Deadline for requests, texts of the reports and papers is the 15th of February, 2015
The application should include: your name, academic degree, academic status, placeof work, position, title of the research, form of participation (full-time, part-time).
All expenses shall be paid by the sending side.
The conference materials will be published by the beginning of the conference inaccordance with the requirements of the Russian Science Citation Index.
Requirements for the report’ format:
The papers has to be accompanied by the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC)
index; the author's name and initials in Russian; title of the paper in Russian;annotation (no more than 7 lines) and keywords in Russian; information about theauthor in Russian (position, academic degree and academic status, telephone number,postal and e-mail addresses); at the end of the text of the paper, after the notes, thesame information about the author has to be given in English, including the full nameof the author (s);Papers are accepted in an electronic form; the text of the paper has to be opened in
Word word-processor and it has to be typed by a font Times New Roman, a font size:
14.
Line spacing: 1,5; Pages field:- top, bottom - 2.5 sm- left, right - 2.5 sm
The size of the paper should be no more than 18 pages. The list of references is given
at the end of article in alphabetical order. The references in the text are given insquare brackets, according to the sample: [Иванов 1947: 64]. Pages must benumbered. Any abbreviations and acronyms, if any, have to be deciphered at the endof the article after the list of notes. The organizing Committee reserves the right toreject papers if they do not meet the requirements. All travel expenses are paid by thesending side.
The address of the organizing Committee is: 358000, the Republic of Kalmykia, thecity of Elista, Ilishkin Street, 8.
E-mail: konfnauka@yandex.ru
Coordinator of the Conference: Badmaeva Ekaterina Nikolaevna, Ph.D. inHistory, Deputy Director on Scientific Work at the Kalmyk Institute for Humanitiesof the Russian Academy of Sciences, tel.: (84722) 3-55-47.
Secretary of the Conference: Ochirova Niudlia Chetyrovna, Ph.D. in Philology,
Researcher at the Kalmyk Institute for Humanities of the Russian Academy ofSciences, e-mail: konfnauka@yandex.ru