International Congress - 600 Years of Polish-Turkish Relations

Conference venue: Warsaw, Poland
Period: June 25-27, 2014
Deadline for submitting abstracts: February 28, 2014
Deadline for submitting full papers: April 30, 2014

As part of the 600th anniversary of Polish-Turkish relations the Department of Turkish Studies and Inner Asian Peoples of  the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Warsaw in cooperation with Warsaw Center of Yunus Emre Institute are organizing the Third International Congress of Turkology "600 Years of Polish-Turkish Relations – Research on Turkology Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”, 25-27th June 2014.

The main focus of the Third International Congress of Turkology will be modern studies and research on the history, culture and language of Turkey and Turkic peoples. Turkology  is usually understood as language and literature studies, but nowadays as an interdisciplinary branch it encompasses fields and specialities of humanities as well as sciences research. In 2014 we would like to give special field for the discussion on the history of  Polish and Turkish relations.  We also hope to create  space for exchange of our experiences in Turkish studies as well as for finding common ways and methods of solving our content-related and other essential problems. The aim of the 2014  meeting is also to consider future perspectives for our studies and work.

Main topics of the 2014 Congress:

Symposium will be held at the building of Stary BUW (the Old Lubrary) University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, Warsaw.

Deadline for applications and abstracts in English: 28th February 2014.
Acceptance letters from the Organizers will be delivered before 31th March 2014.
Deadline for papers in English or Turkish with abstracts in English: 30th April 2014.
Deadline for registration fee  – not later than: 15th May 2014.

Application forms and paper proposal forms are attached at the end of this Call for Papers. Application forms and paper proposals must be e-mailed to the Organizers of the Congress at congturk@uw.edu.pl or IIIcongressofturkology@uw.edu.pl . Any additional information on the topics can be found here. 
Papers and abstracts should be written and presented in English or Turkish.
Symposium will be organized as a series of panel meetings. Papers will be delivered as 15-20-minute presentations followed by discussions.

International Congress of Turkology
e-mail: congturk@uw.edu.pl or IIIcongressofturkology@uw.edu.pl