36th ICANAS Montreal, 27 August - 1 September, 2000

From Dunhuang to Kucha, from the Han to the Northern Song

Dunhuang and Turfan Symposium of the International Dunhuang Project and the Groupe de recherche sur Dunhuang, Instituts d'Extrème-Orient

In continuation of the last Dunhuang - Turfan Symposium, held with great success as part of the 35th ICANAS in Budapest 1997, we would like to invite you to take an active part in the next symposium to be held in Montreal 2000.

This symposium will concentrate on various aspects of the Silk Road History and Archaeology. Accordingly the symposium will be divided into sub-panels.

We would like you to propose and organize a sub-panel and/or to propose a paper for inclusion in exisiting panels.

Existing Panels include:

Cross-cultures 1: Monks and Merchants

Cross-cultures 2: Property and Techniques

Dunhuang Calendars

A Comparitive Evaluation of the Qin-Han and Dunhaung Manuscripts on the Mantic Arts

Text and Image at Dunhuang and Turfan

Buddhist Apochrypa

Digital Reconstruction and Computers in Art History

Daoist Texts

Turfan Manuscripts

Problems of Restauration and Conservation

Please send your proposals to any of the following organisers as soon as possible. There is no

funding available for fares, conference fees, accommodation or other expenses and so participants will have to be entirely self-funding.

Deadline for receipt of abstracts: September 6, 1999.

The symposium is part of the 36th ICANAS and participants will be expected to register for this and will receive all general details from the ICANAS organising committee. (Internet:

http://www.bcoc.umontreal.ca Email:congres@bcoc.umontreal.ca_)

A second circular and further details will be sent after the preliminary program of the symposium has been fixed.

Organisers of the Special Symposium:

Professor Jean-Pierre Drege, Unité mixte de recherche Civilisation

chinoise, Groupe de recherche sur Dunhuang, Instituts d'Extrème-Orient, 52,

rue du Cardinal Lemoine, 75116 Paris, Fax.: 33-1-44271854, email:

jpdrege@ext.jussieur.fr

Dr Simone-Christiane Raschmann, Katalogisierung der Orientalischen

Handschriften in Deutschland Arbeitsstelle Berlin II: Turfanforschung, Unter den Linden 8, D-10109

BERLIN, Germany. fax: +49-30-20370 467. Email: raschmann@bbaw.de

Dr Susan Whitfield, The International Dunhuang Project, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, LONDON

NW1 2DB, UK. Fax: +44 171 412 7858/7641 Email: susan.whitfield.@bl.uk