Conference Series

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Origins of the Slovenians

 

 

 

Third International Topical Conference

 

 

ANCIENT SETTLERS OF EUROPE

 

 

First Announcement and Call for Papers

 

 

Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2005, June 10th and 11th

 

 

Venue: Slovenian World Congress, Cankarjeva 1/IV, Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

Ancient Settlers of Europe

 

The early history of the European nations is still not well known. The aim of the conference is to discover and disclose historical, linguistic, cultural and other sources of information about the ancient inhabitants of Europe, taking into account various aspects which can contribute to an improved knowledge of the events in the distant past.

The basic core of the conference should be archaeological facts and written documents, toponyms, genetic traces, beliefs, mythology, legends, customs and other data which could help to reveal the organisation, communications and cooperation of the ancient inhabitants in Europe during particular epochs of the distant past.

What is expected and most welcome is to elucidate the changes of the living conditions and activities during the last Ice Age, after it, as well as the whole historical period BC and during the first millenium AD. It is important to bring forward all the significant characteristics of the ancient population, which can still be established today in the genetic records, linguistic similarities and other features, which are either preserved in the original or changed forms.

 

Main topics:

 

Archaeological traces:

Pre-Indo-European developments in Europe

Indo-European development up to the Urnfield culture

Urnfield culture, its beginnings, evolution and extension

Subsequent evolution up to the year 700 A.D.

 

Linguistic traces

Inscriptions in the languages of ancient peoples

Linguistic thesaurus of ancient settlers

Slavic-like toponyms phonetically and meaningfully related to Slovenian

Other linguistic traces

 

Historical, cultural, ethnological and genetic traces

Documents and other written sources

Narrative oral transmission-folk songs, myths, legends

National habits and customs etc.

Genetic traces

 

Preliminary registration and instructions for abstracts

 

All interested in contributing to the conference are kindly invited to register as soon as possible and to submit abstracts of their proposed contributions not later than October 15th, 2005. If possible, the abstracts should be submitted by e-mail to the address Joze.Rant@ijs.si or Marija.Rant@siol.net and Anton.Perdih@email.si . using text processor MS WORD (.doc or .rtf file) or as a text file in ASCII format.

 

The abstract should contain:

Title of the paper

Authors names and their full addresses including an e-mail address. The name of the author presenting the paper should be underlined.

The main points of the paper should be presented in the abstract as suggested in the instructions to the authors (see the following page)

 

The authors will be notified about the acceptance of their contributions not later than December 1st, 2005, together with the 2nd Circular. The full text of the paper should reach the organizer to the address Anton.Perdih@email.si not later than February 15th, 2005. The final selection of papers to be printed in the Conference Proceedings will be made by the peer review committee and the results of the review will be sent to authors by April 15th, 2005. The camera-ready text of the papers should be submitted to the organizer not later than May 31st, 2005.

The conference languages are English and Slovenian. There will be no simultaneous professional translation; however the organizer himself will provide translation of the presentations and discussion in Slovenian.

 

Conference proceedings

The Book of Abstracts will be distributed to the participants during their registration at the conference. The Conference Proceedings will be mailed to the participants later on.

 

Accomodation

The organizers will reserve a limited number of hotel rooms in different hotels in Ljubljana and surroundings (price range between 20 EUR – 100 EUR). Prospective participants are kindly asked to submit the registration forms at their earliest convenience together with the date of arrival and departure, and their preferences regarding the price category of the accomodation. Tourist information including information on Ljubljana hotels and price lists can be obtained on the web sites:

http://www.slovenia-tourism.si/hotels/

 

Social events

The first day of the conference, June 10th will end with a cocktail party offered by the organizer. On special request of interested participants the organizer can help in the organization of visits to various university, scientific and cultural institutions in Ljubljana and in surrroundings or elsewhere in Slovenia.

 

Conference Fee

The Conference proceedings will be provided to participants for a conference fee of 20.000 SIT (~80 EUR). The costs of organizing the conference will be covered by the organizer.

 

Programme and Organizing Committee

Prof. Dr. Anton Perdih, programme chairman

Assist.prof. Dr. Jože Rant, organizing chairman

Andrej Rant, Dr. stom.

Dr. Sandi Sitar

Rev. Ivan Tomažič

Mag. Vinko Vodopivec

Mag. Lucijan Vuga

 

International Programme Committee

Prof.dr. A. Perdih, Slovenia, chairman

Mr. A. Ambrozic, Canada

Prof.dr. A. Mavretič, USA

Acad. Prof.dr. V. Nikčević, Monte Negro, Yugoslavia

Assist.prof. dr. J. Rant, Slovenia

Mr. J. Skulj, Canada

Mr. G. Tomezzoli, Italy, Germany

 

Contacts

 

Registration forms, abstracts, information                           Abstracts, papers, information

Doc.dr. Jože Rant                                                                                 Prof.dr. Anton Perdih

Ul. v Kokovšek 31a                                                                          Mala vas 12

SI-1231 Ljubljana                                                                  SI-1000 Ljubljana

Slovenia                                                                                                 Slovenia

Tel. +396 1 561 3577                                                                        +386 1 568 3730

Joze.Rant@ijs.si                                                                                   Anton.Perdih@email.si

Marija.Rant@siol.net

 

Important information and conference announcements will also be available on the web site of Mr. Borut Prah (USA): www.prah.net/europaveneta , of Ms. Jozica Gerden (AUS): http://forums.delphiforums.com/VENETI or of Mr. G. Tomezzoli (D): veneti.tripod.com

Instructions for authors

 

 

The length of the Abstract should not exceed one page (A4 size, 21.0 cm × 29.7 cm).

Margins: Top 3.5 cm; bottom 3.2 cm; left and right 3 cm.

Font: Times New Roman, size 12 pts, line spacing 1.

Style: Normal.dot, only. The use of any other styles as well as of fonts CE, Cyr and YUASCII is strongly discouraged.

 

TITLE: Capital letters, bold face, centred

Author(s’) names: one line space under the title, bold face, centred. The name of the presenting author should be underlined.

Author(s’) address(es): Placed directly under names, centred, font style italic, if possible

Text of the abstract: Two lines space under the address(es) of the author(s), justified.

If using a typewriter left alignment should be used.

 

An example of an abstract is given below the line:

________________________________________________________________________

 

A CONTRIBUTION TO KNOWLEDGE ABOUT OUR ANCESTORS

John First1, Joseph Second2

1Institute XY, Street 13, SI-9999 My town, Country

2 Avenue 1a, SI-7777 Town, Country

 

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Preliminary Conference Registration should be sent to the address:

Doc. Dr. Jože Rant

Ul. v Kokovšek 31a

SI-1231 Ljubljana, Slovenia

fax +386 1 561 5505

joze.rant@ijs.si

marija.rant@siol.net

 

 

 

 

PRELIMINARY REGISTRATION for the CONFERENCE

»Ancient Settlers of Europe«

Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 10th and 11th 2005

 

 

 

Name  and Family Name: _____________________________________________________________________

 

 

Address:___________________________________________________________________________________

 

 

Tel./fax:____________________________________________________________________

 

E-mail:_____________________________________________________________________

 

 

I intend to contribute a paper(s):  Yes  /  No

 

 

Co-author(s):________________________________________________________________

 

 

Preliminary title: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

 

 

 

 

Date:_______________________________ Signature:_____________________________

 

 

 

 

Please fill in also the back side questionnary  !

 

»»Ancient Settlers of Europe«

Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 10th and 11th, 2005

 

 

 

 

I will attend the conference:   June 10 (  ),  June 11 (  ),  both days June 10 and 11 (  )

Arrival date:           via:

Departure date:      via:

 

I prefer the assistance of the organizer to reserve my hotel accomodation: Yes(  ),  No(  )

 

 

 

Preferred hotel price category:  (*),   (**),  (***),  (****)

 

 

Price range:                (*) up to 20 EUR,  (**) up to 40 EUR, (***) up to 75 EUR,

                                (****) over 75 EUR

 

 

 

Accomodation:   single bedroom (   ),   double bedroom (   )

 

 

 

Upon interest the organizer can provide assistance in organizing various tourist trips as well as visits to cultural, scientific and other academic institutions in Ljubljana or elsewhere in Slovenia. Please, do not hesitate to describe your possible wishes in the space given below: