{"id":6,"date":"2017-06-23T15:07:48","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T15:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lingconf.com\/turkicsymposium\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2017-09-30T02:28:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T02:28:08","slug":"top-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lingconf.com\/turkicsymposium\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Symposium on Turkic Languages and Linguistics will be hosted at the University of Washington on October 5, 2017.\u00a0The goal of this symposium is to advance the study of Turkish and Turkic linguistics and promote dialogue and sharing between scholars of these languages both domestically and internationally. This one-day symposium will serve as a prelude before the Central Eurasian Studies Society conference, which will also take place on the University of Washington campus. The program will feature one keynote lecture, one invited talk, and paper presentations on a variety of themes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keynote Speaker<\/strong>: Christopher Beckwith, Indiana University<\/p>\n<p><strong>Organizing Committee<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Talant Mawkanuli (co-chair) (tmawkan at uw dot edu)<\/li>\n<li>Selim Kuru (co-chair)<\/li>\n<li>Alexander Sugar (sugara at uw dot edu)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sponsors<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/artsci.washington.edu\/divisions\/humanities\">UW College of Arts and Sciences, Humanities Division<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/linguistics.washington.edu\/\">UW Department of Linguistics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nelc.washington.edu\/\">UW\u00a0Department of Near Eastern Languages &amp; Civilization<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/mideast\/\">UW Middle East Center<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/mideast\/\">\u00a0at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/\">UW\u00a0Center for Global Studies at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/china\/\">UW China Studies Program at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The organizers also wish to thank\u00a0Rick Aguilar and Patrick Gibbs for their time, energy, and support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Symposium on Turkic Languages and Linguistics will be hosted at the University of Washington on October 5, 2017.\u00a0The goal of this symposium is to advance the study of Turkish and Turkic linguistics and promote dialogue and sharing between scholars of these languages both domestically and internationally. This one-day symposium will serve as a prelude &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lingconf.com\/turkicsymposium\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8RRaX-6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28,"url":"https:\/\/lingconf.com\/turkicsymposium\/program\/","url_meta":{"origin":6,"position":0},"title":"Program","author":"turkicsymposium","date":"July 8, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Download a copy of the program here. 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