2017. Vol. 5, no. 2. Aleksandar Uzelac

2017. Vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 474-477

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22378/2313-6197.2017-5-2.474-477

   MEDIEVAL NOMADS – SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON THE MEDIEVAL HISTORY OF THE EURASIAN STEPPE
(SZEGED, HUNGARY, NOVEMBER 23–26, 2016)

Aleksandar Uzelac
The Institute of History Belgrade
Belgrade, Serbia
aleksandar.uzelac@iib.ac.rs

Sixth international conference dedicated to the Medieval History of the Eurasian Steppe took place in the Hungarian city of Szeged on November 23-26, 2016. The organizer of the event was MTA-SZTE (“Hungarian Academy of Sciences – University of Szeged”) Turkological Research group of the departments of Altaic and Medieval Studies at the Faculty of Arts, University of Szeged. More than thirty scholars from Hungary, Russia, Turkey, China, Spain, Bulgaria and Serbia took part in this event. The working languages of the conference were English and Russian. Presented papers dealt with various aspects of the history of Eurasian nomads, from the Early Middle Ages up to the seventeenth century. Among them, several have been related to the history of the Golden Horde. The proceedings of the conference are planned to be published in 2017, as a separate volume of the journal Chronica – Annual of The Institute of History, University of Szeged. Considering the quality and variety of the papers, presented at this occasion, there is no doubt it will attract the attention of the growing community of researchers and scholars interested in the medieval history of Eurasia.

Keywords: international conference, medieval nomads of Eurasia, history of the Mongol empire, source study, archaeology

For citation: Uzelac A. Medieval Nomads – Sixth International Conference on the Medieval History of the Eurasian Steppe (Szeged, Hungary, November 23–26, 2016). Zolotoordynskoe obozrenie=Golden Horde Review. 2017. Vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 474–477. DOI: 10.22378/2313-6197.2017-5-2.474-477

About the author: Aleksandar Uzelac – Ph.D. (History), Research Associate, The Institute of History Belgrade, ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0626-2928 (36/II Kneza Mihaila Str., Belgrade 11000, Serbia). E-mail: aleksandar.uzelac@iib.ac.rs

Received  March 10, 2017   Accepted for publication  May 30, 2017
Published online  June 30, 2017