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On Saturday, March 8, 2014, the Middle Eastern and Central Asian Program atHofstra University will hold the Sixth Seminar on Middle Eastern and CentralAsian Numismatics in Memoriam Boris Kochnev (1940-2002).If you are interested in presenting a paper, please send us the title of yourtalk by January 15. We are planning to form the program by February 1. By March1 we expect brief abstracts of papers for pre-publication. The geography ofpresentations can range from the coasts Mediterranean Sea to the deserts ofXinjiang, while time frame is limited to pre-Modern times. Each talk will beallocated 20 minutes + 5 minutes for questions.For more information contact: aleksandr.naymark@hofstra.edu.During five previous seminars our participants were: Abigail Balbale (BardGraduate Center, New York),Michael Bates (American Numismatic Society, NewYork), Arianna D’Ottone (La Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy), AbdullahGhouchani (Iran Bastan Museum, Tehran), Stefan Heidemann (Hamburg University,Germany), Judith Kolbas (Central Asian Numismatic Institute at CambridgeUniversity, England), Konstantin Kravtsov (Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg,Russia), Dmirtry Markov (Markov Coins and Medals, New York), Aleksandr Naymark(Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York), Stuart Sears (Wheaton College,Norton, Massachusetts), Nicholas Sims-Williams (SOAS, London University),Pankaj Tandon (Boston University), Li Tiesheng (Beijing, China), Luke Treadwell(Oxford University, England), Daniel Varisco (Hofstra Unversity) and WaleedZiad (Yale Univeristy, New Haven, Connecticut).