[Buddha-l] new Indo-Eurasian list opens

[George Thompson]

I forward this message from Michael Witzel to the list.  We hope that list
members will examine and consider our efforts to establish a serious space
for comparative Indo-Eurasian studies.  We have already received interest
from a wide variety of very good scholars.

George Thompson

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Dear List,

On behalf of the three of us (M. Witzel, G. Thompson, and S. Farmer),
below you'll find the formal announcement for the new
Indo-Eurasian_Research List.

All researchers who sign up on the List will be unmoderated; please
note that it is the intent of this Research List to focus on large and
often controversial issues; the List is open to all, which we think is
essential to the healthy growth of the field; but posts from
non-professional sources or those we view as reflecting prescientific
or nationalistic ideologies will be moderated in the unique (and we
think eminently fair) way reviewed at the end of the announcement.

We will be announcing the formation of the List in a number of online
forums in the next week, including the present  one, _Electronic
Journal of
Vedic Studies_. We would like the help of current List members in
posting
the announcement online wherever appropriate and, of course, in
initiating
and helping to guide List discussions.
This is a public List both by and for progressive professional
researchers.

To sign up, go to:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research

For an overview of the List aims and moderation procedures, see below
or go to:

http://www.safarmer.com/Indo-Eurasian.html

Cheers -- MW

Michael Witzel
Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University
1 Bow Street , Cambridge MA 02138
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direct line:       496 2990
http://witzel@fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/mwpage.htm