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Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit

 

Friday 1 November, 10.30

Mond Building Seminar Room

Contemporary Kalmykia: Religion and Identity in a Russian Republic

MIASU, CamCREES and the University of Arkansas will be jointly hosting this conference bringing together leading experts on the themes of identity and politics in the Russian republic of Kalmykia, a Buddhist practicing region located in the country’s southeast. Presentations will discuss the topics of religion, identity, memory, and deportation, among others. The aim of the event is to foreground scholarship on this understudied region, situating it within its regional, national, and international contexts.

More details are contained in the programme

Date: 
Friday, 1 November, 2019 - 10:30 to 15:30