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As a result of a generous donation from the Sigrid Rausing Trust, the Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit is delighted to announce that applications are now invited for the first Sigrid Rausing MIASU Doctoral Studentship in the Social Anthropology of Inner Asia. Please see here or related links for full details.

Volume 22 (2020): Issue 2 (Nov 2020): Special Section: Multispecies Co-existence in Inner Asia

Update: we are now pleased to share further newsletters from the SEMS, Paris, which contain research news on studies in this region and much more, including details of many courses, conferences and seminars run by various institutions. 

Professor Caroline Humphrey was delighted to recently accept two awards. She received the Royal Anthropological Institute's 'Lifetime Achievement Award', and in addition to this, the 'Mikliho-Maklai Gold Medal' from the Russian Geographical Society.In both cases it is hoped that the awards ceremonies will take place in 2021.Congratulations!

is on Tuesday December 1, 4.30–6.00pm, with Mari Valdur: Dying of Informality, Dying without Sociality? Abortion Biznes in UlaanbaatarFor full details see here For the full seminar programme for this term see hereTo receive details of future MIASU events and other news, please email miasu-admin@socanth.cam.ac.uk to join the MIASU mailing list

We are pleased to announce that the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Institute for Mongolia Studies at the National University of Mongolia in order to further cooperative working relationships and academic links between the two institutions.

On Wednesday 28 October MIASU's Dr Uradyn Bulag presented his talk 'Are China’s “Minority Nationalities” Frankenstein’s Monsters?' at the University of Manchester East Asian Studies dialogue webinar – 'China’s Borderlands in Times of Crisis'.  Juan Zhang, University of Bristol, also presented  'Locked-down borders: immobility, surveillance, and unc…

is on Tuesday November 17, 4.30–6.00pm, with Elizabeth Fox: Flesh and Blood: Rotting and Relating in the Age of the MarketFor full details see here For the full seminar programme for this term see hereTo receive details of future MIASU events and other news, please email miasu-admin@socanth.cam.ac.uk to join the MIASU mailing list

is on Tuesday November 3, 4.30–6.00pm, with Ayur Zhanaev: Born in the Body of Beasts: Animals and the Social Order in the Didactic Buddhist Literature of Buryat-Mongols (19th - beg.  20th century)For full details see here For the full seminar programme for this term see hereTo receive details of future MIASU events and other news, please email mias…

on Tuesday 20th October, with Dr Benno Weiner:  Unforgivable Crimes and Open Wounds: Rebellion, Repression and Remembrance on a Tibetan Borderland of Early-Maoist ChinaFor full details see here For the full seminar programme for this term see hereTo receive details of future MIASU events and other news, please email miasu-admin@socanth.cam.ac.uk to…

Michaelmas Term 2020MIASU visiting scholars this term are 'virtual' due to the Covid-19 situation.We would like to welcome the following virtual visitors: September 2019 – September 2021: Zhou Yong, University of Oslo, working on his postdoctoral research: “Free Prior Informed Consent (FPIC) and Natural Resources Exploitation: Institutionalizing I…

INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE:  MONGOLIAN STUDIES AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY: CURRENT STATE AND DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS – IIJointly organised by the Kalmyk Research Centre and the Buryat Institute for Mongolia, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies.Caroline Humphrey, Sayana Namsaraeva, Michael Long and Hedwig Waters presented at this online co…

As a result of a generous donation from the Sigrid Rausing Trust, the Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Joe Ellis as its first Early-Career Postdoctoral Fellow.The post runs for four years.As well as playing a full role in the MIASU’s research activities and contributing to the teaching of the Departm…

ORAL HISTORY OF TWENTIETH CENTURY MONGOLIA WEBSITEThere have been some operational problems with the site in recent weeks, our apologies for this. We are pleased to announce the site is now up and running again here

Though far from her home in Buryatia (in Eastern Siberia, Russia), Dr Sayana Namsaraeva is devoting her time to supporting Cambridge residents. When the pandemic broke out she decided to help out by turning to her sewing-machine. First of all, she made over 150 masks for friends, colleagues, local school teachers and more.  Then she heard that Adde…