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The Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit is sad to announce the death of the eminent scholar Shagdaryn Bira (September 1927 – 13 February 2022). Prof. Bira was with us in Spring 2004 on a British Academy Visiting Professorship. We remember him a man of immense erudition who was always generous in sharing his knowledge with...

We are pleased to announce this forthcoming book entitled 'State Ideology, Science, and Pseudoscience in Russia: Between the Cosmos and the Earth' by MIASU's Dr Baasanjav Terbish . Russia is defined by its past legacies, including Soviet state ideology and the intellectual movements of Russian cosmism and Eurasianism. This...

This ESRC funded project started in January 2022 and runs for 3 years. This interdisciplinary project uses ethnographic methods to explore the politics of managing, and planning the management of, trans-border rivers on water resource frontiers. Such frontiers are critically important in today’s world as they are sites...

The next MIASU research seminar will be taking place online on zoom on Tuesday February 8, 4.30–6.00pm, with Hedwig Waters: A proportional share: the political aesthetics of resource wealth amongst the wildlife procurers of remote post-socialist Mongolia N.B. This talk is online only To book a space or to join the MIASU...