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Please see this call for articles. The Chinggis Khaan Institute of Cultural Heritage is working to publish an English-language journal this year titled “Chinggis Khan Heritage Studies”For more information email khatanbaatar.ch@chinggisinstitute.gov.mnSend your article to: info@chinggisinstitute.gov.mn

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 younger scholars.Prof. Bi…

The final MIASU research seminar of the Lent term will be taking place at the Mond seminar room on Tuesday March 8, 4.30–6.00pm,  and will be given jointly by Agnieszka Joniak–Lüthi and Tom White:Agnieszka Joniak–Lüthi: Maintaining Relations: Life with and without Roads in Northwest China"Tom White: The Afterlife of the ‘Coloured Steel Hut’: Infras…

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 book recounts the historie…

Please be informed that the next seminar in the Lent programme will not go ahead on Tuesday 22 February, due to strike action.The seminar - 'Human Sacrifices in Mongolia and Their Rationales' with Professor Caroline Humphrey, will be rescheduled to the Easter term, the programme for which will be published in due course.

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 where different national inte…

In January 2022 the HimalConnect Project, a collaboration between the Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit (Dr Hildegard Diemberger & Dr Riamsara Kuyakanon) and the University of Oslo (Dr Hanna Havnevik & Dr Astrid Hovden, hosted a successful digital conference:  ‘CHANGING CLIMATE AND COMMUNITIES IN HIGH PLACES AND ICY SPACES’The project funded by th…

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 onlyTo book a space or to join the MIASU mailing list to received det…

The next MIASU research seminar will be taking place at the Mond seminar room on Tuesday January 25, 4.30–6.00pm, with Stephan Kloos:Re-appraising Mongolian Medicine: communism, continuity, and a bigger pictureThe talk will also be streamed live by zoom so you can join remotely. To book a space or to join the MIASU mailing list to received details …

The Humanities Collaboratory at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor invites applicants to apply for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship dedicated to the study of the Mongol empire and its northern frontiers. Please see here for further information.

We are very pleased to share the new seminar programme for the Lent term, with the first seminar scheduled for 25 January. Please follow the links on the right or click here

We are very pleased to announce the publication of this title: 'On the Edge – Life Along the Russia-China Border', by MIASU's Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey.Available now from most booksellers or order here from the publisher.

We are very pleased to announce that Dr Terigele Teneg has joined the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit as a Research Associate.Terigele will be initiating a new project on the current Mongolian language and ethnic identity survival situation in Inner Mongolia.For further information, please visit:  Dr Terigele Teneg | Mongolia and Inner Asia St…

The Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit, Department of Social Anthropology, is pleased to announce that Jenny Tang has been awarded the first Sigrid Rausing MIASU Doctoral Studentship in the Social Anthropology of Inner Asia, commencing October 2021.

We are very pleased to announce the publication of this book, edited by MIASU members Riam Kuyakanon, Hildegard Diemberger and David Sneath, and it is available from the publisher Routledge now! There is also 30% discount until December 1 for Black Friday. For more information see hereOrder from Routledge