News and Neworking Events
April 2023
Resource Frontiers is delighted to announce that it is going to collaborate with the Institute for Mongolian Studies and the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, NUM. The Institute is hosting project researcher Dr. Joseph Bristley during his research period in Mongolia.
Dr. Bristley and Dr. Byambabaatar Ichinkhorloo will carry out joint research at Egiin Gol, Khalkha Gol and Lake Buir during summer 2023. MIASU and the Institute of Mongolian Studies, NUM look forward to this joint research and future collaborations including participation in project conferences.
March 2023
- Joseph presented on the governance of the Selenga river at the National University of Mongolia’s Department of Environment and Forest Engineering, and on his project work at La Société des Études Mongoles et Sibériennes, Paris.
- Sayana presented at the 6th Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference with a paper titled “When ‘masters of water’ leave the spot: Innerasian cosmology of water and desertification from the Buddhist perspective”
January 2023
- Dr Bristley was invited to present on ongoing project research at Geneva Water Hub, an international hydropolitics NGO in Switzerland.
- Sayana presented on ongoing research project at River Cities as Method international network (IIAS, Leiden). https://ukna.asia/river-cities
December 2022
- Dr Namsaraeva, together with Ven. lama Zhargal Dugdanov (representative of religious NGO Buddhist Sangkha of Buryatia and a member of the Project Advisory Group) prepared 30 min radio programme in Buryat language to discuss environmental and water management issues of the Selenga and the Lake Baikal, as well as religious and common law practices to protect local water sources. The Programme was on air several times and received a good respond from the public. Link to the Radio Programme https://buryad.fm/broadcast/10767/
- During her fieldwork in Buryatia, Sayana presented a lecture at Department of Law, Buryat National University (Ulan-Ude), on perspectives of recognising the Selenge River as a legal subject. Participating in the VI-th International Conference on “Legal Culture of the Central Asian peoples: Traditions and Innovations” allowed to meet many of Buryat and Mongolian legal specialist on traditional Mongolian common law, as well as to establish connections with specialist in the present environmental legislation. http://www.bsu.ru/news/27892
- Dr. Bristley and Dr. Namsaraeva were invited to present on ongoing project research at the Cambridge Mongolia Forum (December 2022). This practice-oriented event, jointly organized with the Embassy of Mongolia in the UK, brought together academic and policy making experts from Mongolia to discuss pressing issues and challenges faced by Mongolia http://embassyofmongolia.co.uk/?p=4276&lang=en
October 2022
- The first meeting A Project Advisory Group was successfully held at Cambridge.