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Tuesday 10th May
Flemming Christiansen
University of Leeds
Reflections on Ethnic Belonging and Development in Inner Mongolia
Cadres
and Discourse in Late Socialism:
The USSR, Mongolia and China
A successful workshop, part of the British Academy International Networks
programme, took place on 8–10th April 2005 at
Centre for Research in the Arts Social Sciences & Humanities
17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX
Conveners
The Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit (MIASU)
Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
&
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI),
School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia, USA
Visit
The MIASU was pleased to host Professor Bayarmend of Inner Mongolia University, Huhhot, for a two week stay at the Unit. The visit was generously funded by the Sigrid Rausing Scholarly Exchange Committee and the Universities' China Committee
New appointment
Lars Højer has been been awarded a Post Doctoral Assistant Professorship from the Danish Research Council for the Humanities. It will combine one year of lecturing at University of Copenhagen with two years of research in Mongolia on 'Uncertain Business': An anthropological study of exchange, protection and insurance in Mongolia’s new trading culture .
Online footage of Caroline Humphrey's
c.
1985 interview
with
Owen
Lattimore
Lecture Series 2004—5
The MIASU has organized an additional series of weekly lectures which present useful background material for those interested in Inner Asian studies.
These commenced with a 4-week series of talks presented by Dr A Hürelbaatar of the Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit. The course was an introduction to the Mongolian laguage and Dr Hürelbaatar discussed the history and spread of the language and gave examples of the scripts that have been used from historical times to the present day.
Dr Karma Phuntso presented a series of 8 lectures on Indo-Tibetan Buddhism.