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This Month in Mongolian Studies is a monthly listing of selected academic activities, resources and other material related to Mongolia. This list is based on information the ACMS has received and is presented as a service to its members. If you would like to submit information to be included in next month's issue please contact the ACMS at info@mongoliacenter.org This publication is supported in part by memberships. Please consider becoming a member of the ACMS, or renewing your membership by visiting our website at mongoliacenter.org/join.
Thank you!
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ACMS Announcements, News and Media References
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MONGOLIA FIELD SCHOOL 2024
In 2024 ACMS will be offering three courses for Mongolia Field School. All applicants who apply by the Priority deadline are given consideration for fellowship awards. Fellowships are available due to the generous support of the Henry Luce Foundation and other donors. Tuition: International participants - $1`750 Mongolian participants - ₮600`000 Tuition: International participants - $3`500 Mongolian participants - ₮1`200`000
The courses offer an educational travel experience blending academic insights and discussions with travel experiences that allow participants to interact with local people and locations off the usual tourist track. The applications for the field courses are open, please learn more about each course in detail or apply on our website, here.
ACMS held the first informational webinar for Mongolia Field School 2024 on December 14, 2023, during which attendees met with the instructors and learned about what the field courses entail directly from the instructors. Click the button below to watch the webinar recording. |
| | | ACMS FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS OPEN!
We are pleased to announce that ACMS Fellowships are now taking applications for 2024. As usual for 2024 we are offering 3 fellowship programs: Field Research Fellowship, Intensive Summer Mongolian Language Program Fellowship, and Library Fellowship.
Field Research Fellowship provides support of up to $4,000 to support short-term student, post-doctoral, or faculty field research in Mongolia in the Summer or Fall. The program is funded by the US State Department Educational and Cultural Affairs Bureau and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers.
Application deadline is February 15, 2024.
Intensive Summer Mongolian Language Program provides Intermediate-level students of the Mongolian language with an opportunity to enhance their communicative competence through systematic improvement of reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. The program entails 8 weeks (June 5 to August 4, 2024) of intensive study, and will be taught by experienced Mongolian language teachers. Fellowships are available only for U.S. citizens.
Application deadline is March 1, 2024.
Tuitions due on May 1, 2024.
https://www.mongoliacenter.org/fellowships-intensive-summer-mongolian-fellowship
Library Fellowship supports advanced US graduate students, faculty members, or professionals in library and information sciences from colleges and universities to conduct short-term library development projects and/or research in Mongolia for a period of up to 12 weeks. The program is funded by the US State Department Education and Cultural Affairs Bureau through a grant by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers.
Application deadline is February 15, 2024.
https://www.mongoliacenter.org/fellowships-intensive-summer-mongolian-fellowship |
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| Library Workshop Successfully Delivered
A 4-week workshop on MARC 21 format and Cataloguing non-standard books wrapped up in early December 2023. This workshop was the 3rd workshop in a series of library cataloguing workshops started online in November 2021. Dr. Saruul-Erdene Myagmar proposed the 2023 ACMS Library Workshop for ACMS' Library Fellowship in 2023. And delivered a much-needed capacity building workshop for 37 Mongolian librarians in Ulaanbaatar. This time around, Tsolmon, a participant from a previous workshop joined as a co-instructor. Tsolmon is a librarian from the Library of the Mongolian State University of Education, which also provided space for the workshop.
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| | ACMS Hosts First Ever Gingerbread Ger Decorating Party in Mongolia
On December 23, 2023, ACMS hosted the first ever gingerbread ger decorating party. Over a dozen people joined us for the party and started building their dream gingerbread gers using the supplies provided by ACMS.
Speaking of supplies our Resident director Dr. Isaac Hart spent the whole preceding week baking and making all the construction material, i. e. gingerbread and frostings using ingredients that were available in Ulaanbaatar.
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| | This Week's Word Special Edition
For years, over dinner tables, in schools, on television and every other place imaginable people have debated on which was the correct verb for the Lunar New Year's Eve or Битүүн (Bituun). Was it битүүлэх (bituulekh) or битүүрэх (bituurekh) - to stuff or to be stuffed, that was the question. While the debate rages on, this is our contribution to it.
ᠪᠢᠲᠡᠭᠦᠯᠬᠦ /bitegulku/ - (Cyrillic: битүүлэх /bituulekh/, English: to close, to cover) - [1] to cover an opening, to shut, to block, (цонх битүүлэх - to cover a window)[2] to celebrate the last day of the last month of winter, [3] to exchange things without seeing it first and discussing price, [4] [old] битүүгээр хэжмих - to measure milled or crushed things by filling both hands. |
| ᠪᠢᠲᠡᠭᠦᠷᠡᠬᠦ /bitegureku/ - (Cyrillic: битүүрэх /bituurekh/, English: to be clogged, to be stuffed) - [1] to be fill up, to be stuffed, to be closed due to being filled, (хамар битүүрэх - stuffy nose), [2] [shifted] to feel anxious and uneasy, mental block, [3] to feast and celebrate the passing of the old year.
Both definitions concerning the Lunar New Years Eve given by the Great Online Dictionary of Definitions of Mongolian Language Монгол толь (mongoltoli.mn) appear to be pointing at celebrating change of times, whilst having their own distinctions.
If you celebrate the Mongolian Lunar New Year - Tsagaan Sar, we wish you enter the new year fed, fattened and comfortably.
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| | Donations to ACMS
In December 2023, ACMS received donations from the following individuals. We express our sincere gratitude for your support of our work:
- Elizabeth Endicott, $1000
- David Malaher, $100
- Carroll Dunham, $20
- Katie Jost, $20
- Pamela Slutz, $300
- Tony Ettinger, $500
- Paula DePriest, $200
- Jack Weatherford, $1000
- Ariell Ahearn, $100
- Philip Nichols, $200
The American Center for Mongolian Studies is a United States registered 501(c)3 not-for-profit, academic organization. As described in Internal Revenue Service Publication 526, membership dues and donations paid to the ACMS may be tax deductible. If you would like to make you own donation, please visit our website at: Donate - ACMS (mongoliacenter.org) |
| | Becoming a Member
ACMS membership is another way to support and engage with the ACMS. Individuals and institutions can become members of ACMS, both come with corresponding benefits. In December, 5 new people have signed up to become ACMS member(s) and 1 person renewed their membership.
ACMS welcomes new members:
- Sean Begg
- Joan Schneider
- Christine Lee
- Jean-Luc Heule
- Richard Vogel
Renewing membership:
If you are in Ulaanbaatar, you can also visit our office to sign up for membership in-person. Our UB office address is Natsagdorj Library, East Entrance, Seoul St – 7, Sukhbaatar District, Ulaanbaatar 14521
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ACMS Sponsored Programs and Events
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Join us on March 4, 2024, at 9pm EST / March 5, 2024, at 10am ULAT for Virtual Speaker Series. Our guest speaker for the event will be Bill Bikales, who will give a talk on the "Myth of Mongolian Shock Therapy." Bill Bikales is an economist whose work focuses on economic and social development in China and Mongolia, in each of which he has served in senior advisory positions, including work as an advisor to the Mongolian Prime Minister’s Office from 1995-2001 and a recent stint as the Lead Economist in the Office of the United Nations Resident Coordinator in China, in addition to earlier senior posts in China for UNICEF and UNDP.
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| | Visit our YouTube channel to see more series of the Virtual Speaker and Virtual Panel Series, as well as our videos on Cultural Heritage Project, interviews with our Field Research Fellows and more.
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| We are working to bring back in-person speaker events, we will be putting these events up as more in-person speaker become available. If you would like to speak in-person for an ACMS Speaker event, please email buyandelger@mongoliacenter.org
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Vacancies, Scholarship, and Fellowships
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Herbert Hoover Research Travel Grant
The purpose of the Herbert Hoover Research Travel Grant Award is to fund travel to the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library in West Branch, Iowa. In order to be eligible for the Research Travel Grant, applicants must be current graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, or independent researchers. An applicant should contact the archival staff to determine if library holdings are pertinent to the applicant's research. Finding aids for the library's major holdings are available online at www.hoover.nara.gov.
Contact Information
Hoover Presidential Foundation
Contact Email
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| | Stanford East Asia Library 2024-2025 travel grants
The purpose of these grants is to assist scholars (faculty and advanced graduate students) from outside the greater San Francisco Bay Area in accessing the Stanford East Asia Library collections for research. With funding provided by the Department of Education Title VI program, the Stanford Center for East Asian Studies will award a limited number of grants (of up to $1000 each) on a competitive basis to help defray the cost of travel and lodging for scholars of East Asia at other institutions who wish to utilize the collections at the Stanford East Asia Library between August 15, 2024 and August 14, 2025. Priority consideration will be given to individuals at institutions that possess no or few library resources in East Asian languages, and for which no major East Asian library collections are available nearby. Applicants do not have to be U.S. citizens, but they must be affiliated with a U.S. institution and travel should originate and terminate in the U.S.; no international tickets are allowed.
Applications are due by June 30, 2024. For more information, and to submit an application, please visit:
https://library.stanford.edu/east-asia-library-travel-grants
Joshua Capitanio, Ph.D.
Curator for East & Southeast Asian Studies
Curator for Religious Studies Collections
Public Services Librarian, East Asia Library
Stanford University
jcapitanio@stanford.edu
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Grants and Calls for Paper
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Call for Papers: Chinggisid Crises & Eurasian Responses International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 1-4 July 2024
Leeds, UK
The theme for IMC 2024 will be 'Crisis'. Hoping to repeat the success of the IMC 2023 Chinggisid Ripples sessions we invite paper proposals relating to a very broad conception of crisis relating to any period and aspect of Mongol conquest and rule within and across Eurasia. Here the concept of crisis is not limited to the mid-fourteenth-century upheavals affecting imperial Mongol political formations. Crisis should absolutely be taken in its broadest form, including impacts of conquest and empire at any level, location or period.
We are particularly keen to involve PhD students and early career scholars. More senior scholars are also very welcome, and we are very happy to involve session moderators and round-table participants.
We also encourage applications from scholars outside of Western Europe, and they can apply for a IMC Bursary or reduced fees (see: Please see https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/proposals/bursary/ for information on the Bursary scheme and https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/register/ on fee reductions). This year, the IMC had 377 bursary applications and awarded 132 bursaries. The IMC is intended to be a hybrid event, and we welcome proposals for virtual attendance.
You can find the IMC Call for Papers, with links to practical information on session submission and attendance, at https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2024/.
Please contact Geoff Humble humblegeoff@gmail.com with proposals (of around 100 words), questions or expressions of interest. Paper proposals should ideally be received by 15 August 2023.
Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to:
- Institutional precarity, fragility and failure
- Problem-solving, durability, adaptation and opportunity
- Trauma, emotion and mourning
- Memory, forgetting and erasure
- Community, communication and interaction
- Home, migration, uprooting and exile
- Food, provision, shortage, hoarding and profiteering
- Agriculture and land use
- Language, translation and (mis)understanding
- Coping, continuity and (re-)construction
- Gendered roles and their disruption
- Injury, ill health, healing and recovery
- Disability, infirmity and support strategies
- Scapegoating, blame and condemnation
- Conspiracy, plot and exposure
- Slavery, kidnap and forced migration
- Economic crisis and indebtedness
- Political economy, taxation
- Infrastructure development and decay
- Inequalities, and the unequal impacts of crises
- Religious and or spiritual crisis and change
- Prayer and appeals for divine assistance
- Narrating crisis and historiographical responses
- Changing, evolving and disrupted forms of office holding
- Elites, patronage and charity
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| Call for Papers: Cross-Regional and Cross-Cultural Interaction and Integration between Buddhism and Other Asian Religions
Zhejiang Sheng, China
This conference is hosted by the Center for Buddhist Studies at Zhejiang University, in collaboration with the Glorisun Global Network of Buddhist Studies, with administration support from the FROGBEAR project at the University of British Columbia. It is scheduled to take place on August 17 and 18, 2024. Participants are expected to arrive on August 16, and depart on the evening of August 18 or on August 19. We extend a cordial invitation to scholars across disciplines to contribute to the conference.
The organizing committee of this conference welcomes submissions related to the study of Buddhism and the interregional, cross-cultural themes of Asian religions. All related expenses, including accommodation and meals during the conference, will be covered by the organizers. Depending on available funds, the organizers may also provide partial travel allowances to participants in need. Papers presented at this conference will be published in a special issue of the journal Yazhou wenming shi yanjiu 亞洲文明史研究 [Studies in the History of Asian Civilizations]. Please email your proposal and resume by April 15, 2024, to frogbear.project@ubc.ca.
Scholars who are confident in completing a draft of their paper by early August 2024 and finalizing it by the end of November 2024 are welcome to apply.
Please check https://frogbear.org/cross-regional-and-cross-cultural-interaction/ for full details and latest updates.
Contact Information
From the Ground Up: Buddhism and East Asian Religions
Contact Email
frogbear.project@ubc.ca
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| | Call for Papers: Eurasian zones of contact: The Russian and Qing empires
Co. Dublin, Ireland
This one day workshop, held at University College Dublin on 17 May 2024, develops international collaboration on zones of contact between the Russian Empire (1721-1917) and the Qing Empire (1636/1644-1912). These zones are, on the one hand, geographically defined borderlands in Central, Inner, and East Asia, and, on the other hand, cultural, intellectual, political, and economic spaces wherein people from these two empires (and beyond) met and interacted. The workshop seeks to generate conversation about local and regional entanglements, networks, and exchanges across these vast Eurasian territories. While conventional histories of the two empires have treated them as two separate political entities, the workshop aims to adopt transregional and transnational approaches to overcome the narrow and traditional idea of territory – and in doing so, to propose alternative spatial, economic, and cultural histories of the region that contribute to attempts to de-nationalise and de-territorialise the historiography.
Confirmed speakers:
Sören Urbansky (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): “Yellow Peril in Vladivostok: The Chinese Diaspora in Russia and the Soviet Union”
Yuexin Rachel Lin (Leeds): "Frontier activism, ‘rights recovery’ and international law: Early Sino-Soviet relations revisited”
Meng Zhang (Vanderbilt): “Inter-ethnic commercial disputes on the Qing Inner Asian frontier”
Eric Schluessel (George Washington): "Mazars, Merchants, and Immiseration: Pious Economy and Chinese Capital in Turn-of-the-Century Xinjiang"
We now invite proposals for papers of 15 minutes in length from PhD and Postdoctoral researchers. While the focus of the workshop lies on the Russian and Qing empires, papers may extend into immediate post-imperial timeframes if there are good reasons for doing so. If you are interested in participating, please send details of your name, affiliation, a short cv (max. 1-2 pages), a paper title and abstract (max. 300 words) to julia.schneider@ucc.ie and jennifer.keating@ucd.ie by 29 February.
Contact Information
Dr. Jennifer Keating, School of History, University College Dublin, jennifer.keating@ucd.ie
Dr. Julia C. Schneider, Department of Asian Studies, University College Cork, julia.schneider@ucc.ie
Contact Email
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Interesting digital resource we discovered in December, 2023:- "Elections in Mongolia" - we bring you this publication in lieu of the upcoming 2024 Parliamentary Elections of Mongolia in June 2024. This volume was published by the Asia Foundation and covers a period from 1992 to 2021 and includes parliamentary elections, presidential elections and local elections held during this period in Mongolia.
Podcasts we discovered in December, 2023: - Modern Mongolia - Ep. #14 Individualist struggle in Collective culture Dec. 20 /Davaanyam/ Apple Podcasts
- Mongolia Podcast - Mongolia: The Forgotten Dynasty Dec. 8 /William Wheless/ Spreaker
Featured book reviews:
Submit reviews of your works or reviews you wrote to us at info@mongoliacenter.org. Make sure you put Review submission in the Subject field of your email. Member contribution publications:
(If you would like to announce your publication, please reach out to us at info@mongoliacenter.org. Make sure you put Member contribution publication in the Subject field of your email.
- Rowing to Baikal: Sixty Days on Mongolia's Selenge River, by Peter Fong (please find the link in the "Recent books" section)
Selected scholarly articles published in December, 2023: - Ethnicities: The discourse of the Anthropocene and posthumanism: Mining-induced loss of traditional land and the Mongolian nomadic herders
- Sustainability Science: Economic inequality expanded after an extreme climate event: a long-term analysis of herders’ household data in Mongolia
- Journal of Field Archaeology: Unraveling the Mongolian Arc: a Field Survey and Spatial Investigation of a Previously Unexplored Wall System in Eastern Mongolia
Studia Philosophiae Et Juris: Religious tourism in Mongolia and opportunities for its development - American Journal of Livestock Policy: The Impact of Livestock Insurance Programs on Farmer Income Stability in Mongolia
- Власть (Power): «мягкая Сила» Монголии Периода Социализма (Mongolia’s Soft Power in the Socialism Period)
- Acta Psychologica: “I established a life; I can re-establish it again”: Lived experiences of intimate partner violence in Mongolia
- Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences: The Empirical Study of Graduate Students' English Language Requirements: The Case of Mongolia
- Studia Philosophiae Et Juris: Developmental state and modernity
- The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences: Using Geo-spatial Data and Dataset for Cropland Monitoring in Darkhan-uul and Selenge Provinces, Mongolia
- Rudarsko-geološko-naftni zbornik: Managing the Horizon-Oriented In-situ Leaching for the Uranium Deposits of Mongolia
- Zoonotic Diseases: Rabies Exposure from Infected Horse Bite in an Urban Setting: A Case Study from Mongolia
- Studia Philosophiae Et Juris: Worshiped association? or Mutual existence?
- Diversity of Research in Health Journal: From Sudbury to Sogog: Stories from a Canadian Student's Health Promotion Without Borders Excursion to Mongolia
- Cold War History: Soviet Aid and the Mongolian Economy: The Global South in CMEA, 1962-1991
- E3S Web of Conferences: Relationship of production and population in Siberian and Mongolian cities
- Bulletin of Applied Economics: Effects of Expansionary Fiscal Policy in a Commodity-Exporting Economy: Evidence from Mongolia
- Lesnoy Zhurnal (Russian Forestry Journal): Effect of Nutrient Substrate on Seedling Growth and Biomass Allocation of Picea obovata Ledeb. in Northern Mongolia
- Studia Archaeologica: Representation of deer riders in Mongolian petroglyphs and their implications
- Innovation in Aging: Social Contexts of Financial Exploitation of Older Adults in Mongolia: an Exploratory Study
- PLOS Water: Understanding contemporary challenges for water security in Ulaanbaatar, a semi-arid region in Mongolia
- Soil Use and Management: Assessment of potential soil erosion in Mongolia based on the RUSLE model and RCP 8.5 scenario
- American Journal of Botany: Mongolitria: a new Early Cretaceous three-valved seed from northeast Asia
- Asian Development Bank: Strengthening Livelihoods: Case Highlights from a Livelihood Support Program in the Ger Areas of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
- Studia Philosophiae Et Juris: Patronage and its political approach
- UN.ESCAP: A long-term approach for analyzing public debt sustainability: a case study of Mongolia
- The Journal of Peasant Studies: Index insurance and the moral economy of pastoral risk management in Mongolia
- Forests: Influence of Irrigation on Biomass Partitioning in Above- and Belowground Organs of Trees Planted in Desert Sites of Mongolia
- Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity: Phylogenetic relationships of graylings (Thymallus, Linck, 1790) in Mongolia based on mitochondrial DNA
- Asian Development Bank: Human Settlements in Mongolia: Strengthening Strategic Cities and Towns for Sustainable Territorial Development
- Remote Sensing: Effect of Grassland Fires on Dust Storms in Dornod Aimag, Mongolia
- Energy Systems Research: Methodological Framework for Planning The Development of Mongolia’s Electric Power Systems and Energy Industry
- Studia Philosophiae Et Juris: State and Trends in political participation of the young people in the democratic society
- Yearbook of Sustainable Smart Mining and Energy: The Mongolian Raw Materials Industry
- Studia Philosophiae Et Juris: Issues of improving the use of livestock pastures
- International Journal of Climatology: Characteristics of spring Mongolian cyclones in the recent 70 years: Background circulations and weather influences
- International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science: Dynamic Collaboration: Assessing the Evolving Relationship between Mongolia and China in the Post-Epidemic Era
- Doklady Earth Sciences: Yochelcionella chinensis (Gastropoda: Helcionelliformes) from the Lower Cambrian of Western Mongolia
- Geosciences: Melting Processes of Pelitic Rocks in Combustion Metamorphic Complexes of Mongolia: Mineral Chemistry, Raman Spectroscopy, Formation Conditions of Mullite, Silicate Spinel, Silica Polymorphs, and Cordierite-Group Minerals
- Theoretical Hypotheses and Empirical Results: Global warming and negative effects of degradation cryolithozone on buildings and structures
- Mineralium Deposita: Evolution of the magmatic-hydrothermal system at the Erdenetiin Ovoo porphyry Cu-Mo deposit, Mongolia: constraints on the relative timing of alteration and mineralization
- Studia Philosophiae Et Juris: Unlegalized activities and practice of political parties to raise funds to support women candidates
- Studia Archaeologica: A newly discovered walled enclosure of the Mongol Empire period in the Orkhon Valley, Mongolia
- Sustainability Science: Molecular epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Mongolia, first experience with nanopore sequencing in lower- and middle-income countries setting
- Russian Journal of Theriology: A 12-year population study of the reed vole (Alexandromys fortis) (Rodentia: Cricetidae) in Khonin Nuga, West Khentey, Mongolia
Studia Archaeologica: A case of radioulnar synostosis of Mongolia - The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology: Vitamin D supplements for fracture prevention in schoolchildren in Mongolia: analysis of secondary outcomes from a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial
- Studia Archaeologica: A new site of red ochre rock art was discovered from Budar chuluu site and new type stone features were recorded in eastern Mongolia
- International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing: Results of Using Spectroradiometers for in Soil Moisture of Mongolian Steppe Ecosystem
- UN.ESCAP: Cleaner fuel transition in Mongolia’s heat supply system
- Journal of Surgical Research: Development of an International Virtual Multidisciplinary Tumor Board for Breast Cancer in Mongolia
- Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences: Autumn migration strategy of Asian Dowitcher (Limnodromus semipalmatus) from eastern Mongolia
- E3S Web of Conferences: Increasing environmentally friendly energy production as a priority task of Mongolia’s energy industry
- Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Science: The Xiongnu Cultural Elements in the Airagiin Gozgor (Ovoo) Cemetery
- RMIT University: The Mongolian lens: encounters through photography while exploring Mongolian herder communities in transition
Featured Documentary: - "Exploring the City on the Steppes" by ACMS Member, Mend-Amar Baigalmaa (Urban Walks Mongolia). Located in the heart of Asia, Ulaanbaatar City has witnessed many changes in urbanization and uncontrolled immigration during its history since 1639. In the last few decades, the citizens of Ulaanbaatar have seen many historical buildings and sights disappear to make space for generic and characterless office and high-rise apartment buildings. It is important to understand that a city is not just an assortment of buildings but rather a living organism that thrives on the memories and lives of its citizens. This project aims to discover and explore the beauty of Ulaanbaatar through urban walking in the hopes that we can rekindle that unique connection between the city and both its citizens and visitors.
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| | FEATURE ARTICLES AND EVENTS ON MONGOLIAN STUDIES |
| After feel-good Mongolia outing, Pope now faces a tough choice
/The Crux/ Dec 30. Throughout Francis’s five days in Mongolia, he repeatedly praised the country’s commitment to religious freedom. In part, however, the pope’s rhetoric was hortatory. One issue is with the issuance of what’s known as “religious activity permits,” which authorize uses of facilities for purposes of worship. According to the U.S. State Department’s 2022 Report on International Religious Freedom, the Ulaanbaatar city council has not issued new permits since 2018. Read more
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| | 193 runic inscriptions were found in Mongolia
/Montsame/ Dec 15. Three universities and institutes and their departments of Turkic and Asian studies organized a student academic conference on the topic "Turkic Studies," dedicated to the 130th anniversary of deciphering and reading runic script. "Three to five new monuments are found every year. With the exceptions of the Selenge, Darkhan, and Orkhon provinces, runic monuments were found in all other provinces,” said Dr. Azzaya B. Read in Mongolian
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| | The Mongol Hordes: They’re Just Like Us
/The New Yorker/ Dec 25. Pope Francis was far from alone in challenging old tropes. Marie Favereau writes, “We have too readily accepted the stereotype of supremely violent Mongols who conquered much of Eurasia with stunning ease,” in “The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World” (Harvard). Her work joins other recent volumes—Kenneth W. Harl’s “Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization” (Hanover Square), Anthony Sattin’s “Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World” (Norton), and Nicholas Morton’s “The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East” (Basic)—in a decades-long effort to overhaul narratives about the barbarity of the nomad, and especially Mongols. Read more
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| | Cinematographer speaks on documenting UB’s street children
/International Documentary Association/ Dec 4. The story of Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow, which had its world premiere as part of the U.S. Competition of DOC NYC 2023, started fifteen years ago. In 2008 Martina Radwan, a veteran New York-based cinematographer for films such as Saving Face (2012, which won an Emmy, IDA Documentary Award, and Academy Award for best short documentary), was sent by the United Nations to shoot a short documentary about street children in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Read more |
| | Reporters Without Borders urges release of Zarig.mn news site chief editor
/RSF/ Dec 22. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Mongolian authorities to release journalist Unurtsetseg Naran. Kept in pre-trial detention since December 4, she has been charged with spreading false information after she posted comments critical of the judiciary on social media. Her news outlet, Zarig.mn, has also been blocked for two days. Read more
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| | Mongolia strengthens independent policy despite debt and corruption
/East Asia Forum/ Dec 28. Mongolia is successfully navigating great power geopolitical rivalry, the dynamics of electoral democracy and the challenges that face small, resource-based economies. But current political and economic trends, if not managed cautiously, could trigger more challenges for Mongolia ahead of its 2024 parliamentary election. Read more
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| | 2024 to Be the Year to Support Regional Development
/Montsame/ Dec 28. At its regular session on December 27, the Government approved the Resolution on Declaring 2024 as the Year to Support Regional Development. 22 years have passed since the adoption of the Resolution No. 57 of 2001 the "Regional Development Concept of Mongolia." At present, 46 percent of Mongolia's population resides in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar, 75.8 percent of enterprises and 84 percent of trade and services are focused in the capital city and 63 percent of GDP is produced solely in Ulaanbaatar. Read more
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| | Canada-Mongolia New Comprehensive Partnership Means Business
/The Diplomat/ Dec 1. November 30 marked the 50th anniversary of Mongolia and Canada establishing diplomatic relations. In recognition of this milestone, Ottawa and Ulaanbaatar upgraded their bilateral ties to a comprehensive partnership during Mongolian Foreign Minister Battsetseg Batmunkh’s official visit to Ottawa. The upgrade, in essence, aims to reinvigorate economic activities between government services and private sectors. Battsetseg’s visit to Canada from November 20 to 22 was the first by a Mongolian foreign minister in 25 years. Read more
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| | Google Launches Partnership with Mongolia
/Montsame/ Dec 1. Google and the Ministry of Education and Science of Mongolia will cooperate to provide secondary schools with an initial 20 thousand Chromebooks. Also, in cooperation with the Department of General Education and "Teach for Mongolia" NGO 10,000 teachers are to be involved in Google Certified Educator blended training of online and in-class learning to help them become proficient in technology. Read more
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| | How Mongolia’s Third Neighbor Policy Can Bolster Its Tourism Sector
/The Diplomat/ Dec 21. Mongolia’s tourism sector is aiming high in the upcoming year, and with good reason. In November, the Lonely Planet nominated Mongolia as one of the top 10 destinations to visit in 2024. The current administration is expanding bilateral ties with third neighbor countries such as Vietnam, South Korea, Singapore, Turkey, and the United States to boost tourism and make Mongolia more accessible to world travelers. Read more |
| | Multi-Volume Book "Heritage of Mongols Spread Around the World" Launched
/Montsame/ Dec 29. On the occasion of the 112th anniversary of the Restoration of National Independence and Freedom, the first 11 volumes of the book “Heritages of Mongols Spread Around the World” has been launched. A total of 20 volumes of the book will be published as part of a project initiated and implemented by the Chinggis Khaan National Museum and the International Association for Mongol Studies with the support of the Ministry of Culture. Read more |
| | Skies in Mongolia mysteriously turn blood-red. Pictures show eerie phenomena
/India Today/ Dec 2. In an extraordinary celestial display, the skies over Mongolia turned deep, blood-red as the country experienced one of the rarest auroral events on Friday and early Saturday. [...] The phenomenon, known as an aurora, typically occurs closer to the poles and is often green in colour. However, the auroras seen in Mongolia were of a striking crimson hue, a rarity caused by the interaction of solar particles with oxygen at high altitudes. See more
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| | Mongolia mulls restitution claims after identifying objects held abroad
/The Art Newspaper/ Dec 29. The Mongolian government says it has drawn up a list of hundreds of objects held by universities and museums in 34 countries, including the UK and Russia, that belong to and could be repatriated to Mongolia. “Mongolia’s culture ministry is leading the effort to identify and explore the history of Mongolian artefacts, compile details of those which currently lie outside of Mongolia, and make arrangements for their repatriation,” stated the government. Read more
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| Reviving Polo In Mongolia’s Heartland: Genghis Khan Retreat
/Forbes/ Dec 26. Nestled within the depths of the Orkhon Valley lies an unexpected catalyst for change – the Genghis Khan Retreat. For nearly three decades, the retreat has remained a cherished secret just 25 kilometers south of Kharkhorin, the ancient capital once ruled by Genghis Khan. Through their Young Riders of the World program, local herder families' children receive education and polo training, supported entirely by guest contributions. Read more
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| | Mongolia and Qatar to Expand Cooperation in Museum Sector
/Montsame/ Dec 25. Minister of Culture of Mongolia Nomin Chinbat received Head of Partnerships and Sponsorships at Qatar Museums Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Hamad Al Thani. As part of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Mongolia and Qatar, which is taking place this year, a Memorandum of Cooperation was signed on December 22, 2023, between the National Museum of Mongolia and the Qatar Museums Authority in the State of Qatar. Read more |
| | Mongolia’s mining partnerships extract foreign policy gold
/East Asia Forum/ Dec 29. Mongolia’s exports are 90 per cent dependent on natural resource extraction. In October 2023, Mongolian President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh signed a landmark agreement that paved the way for a US$1.7 billion investment by French government-owned Orano Mining. As the world strives towards net-zero emissions targets, expansion of nuclear power is driving Mongolia’s ambition to emerge as a new leader in the uranium market. Read more
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| | Global Fund to allocate Mongolia $15 million to fight against AIDS and tuberculosis in 2024-2026
/AKIpress/ Dec 6. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria will provide $15 million to Mongolia for the fight against AIDS and tuberculosis in 2024-2026. The Minister of Health met with the Global Fund Country Manager to discuss ongoing projects and the new financing method for the projects. Read more
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| | Cooperation with e-learning center of Stanford University
/GoGo Mongolia/ Dec 2. N.Uchral, the Minister of Electronic Development and Communications, held a meeting with Mark Koenig, Country representative of the Asia Foundation. Two parties agreed to cooperate on issues such as filtering false information in the online environment using artificial intelligence-based technology, starting cooperation with the e-education support center of Stanford University in the United States, and making free e-books available to the public. Read more |
| | UNESCO and Rio Tinto sign partnership to support sustainable development
/Rio Tinto/ Dec 4. Rio Tinto and UNESCO have agreed to establish a comprehensive long-term partnership that is designed to foster sustainable development initiatives in Mongolia. During the signing ceremony held in Ulaanbaatar, the parties announced their first joint project, focused on promoting sustainable tourism through cultural and geo-heritage initiatives in Mongolia – home to several UNESCO world heritage sites and Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi copper project. Read more
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"Rowing to Baikal: Sixty Days on Mongolia's Selenge River" by Peter W. Fong
Price: $19.95
After plans were announced for multiple dams in Mongolia's Selenge River watershed, award-winning author and veteran flyfishing guide Peter W. Fong was spurred to learn more about this remarkable ecosystem. On a first-ever scientific expedition from the headwaters of the Selenge to Russia's Lake Baikal, he and an international team traveled more than 1,500 kilometers by horse, camel, kayak, and rowboat through one of the world's most rugged regions and a last, best stronghold for the planet's largest salmonid: the taimen.
Fong's account of this dramatic journey tells a passionate yet nuanced story of the Selenge River and its tributaries. About the fish and wildlife that call the river home. About the human history of the region, from the Bronze Age to the fall of the Soviet Union. About the people who live in the basin now-from nomadic herders to construction engineers-and their attitudes toward development and conservation. About the old gods and legends that haunt the mountains. And about the disparate possible futures for one of the most starkly beautiful places on earth.
Peter W. Fong is a conservationist and adventurer. He's worked as an artist-in-the-schools in Montana, a travel guidebook writer in China, and a flyfishing guide in Mongolia. In 2018, he led an international team of scientists on a thousand-mile expedition to Russia's Lake Baikal.
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"Linguistic Diversity and Discrimination: Autoethnographies from Women in Academia" by Sender Dovchin, Qian Gong, Toni Dobinson, Maggie McAlinden
Price: £104.00
This collection explores the ways in which women in academia from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds mediate the negotiation of linguistic discrimination and linguistic diversity in higher education, using autoethnography to make visible their lived experiences. A chapter covers the academic transitions of Mongolian postgraduate students in Australia.
A chapter focuses on narratives of four Mongolian women. First, these women revisit their lived experiences as female academics, researchers, teachers and students from the Global South, and how their integration into the Global North as postgraduate students brought with it forms of overt and covert linguistic discrimination that threatened and suppressed their identity. They describe the process of adjusting to life in the Global North as well, and their return to Mongolia.
Sender Dovchin is Associate Professor and Director of Research at the School of Education at Curtin University, Australia.
Qian Gong is Senior Lecturer at the School of Education at Curtin University, Australia.
Toni Dobinson is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Post Graduate Programs in Applied Linguistics at Curtin University, Australia.
Maggie McAlinden is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and Coordinator of the postgraduate TESOL program in the School of Education at Edith Cowan University, Australia.
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"From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane: The Reawakening of Mongol Asia" by Peter Jackson
Price: £35.00
By the mid-fourteenth century, the world empire founded by Genghis Khan was in crisis. The Mongol Ilkhanate had ended in Iran and Iraq, China’s Mongol rulers were threatened by the native Ming, and the Golden Horde and the Central Asian Mongols were prey to internal discord. Into this void moved the warlord Tamerlane, the last major conqueror to emerge from Inner Asia.
In this authoritative account, Peter Jackson traces Tamerlane’s rise to power against the backdrop of the decline of Mongol rule. Jackson argues that Tamerlane, a keen exponent of Mongol custom and tradition, operated in Genghis Khan’s shadow and took care to draw parallels between himself and his great precursor. But, as a Muslim, Tamerlane drew on Islamic traditions, and his waging of wars in the name of jihad, whether sincere or not, had a more powerful impact than those of any Muslim Mongol ruler before him.
Peter Jackson is emeritus professor of medieval history at Keele University and has written on the Crusades, the eastern Islamic world, and the Mongols. His previous books include The Mongols and the Islamic World and The Mongols and the West, 1221–1410.
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| | "Yuan: Chinese Architecture in a Mongol Empire" By Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
Price: $75.00/£62.00 (Hardback)
The Yuan dynasty endured for a century, leaving behind an architectural legacy without equal, from palaces, temples, and pagodas to pavilions, tombs, and stages. With a history enlivened by the likes of Khubilai Khan and Marco Polo, this spectacular empire spanned the breadth of China and far, far beyond, but its rulers were Mongols. Yuan presents the first comprehensive study in English of the architecture of China under Mongol rule.
In this richly illustrated book, Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt looks at cities such as the legendary Shangdu—inspiration for Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Xanadu—as well as the architecture the Mongols encountered on their routes of conquest. She examines the buildings and monuments of diverse faiths in China during the period, from Buddhist and Daoist to Confucian, Islamic, and Christian, as well as unusual structures such as observatories, archways, stone and metal buildings, and sarcophaguses. Steinhardt dispels long-standing views of the Mongols as destroyers of cities and architecture across Asia, showing how the khans and their families built more than they tore down. She demonstrates that the stipulations of the Chinese building system were powerful and resilient enough to guide the architecture that rose under Mongolian rule.
Drawing on Steinhardt’s groundbreaking textual research in numerous languages as well as her pioneering fieldwork at sites across East Asia, Yuan will become the standard reference on this critical period of cultural and artistic exchange.
Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt is professor of East Asian art and curator of Chinese art at the University of Pennsylvania. Her many books include Chinese Architecture (Princeton), winner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award, and China’s Early Mosques.
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