UC Berkeley Mongolia Initiative

Recording now available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXAB5XbFclg&feature=youtu.be

"The Geocultural Politics of the Silk Road" A talk by Tim Winter, University of Western Australia April 15, 2021 | 5pm (PST)... China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is fast emerging as a platform for studying and curating the culture and history of others. With BRI conceptualized as a ‘revival’ of the Silk Roads for the twenty first century, a new knowledge economy has formed around histories of connection, exchange and transmission. Chinese universities and institutions are increasingly working across borders on Silk Road projects and collaborations. China is also becoming an exporter of cultural aid, as universities and national academies initiate cultural and heritage diplomacy collaborations across Africa, Asia and Europe. The Silk Road provides a powerful symbolic and diplomatic architecture for this, within which Chinese organizations are researching, conserving and exhibiting a wide array of cultural forms found in other countries. Much of this is happening in the realm of the digital. In addressing such developments, this presentation asks whether Belt and Road is unleashing a new era of geocultural politics. It suggests that the Silk Road, Belt and Road nexus afford forms of geocultural thinking that risk producing the same forms of cultural violence that characterized European empire. Registration: https://berkeley.zoom.us//regist/WN_U5TRFdv1QsmsxeGb46oAgQ

"New Roads, Old Stories: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Travel in the Age of the BRI" A talk by Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi, Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zurich Register here: https://berkeley.zoom.us//regist/WN_VdUeIMvNTfSBaeog0-Xqgw

Intensive Mongolian languages courses! Fellowship support available. https://www.mongoliacenter.org/the-online-intensive-mongol/

5 PM Pacific Time, March 23!

Kathryn E. Graber Author of Mixed Messages: Mediating Native Belonging in Asian Russia (Cornell University Press, 2020) Focusing on language and media in Asian Russia, particularly in Buryat territories, Mixed Messages engages debates about the role of minority media in society, alternative visions of modernity, and the impact of media on everyday language use. Graber demonstrates that language and the production, circulation, and consumption of media are practices by which r...esidents of the region perform and negotiate competing possible identities. What languages should be used in newspapers, magazines, or radio and television broadcasts? Who should produce them? What kinds of publics are and are not possible through media? How exactly do discourses move into, out of, and through the media to affect everyday social practices? Mixed Messages addresses these questions through a rich ethnography of the Russian Federation's Buryat territories, a multilingual and multiethnic region on the Mongolian border with a complex relationship to both Europe and Asia. Mixed Messages shows that belonging in Asian Russia is a dynamic process that one cannot capture analytically by using straightforward categories of ethnolinguistic identity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xbAFh55_cM

American Center for Mongolian Studies' Virtual Speakers Series event, The History of the Mongols’ Sedentary Culture, is a full-length conference (in Mongolian... with English subtitles) highly recommended for those interested in Mongolian history and archaeology: https://youtu.be/rI38CkKG0i0 See more

PUBLIC LECTURE: Dr. Francesca Fiaschetti BA MA (University of Vienna) on "Sea Frontiers of Mongol Eurasia: people, narratives, legacies" Date and time: 22/12/20...20, 18:00-19:00 Zoom UCIPS22 is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Talk by Dr. Francesca Fiaschetti https://geschichtsforschung.univie.ac.at//fiaschetti-fran/ Time: Dec 22, 2020 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Athens time) Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/91881451267 (Alternatively: Meeting ID: 918 8145 1267, Passcode: 143928) See more

The International Cooperative Project Analyzing the Historic Photographs of Mongolia" This project is supported by the JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP17H000897, which is lead by Yuki Konagaya, Professor of National Museum of Ethnology in Japan.... https://historicimages.mn/index.php/historic-images-mongolia