Symposium on Inner Asian Statecraft & Technologies of Governance

On 2nd–3rd October the MIASU hosted a Symposium on 'Inner Asian Statecraft and Technologies of Governance'. The symposium was organized in conjunction with the École des Hautes Études, Paris, and supported by the French Embassy. There were three panels contributed to by scholars from the US, France, Denmark and the UK, which produced an excellent range of presentations and provoked some very interesting discussion. Professor Christopher Atwood gave a keynote speech entitled ‘Marriage, titles, appanages, and officials: A comparison of Political forms in the Zunghar and thirteenth-century Mongol empires’ and the final session, a roundtable discussion, was introduced by Dr David Sneath with a talk ‘Inner Asian statecraft on the map’, and concluded with comment from Professor Caroline Humphrey and Professor Roberte Hamayon.

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In September the MIASU was pleased to welcome from Inner Mongolia University: Professor Jalsan, Professor Erdenibayar and Professor Nasan Bayar. Their visit was supported by the Sino-British Fellowship Trust of the British Academy and the MIASU and pictures below show them working on a Mongolian text at the Ancient India and Iran Trust in Cambridge.

Professor Erdenibayar,
Professor Jalsan,
Professor Nasan Bayar
and Dr Hildegard Diemberger
working together at the
Ancient India and Iran Trust

 

 

Professor Jalsan studying Mongolian text.

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