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In October Caroline Humphrey was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of the National
University of Mongolia at a reception at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hosted by Danis MacSane, Minister of State, on behalf of the Prime Minister
of Mongolia, H.A. Nambaryn Enkhbayar. The award was made by Professor Bat-Ireedui
of the National University and Professor Humphrey made a short speech of thanks.
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.