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THREE NEW RESEARCH GRANTS FROM THE AHRC
Black Sea Currents
Professor Caroline Humphrey with Dr Yael Navaro-Yashin and Dr Vera Skvirskaya have been funded by the Migration and Diasporas Programme of the AHRC for a 3-year study entitled ‘Black Sea Currents’ This project aims at comparative analysis of the cosmopolitan dynamics and migration flows of two great Black Sea port cities – Odessa, Ukraine and Istanbul, Turkey – focusing on old and new diasporic subjectivities and identities. Historically it will investigate urban coexistence in the authoritarian Tsarist/Soviet and Ottoman states and the effects of the Cold War and its aftermath. Contemporary research will investigate the residues and memories of these periods, as well as current flows of diverse migrants between the two cities. What is the impact – in particular the cultural impact – of these sporadic, yet repeated, travels across the Black Sea, which until recently seemed to divide the region into different worlds, "European"/"Asian", "Communist"/"non-Communist", and "Christian"/"Muslim"?
Oral History of Mongolia
A co-operative research project between the MIASU and the International Association for Mongol Studies in Ulaanbaatar. The Principal Investigator is Dr David Sneath and the project will be managed by Dr Christopher Kaplonski. Professor Caroline Humphrey (Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge) and Professor Sh Bira (Mongolian Academy of Science) will act as senior consultants. The project will collect over 600 personal oral histories from Mongolians throughout the country to create a publicly accessible, dual-language database of the oral history of twentieth-century Mongolia. The aim is to create a new understanding of individuals’ memories and experiences of state transformation and to document and analyze the remarkable changes that this huge but remote country has experienced This project will help preserve Mongolian cultural and historical heritage and further develop collaborative anthropological and historial research projects between Mongolia and the UK.
The Historical Study and Documentation of the Pad gling traditions in Bhutan
Dr Stephen Hugh-Jones and Dr Hildegard Diemberger have been awarded funds for a 5-year project with Dr Karma Phuntso as the researcher, which will study the Pad gling Traditon, one of the two major religious traditions in the Kingdom of Bhutan. The project aims to assess the religious, cultural and political role of the institution and its members in Bhutanese history and in the greater Tibetan Buddhist world. The literature connected with the tradition will be digitized, the original manuscripts and wood block prints will be preserved and deposited in local archives and the British Library and the entire textual corpus will be entered into a complete xml catalogue.
Lent 2007 Research Seminar Programme