Academic Collaboration
The Unit holds regular research seminars and has frequent visits from international scholars. MIASU has exchange agreements with:

Inner Mongolia University, PRC
Inner Mongolia Normal University, PRC
The School of Mongolian Studies at the National University of Mongolia
The Mongolian Academy of Sciences Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law
The East/Central Europe Research Group, University of Copenhagen
Mongolian State University of Agriculture
Tibetan Academy of Social Sciences
The Centre for Bhutanese Studies

The unit also has close links with other institutions in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia, Austria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Norway, Poland, Russia, Tibet and the USA. The Unit provides a consultancy service and a translation service for academic, business and media projects. The Unit has its own working library and the Owen Lattimore research collection, now housed in the Library of the Faculty of Oriental Studies.

Graduate Studies
The unit supports research at the graduate and post-doctoral level.

M.Phil students:

Paula Haas
Lobsang Yongden
Chime Angadike-Danes

First-year PhD students:

Li Jiarui

Second-year PhD students:

Ross Anthony - on fieldwork in Xinjiang

Third-year PhD students:

Astrid - writing up Mongolian fieldwork
Adrian Zenz - on fieldwork in Qinghai
Jacquie Hobbs - on fieldwork in Qinghai

Frank Billé - on fieldwork in China/Mongolia
Bernard Charlier - writing up fieldwork carried out in Mongolia
Maria-Luisa Nodari - writing up fieldwork carried out in Tibet
Mette High - writing up fieldwork carried out in Mongolia


Fourth-year students:

Ludek Broz - writing up fieldwork carried out in the Altai Republic
Signe Gundersen - writing up fieldwork carried out in Mongolia
Giovanni Da Col - writing up fieldwork carried out in Tibet

Alan Wheeler - writing up work on notions of mobility and space on the Mongolian border with Tuva

Submitted
Jonathan Mair - Inner Mongolian Buddhism
Madeleine Reeves - Border Work: An Ethnographyy of the State at its Limits in the Ferghana Valley

Recent PhDs

Timm Lau - The Tibetan diaspora in India; approaching itinerant trade, popular cultural consumption and diasporic sociality
David Gullette - Kinship, State, and 'Tribalism': The Genealogical Construction of the Kyrgyz Republic
Youngho Nam - Labour relations and concepts of work in Irkutsk
Bum-Ochir Dulam - Respect and Power without Resistance: Investigationof Interpersonal Relationships among the Deed Mongols
Beth Mellor - Social identity in southern Tibet
Vera Skvirskaya - The Yamal Nenets: society and sociality in the post-Socialist context
Youngho Nam - Labour relations and concepts of work in Irkutsk (Siberia)
Tara Sinclair -Contemporary Buddhism in Russia
Lars Hojer - aided by our exchange agreement with the Mongolian Studies Unit of the Mongolian National University, Ulaanbaatar. His research topic is: Dealing with suffering and conflict in North-West Mongolia
Dawn Nafus - Consumption, communication technology and markets in post-Socialist Russia, and she has been based in St. Petersburg

 

Scholarly Exchange Programme

The five-year exchange programme generously supported by the Sigrid Rausing Trust has come to an end, but the Unit plans to advertise further exchange programmes in the future.

The Unit has thirteen Research Associates:
David Gullette (MIASU)
Dr Agnieszka Halemba (University of Halle, Germany)
Dr Christopher Kaplonski (William Paterson University)
Dr Marsha Levine (Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge)
Dr Morten Pedersen (Copenhagen University)
Dr Carole Pegg (Ethnomusicology, Department of Music, University of Cambridge)
Dr Karma Phuntso (MIASU)
Ms Jane Salvage (International health consultant)
Dr Tara Sinclair
Dr Katherine Swancutt (University of Oxford)
Mr Mike Towers (MIASU)
Dr Caroline Upton (Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)
Dr Balzhan Zhimbiev (MIASU)

Publications
The Unit published the first volume of Inner Asia (Link) Occasional Papers in 1995 and further volumes in 1996 & 7. We are grateful to an anonymous donor for a generous grant to cover the cost of publication. In 1999 a subscription journal Inner Asia was first published for the MIASU by White Horse Press. Inner Asia is published twice a year alongside our 'Inner Asia Book Series' and from 2005 publication transferred to Global Oriental Ltd. who specialize in publications on Japan and Asia.

The Language Teaching Programme
MIASU has a language teaching programme with Modern Mongolian and classical script taught at Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced levels. The unit is fortunate in having the services of Mrs Bayarmandakh Gaunt, who is a native Mongolian speaker and Karma Phuntso who has given tuition in Tibetan language. The Unit provides Mongolian language training for students and other members of the University, travellers and English teachers going to Mongolia, and has provided training for Japanese diplomats.

Supervision Programme
Supervisions on the history and culture of Mongolia and adjacent regions, and on anthropological theory, are available for Visiting Scholars and other members of the Unit. Supervisions can also be provided by other areas of the University, such as the Faculty of Law, Social and Political Sciences and Social Anthropology.

The Library
The Unit's Library contains many hundreds of volumes and scholarly papers in 15 languages. Most of the books have been newly indexed this year and catalogued on a computer database. Most users of the library are members of the Unit, but we also respond to occasional enquiries from other parts of the University and members of the public.

The Translation Service
Mrs Bayarmandakh Gaunt provides services as translator and interpreter between the Mongolian and English languages. Clients have included Amnesty International, Home Office Immigration and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Metropolitan Police and the BBC.

Reading materials.