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) will act as senior consultant.
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.
A Tibetan Woman-Lama and her Reincarnations: a Study
of the Samding Dorje Phagmo (15th-21st Century)
Funded by the
AHRC, this project is directed by Professor Caroline Humphrey in collaboration
with Dr David Sneath (MIASU) and Burkhard Quessel (British Library),
and the principal investigator is Dr Hildegard Diemberger.
The
Treasures of Danzan Ravjaa
Funded by The British
Library Endangered Archives Programme and the Axis Mundi Foundation,
Switzerland, the project aims to preserve a significant aspect of
Mongolia's historical and religious patrimony by digitally scanning
and producing a catalogue of a rare, privately-owned cache of Mongolian
manuscripts recently unearthed from caves near Sainshand, Dorngobi
Province, Mongolia. Co-ordinated by Dr Hildegard Diemberger.
Sacred
Sites in Inner Mongolia-Spatial and Landscape Concepts
This project, funded by the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
(Cambridge) is now entering its fifth year. The project is directed
by Professor Caroline Humphrey with researchers Hürelbaatar (MIASU),
Dr Nasanbayar (Inner Mongolia University), Mönxbuyan (Inner Mongolia
Normal University) and Gai Zhe-yi (Institute of Agricultural Development,
Huhhot, Inner Mongolia). Dr James Laidlaw joined the project in 2002
and a third period of fieldwork at Mergen Monastery, Inner Mongolia,
was carried out by the team during summer 2002. The projects findings
to date have been summarised in two annual reports, which are available
on request. A book is in preparation.
Political
language in democratic Mongolia
A project launched in 2002 by Profesor Caroline Humphrey, who received
funding for it from The Sigrid Rausing Trust and the Isaac Newton
Trust. Dr Hürelbaatar will be working on this project with Professor
Humphrey over the next three years. An article by Professor Humphrey
and Hürelbaatar
on 'The evolution of the idea of 'Törü' was presented at
the 2004 International Symposium on Inner Asian Statecraft and Technologies
of Governance.
Tibetan-Mongolian
Rare Books and Manuscripts Project
This is a three-year project funded by the AHRB and co-ordinated
by Dr Hildegard Diemberger for the cataloguing, microfilming and digitising
of Tibetan and Mongolian texts available at Cambridge, Oxford and The
British Library - primarily the Waddel/Younghusband collection.
Tradition
and Modernity in Tibet and the Himlayas
This is an international co-operative project led by Dr Hildegard Diemberger,
involving Oxford University, The Austrian Academy of Sciences, The Tibetan
Academy of Sciences, The Italian Ev-K2-CNR Committee, the French CNRS
and Columbia University in New York.
Cadres & Discourse
in late Socialism: The USSR, Mongolia & China
A 'Networks'
Grant awarded by the British Academy, supported by The Weatherhead East
Asian Institute, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia
University in New York and CRASSH, The Centre for Research in the Arts,
Social Sciences and Humanities in Cambridge. The co-ordinator for the
Cambridge participants and the event is Dr Hildegard Diemberger.
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