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IAAS Lecture: An Equine Metric for Climate Change?
On Wednesday, February 5th, we will welcome Dr. Aaron Molnar to present his work " An Equine Metric for Climate Change? Using Horse Records to Understand the Medieval Climate Anomaly-Little Ice Age Transition in Inner Asian Borderlands ." This lecture...
Prof. Aaron Molnar headshot

IAAS Lecture: At the Behest of the Tibetan Emporer
On Wednesday, December 4th, we will welcome Prof. Meghan Howard Masang to present her work " At the Behest of the Tibetan Emperor: The Translation Work of a Chinese Monk in Ninth-Century." This lecture will be an in-person event only; there will not be a...
Depiction of the Tibetan emperor on the east wall of Mogao cave 159 (Dunhuang), from the Yale Visual Resources Collection.

IAAS Special Lecture: Mirroring the Crowned Buddha(s)
On Wednesday, November 20th, we will welcome IAAS Doctoral Candidate Xiaotian Yin for a special lecture on " Mirroring the Crowned Buddha(s): Intervisuality and Intertextuality of the Vairocana Imageries in Inner Asia, 9th -11th Century." This lecture...
Xiaotian Yin with at the south Sakya Monastery

IAAS Lecture: Watching Herds
IAAS will welcome Prof. Charlotte Marchina from the National Institute of Oriental Languages ​​and Civilizations (INALCO), Paris, to present her work " Watching herds: multispecies interactions in Mongolian nomadic pastoralism" on Wednesday, October 30...
Charlotte Marchina standing in an office hallway

IAAS Lecture: Keeping the past alive through performing arts
IAAS will welcome Dr. Mukaddas Mijit to present her work " Keeping the past alive through performing arts: music, dance and theater in the Uyghur region and the diaspora" on Wednesday, October 23, 2024 at 1:15 pm. This lecture will be a hybrid event...
Mukaddas Mijit headshot

Film Screening and Discussion: Nikah (The Wedding)
Nikah (“The Wedding”) is a groundbreaking new film by a Uyghur diaspora scholar and artist, Dr. Mukaddas Mijit. The film is a work of fiction, but it takes place in Xinjiang in 2017, when new policies criminalized many Uyghur practices, including...
A bride on her wedding day

IAAS Lecture: Texts on the Wall
IAAS will welcome Dr. Xiaonan Li to present her work " Texts on the Wall: The Sanskrit Inscriptions of the Saṃyuktāgama in the Bezeklik Cave 16 in Xinjiang" on Wednesday, October 2, 2024 at 1:15 pm. This lecture will be a hybrid event. Please join us in...
Xiaonan Li stands in front of snowy trees, bushes and gate

IAAS Lecture: Niṣṭhānanda’s Lalitavistara Project
To begin our Fall Lecture Series, IAAS will welcome Professor Christoph Emmrich from the University of Toronto. He will present his work " Niṣṭhānanda’s Lalitavistara Project: How a Buddhist Priest Gave the Newars Moveable Type, Textualized Their Spoken...
Prof. Christoph Emmrich smiling

IAAS celebrates 50 years!
Faculty, staff, alumni, and current graduate students came together at the Faculty Club to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Inner Asian & Altaic Studies Program. From left to right: Tsybzhid Tcybikova, IAAS alum Dr. Ruohong Li, IAAS Chair Prof...
IAAS Chair Prof. van der Kuijp with IAAS students and IAAS alum Dr. Ruohong Li