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IAAS Lecture: Early Herders of Inner Asia and Subsistence Transformations in the Altai

March 05, 2025

On Wednesday, March 5th, we will welcome Prof. Taylor Hermes to present his work " Early Herders of Inner Asia and Subsistence Transformations in the Altai ." This lecture will be a hybrid event. Please join us in person in CGIS-S050, 1730 Cambridge...

IAAS Lecture: An Equine Metric for Climate Change?

February 05, 2025

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...

IAAS students dine with IAAS Alumni

February 03, 2025

IAAS Lecture: At the Behest of the Tibetan Emporer

December 04, 2024

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...

IAAS Special Lecture: Mirroring the Crowned Buddha(s)

November 20, 2024

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...

IAAS Lecture: Watching Herds

October 30, 2024

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...

IAAS Lecture: Keeping the past alive through performing arts

October 23, 2024

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...

Film Screening and Discussion: Nikah (The Wedding)

October 22, 2024

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...

IAAS Lecture: Texts on the Wall

October 02, 2024

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...

Save the Date: Crossroads of Civilization

October 01, 2024

IAAS Lecture: Niṣṭhānanda’s Lalitavistara Project

September 18, 2024

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...

IAAS celebrates 50 years!

September 05, 2024

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...