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Offered in Person and Virtually! This Time It Will Be Different: State Discourse and Native Response in Xinjiang, 1934-1957

April 06, 2022

Dr. Joshua L. Freeman will be returning to the Harvard Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Program to present his work "This Time It Will Be Different: State Discourse and Native Response in Xinjiang, 1934-195 " On Wednesday, April 6, 2022 at 1:15pm. Register...

FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION : Two Poets and a River

March 23, 2022

Film Screening and Discussion: Two Poets and a River Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 5 p.m. EST (Run time: 2h 4 m) In-person Film Screening Lecture Hall, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts 24 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Free and open to public Thursday...

Deer Stone and Khirigsuur Culture: First Emergence of Inner-Asian Nomadic Empires

March 02, 2022

Dr . Bayarsaikhan Jamsranjav, currently a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for th e Science of Human History i n Germany will present his work "Deer Stone and Khirigsuur Culture: First Emergence of Inner-Asian Nomadic Empires" on March 2, 2022...

IAAS Lecture: Ethnic, Linguistic, and Religious Diversity in Afghanistan, in Historical Perspective

February 16, 2022

Prof. Deborah Klimburg-Salter, Emerita, University of Vienna, and Associate, South Asian Studies, Harvard University will present her work on the ethnic and linguistic diversity of Afghanistan. The abstract may be found here. Online event: Register for...

IAAS Lecture: The Transcultural Features of Mongolia’s Buddhist Manuscripts and Xylographs

February 02, 2022

Please join us online for the first of two February Inner Asian and Altaic Studies lectures. Prof. Vesna Wallace of the University of California, Santa Barbara will present her work ‘ The Transcultural Features of Mongolia’s Buddhist Manuscripts and...

IAAS Graduate Student Zhouyang Ma

January 07, 2022

IAAS Graduate student Zhouyang Ma's recent work on Tangut Translation has been published in C hina Tibetology/Zhongguo zangxue, 2021, “ A Preliminary Analysis of the Tangut Translation of Tshad ma yid kyi mun sel" and a second article was published in the...

Chinese-Speaking Muslims’ Responses to Islamic Intellectual Trends from West, South and Central Asia during the Nineteenth Century

January 07, 2022

Wednesday, January 26, 4:00 - 5:30 pm EST Speaker: Tatsuya Nakanishi (Associate Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2021-22) Chair/discussant: Ali Asani (Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern...

IAAS Lecture: Reincarnations of Power Amongst the Mongols

December 01, 2021

Join us online for the December Inner Asian and Altaic Studies lecture. Prof. Sangsaraima Ujeed, Assitant Professor of Tibetan Buddhism, will present, " Reincarnations of Power Amongst the Mongols: From Möngke Tengri to the Śiditü Lama". Read Abstract...

Graduation congratulations

November 09, 2021

Congratulations to Anne-Sophie Pratte on the conferral of her doctoral degree in Inner Asian and Altaic Studies this November 2021. Anne-Sophie sucessfully defended her dissertation " Mapping Mongolia in the 19th Century: Qing Cartography and the...

IAAS Lecture: Politics and Literature in Mongolia 1921-1948

November 03, 2021

Join us online for a lecture by Simon Wickhamsmith of Rutgers University about Politics and Literature in Mongolia 1921-1948 (abstract) Wednesday, November 3 at 1:15pm Eastern Time. Register to receive Zoom link

2021-22 IAAS Lecture Series: monthly online talks

October 06, 2021

This year's virtual Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series kicked off with a talk by Emily Yeh, Professor of Geography at University of Colorado Boulder. Professor Yeh's multi-faceted presentation of " Pests, Keystone Species and Hungry Ghosts: The...

Harvard Gazette: CAMHS Student Mental Health Hotline 617/495-2042

August 02, 2021

The Harvard Gazette article interviewing Giang Nguyen and Barbara Lewis has just announced a new mental health hotline for Students 617.495.2042.