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Three Uyghur Poets Exhibit , February 14-March 29, 2019 An exhibit of work by three contemporary Uyghur poets, with translations by Ph.D. Candidate Joshua Freeman (Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies), is on display in the Asian Centers' Lounge...

From Warriors to Violence: Gender Based Violence in Mongolia Guest speaker: Bayartsetseg Jigmiddash (LLM’08) , Fellow at Yale University; Former Secretary of State for the Ministry of Justice, Mongolia (2012-2016) Mrs. Bayartsetseg Jigmiddash is Mongolian...

Dr. Ashurov is a visiting scholar in NELC at Harvard. Join us Wednesday February 20 (1:15 pm, CGIS-South S250) for his lecture on Marks of Faith: Observation on Christian Iconography of the Sogdian Coins Ol’ga Smirnova one of the eminent Russian...

Looting and Climate Change Threaten Mongolia's Archaeology and Cultural Heritage The illegal looting of archaeological sites and shifting climate norms are not new phenomena in Mongolia, as in much of the world. However, there is increasing evidence that...

The Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies is pleased to announce the 2018 Joseph Fletcher Memorial Lecture From Turco-Mongolian Dual Kingship to Power Sharing: Questions of Theory and Practice by Professor İsenbike Togan AM '69, PhD '73, Boğaziçi...

Join us for the next IAAS Lecture at 1:15 pm in CGIS South Building, Room S250, 1730 Cambridge Street. Historian Stacey Van Vleet, Assistant Professor at Indiana University and visiting Fellow at Harvard EALC (2018-19) will speak about her current book...

If you missed the October 9 lecture on Recent Developments in Xinjiang by Dr. Adrian Zenz, moderated by Prof. Mark Elliott, listen to the Fairbank Center's audio recording here . Zenz's talk was also mentioned in a Washington Post opinion piece, China...

Congratulations to Jeff Eden (IAAS PhD '16) on the publication of his new book, "Slavery and Empire in Central Asia," Cambridge University Press, July 2018. Jeff Eden is Assistant Professor of History at St. Mary's College of Maryland.