# 2025-26 Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series ### *We are pleased to announce the* ### *Inner Asian and Altaic Studies 2025-26 Lecture Series* --- ### April 1, 2026 ***Before Kamikaze: Diplomatic Negotiations among the Mongols, Japan, and Korea before 1274 Bun'ei Campaign (***[***abstract***](https://iaas.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/2025-09/Nie%20Abstract%20for%20website_0.pdf)***)*** Prof. Lina Nie (RSEA '18), Texas A&M University 1:15 pm ET in S030 CGIS-South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge This event is co-sponsored with the Korea Institute and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University. ![Lina Nie headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/styles/hwp_1_1__480x480/public/2025-09/lina-nie-headshot.jpg?itok=eFrq7nd1) --- ## *IAAS Cosponsored Events* ### March 27, 2026 ***A****gainst Erasure: Uyghur Poems, Imprisoned Souls, and the Act of Resistance*** *Aziz Isa Elkun, a prominent Uyghur poet, researcher and human rights advocate* *4:00 pm at S050 CGIS-South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge* *This New Directions Workshop is sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and cosponsored by the Harvard Kennedy School Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights and the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies, Harvard University.* ![Aziz Isa Elkun_headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/styles/hwp_1_1__480x480/public/2026-03/Aziz%20Isa%20Elkun.jpeg?itok=bRZEy4YK) ## *Upcoming IAAS Lectures Series* ### *Fall 2026* ### Fall 2026 ***Title to be announced*** Prof. James Millward, Georgetown University 1:15 pm ET in S050 CGIS-South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge ![IAAS Lecture Series](/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/styles/hwp_1_1__480x480/public/2024-06/IAAS%20lecture%20image_website.jpg?itok=aDhb-2-5) ### Fall 2026 ***Muslim Transnationalism in Modern China: Debates on Hui Identity and Islamic Reform (***[***abstract***](https://iaas.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/2025-09/Eroglu%20Abstract%20for%20website.pdf)***)*** Prof. Hale Eroglu (IAAS '16), Bogazici University 1:15 pm ET in S050 CGIS-South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge ![Hale Eroglu photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/styles/hwp_1_1__480x480/public/2025-09/Eroglu%2CHale_photo.png?itok=x_m7LGXd) ## Previous IAAS Lectures Open all sections Close all sections ### IAAS Lecture Series Academic Year 2025-2026 expand\_more *February 4,, 2026 at 1:15 pm ET* *CGIS-S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA* ***The Advent of Nomadic Pastoralism in Northeast Asia: An evolving synthesis (***[***abstract***](https://iaas.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/2025-09/Wright%20Abstract%20for%20website.pdf)***)*** Prof. Joshua Wright, University of Aberdeen *October 1, 2025 at 1:15 pm ET* *CGIS-S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA* ***Learning from the Experts: Ethnoarchaeological insights on multispecies lifeways and mobile settlement among North and Inner Asian hunter-reindeer herders (***[***abstract***](https://iaas.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/2025-09/Piezonka%20abstract_011025.pdf)***)*** Prof. Henny Piezonka, Freie Universität, Berlin *November 5, 2025 at 4:00 pm ET* *CGIS-S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA* ***Islamic China: Sino-Indian entanglement and the myth of the Han Kitab (***[***abstract***](https://iaas.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/2025-10/Thum%20Abstract_0.pdf)***)*** Prof. Rian Thum (IAAS '10), University of Manchester *November 19, 2025 at 1:15 pm ET* *CGIS-S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA* ***The Black Collapse: Plague in Tibet (***[***abstract***](https://iaas.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/2025-10/McGrath%20abstract.pdf)***)*** Prof. William McGrath, New York University *December 3, 2025 at 1:15 pm ET* *CGIS-S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA* ***Special Lecture:** **Carrying the Qara Shanyraq: Craft and the Everyday Politics of Patrimony in Mongolian Kazakh Households*** Kristen Pearson (IAAS ABD), Harvard University ### IAAS Lecture Series Academic Year 2024-2025 expand\_more *September 18, 2024 at 1:15 pm ET* *CGIS-S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA* ***Niṣṭhānanda’s Lalitavistara Project: How a Buddhist Priest Gave the Newars Moveable Type, Textualized Their Spoken Language, and Fitted Much of their Narrative Literature into the Buddha’s Life (***[***abstract***](https://iaas.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/2024-09/Emmrich%2CChristoph%20IAAS%20Lecture%20abstract_18Sept24.pdf)***)*** *Prof. Christoph Emmrich, University of Toronto* *October 2, 2024 at 1:15 pm ET* *CGIS-S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA* ***Texts on the Wall: The Sanskrit Inscriptions of the Saṃyuktāgama in the Bezeklik Cave 16 in Xinjiang (***[***abstract***](https://iaas.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/2024-09/Li%2CXiaonan%20IAAS%20Lecture%20abstract_2Oct24.pdf)***)*** *Dr. Xiaonan Li, Peking University* *October 23, 2024 at 1:15 pm ET* *CGIS-S030, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA* ***Keeping the past alive through performing arts: music, dance and theater in the Uyghur region and the diaspora*** *Dr. Mukaddas Mijit, Université Libre de Bruxelles* *October 30, 2024 at 1:15 pm ET* *CGIS-S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA* ***Watching herds: multispecies interactions in Mongolian nomadic pastoralism (***[***abstract***](https://iaas.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/2024-09/Marchina%2CCharlotte%20IAAS%20Lecture%20abstract_30Oct24.pdf)***)*** *Prof. Charlotte Marchina, National Institute of Oriental Languages ​​and Civilizations (INALCO), Paris* *November 20, 2024 at 1:15 pm ET* *CGIS-S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA* ***Mirroring the Crowned Buddha(s): Intervisuality and Intertextuality of the Vairocana Imageries in Inner Asia, 9th -11th Century (***[***abstract***](https://iaas.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/2024-10/20Nov%20Yin%20Lecture%20Flyer_FINAL%20v2.pdf)***)*** *Xiaotian Yin, Harvard University* *December 4, 2024 at 1:15 pm ET* *CGIS-S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA* ***At the Behest of the Tibetan Emperor: The Translation Work of a Chinese Monk in Ninth-Century Dunhuang (***[***abstract***](https://iaas.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/2024-09/Howard%20Masang%2CMeghan%20IAAS%20Lecture%20abstract_4Dec24.pdf)***)*** *Prof. Meghan Howard Masang, Yale University* *February 5, 2025 at 1:15 pm ET* *CGIS-S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA* ***An Equine Metric for Climate Change? Using Horse Records to Understand the Medieval Climate Anomaly-Little Ice Age Transition in Inner Asian Borderlands (***[***abstract***](https://iaas.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/2024-09/Molnar%2CAaron%20IAAS%20Lecture%20abstract_5Feb25.pdf)***)*** *Dr. Aaron Molnar, Harvard University* *March 5, 2025 at 1:15 pm ET* *CGIS-S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA* ***Early Herders of Inner Asia and Subsistence Transformations in the Altai (***[***abstract***](https://iaas.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/2025-02/Hermes%2C%20Taylor%20IAAS%20Lecture%20abstract_5Mar25.pdf)***)*** *Prof. Taylor Hermes, University of Arkansas* ### IAAS Lecture Series Academic Year 2023-2024 expand\_more *October 4, 2023 at 1:15 pm ET* *In person, CGIS-S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA* ***A Preliminary Analysis of Core Textual Sources on Alchemical Recipes and Alexipharmics Preserved in the Brang ti lha rje’i rim brgyud kyi man ngag gser bre chen mo (***[*abstract*](/file_url/255)***)*** *Prof. Carmen Simioli, University of Naples* *November 1, 2023 at 1:15pm ET* *In person, CGIS-S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA* ***DOMESTICATED: How cultivated species impacted ancient Silk Road societies (***[*abstract*](/file_url/256)***)*** *Prof. Alicia Ventresca-Miller, University of Michigan* *December 6, 2023 at 1:15pm ET* *In person, CGIS-S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA* ***(Means of) Valid Cognition (pramāṇa: tshad ma) in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Sources (***[*abstract*](/file_url/257)***)*** *Prof. Dorji Wangchuk, University of Hamburg* *February 7, 2024 at 1:15pm ET* *In person, CGIS-S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA* ***Buddhism and Politics in 17th-c. Mongolia (***[***abstract***](/file_url/258)***)*** *Prof. Agata Bareja-Starzyńska, University of Warsaw* *March 6, 2024 at 1:15pm ET* *In person, CGIS-S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA* ***Why does the history of medicine matter to the study of the Silk Roads? (***[*abstract*](/file_url/253)***)*** *Prof. Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, University of London* *April 3, 2024 at 1:15pm ET* *In person, CGIS-S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA* ***Dairy Cultures and the milk paradox of the Eurasian steppe (***[*abstract*](/file_url/264)***)*** *Prof. Christina Warinner, Harvard University* ### IAAS Lectures Series Academic Year 2022-2023 expand\_more *October 5, 2022 at 1:15 pm ET* *In person, CGIS-S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA* ***The Gerays and Ottomans: Two Dynasties in Alliance and Rivalry*** [***(abstract)***](/file_url/220) *Prof. Hakan Kirimli, Bilkent University, Ankara, Türkiye* *co-sponsored by the CMES Sohbet-i Osmani lecture series* *November 2, 2022 at 1:15pm ET* *In person, CGIS-S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA* ***Internationalist Romance and Translation in the Turcosphere, 1941-1964 (***[***abstract***](/file_url/222)***)*** *Prof. Samuel Hodgkin, Yale University* *December 7, 2022 at 1:15pm ET* *In person, CGIS-S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA* ***Eternal Silk Road? New Archaeological Data from Bukhara and its Hinterland (***[***abstract***](/file_url/225)***)*** *Prof. Sören Stark, New York University* *February 1, 2023 at 1:15pm ET* *In person, CGIS-S250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA* ***In the Forest of the Blind: Making and Unmaking Buddhist Asia With Faxian (***[***abstract***](/file_url/231)***)*** *Prof. Matthew King, University of California Riverside* *March 3, 2023 Friday at 1:15pm ET* *In person, CGIS-S250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA* ***Using Big Data to Think through Tibetan History (***[***abstract***](/file_url/228)***)*** *Prof. Gray Tuttle, Columbia University (RSEA '96, IAAS '02)* *April 5, 2023 at 1:15pm ET* *In person, CGIS-S250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA* ***Inner Asia in the Anthropocene: Towards a Global Environmental History (***[***abstract***](/file_url/240)***)*** *Prof. Sulmaan Khan, Tufts University* ### IAAS Lectures Series Academic Year 2021-2022 expand\_more *October 6, 2021 at 1:15 pm EST* ***Pests, Keystone Species and Hungry Ghosts: The Gesar Epic and Human - Pika Relations on the Tibetan Plateau*** [*Abstract*](/file_url/196) *Prof. Emily Yeh, University of Colorado Boulder* *November 3, 2021 at 1:15pm EST* ***Politics and Literature in Mongolia 1921-1948*** [*Abstract*](/file_url/198) *Dr. Simon Wickhamsmith, Rutgers University* *December 1, 2021 at 1:15pm EST* ***Reincarnations of Power Amongst the Mongols: From Möngke Tengri to the Śiditü Lama*** [*Abstract*](/file_url/199) *Prof. Sangseraima Ujeed, University of Michigan* *February 2, 2022 at 1:15pm EST* ***The Transcultural Features of Mongolia’s Buddhist Manuscripts and Xylographs*** [*Abstract*](/file_url/201) *Prof. Vesna Wallace, University of California, Santa Barbara* *February 16, 2022 at 1:15pm EST* ***Ethnic, Linguistic, and Religious Diversity in Afghanistan, in Historical Perspective*** [*Abstract*](/file_url/203) *Prof. Deborah Klimburg-Salter, Emerita, University of Vienna, and Associate, South Asian Studies, Harvard University* *March 2, 2022 at 1:15pm EST* ***Deer Stone, Khirigsuur Culture: First Emergence of Inner Asian Nomadic Empires*** [*Abstract*](/file_url/205) *Dr. Bayarsaikhan Jamsranjav, National Museum of Mongolia* *April 6, 2022 at 1:15pm EST ~**This is a hybrid event~*** ***In person,** CGIS-S250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA (Masks are required.)* ***This Time It Will Be Different: State Discourse and Native Response in Xinjiang, 1934-1957*** [*Abstract*](/file_url/210) *Dr. Joshua Freeman, Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, Princeton University* ### IAAS Lecture Series Academic Year 2020-2021 expand\_more *September 16, 2020, at 1:15 PM ET* ***The Secret Life of a Turkic Lexeme: Grammaticalization in Modern Uyghur*** [*Abstract and Bio*](/file_url/179) ***Dr. Gülnar Eziz**, Preceptor in Uyghur and Chaghatay Languages, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University* *October 7, 2020, at 1:15 PM ET* ***A Tangle of Hair-Knots: Uṣṇīṣa Buddhas and Intertextuality in Early Tibet*** [*Abstract*](/file_url/180) ***Prof. Jacob Dalton**, Khyentse Foundation Distinguished University Professor in Tibetan Buddhism, UC Berkeley* *November 4, 2020, at 1:15 PM ET* ***The Circulation of Medicine and Notions of Healing in Early 20th Century Chinese Turkestan via Network Analysis*** [*Abstract*](/file_url/181) ***Prof. Arienne Dwyer,** Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, University of Kansas* *December 2, 2020, at 1:15 PM ET* ***Smallpox Against Itself: Exploring the History of Inoculation in Tibet*** [*Abstract*](/file_url/182) ***Dr. Lobsang Yongdan**, Research Fellow, University of Bonn* *February 3, 2021, at 1:15 pm ET* ***Settler Nativization in the Inner Eurasian Borderlands of the Qing and Russian Empires*** [*Abstract*](/file_url/186) ***Wei-chieh Tsai**, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Shenzhen University* *March 3, 2021, at 1:15 pm ET* ***Scientific Exchange at the Courts of Mehmed II and Bayezid II*** [*Abstract* ](/file_url/187) ***Robert Morrison**, Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Bowdoin College* *April 7, 2021, at 1:15 pm ET* ***The Invisible Outsider: Non-Chinese "Chinese" Art in the Harvard Art Museums*** [*Abstract*](/file_url/188) ***Sarah Laursen**, Alan J. Dworsky Associate Curator of Chinese Art at the Harvard Art Museum* ### IAAS Lecture Series Academic Year 2019-2020 expand\_more ***The Green-Eyed Lama (Ногоон нуден лам): Reflections on her best-selling novel and Mongolia's recent history*** [*Description*](/node/1469668) *Oyungerel Tsedevdamba, former Member of the Mongolian Parliament and former Minister of Sports, Culture and Tourism* *October 16, 2019, 1:15 pm* ***Dangling Threads to Examine the Channels: Tales of Pulse Diagnosis in Tibetan and Chinese Literature*** [*Abstract*](/news/iaas-lecture-william-mcgrath "IAAS Lecture by William McGrath") *William McGrath, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Manhattan College* *November 6, 2019, 1:15 pm* ***Why Pots (Don't) Matter: Complexity in Bronze Age Eurasia*** [*Abstract*](/event/iaas-lecture-professor-paula-dupuy "IAAS Lecture by Professor Paula Dupuy") *Paula Dupuy, Assistant Professor of Anthropoogy, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan* *December 4, 2019, 1:15 pm* ***Monastic Wealth in Qing China's Buddhist Inner Asia*** [*Abstract*](/event/iaas-lecture-professor-lan-wu "IAAS Lecture by Professor Lan Wu") *Lan Wu, Assistant Professor of History, Mount Holyoke College* ***Feburary 5**, 1:15 pm* ***Manchu Archives and the Cartographic Knowledge of the Northeast in the Huangyu Quanlan Tu*** [*Abstract*](/file_url/178) *Kicengge (Chengzhi), Professor, Institute of Liberal Arts, Otemon Gakuin University, Japan; Visiting Research Scholar at EALC, Harvard University (April 2019 - March 2020)* ***February 12**, 1:15 pm* ***Abodes of Alien Ancestors: Buddhist Geography and Genealogy in 18th-Century Beijing*** [*Abstract*](/news/iaas-lecture-prof-wen-shing-chou "IAAS Lecture by Prof. Wen-shing Chou") *Wen-shing Chou, Associate Professor of Chinese Art, Hunter College* ***March 4,** 1:15 pm* *Postponed until 2020-21 Lecture Series:* ***The Circulation of Medicine and Notions of Healing in Early 20th Century Chinese Turkestan via Network Analysis*** [*Abstract*](/event/iaas-lecture-prof-arienne-dwyer "IAAS Lecture by Professor Arienne Dwyer - Postponed") *Arienne Dwyer, Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, University of Kansas* *Date to be announced* ### IAAS Lecture Series Academic Year 2018-2019 expand\_more *October 3, 2018, 1:15 pm* ***Wisdom of Royal Glory(Kutadgu Bilig) and the Persian Connection: The Sources of a Turko-Islamic Mirror for Princes*** *Prof. Robert Dankoff, University of Chicago* *Tuesday, October 9, 2018,4:00 pm* ***Recent Developments in Xinjiang*** *Dr. Adrian Zenz, European School of Culture and Theology* *Moderated by Prof. Mark Elliott, Harvard University* *Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center, the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, and the East Asian Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School.* *November 7, 2018, 1:15 pm* ***Precious Pills and the Politics of Tibetan Learning in Qing China*** *Prof. Stacey Van Vleet,Indiana University, and Harvard EALC Fellow 2018-19* *December 5, 2018, 5:00 pm* ***Joseph Fletcher Memorial LectureFrom Turco-Mongolian Dual Kingship to Power Sharing: Questions of Theory and Practice*** *Prof. İsenbike Togan (AM' 69, PhD '73), Boğaziçi University, Turkey* *February 6, 2019, 1:15 pm* ***Looting and Climate Change Threaten Mongolia's Achaeology and Cultural Heritage*** *Dr. Julia Clark, NOMAD Science; and American Center for Mongolian Studies, Ulaanbaatar* [*Abstract and speaker bio here*](/news/upcoming-iaas-lecture-julia-k-clark " IAAS Lecture on Threats to Archaeology in Mongolia by Julia K. Clark") *February 20, 2019, 1:15 pm* ***Marks of Faith: Observation on Christian Iconography of the Sogdian Coins*** *Dr. Barakatullo Ashurov, Visiting Scholar in NELC, Harvard University* *March 6, 2019, 1:15 pm* ***From Warriors to Violence: Gender Based Violence in Mongolia*** *Mrs. Bayartsetseg Jigmiddash (LLM '08) Fellow, Yale University; Former Secretary of State for the Ministry of Justice, Mongolia (2012-2016).* [*Speaker bio*](/news/iaas-lecture-gender-based-violence-mongolia "IAAS Lecture: Gender Based Violence in Mongolia")*.* *April 3, 2019, 1:15 pm* ***A Colonial Muslim History of Qing Central Asia: Revisiting Sayrāmī'sTārīkh-i Ḥamīdī*** *Prof. Eric Schluessel (PhD '16), University of Montana* [*Abstract and speaker bio here*](/news/iaas-lecture-prof-eric-schluessel "IAAS Lecture by Prof. Eric Schluessel") ### IAAS Lecture Series Academic Year 2017-2018 expand\_more Lectures are held on **Wednesdays at 1:00 pm** *October 4, 2017 **Prof. Robert Mayer**, Oxford University* *Rethinking the Tibetan Treasure Tradition* *1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS South Building, Room S153* *November 1, 2017 **Dr. Berthe Jansen**, Leiden University* *The Legal Role of the Monastery in Pre-modern Tibet* *1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS South Building, Room S153* *December 6, 2017 **Prof. Christopher Atwood**, University of Pennsylvania* *The Manuscript Mong. 75 and Mongolian Apocalyptic Writings in the Fourteenth Century Crisis* *1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS South Building, Room S250* *January 31, 2018 **Prof. Kirill Solonin,** Renmin University of China* *How Tanguts Understood Themselves: Evidence from Native Texts* *1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS South Building, Room S250* *February 7, 2018 **Prof. Beatrice Manz**, Tufts University* *Tribes, Armies and Empires: Reflections on the Social Morphology of Pastoral Nomads* *1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS South Building, Room S250* *March 7, 2018 **Prof. Imre Hamar**, Eötvös LorándUniversity* *The Influence of the Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra in Central Asia1* *730 Cambridge Street, CGIS South Building, Room S250* *Co-sponsored with the Department of South Asian Studies* *April 4, 2018 **Prof. Tansen Sen**, NYU Shanghai* *The Mongols and the Changing Patterns of Indian Ocean Interactions* *1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS South Building, Room S250* *April 18, 2018 **Prof. Minoru Inaba**, University of Kyoto* *Did the Hindu Kush Really Kill Indians? Geography and Historical Routes Across Afghanistan* *1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS South Building, Room S250* ## IAAS Co-sponsored Events Open all sections Close all sections ### IAAS Co-Sponsored Events 2024-25 expand\_more *April 16, 2025 at 11:30 pm ET* *Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge* ***Indigenous Narrative: The Dynamic Biographies of gShen-rab Mi-bo, Founder of the Tibetan Bon Religion (***[***abstract***](https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/indigenous-narrative-the-dynamic-biographies-of-gshen-rab-mi-bo-founder-of-tibetan-bon-religion/)***)*** *HYI Visiting Scholar Prof. Konchok Tsering, School for Tibetan Studies, Minzu University of China* *This event is co-sponsored with the Harvard-Yenching Institute and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.* ### IAAS Co-Sponsored Events 2022-23 expand\_more *October 19, 2022 **Wednesday at 5:00pm ET** ~ This event will be in person only ~* *In person, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA* ***Renunciation and the Practice of Care: Himalayan Buddhist Embodiments of Longing and Devotion*** *Prof. Annabella Pitkin, Lehigh University* *This event is co-sponsored by the Committee on the Study of Religion, the Mahindra Humanities Center, the Asia Center.* *February 13, 2023 **Monday at 4:00pm ET*** *In person, Yenching Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA* ***Curating a Museum of Stones: The “Forest of Stelae” (Beilin) and the Politics of the Past in Middle Period China (***[*abstract*](/file_url/236)***)*** *Prof. Xin Wen, Princeton University (RSEA '11, IAAS '17)* *This event is co-sponsored by China Humanities Seminar.* *February 22, 2023 **Wednesday at 5:00pm ET** ~ This event will be in person only ~* *In person, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA\\* ***Marginal Comedy and the Production of Sutras in 9th-Century Dunhuang (***[*abstract*](/file_url/237)***)*** *Prof. Brandon Dotson, Georgetown University* *This Harvard Buddhist Studies Forum event is co-sponsored by the Committee on the Study of Religion, the Mahindra Humanities Center, and the Harvard Divinity School.* ### IAAS Co-Sponsored Events 2020-21 expand\_more Tuesday, November 3, 2020 | 4-5:30pm [Mobility, Power, and Knowledge in the Mongol Empire](https://islamicstudies.harvard.edu/event/seminar-mobility-power-and-knowledge-mongol-empire-ahmed-al-rahim) **Ahmed al-Rahim**, Associate Professor and Director of Islamic Studies, University of Virginia Sponsored by The Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program and the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies. ### IAAS Co-sponsored Events 2019-20 expand\_more Exhibit: [Elegy To A Uyghur Dreamscape](https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/exhibition-elegy-to-a-uyghur-dreamscape-%D9%82%DB%95%D8%B3%D9%89%D8%AF%DB%95-%D8%A6%DB%87%D9%8A%D8%BA%DB%87%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%89%DA%AD-%D8%A6%DB%87%D9%8A%D9%82%DB%87%D8%B3%D9%89%D8%B2-%DA%86%DB%88/) Photography exhibition depicting everyday life in Xinjiang, China’s westernmost region. The photographs, taken by [Lisa Ross](http://www.studiolisaross.com/projects/i-cant-sleep.php), depict beds and their occupants outside in the open air. Sleeping outdoors is a traditional means to keep cool in the hot desert climate for many Uyghurs, Xinjiang’s Muslim-majority ethnic group. This way of life, however, is rapidly disappearing under the Chinese government’s mass detentions of many of the region’s residents. Read the [Fairbank Center’s introduction to the exhibition, accompanied by translations in Uyghur and Chinese](https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/exhibition-elegy-to-a-uyghur-dreamscape-%D9%82%DB%95%D8%B3%D9%89%D8%AF%DB%95-%D8%A6%DB%87%D9%8A%D8%BA%DB%87%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%89%DA%AD-%D8%A6%DB%87%D9%8A%D9%82%DB%87%D8%B3%D9%89%D8%B2-%DA%86%DB%88/). The exhibit is co-sponsored by the [Harvard University Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies](/), [Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies](https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/), [Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies](https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/), and the [Harvard Asia Center Arts Initiative](https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/); with support from the Provostial Fund Committee, Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities **February 25 - March 29, 2020**, [CGIS South Building](https://cgis.fas.harvard.edu/about) Concourse, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA. [View the exhibit online on the Harvard Asia Center website](https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/announcements/online-exhibition-elegy-uyghur-dreamscape) [Surveilled, Detained, Disappeared: Repression in Xinjiang](https://hls.harvard.edu/event/surveilled-detained-disappeared-repression-in-xinjiang/) A discussion with Sophie Richardson, China Director at Human Rights Watch, and Rayhan Asat (HLS LLM ’16) international lawyer. Moderated by Professor William Alford, Director of East Asian Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. Hosted by Harvard Law School Advocates for Human Rights, East Asian Legal Studies at HLS, and the Program of Law and Society in the Muslim World. Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Harvard Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies, and the Harvard Muslim Law Students Association. **Monday, March 9, 2020, 12pm to 1pm** Harvard Law School, WCC 2009 Classroom [Read more about Co-Sponsored Event: Surveilled, Detained, Disappeared: Repression in Xinjiang](/event/co-sponsored-event-surveilled-detained-disappeared-repression-xinjiang "Co-Sponsored Event: Surveilled, Detained, Disappeared: Repression in Xinjiang") [Read a summary of the March 9 discussion written by the Human Rights Program at HLS ](/news/recap-panel-discussion-hls-repression-xinjiang "HLS Human Rights Program's summary of March 9 discussion of Repression in Xinjiang") ### IAAS Co-sponsored Events 2018-19 expand\_more **Exhibit: Three Uyghur Poets** 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. On display in the Asian Centers' Lounge, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge from February 14 - March 29, 2019. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and the Harvard University Asia Center. [Read more about IAAS student Josh Freeman exhibits translations of Uyghur poems](/news/iaas-student-josh-freeman-exhibits-his-work-uyghur-poets-through-march-29 "IAAS student Josh Freeman exhibits translations of Uyghur poems") ### IAAS Co-sponsored Events 2016-17 expand\_more **Co-Sponsored Talk:** ["The historical geographic background of the Silk Road"](/event/co-sponsored-inner-asian-and-altaic-studies-and-fairbank-center-chinese-studies "Co-sponsored by Inner Asian and Altaic Studies and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies "The historical geographic background of the Silk Road" Prof. Ge Jianxiong - Institute of Historical Geography, Fudan University ") Prof. Ge Jianxiong, Institute of Historical Geography, Fudan University November 21, 2016 5-6 pm, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall 110 Co-sponsored by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies **Film screening:** ["The Eagle Huntress" by Otto Bell ](/event/nner-asian-and-altaic-studies-lecture-series-co-sponsored-harvard-art-museums-film "nner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series - Co-sponsored with Harvard Art Museums Film Screening: "The Eagle Huntress", a film by Otto Bell Harvard Art Museums, 0505 - Menschel Hall") Film screening co-sponsored by the Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series and the Harvard Art Museums March 23, 2017 6:00 pm, Harvard Art Museums, 0505 - Menschel Hall ### IAAS Co-sponsored Events 2014-15 expand\_more Film screening: ["The Land of Many Palaces" ](/event/land-many-palaces-film-screening-discussion ""The Land of Many Palaces" Film Screening & Discussion. ") Film screening followed by discussion with directors Adam Smith and Song Ting. Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies January 30, 2015 7:30pm CGIS Belfer Case Study Room (S020), South Building 1730 Cambridge Street ### IAAS Co-sponsored Events 2012-13 expand\_more Talk: ["From Muslim Historiography to National History: Early Uyghur Historiography in Kazakhstan"](/event/iaas-lecture-dr-ablet-kamalov-turan-university-almaty-kazakhstan-tba "IAAS Lecture, Dr. Ablet Kamalov, Turan University, Almaty, Kazakhstan: "From Muslim Historiography to National History: Early Uyghur Historiography in Kazakhstan"") Dr. Ablet Kamalov, Turan University, Almaty, Kazakhstan March 26, 2013, 4-5pm CGIS Knafel North Building, Room K262, 1737 Cambridge Street Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series event co-sponsored by the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, the Harvard University Asia Center, and the Davis Center for Eurasian and Russian Studies