Fin février 2021
3 mars 2021 : conference de Timothy Brook, “Why Chinggis Khan can’t get an exit visa: China’s Great State legacy“
Abstract: Last October, the Nantes History Museum announced that its unprecedented exhibition on the Mongol empire would be delayed until 2024 due to interference from the Chinese government, which forbade the museum from using either “Mongol empire” or “Gengis Khan” in the exhibition’s title. According to Director Bertrand Guillet, the “ethical choice” was to mount the exhibition without Chinese cooperation. More than just another soft power blunder, PRC pressure reflects multiple aspects of the centuries-long relationship between Mongolia and China. The lecturer will invoke the key Mongol concept of the Great State to analyze the current state of affairs.
This event is a part of the lecture series “China, Inner Asia, and the World: Mongol and Qing Empires in Comparative Perspectives” sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University.
Contact Information : Ling-Wei Kung : lk2627@columbia.edu
5 mars 2021 : Conférence d’A. Thomas, “Nomads in Early Soviet Central Asia“
Cambridge Central Asia Forum in collaboration with the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge and GCRF COMPASS Project invite you to the 2021 Lent Term Seminar Series.
11-1pm (UK time)
For further information please contact Prajakti Kalra : pk315@cam.ac.uk
Lien zoom & Access Passcode: 7Mlz8!md
10 mars 2021 : ACMS online field school 2021: Digitizing Mongolian
With Marissa J. Smith (PhD).
mfs@mongoliacenter.org
2021 : Séminaire des Études mongoles & Sibériennes
Organisé par Isabelle Charleux, Grégory Delaplace et Virginie Vaté de janvier à mai 2021, un mercredi sur deux(sauf vacances scolaires), de 14h-16h, en ligne.
À noter : à partir du 10 mars, le séminaire du Centre d’études mongoles et sibériennes fait également office de séminaire de master EPHE, validable aussi par les étudiants de l’EHESS et de l’INALCO.
3 mars 2021 : Amgalan Sukhbaatar (GSRL-EPHE), “Invisible power and visible urbanism: Tracking the views of different urban actors on the urban present and the urban future of Ulaanbaatar”
Abstract : Are the current urban problems of Ulaanbaatar really caused by the development strategies and urban planning? Who are the key urban actors? How do they act and adapt in the current urbanisation context? What could be possibly the invisible power or power relations in visible urbanism? What are the views of urban actors on the urban present and the future? This presentation focuses the mixed or urban level of social practices including urban planning process, its implementation and actual changes of the residential micro-district during the last three decades, 1990-2020, while exploring macro and micro level of social practices including the foundation of a legal system, legal framework, urban governance process, key actors of three areas, state/municipality, private sector and civil society, and their actions. The main objective aims to emphasise the real power or force behind the activities shaping present urbanism, and highlight key tendencies for the future.
Programme
17 mars 2021 : Véronique Gruca (doctorante LESC, CEFRES), “Retour sur l’expérience d’un confinement partagé avec une famille bouriate en Mongolie”
31 mars 2021 : Anne Dalles (GSRL), “La présence orthodoxe chez les Nanaïs dans la région de l’Amour: négociations et compromis”
14 avril 2021 : Anna Dupuy (Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale), “L’identité pastorale mongole dans les mouvements de réduction des déchets et de protection de l’environnement en Mongolie”
12 mai 2021 : David Koester (University of Alaska, Fairbanks), “The Itelmen Khodila as a Song Genre : Marking consciousness, time and nature”
19 mai 2021 : Marie Favereau (Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre), “La Horde d’Or et ses héritages (Islam, Russie, Europe)”
2020-2021 : Séminaire du MIASU
Les séminaires du Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit de Cambridge sont accessibles sur demande : miasu-admin@socanth.cam.ac.uk
Programme
9 March : Yana Bezirganova (Birmingham City University & University of Kent), “Writing Buryatia: the Future of Mongolian Script”
2021 : Introduction à la philologie du chinois : l’épigraphie de la dynastie Yuan
Cours d’Alice Crowther (CRCAO) le jeudi, de 14h à 16h à partir du 18 février 2021, en visio-conférence jusqu’aux vacances de Pâques.
Épigraphie multilingue ; stèles en langue vernaculaire (白話碑) ; stèles généalogiques ; introduction à la bibliographie de la dynastie Yuan.
Contact : alice.crowther@ephe.sorbonne.fr
1er mars 2021 : Appel à communication « Life along the River »
L’Université de Columbia lance un appel à communications pour un colloque intitulé “Life along the River: Interactions between Human Societies and Valley Environments in the Convergence Zone of the Inner Asian Highlands, 1600s-1950s” prévu en juillet 2021.
Conférence du MIASU Research Seminar avec Kenneth Linden: Veterinary Science, Zud, and Wolves : Environmental and Animal History of Collectivization in Mongolia
Abstract: The Mongolian People’s Republic, the second socialist country in the world, embarked on its second and ultimately successful collectivization campaign from 1956 to 1960. Collectivization, the reorganization of private livestock into collective farms, was a key step in building a socialist state. In Mongolia collectivization aimed to transform and improve, rather than replace, herding. This included reorganizing herding society, campaigns to implement Western-style veterinary science, construction of infrastructure to protect against zud (winter disaster) and drought, and wolf extermination campaigns.
Mongolian society is often romanticized as having a positive, spiritual relationship with animals and the environment, in contrast to exploitative capitalist and Christian Western countries. This narrative is an attractive one but does not hold up to historical examination. By examining collectivization, I show that the history of Mongolian environmental and animal relations has same struggles, conflict, and exploitation as humans around the world.
Access Passcode: fRx7Vk^9
Publication
Antoine Maire vient de publier, aux éditions du CNRS, La Mongolie contemporaine Chronique politique, économique et stratégique d’un pays nomade.
L’ouvrage dresse le portrait de la Mongolie contemporaine. Il interroge les évolutions politiques, économiques et stratégiques qui animent le pays depuis 1990. Il propose également de réinscrire l’ “exception démocratique” mongole dans les structures sociales du pays.
