The Mongolia Society

2011 Annual Meeting of The Mongolia Society
50th Anniversary Meeting
July 10 - 14, 2011

The 2011 Annual Meeting of The Mongolia Society will be our 50th anniversary meeting. This special meeting will be held in conjunction with the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC) on the Indiana University campus, in Bloomington, Indiana, July 10 - 14, 2011. The Mongolia Society Annual Meeting will open on Sunday, July 10, 2011, and there will be a celebratory dinner together with PIAC on Sunday evening. We will have panels and activities Sunday through Wednesday, with a trip option on Thursday.

US Embassy seeks Mongolian applicants for Humphrey Fellowships and Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program for 2010-2012; application deadline is July 19 – The US Embassy in UB invites any interested Mongolian citizen living in Mongolia to apply for two available grant programs that provide up to one year study and professional experience in the US. The Hubert Humphrey Fellowship is a one-year, non-degree professional exchange program that brings mid-career professionals to the US.

The lecture In the Wake of Vilmos Diószegi: Collecting Folk Belief and Religious Folklore in Northern Mongolia by David Somfai Kara was held on 4 March 2010. The podcast from the lecture can be viewed at ...

In the Wake of Vilmos Diószegi: Collecting Folk Belief and Religious Folklore in Northern Mongolia
by David Somfai Kara

on Thursday 4 March 2010 at 4 pm
in the Leo Dowling International Center
Conference Room 107
111 S. Jordan Avenue, Bloomington, Indiana

The 2010 Annual Meeting of The Mongolia Society will be held in conjunction with the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, on Saturday, March 27, 2010. We are placing a call for panel participants. The Society will have two panels, one panel is open to any paper relating to the Kalmyks and the second panel will be on Mongolian culture, society and linguistics. Please submit your abstracts based on these subjects.

In order to participate, you must be a member of The Mongolia Society and submit an abstract for consideration no later than January 15, 2009. The abstract must contain the title of the paper and be no more than 300 words. If your abstract is accepted, you will have 20 minutes to present your paper, which will include five minutes of discussion. The exact time of the meeting and panel will be announced as plans are formalized.

Please submit your abstract to Susie Drost, The Mongolia Society, 322 Goodbody Hall, Indiana University, 1011 E. 3rd Street, Bloomington, IN 47405-7005; Telephone and Fax number: 812-855-4078; E-Mail: monsoc@indiana.edu; Web: www.mongoliasociety.org

APPLICATIONS NOW BEING ACCEPTED FOR THE DR. GOMBOJAB HANGIN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP For the 2009-20010 Academic Year