ANNUAL MEETING OF MONGOLIA SOCIETY HELD

Ulaanbaatar, /MONTSAME/ The 2010 Annual Meeting of The Mongolia Society was held in conjunction with the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the USA, in March 26-27.
Participants of the meeting discussed presentations and reports made by scholars and Mongolists. The event has run successfully in four panel meetings.
At the panel "Mongolian Language" March 26, Saruul-Erdene Myagmar of the Mongolian Culture Center delivered a report “Modern Khalkha Mongolian has a Category of Human and Nonhuman”; Tserenchunt Legden of the Indiana University presented a report on “Sound Symbolism or Phonosemantics in Mongolian”; Ochirbat Sambuudorj from the Osaka University of Foreign Studies made a report on “Problems in the Standard Pronunciation of Modern Mongolian Words”; and Allison Hahn of the University of Pittsburgh delivered a report themed “The World Schools Debate Championship as a Laboratory of Mongolian Debate Pedagogy”.
Following the event, Alexandra Cleworth of the Archaeological Institute of America delivered a report on "Sites and the City: Rethinking the Urban Buffer Zone" at the panel "Contemporary Mongolian Issues", while Delgerjargal Uvsh of the Streit Council made a report on “Sustainable Development Framework and the Mining Industry in Mongolia from a Comparative Perspective”.
During the meeting of a panel "Mongolian Culture", Lyuba Grinberg of the New York University made a presentation “From Mongol Prince to Russian Saint: a neglected 15th-Century Russian Account of Mongolian Land Consecration Ritual”; Uranchimeg Tsultem of the University of California at Berkeley delivered a report “Ikh Khuree: Monastic Space in Early Modern Mongolia”; and Sunmin Yoon from the University of Maryland at College Park gave a report “Making Musical Elites: Class, Aesthetic Values, and Influences on Music-making of Traditional Long-song Singers in Post-Socialist Mongolia”.
The last panel was held under the topic "Kalmykia and the Kalmyk Diaspora". The panelists were Telo Tulku Rinpoche (Shadjin Lama of Kalmyk Republic), “History of Buddhism in Kalmyk post Soviet”; Ghilyana Dordzhieva (Independent Scholar), “Kalmyk folk Versions of Buddhist Prayers”; Alene Tchourumoff (Independent Scholar), “Forced Migration of the Kalmyks: Protection of Internally Displaced People”;
Liubov B.Chetyrova (Samara State University, Russia), “Idea of Labor Among Deported Kalmyks”; and David Somfai, Kara (Indiana University/Hungarian Academy of Sciences), “Kalmyks of Ysyk-Kyl, Kirghizstan.”
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