The Mongolia Society and PIAC
Joint Conference
July 10 – 15, 2011
Indiana Memorial Union (IMU)
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana
Schedule and panels
Sunday 10 July 2011
10:00 am — 4:00 pm Registration, Whittenberger Auditorium Lobby (IMU)
11:30 pm — 6 pm Book sale, State Room West (IMU)
1:00 pm Mongolia Society Annual Meeting, Whittenherger Auditorium
2:30 — 3:00 pm Coffee Break, Lobby of the Whittenberger Auditorium
3:00 pm Round Table: US. and Mongolian Officials Reflect on 25 Years of Relations, Whittenberger Auditorium
Moderator: Alicia Campi (Mongolia Society President)
Panelists:
Amb. Kh. Bekhhat (Mongolian Ambassador to the United States)
John Wecker (Acting Deputy Director and Economic Unit Chief, Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs (EAP/CM), U.S. Department of State)
Ambassador R. Bold (Former Mongolian Ambassador to the United States)
6:00 — 8:00 pm Dinner, Alumni Hall Solarium (IMU )
8:00 pm Mongolia Society. Concert, Alumni Hall (IMU)
Monday 11 July 2011
7:00 am — 9:00 am Breakfast, Alumni Hall Solarium
8:30 am — 4:00 pm Registration, Whittenberger Auditorium Lobby
9:00 am — 11:30 am PIAC Opening Session and Confessions, Whittenberger Auditorium
9:00 am 6 pm Book sale, State Room West
11:30 am — 1:00 pm Lunch, Alumni Hall Solarium
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Session One
Mongolia Society Panel A, Georgian Room (IMU)
Chair: Christopher Atwood
Panelists:
Gary Wintz, “Buddhist Republics of the Russian Federation: Kalmykia, Tuva, Buryatia—Far-flung Outposts of the Tibetan Spiritual Empire”
Baljinnym Haranud, “King Demchugdonrow and His Lifetime Pursuit”
Andrei Znamenski, Oirot/Amursana Prophecy in Altai and Western Mongolia, 1890s–1920s”
Helen S. Hundley, “Mongolian Introduction of Buddhism to the Buriats in the 18th century”
PIAC/Mongolia Society Panel B, State Room East (IMU)
Chair: Oliver Corff
Panelists:
György Kara, “On a Turkic Word in the Old Tibetan Account of the Hor Envoys In the Kings of the North”
Mikko Suutarinen. “The Xiao’erjing Script Among the Dongxiang”
Bair S. Dugarov, “The Motif of Feasting and the Cult of Drink in the Buryat ‘Geseriad’”
William Rozycki, “Mo. žirġa- ‘to be joyful, rejoice, enjoy’ and its Korean and Japanese Correspondences”
3:00 pm — 3:30 pm Coffee break, Lobby of the Whittenberger Auditorium
3:30 pm — 5:30 pm Session Two
PIAC/Mongolia Society Panel A, Georgian Room
Chair: Alice Sárközi
Panelists:
John Krueger, “Kalmyk Correspondence from the Caribbean”
David Bade, “Mongolian Studies and Socialist Cooperation: The East European Scientific Expeditions to Mongolia”
M. Odmandakh, “Modern State of Buryat Studies in Mongolia”
Bryce Lowry, “Rock Art: Change and Stasis in the Mongolian Longue Durée”
PIAC/Mongolia Society Panel B, State Room East
Chair: Jacques Legrand
Panelists:
Ciprian Tudor, “An Anthropological Inquiry into the Relationship Between Gift Giving and Feasting in Traditional Mongolia”
Raluca Florian, “Celebrating Felt”
Albina Girfanova, “The Udeghe Marriage Rite”
Koichi Higuchi, “Buddhist Mongolian Terminology of Feasts and Celebrations; How and When They Were Translated into Mongolian”
6:00 — 8:00 pm Dinner, Alumni Hall Solarium (ticket required)
7:30 pm — 9:00 pm Opening reception. Mathers Museum of World Cultures, 416 N. Indiana Ave., Mongolian Photo Exhibit, Socialist Visions: Mongolian Propaganda. Photos, 1939–1989
Tuesday 12 July 2011
7:00 am — 9:00 am Breakfast, Alumni Hall Solarium (ticket required)
9:00 am — 11:30 am Session Three
PIAC/Mongolia Society Panel A. Georgian Room
Chair: Paul Hyer
Panelists:
Klaus Sagaster, “The Enthronement of Chinggis Khan. Injanasi’s Report”
Elena Boikova. “Feasts in Contemporary Mongolia: Historical Traditions and Innovations”
Éva Kincses-Nagy, “Alcoholic Drinks and Occasions for Drinking”
Maria Ivanics, “The Khan’s Inauguration Ceremony of the Mongolic and Turkic Peoples”
PIAC/Mongolia Society Panel B, State Room East
Chair: Rodica Pop
Panelists:
Münevver Tekcan, “Anniversary, Feast and Celebration in the Babur-nama Seen As Transition to Khanate, Court and Adulthood”
Reuven Amitai, “Memories of the Eurasian Steppe in the Leisure Culture of the Early Mamlukes (ca 1250–1320 CE)”
Gabriel Bamana, “Foal Marking Celebration: Ritual, Hierarchy and Power in Mongolia”
Sarnaa, “Local Literature’s Historical Function to Grassland Culture Inheriting”
Jacques Legrand [reserved paper]
PIAC/Mongolia Society Panel C, Walnut Room
Chair: Peter Zieme
Panelists:
Roger Finch, “Christianity among the Cumans”
M. Saruul-Erdene, “Two Interviews of Agvan Dorzhiev for Russian Newspapers”
Brian Baumann, “Dante and the Mongols: a Lost Reference Restored”
Galina Wood, “’Two Braids Are Better Than One’: An Invitation to a Wedding Feast in Altai”
9:00 am 1:00 pm Book sale, State Room West
11:30 am — 1:00 pm Lunch, Alumni Hall Solarium (ticket required)
1:00 pm Board buses for guided tour of the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Culture Center, 3655 S. Snoddy Rd.
3:30 pm Mongolia Society Naadam celebration at the Waterfall Shelter, Cascades Park
Wednesday 13 July 2011
7:00 am — 9:00 am Breakfast, Alumni Hall Solarium (ticket required)
9:00 am to 11:30 am Session Four
Mongolia Society Panel, Georgian Room
Chair: Roger Finch
Panelists:
Sunmin Yoon, “Bor bor byalzuukhai: The Stories of the Song, the Singers of the Song”
D. Enkhbat, “Socio-Cultural Factors in Naming Mongolians”
Christopher Atwood, “A Newly Recovered Mongolian History of the Zunghars: Text Date and Point of View”
Naranchimeg Nanjid, “Mongolian Family Traditional Intelligence”
Rodica Pop, “The Offering Feast: Description of a Dariganga Variant”
PIAC/Mongolia Society Panel B, State Room East
Chair: Albina Girfanova
Panelists:
Barbara Kellner-Heinkele, “Feasting with the Khivan Khans”
Vladimir Alpatov, “Feasts in Tokyo”
Xhemile Abdiu, “Albanian Tradition of Feast and Celebration of the Sultan Nevruz and the Equinox”
Spartak Kadiu, “Three Traditional Feasts and Celebrations of the spring and Summer in Albania”
Hartmut Walravens, “Did the Manchus Celebrate?”
PIAC/Mongolia Society Panel C, Walnut Room (IMU)
Chair: Hsiao Suying
Panelists:
Olga Diakova, “Holidays of Jurchen (proto Tungus Manchus)”
Wu Yingzhe, “A Study or the Tribal Name Diela in the Khitan Small Script”
Otgon Borjigin, “Hexi Under Mongol Rule: History and Historical Relics”
Gang Jin, “Dynamic Modality in Mongolian: Modal Word cǎd– and bol-s Meaning and Usage”
9:00 am — 6 pm Book sale, State Room, West
11:30 — I :00 pm Lunch, Alumni Hall Solarium (ticket rcquired)
1:00 — 3:00 pm Session Five
PIAC/Mongolia Society Panel A, Georgian Room
Chair: Gabriel Bamana
Panelists:
Liu Ge, “Cin Bitig in Uighur Script is Qin-Qs in Han Language”
Alice Sárközi, “Fifteen Demons Causing Child Disease”
Ekaterina Sobkovyak, “Mongolian Kanjur Studies: Past and Perspectives”
PIAC/Mongolia Society Panel B, State Room East
Chair: Elena Boikova
Panelists:
Alicia Campi, “Significance of Mongolia’s 100th Anniversary Celebration of Independence from the Manchus”
Ts. Batbayar, “Grand Union between Mongolia and Tibet: Unfulfilled Dream of the Dalai Lama the XIIIth”
Tachibana Makoto, “Bogd Khaan Government and Qinghai Mongols”
Paul Hyer, “Japan’s Plan for a 9th Jebtsundamba Reincarnation in Inner Mongolia”
PIAC/Mongolia Society Panel C, Walnut Room
Chair: Barbara Kellner-Heinkele
Panelists:
Oliver Corff, “An Approach to Reading Qing Turki”
Ismail Gulec, “Celebrating Spring with Poems: Nevruziye”
Ismail Bozkurt, “An Altaistic Tradition of Turkish Cypriots: Mart Dokuzu (9th of March)”
Sherman Han, “Emperor Kangxi’s Poetic Sketches of Ceemonics and Anniversaries”
3:00 pm — 3:30 pm Coffee break, Lobby of the Whittenberger Auditorium
3:30 pm — 5:30 pm Session Six
PIAC/Mongolia Society Panel A, Georgian Room
Chair: William Rozycki
Panelists:
Hsiao Su-ying, “Lexical Characteristics of the 1716 Wood-block and the Longfusi Versions of Mongolian Geser”
Natalia Yampolskaya, “Aѕ̣ṭasahāsrikā Prajñāpāramitā in Mongolia: Some Problems of Interpretation”
Naidansuren Ochirbat, “Political Parody in Sharav’s Artworks”
Arthur Chen, “Conditional Constructions in the Manchu Language: An Analysis of Prototypes”
PIAC/Mongolia Society Panel B, State Room East
Chair: Ts. Batbayar
Panelists:
Maurice Morales, “United States — Mongolia Military Relations Since 9/11”
William Slaymaker, “The ‘Wild’ West in the Far East: The Account of an Environmental Expedition in Mongolia”
Hasiqimuge, “A Study on Building of MongolNet”
Liubov B. Chetyrova, “The Idea of Labor among Deported Kalmyks”
PIAC/Mongolia Society Panel C, Walnut Room
Chair: Reuven Amitai
Panelists:
Peter Zieme, “Comments on Old Uygur Annals”
Wei-chieh Tsai, “Ethnic Riots and Violence in the Mongol Empire: A Comparative Perspective”
György Kara, “The Jirüken-ü Tolta Ascribed to Chos-kyi Od-zer”
5:30 pm — 6:00 pm PIAC Closing Session, Whittenberger Auditorium
6:00 — 8:00 pm Dinner, Alumni Hall Solarium
7:30 pm Silk Roads Concert, Alumni Hall, open to the public.
Thursday 14 July 2011
7:00 am — 8:30 am Breakfast, Alumni Hall Solarium (ticket required)
9 am — 10:30 am Guided tour of the Lilly Library by James Canary, Head of Conservation
10:45 am Board buses for PIAC excursion. Trip to Spring Mill State Park, and French Lick Historic Resort and Casino.
Friday, 15 July 2011
7:00 am — 9:00 am Breakfast, Alumni Hall Solarium (ticket required)
Departure of PIAC guests