Bumochir Dulam,
Chairman of the Academic council
Bumochir Dulam is the culture and religion policy advisor to the president of Mongolia and a professor of Anthropology at the National University of Mongolia. He received his PhD in Philology from the Mongolian Academy of Sciences (2000), and in Anthropology from the University of Cambridge (2006). He conducted research on a wide range of topics including shamanic practices and the historical construction of ‘shamanism’ in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia. For his PhD, he focused on the performance of respect in the social production of ethnic identity, politics and the state among High Mongol pastoralists in Qinghai, China. More recently, he has explored the way environmental conservation and global politics have reshaped mobile pastoralism in Mongolia and China. His recent publications include The State, Popular Mobilization and Gold Mining in Mongolia. Shaping “Neoliberal” Policies. 2020, London: UCL Press; Herd Agency: Rethinking herd-herder relations in Mongolia and Qinghai, China. (Co-authored) Inner Asia 23(2):183-198, 2020; Nationalist sentiments under some ‘pejorative labels’: Birthplace, homeland and mobilisations against mining in Mongolia. Inner Asia. 21(2): 162-179, 2019.
Email: bumochir@president.mn
David Sneath
David Sneath is a professor of Social Anthropology, the Director of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit at Cambridge University. He completed his PhD at Cambridge University in 1991 and carried out postdoctoral research on environment and society in Inner Asia, winning a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in 1994. His research interests are broad: Inner and central Asia, pastoralism, land use and the environment, de-collectivization and post-socialist social transformation, political culture and economic institutions and the anthropology of development. He is a co-editor of the journal Inner Asia and has authored more than 20 books and papers on the region. His monographs include Mongolia Remade: Post-socialist National Culture, Political Economy, and Cosmo politics, 2018, Amsterdam University Press; The Headless State: Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, and Representations of Nomadic Inner Asia, 2007, Columbia University Press; and Changing Inner Mongolia: Pastoral Mongolian Society and the Chinese State, 2000, Oxford University Press.
Email: ds114@cam.ac.uk
Dawn Chatty
Dawn Chatty is an Emeritus Professor in Anthropology and Forced Migration. She was the former director of the Refugee Studies Centre, Department of International Development, University of Oxford. She received her PhD form University of California in Social Anthropology in 1975. Her research interests include a number of forced migration and development issues such as conservation-induced displacement, tribal resettlement, modern technology and social change, gender and development, and the impact of prolonged conflict on refugee young people. She has authored more than 16 books and many more articles: Chatty, D. Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State. 2018, London and New York: Hurst Publishers and Oxford University Press. Chatty, D. and T. Sternberg. (ed.) Modern Pastoralism and Conservation: Old Problems, New Challenges. 2012, Beijing: Intellectual Property Publishing House. Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East. 2010, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Email: chatty@qeh.ox.ac.uk
Dong Suocheng
Dong Suocheng is a leading professor of the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Science; Executive Vice-President and Secretary-General of the “Belt and Road” International Union of Scientists; foreign academician of Russian Academy of Physical Sciences; Director of Northeast Asia Sustainable Development Research Center. He holds a MA in Economic Geography and PhD in Human Geography from Northeast Normal University. His research interests are regional ecological economy, regional resource and environmental economy, and regional sustainable development. He is mainly engaged in the regional ecological economic development model, urbanization and environment interaction mechanisms, China’s economic growth and environmental pollution law research, regional sustainable development planning, circular economy planning, and tourism planning. He has published 15 monographs and more than 200 articles in Journal of Natural Resources, Geographical Research, and other domestic and foreign publications, including China’s Centennial Report on Resources, Environment and Development: 1950-2050 Evolution of Resources, Environment and Economy and Countermeasures, Hubei Scientific Press, 2002.
Email: dongsc@igsnrr.ac.cn
Peter Finke
Peter Finke is a professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland and the head of the Research Group on Central Asia at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Peter Finke studied Anthropology and Central Asian Studies in Munich, Göttingen, and Berlin. He holds a MA from Free University Berlin (1994) and a PhD from Köln University (1999). His research interests are economic anthropology, pastoral nomadism and rural development, institutional analysis, transformation processes, cognitive anthropology, and identity and migration. Since 1991, he has conducted field research among Kazak pastoralists in western Mongolia and the effects that the transformation from a socialist to a market-like economy had on the livelihoods of people. In 2000, he joined the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology where he is doing research on collective identity in Uzbekistan. Currently, he is the editor of two book series on Economic and Social Transformations in Central and Inner Asia (Routledge) and Culture and Society in Eurasia (Berghahn).
Email: peter.finke@uzh.ch
Gregory Delaplace
Gregory Delaplace is a professor (Directeur d’Études) at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Religious Sciences Division, chair of the Anthropology of religions, and editor-in-chief of L’Homme. Revue française d’anthropologie. He was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge (2007-2011) with Caroline Humphrey and the Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit. His research focused on Inner Asian studies, pastoralism, and political dimensions of the invisible in Mongolia. In 2011, he was recruited as a lecturer at the University of Paris Nanterre, where he headed the anthropology department (2013-2016) before becoming a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (2017-2022). In 2021, he was elected director of studies at the 5th section of the EPHE on the chair of religious anthropology. He is the author of two monographs: The invention of the dead. Burials, ghosts and photography in contemporary Mongolia (EPHE-CEMS, Paris, 2008) and Particular intelligences: Investigations in haunted houses (Views of the mind, Brussels, 2021)
Email: delaplace@parisnanterre.fr
Kürşat Yıldırım
Kursat Yildirim is a professor at İstanbul University. He completed his Master’s (2011) and Doctorate (2015) studies in the History Department of İstanbul University. He became a research assistant in 2009, assistant professor in 2015 and associate professor in 2017. He has studied languages such as Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Mongolian and Arabic. He carried out field work and implemented projects in many countries such as China, Russian Siberia, Tatarstan, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Japan and Mongolia. He was awarded by “Altın Lale Ödülleri” (2018), “Valeh Hacilar Foundation” (2018) and “Türk Ocakları” (2022) for his studies. He has written 11 books including “Doğu Türkistan’ın Tarihi Coğrafyası” (Historical Geography of Xinjiang), “Uygur Kağanlığı” (Uighur Khanate), “Çin Tarihi” (History of China) and 104 articles. His main research topics are ancient nomadic peoples, historical geography of Central Asia, ethnical and cultural relations of nomads, and the relations between steppe peoples and Chinese in ancient times.
Email: yildirim@istanbul.edu.tr
Assem-Dariya Abayeva
Assem-Dariya Abayeva is a senior manager at the International Turkic Academy. She is a philosopher and teacher of philosophy. Between 1989 and 1994, she studied at the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University and did her postgraduate study in Department of Philosophy and Methodology of Science at the Kazakh National University. Her main publications include The Influence Sufi philosopher Ibn Arabi`s the ideas on the subsequent history of thought, in the International Conference Modern Challenges and Decisions of Globalization, 15 July, 2013, New York, USA; Consonance of ethical values as the basis of dialogue between Turkic and Islamic Cultures, from Turkic ale to the Kazakh Khanate. International Scientific and Practical Conference. Moscow, 2015; Sufi theory of knowledge. Actual problems of philosophy and political science through the eyes of young scientists: Scientific – Methodological Conference of Young Scientists, Almaty, 2007.
Email: aasem-dariya72@mail.ru
Tyntchtykbek Tchoroev
Tyntchtykbek Kadyrmambetovich Tchoroev (Chorotegin) (in Kyrgyz – Тынчтыкбек Чороев (Чоротегин), a Kyrgyz historian, publicist and journalist. Chairman of the Board of the Muras (Heritage) Foundation under the Office of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic (since 30 August 2013), President of the Kyrgyz History Society (elected on 11 February 2012), Doctor of History (1998), Professor of the Kyrgyz State National University named after Jusup Balasagyn (2002). Dr. Tchoroev is well known as an independent history researcher, Turkologist and journalist. Until September 2011, he worked as a broadcaster at Radio Azattyk, i.e. Kyrgyz Service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (he was Director of the Kyrgyz Service between 1 January 2003 and 30 September 2010).
Email: chorotegint@gmail.com
