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After flying into Osh our law-professor host collected us and we sped out of the parking lot. We were pulled over by the traffic police with a warning to obey the traffic…
Hello, we are Saule Chalbasova and Kanyshai Makeshova – part of University of Central Asia (UCA) team participating in the UCA – Oxford Social Science Research Summer School 2023. The University in…
Sitting in a recently renovated Soviet style apartment AirBnB in Almaty, on the way to Kyrgyzstan to organise our second project Summer School for early career scholars, we reflected on our full summer…
Hello everyone, I am Chieko Hirota from the PPIA Japan team. I am a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). Since 2011, I have been conducting…
“Join me in Mongolia!” That is what Dr Ariell Ahearn, very enthusiastically, said on the last day of our Environmental Governance in Central Asia undergraduate course at Oxford. I am still not sure whether…
I have lived and worked in deserts in Arabia for decades. First in the arid and semi-arid steppe land of Syria and Jordan and then in Oman on the edge of the…
Over the next two days, on the 22nd and 23rd June, the conference on Nomadic Ethics and Intercultural Dialogue will take place at the National University of Mongolia. The conference aims to…
Akira Kamimura, a member of our project, organized the PPIA International Seminar “Pastoralism, Spirituality, and Performance: Mongolia and Kenya” at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS). Akira Kamimura, Troy Sternberg, and…
Group picture of most of the 6th Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference (OIDC) attendees. ‘And say you were organising an international conference and something went wrong with the venue booking a few days…
I am a geographer from Mongolia and recently had a great opportunity to participate in the 6th Interdisciplinary Oxford Desert Conference, which was held in March 2023. This was my second time…
On March 16-17, 2023 PPIA will host desert and dryland researchers from around the world at the 6th Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference (OIDC). Held at the School of Geography, University of Oxford,…
By Troy Sternberg and Takahiro Tomita What does rural to urban migration signify in contemporary Mongolia? Does it represent depopulation of the countryside, a pastoral diaspora or rational economic choice? Paired with…
