Herders on The Gobi Desert: Reflections from the margins.
I have lived and worked in deserts in Arabia for decades. First in the arid and semi-arid[…]
Nomadic Ethics and Intercultural Dialogue Conference
Over the next two days, on the 22nd and 23rd June, the conference on Nomadic Ethics and[…]
International Seminar at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in Japan
Akira Kamimura, a member of our project, organized the PPIA International Seminar “Pastoralism, Spirituality, and Performance: Mongolia[…]
Reflections on the 6th Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference
‘And say you were organising an international conference and something went wrong with the venue booking a[…]
Batbuyan Batvaj’s account of the Desert Conference
I am a geographer from Mongolia and recently had a great opportunity to participate in the 6th[…]
PPIA hosts the 6th Oxford International Desert Conference
On March 16-17, 2023 PPIA will host desert and dryland researchers from around the world at the[…]
Migration in Mongolia Workshop: PPIA meets EESP in Kobe, Japan
By Troy Sternberg and Takahiro Tomita What does rural to urban migration signify in contemporary Mongolia? Does[…]
Academic Summer School in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Reflections from Troy Sternberg on the Mongolia Summer School 2022
Launching PPIA
In April 2022, the research team met in Tokyo, Japan for to launch our project ‘Post-Pandemic Societies[…]