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The Tibetan pastoralists and semi-pastoralists find themselves in transition between a vanishing past and an advancing future – a state that can cause severe economic and social insecurity. Do not miss the new article by the OI researcher Jarmila Ptáčková!

If the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries established the high-water mark of Persianate transregionalism, then the following two centuries were defined not so much by the undoing of this world in toto, but by its redeployment and regeneration in new cultural guises and (trans)national contexts. ...

The workshop (conducted by Bidollah Aswar and Thomas Loy) deals with the history of the Baloch in Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan since the early 1970s. ...

Co-sponsored by Institute of History and Philology of Academia Sinica and Research Center of Taiwan, Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences. Location: Institute of History and Philology of Academia Sinica, Room 704 地點：史語所研究大樓704會議室 Attend online by registering at https://pitt.zoom. ...

A new article by Jarmila Ptáčková and Jan Karlach (King’s College London) for Český časopis historický analyzes the historical development of Chinese anthropology from 1949 until today.

In a new article for Central Asian Survey, Oriental Institute researcher Thomas Loy traces Tajik & Judeo-Tajik literature in the early Soviet period (1920s-30s) and compares the works & biographies of Tajik & Bukharan Jewish writers. First 50 downloads are free!

On June 6, 2024 Dr. Strnad, the OI senior research fellow, received Honorary Recognition of the World Hindi Congress for his invaluable contribution to the spread and development of the Hindi language in the world awarded in 2023 by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Indian Republic.

The latest issue of the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies “Propagandas, Cultural Production, & Negotiating Ideology in Iran” edited by Oriental Institute Deputy Director Kevin Schwartz, Goulia Ghardashkhani (University of Bamberg), & Olmo Gölz (University of Freiburg) is now available ...

Based on 18 months of fieldwork among the Indigenous Mentawai living on Siberut Island (Indonesia), a new article by the OI researcher Darmanto for Food, Culture & Society examines the importance of sharing and eating in constructing personhood, reproducing social institutions, and reenacting ...

International conference 15th EURAMAL Conference: Ecocritical Approaches and Environmental Issues in Modern Arabic Literature The Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, and the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences are hosting the ...