Current Research Projects
Creating a Catalogue of Printed Heritage in Faizabad Public Library
The project, ‘Creating a Catalogue of Printed Heritage in Faizabad Public Library’, is supported by the Modern Endangered Archives Program at the UCLA Library with funding from Arcadia, a charitable foundation that works to protect nature, preserve cultural heritage and promote open access to knowledge.
Agricultural Livestock Cooperatives and Mongolian Sedentarism
Dr. phil. Ganchimeg Altangerel
This projects examines the effects of the agricultural collectivization of livestock on Mongolian society from the middle of the 20th century onwards.
The Amdo Research Network was established to connect national and international scholars and other interested parties who share common research interests in this region. Its aim is to serve as a platform for exchange and comparison of research project information and published results, and to facilitate easier establishment of research collaborations. The Amdo Research Network is based at the Humboldt University of Berlin, within the Tibetan Studies program of the Central-Asian Seminar, which has a strong focus on the Amdo area in terms of formal language training, teaching and affiliated researchers.
Dr. habil Diana Lange
The collections at the Museum am Rothenbaum (MARKK) in Hamburg include numerous coloured maps from East Asia, namely from Japan, Korea and China. Currently the maps are being examined as part of the joint research project ‘Coloured Maps’. The research group aims to acquire extensive information about the colourants used for the colouring of maps, as well as on the meaning and function of colours on maps.
The DFG project 'Old Tibetan Annals. A Comprehensive Text Grammar' aims at giving a first detailed grammatical and lexical description of an Old Tibetan text, the Old Tibetan Annals I (OTA-I; PT 1288 & ITJ 750). Dated to the 7th - 10th century, Old Tibetan is the oldest historical phase of the Tibetan languages and at the same time one of the oldest documented Tibetan-Burmese languages in general.