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Mongolia Scholar Owen Lattimore Honoured Through Conference in Ulaanbaatar |
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Thursday, 17 July 2008 |
The ACMS, International Association for Mongol Studies, and the
National University of Mongolia are organizing a conference on August
20th and 21st with the theme/title of "Owen Lattimore: the Past,
Present, and Future of Inner Asian Studies." The conference is intended
to be partly academic and partly an opportunity for Mongolian
government officials, diplomats, and private citizens to reminisce on
Mongolian foreign relations during the 20th century from the
perspective of Owen Lattimore and his legacy. Many of the Mongolians
who interacted with Owen Lattimore on a personal or professional level
are slowly disappearing, and this conference will provide an
opportunity to record an oral history of some of the smaller and not
widely known events that occurred during the early years of the
Socialist Revolution, the Cold War, and the post-1990 democratic
transition.
The conference will be free and open to the public,
and it will include two special film presentations of documentaries
made in 1974-75 by a British film team and Owen Lattimore as
commentator on life in Socialist Mongolia. These films were the first
foreign documentaries sanctioned by the Mongolian government during the
Socialist Era. These presentations will be offered as part of the
ACMS's ongoing film series seminar program, which examines cinema
related to Mongolia and Inner Asia and offers participants an
opportunity to delve deeper into the films via guided discussions and
activities. More information about this program is on the ACMS website
at the Film Series Seminars page.
The
ACMS library is also organizing an exhibit of Owen Lattimore's works
which will be on display near the conference venue. The library has
collected most of Owen Lattimore's written works for inclusion in the
ACMS library, and it is currently working to acquire photographs as
well. More information about the ACMS Library is at www.mongoliacenter.org/library
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