TODAY @ 4:30 PM : Please join the IAUNRC for a talk on the Pre-Mongol history of the Khalaj in eastern Afghanistan by Professor Minoru Inaba of Kyoto University!

Make sure to check out all the cool Yige / Celebrating Tibetan Calligraphy Day events this week, running from the 17th through the 19th!

Yige begins tomorrow! Make sure to note all that will be happening tomorrow as part of the celebration. Scroll through these pictures for all times and places of these events. We hope to see you there!

TOMORROW: Don't forget to mark your calendar for tomorrow's Yige events! In the Lilly Library, there will be two talks: "Introduction to the Lilly Library's Tibetan Manuscripts and Woodblock Prints," and "Art of Tibetan Calligraphy". We hope to see everyone there!

TOMORROW: While the Yige closing ceremony is tonight, there are still some events tomorrow at the Tibetan and Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center! From 11 AM - 12 PM is the Children's Program, and from 12 PM - 1:30 PM is a Tibetan paper making demo. We hope to see you all there!

Please join the Department of Central Eurasian Studies for their annual Jean and Denis Sinor Faculty Fellowship Lecture! Co-sponsored by the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center. We hope to see you there!

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Happy #iuday ! At the IAUNRC, we are so grateful for our IU community! Interested in giving to the IAUNRC? Search the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource on give.myiu.org to find ways to give today! 🎉

TODAY @ 5 PM: Please join the Department of Central Eurasian Studies for their annual Jean and Denis Sinor Faculty Fellowship Lecture! Co-sponsored by the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center.

TUESDAY @ 12 PM EDT: Please join the Hungarian Studies Association for a roundtable on Hungarian politics! Info can be found here: events.iu.edu/reei/event/185…. Cosponsored by the IAUNRC, REEI, and ISEEES. We hope to see you there!

Please join us this Friday at noon in GA 4067 for a lecture by the President of the Mongolia Society, Amb. (ret.) Michael Klecheski! Lunch will be provided but please RSVP for lunch by emailing us at [email protected].

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The Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center is pleased to share an announcement about the HLS Music Festival happening this Friday! The concert will feature Dr. Shahyar Daneshgar, with his Bloomington-based Silk Road Ensemble. We hope to see you there!

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