In person only, no recording, no online.
In person only, no recording, no online.
Welcome to Workshop "More-than-human stewardship:
Guardian beings of places and their (non)human relations"!
Date: Monday, September 22nd, 2025
Place: Snellmania (1060), Unioninkatu 37, 1st floor
Time: 9:30 โ 16:45
Sunset over the Timor Sea, Darwin, Australia. A week of the PULiiMA Indigenous Languages and Technologies Conference.
Thank you, Karina!
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A photograph of the sculpture of a red deer stag in the forest.
Thrilled to share that my book Songs of Tyva: A Guide to Tyvan Culture and Language is finally out today! In this book, Iโve gathered songs, photos of the landscapes that inspired them, and a bit of cultural and historical context to help readers better understand Tyvan culture.
Horses in the steppe, Lake Algyi, Tyva, 2015
Hooved & Beautiful
Lake Algyi, Tyva, 2015
Thank you Berghahn Books for sharing my book for the #WorldHorseDay !!!!
I will present a keynote address at the PULiiMA Indigenous Language & Technology Conference in Darwin, Australia, in August. puliima.com
I had the pleasure of connecting with Miwa and Cynthia. Miwa is part of the project soilcamp.ca I met with Ethan and Kimeona from the University of Hawaiสปi at Mฤnoa. What I appreciate most is the opportunity to learn about the soil, rocks, water, and the relationships that connect us all.
Multispecies Belonging Through Craft: The bellowing stag of the red deer, framed by snow-covered mountains (ะำฉาฃะณะตะปะตั ะฐะดะฐะฐะฝะดะฐ ััะธะฟ ัััะฐั ัััะฝ). The master is KNOWN; he doesn't want publicity. The reindeer antlers. Baruun Taiga, Mongolia, May 2025.
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Multispecies Belonging Through Craft: Lenok and Grayling.
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ะฐะดััะณั" (ะัะนัั ะฑะธะปะต ะบะฐะดััะณั; The Lenok and Grayling); Brachymystax lenok Thymallus arcticus. The master is KNOWN; he doesn't want publicity. The reindeer antlers, larch barck. Mongolia, May 2025.
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Thank you Berghahn Books for sharing books in the series, including my boo "The Horse in My Blood"!
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April 9, Paris, talk "The Objects as Knowledgeable Elders: the Tozhu-Tyva Skin-Sewn Garments as Guides into Multispecies Lifeworlds", in person and online.
The Siberian studies seminar organized by Dmitriy Oparin (UMR Passages) and Virginie Vatรฉ (CNRS GSRL), 2:00 - 5:00 p.m at Campus Condorcet.
It was an honor to present today at the 7rh Oxford Desert conference at the University of Oxford. I talked about the Finnish geographer J. Granรถ's research in the circa Altai region - a fitting theme for the Day for Glaciers. Reconnected with colleagues from Japan, got to know more amazing scholars.
A lovely morning in the Oxford's St Hugh's College.
My article "The relational plant: Spiraea Sรถรถsken among the Tyva Pastoralists", Sociolinguistic Studies 2024 18:3-4 utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...
Pics: Kodur-sรถรถsken Spiraea alpina, right bottom corner, overlooking the Khaialyg-Semis-Tei summer site and horses in Taลdy-Uula Mountains, June 2018
The article that I translated from Tyvan: "Medicinal herbs, their names and uses among the Tsengel Tyva people in Mongolia" by Badarฤ Bayarsaikhan & Karl Dolgorลพav in the Journal of Sociolinguistic Studies 2024 18:3-4 lnkd.in/dm6YpuDa
The Altai homeland of authors & plants they write about.
Imagining myself as a seal hunter with help of Tukkantam-san! It was so interesting day full of interesting encounters and talks. Thank you Sakurako Koresawa san for a photograph and this nice day in the Upopoy!
Memories of 2024, the colourful fall at Yamadera Risshakuji Temple, Tohoku, Japan.
Memories of 2024, the colourful fall at Yamadera Risshakuji Temple, Tohoku, Japan.
Memories from November sumo tournament in Fukuoka, I went to see Roga Tokiyoshi, whose maternal kin are from my home village in southern Tyva.
The article about the Tukha reindeer herders in northern Mongolia with beautiful photographs from Stanislav Krupaล, the Czech photojournalist. 12 stran textu a fotografiรญ ze severnรญho Mongolska v Reportรฉr magazรญn. Jeลกtฤ pรกr dnรญ na stรกncรญch, jinak online zde:
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Recent talks, 2025.
The workshop "Maps and the right of Nomadic People. Spatial Representations of Nomadic Societies and Landscapes in Northeast Asia". My talk was about the early 20th century maps of Inner Asia by Finnish researchers.
Recent publications, 2024.
Sibirya รalฤฑลmalarฤฑ-II yayฤฑmlandฤฑ!
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โ๏ธ Editรถrler: Ferah TรRKER ฤฐLTER- ลima DOฤAN BALCI- Muvaffak DURANLI-Vildan KOรOฤLU GรNDOฤDU
Upcoming talks, January 27, 2025.