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The ‘Eurasian Jewish-Indigenous Silk Roads Research Conference‘ is a brand new undertaking involving scholars, oral tradition keepers, researchers, professors and others from BOTH the’ Jewish Studies and Indigenous Studies fields. Scholars who are normally unaware of each others research findings and implications for academic clarity on ‘what we know’ and ‘who we might be’ in the larger world. Participants will gather in Mongolia. You shall move beyond your local circles and immediate parameters and into untraveled grounds of imagination, listening, sharing and deeper analysis on the Mongolian steppe and from the views of the glass towers sights of the capital city Ulaanbaatar. ‘You will know the others more than you did and become new yourself as a result of your participation’

Proposed areas include (more submissions coming): Rhineland and Khazar Ashkenazi Origin Theories, Mongol-Tatar Epigenetic Effect on Muscovy-Kievan Rus-Ukraine-Russia, Beringia ‘Ice Bridge’ Theories, Mongolian Wanderers of Central Asia and The Polar North, Yiddish and Mohawk: New Linguistic Insights

Location: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (May 2025)

Event – Shangri-La Hotel, Ulaanbaatar) VIEW

Research Area 1 | Eurasian Silk Road Jewish Journey Yizhor (Memory) Research Project
Research Area 2 | Indigenous Traditions Oral Keepers, Migrations and Languages Research Project

Note | paper submissions deadline – April 2025

Email your research paper submissions with your research area title by April 2025 to: c.coles@mnun.edu.mn

Christopher COLES, Executive Director Finkelperel Institute, Vice President Mongolian National University, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Israeli and Jewish Studies researchers, professors and scholars shall meet Indigenous Studies researchers and Indigenous Oral Traditions Keepers
Jewish Studies and Indigenous Studies experts from around the world

Note | the Finkelperel Institute is receiving doctoral and masters paper submissions in this geographical and cultural amalgam

Researchers | certain residence options for successful candidates to do part of their doctoral, masters or post-doctoral level are available in Ulaanbaatar

Visiting Professor | the Finkelperel Institute of Israeli and Jewish Studies has (2) visiting professorships for the most suitable and qualifying applicant

Field Research Work | candidates for our program will can explore various parts of Mongolia while engaged in their research work

candidates will experience lecture, seminar opportunities to share in their area of research, while learning from other present perspectives

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Research Methodologies:

research in a particular area of Jewish Studies while doing a residence with us in Mongolia (i.e. Lost Jews Upon the Medieval Silk Roads, Jewish Gold Merchants in Mongolia During the Late Imperial Russian Period, more options … )
research in a particular area of Indigenous Studies while doing a residence with us in Mongolia (i.e. The ‘Tsaatan‘ Reindeer Peoples, research in Beringia Anthropology, Diaspora Mapping of East-West Mongolia DNA)
research an intersect areas in both Jewish Studies and Indigenous Studies while doing a residency with us in Mongolia

Professorships | we are considering (one) candidate to sit as a Indigenous Professor of certain specialist fields

Linguistics Program | Modern Mongolian, Tibetan, Old Mongolian language and culture course options as part of your research residence in Mongolia (limited)

Excursions | Gobi Desert (south) and Mountain Ice Cave (north) professor/guide travel can be organized

DNA Suggests Yiddish Began on the Silk Road

Reindeer Herding In Snowy Mongolia – The Tsaatan Nomadic People

Finkelperel Focus Group gathering in Ulaanbaatar (Autumn, 2022)

Taiaiake Alfred is a Mohawk philosopher, writer, political strategist and governance consultant. His work focuses on the institutions of Indigenous governance, Indigenous resurgence, the revitalization of Indigenous political systems, assessing the cultural impacts of environmental contamination, and the restoration of ancestral land-based cultural practices.

Dr. Eldon Yellowhorn, Piikani Nation is an archaeologist and professor of Indigenous Studies at Simon Fraser University.

Finkelperel Institute for Israeli and Jewish Studies

Eurasian Jewish-Indigenous Silk Roads Research Gathering

Finkelperel Focus Group gathering in Ulaanbaatar (Autumn, 2022)