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• April 28, 2023

  Call for Contributions: Overlapping Borderlands

  Seeking Contributions for Overlapping Borderlands: Sources and Translations from Inner Northeast Asia The editorial board for Overlapping Borderlands invites contributions from scholars working on topics related to Inner Northeast Asia…

• March 15, 2023

  Manchu Studies at AAS 2023 – Boston

  The Manchu Studies Group will be holding a business/social meeting in conjunction with the annual Association for Asian Studies meeting. If you’re attending AAS, come the Dalton Room on the…

• December 29, 2022

  Note on a Note on “O” in Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Hs. or. 8415

  Elvin Meng, University of Chicago Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Hs. or. 8415 (#340 in Hartmut Walravens’ 2014 catalogue), one of the many handwritten students’ workbooks in the S. A. Polevoj collection,…

• May 25, 2022

  Summer 2022 Online Manchu Courses

  We are offering two courses this summer – an introductory Manchu language course and an advanced documents reading course, described below. Please contact the relevant instructor with any questions. Course…

• March 29, 2022

  Roundtable on Manchu Pedagogy

  On March 26, the Manchu Studies Group held a roundtable session entitled “Manchu Pedagogy and Cross-Cultural Exchange in the 21st Century: A Roundtable to Honor Dr. Gertraude Roth-Li.” This session…

• March 22, 2022

  AAS 2022

  Here are the Manchu-related papers and panels at this year’s Association for Asian Studies meeting – we encourage you to check them out! (All times given in local Hawaii time)…

• January 5, 2022

  New Year’s Letter 2022

  Dear friends / gucuse: ice aniya amba urgun sebjen okini! New year’s greetings from the Manchu Studies Group! As we emerge from the crucible that is 2021, we welcome the…

• July 5, 2021

  Finding Manchu Studies Co-Panelists for AAS 2022

  If you are looking for co-panelists for the 2022 AAS conference, here is a collection of topics / abstracts we have received so far. Please feel free to contact any…

• July 5, 2021

  New Issue of Saksaha

  We’re excited to announce the publication of Volume 17 of Saksaha: A Journal of Manchu Studies, available open-access here: https://saksaha.org. The new issue begins with an article by Devin Fitzgerald,…

• May 25, 2021

  Summer Manchu Studies Workshop

  Learned Elementary Manchu but not sure how to incorporate it into your research? Got a bunch of primary sources in Manchu that you need to transcribe and translate but have…