Peoples and languages of the Sino–Russian borderlands: DauriaUte Wallenböck und and Stephanie Ziehaus

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Palacký University Olomouc, October 9–10, 2019

The international two-day workshop “Peoples and languages of the Sino–Russian border- lands: Dauria” was held at Palacký University Olomouc, supported by the European Regional Development Fund project “Sinophone Borderlands — Interaction at the Edges” (CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000791). The workshop was organised by Ute Wallenböck (Pa- lacký University Olomouc) in collaboration with Veronika Zikmundová (Charles University Prague), bringing together researchers of history, anthropology, and linguistics who deal with the area and peoples of historical Dauria. This was the first academic event that truly reflected the diversity of approaches and disciplines necessary to study the Sino–Russian borderland, especially as the culture and history of the Dagurs and other peoples of Dauria — which com- prises lands around north-eastern Sino–Russian border — administratively the northernmost part of Heilongjiang, northern part of Inner Mongolian Hulunbuir, and the adjacent parts of Russia — have so far received little attention in the western scholarship. The two-days long event was structured in three sessions…