With its vast steppes and blue skies Mongolia has the potential to tap its abundant solar and wind resources to provide clean power both domestically and to regional countries such as Japan, Korea and China. Mongolia has three potential markets for renewable energy: off-grid applications to supply nomadic herders in rural areas; on grid applications […]

The Khusugtun Ethnic Band - Хөсөгтөн хамтлаг is an internationally recognized band that performs traditional music from Mongolia. They will be performing two shows at the Rubin museum in NYC on March 10th, 2017, at 6:30 and 9:00pm. They are especially renowned for their a capella arrangements using “khöömei” or “throat-singing,” which is an UNESCO […]

A new cultural program has been inaugurated to assist the Kalmyk diaspora community to preserve its heritage. Responding to a request from a Kalmyk scholar in Elista, the New Jersey Folk Festival and its founder Angus K. Gillespie, have gathered a team of scholars and activists to help develop a Kalmyk Diaspora Archiving Project (KDAP). […]

“The year is 1938. The newly-installed Communist Government of Mongolia, under orders from Moscow, launches a nation-wide purge. Before it’s over, nearly tenth of the country’s population is murdered. Sendmaa, a young herdswoman, falls in love with Baasan, a talented and handsome lama. Baasan  resolves to leave the priesthood and marry Sendmaa, but her scheming neighbor, […]

President of Mongolia Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj will give a special lecture at the University of Pennsylvania at 4:00pm on Friday, September 23rd, 2016. The University of Pennsylvania houses the ACMS US office, and is an emerging center for Mongolian Studies in North America. ACMS Members and friends can attend the lecture at […]

Special academic rates offered for 26th NAMBC Annual Meeting and Investors Forum, Ottawa, May 17-18. Among the distinguished speakers will be Da. Ganbold, CEO of Erdenes Oyu Tolgoi LLC, one of the best-respected leaders of Mongolian democracy for the past 26 years, Erdenes Oyu Tolgoi LLC is the state-owned company that holds the Mongolian Government’s […]

The Mongolian Cultural Center and the Embassy of Mongolia in Washington, D.C. co-organize a Mongolian Studies Conference every year. This year’s conference is scheduled for May 13 through 14th, 2016, at the Embassy of Mongolia and the Library of Congress. The conference is open to the public; however, attendees must pre-register and pay the conference […]

Since 1921 when Russia helped the Mongolians break free from Imperialism till the collapse of the Soviet Union, education in Mongolia was a mirror of the soviet model, resulting in a 97% literacy, but at the cost of its traditional language, script and many parts of its culture. In the 1990’s following the collapse of […]