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 – 16:45

Sunset over the Timor Sea, Darwin, Australia. A week of the PULiiMA Indigenous Languages and Technologies Conference.

Thrilled to share that my book Songs of Tyva: A Guide to Tyvan Culture and Language is finally out today! In this book, I’ve gathered songs, photos of the landscapes that inspired them, and a bit of cultural and historical context to help readers better understand Tyvan culture.

Hooved & Beautiful Lake Algyi, Tyva, 2015

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 Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. 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 (Мөңгелер адаанда этип турар сыын). The master is KNOWN; he doesn't want publicity. The reindeer antlers. Baruun Taiga, Mongolia, May 2025. www.youtube.com/shorts/t2vm0...

Multispecies Belonging Through Craft: The bellowing stag framed by snow-covered mountains.

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Multispecies Belonging Through Craft: Lenok and Grayling. "Мыйкы биле хадыргы" (Мыйыт биле кадыргы; 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. www.youtube.com/shorts/hqWZ1...

Multispecies Belonging Through Craft: Lenok and Grayling

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Thank you Berghahn Books for sharing books in the series, including my boo "The Horse in My Blood"! bsky.app/profile/berg...

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On International Day for Biological Diversity, we're spotlighting our series 'INTERSPECIES ENCOUNTERS' (incl. @choicereviews.bsky.social award winner!): bit.ly/42HwFkI Last title by @vicsoyanpeemot.bsky.social Browse our Environmental Studies bit.ly/4l3xQ4U or filter by #OpenAccess bit.ly/3eL6nYk

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 Vaté (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. Granö'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 Söösken among the Tyva Pastoralists", Sociolinguistic Studies 2024 18:3-4 utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/... Pics: Kodur-söösken Spiraea alpina, right bottom corner, overlooking the Khaialyg-Semis-Tei summer site and horses in Taŋdy-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 Badarč Bayarsaikhan & Karl Dolgoržav 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 Krupař, the Czech photojournalist. 12 stran textu a fotografií ze severního Mongolska v Reportér magazín. Ještě pár dní na stáncích, jinak online zde: reportermagazin.cz/.../preziji-...

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 Çalışmaları-II yayımlandı! www.paradigmaakademiyayinlari.com/.../sibirya.... 📘 Sibirya Çalışmaları-II 📅 2024 📍 Paradigma Yayınları ✍️ Editörler: Ferah TÜRKER İLTER- Şima DOĞAN BALCI- Muvaffak DURANLI-Vildan KOÇOĞLU GÜNDOĞDU

Upcoming talks, January 27, 2025.

My book The Horse in My Blood Multispecies Kinship in the Altai and Saian Mountains was published in the series Interspecies Encounters by the Berghahn Books in 2024. www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Peemot...