Article: Folk knowledge in Southern Siberia
A new article, Folk Knowledge in Southern Siberia in the 1770s: Johan Peter Falck’s Ethnobiological Observations, has been published recently in Studia Orientalia Electronica.
Multilingual poetry about Anthropocene
Sabira Stahlberg’s new poetry book Wan Sun discusses Anthropocene, the period when human activities influence Nature.
Journal of Endangered Languages: Tatar special issue
Tatar language preservation strategies and innovative practices is the topic of the special issue of Journal of Endangered Languages (Summer 2021). Guest Editor: Sabira Stahlberg.
New videos about multilingualism
Three new videos about multilingualism have recently been published on the YouTube-channel Bokpil Multilingual.
Easy to Read climate book inspires art
Literature combined with art to stimulate reading and creative work: this was the concept for an innovative project by artist Ivan Liotchev in cooperation with author Sabira Stahlberg.
Interview about Easy to Read books in Tatar magazine
Recently an interview about Easy to Read books with PhD Sabira Stahlberg was published in the magazine Mähallä Habärläre.
A Parakeet in Uppsala
Exotic birds became popular as pets in Sweden in the eighteenth century. Sabira Ståhlberg and Ingvar Svanberg discuss a painting of a parakeet from around 1750.
Waterscapes in the desert: Loptuq reed use
In the Taklamakan desert a hundred years ago, the Loptuq used to fish and forage around the Lop Nor (Lop Lake). Ingvar Svanberg and Sabira Ståhlberg have written an article about their reed use and waterscape perceptions.
Frederick Hasselquist in the Ottoman Empire
Turcologica Upsaliensia. An Illustrated Collection of Essays tells the stories of travellers, researchers and others connected to Uppsala University in Sweden, to the Turkic world.