Dr. Jargal Badagarov

Position

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of Heidelberg

Contact Information

Email: zhargal.badagarov@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de

About Jargal Badagarov

Jargal Badagarov is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Research Group “Entangled Parliamentarisms: Constitutional Practices in Russia, Ukraine, China and Mongolia, 1905–2005,” sponsored by the European Research Council (ERC) at the University of Heidelberg. His background includes research and teaching on Mongolic languages at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Buryat State University (Ulaan-Ude, Buryatia, Russian Federation), as well as activities in the Buryad language revitalization and language technology development. In his PhD dissertation he focused on comparison of Dagur and Buryad – two Mongolic languages that share some peculiar linguistic features within Mongolic linguistic phylum. His current research interests encompass diachronic study of modern Mongolian political terminology and exploring how its emergence laid a firm foundation for modernization of Mongolic ethnic groups (nationalities) in Mongolia, Russian Federation, and People’s Republic of China. Jargal Badagarov is fluent in Buryad (his mother tongue), Mongolian, Russian (language of education), and English, and has limited command of Chinese, Japanese, Manchu, French, and German. To this a sound linguistic knowledge of Kalmyk, Dagur, and Inner Mongolian dialects should be added, as well as the ability to read in several modern and historical scripts used to record Mongolic languages in the past, including ’Phags-pa, Tibetan, Arabic, Russian chancery cursive, Vagindra, and different varieties of Traditional (Vertical) Mongolian from calligraphic to shorthand styles.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Kandidat Filologičeskix Nauk (PhD), 2013
• Aspirantura (Graduate School): “Mongolic Languages,” Buryat State University, 2002
• Specialist in Linguistics, Mongolian Philology, Buryat State University, 1999

Employment History

• Postdoctoral Fellow, European Research Council (ERC) Project “Entangled Parliamentarisms: Constitutional Practices in Russia, Ukraine, China, and Mongolia, 1905–2005,” Department of History, University of Heidelberg, April 2018–present
• Associate Professor (Docent), Department of Philology of Central Asia, Institute of Oriental Studies, Buryat State University (Buryatia, RF), November 2014–April 2018
• Head, Department of Philology of Central Asia, Institute of Oriental Studies, Buryat State University (Buryatia, RF), August 2014–April 2017
• Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer), Department of Philology of Central Asia, Institute of Oriental Studies, Buryat State University (Buryatia, RF), November 2003–November 2014
• Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Philology of Central Asia, Oriental Faculty, Buryat State University (Buryatia, RF), August 1999–November 2003

Recent Fellowships

• Faculty of Mongolian Language and Literature, Central University of Nationalities (Beijing, PRC), Visiting Professor, October 2017
• Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Japan), Visiting Professor (Associate Professor), September 2015–March 2016
• Institute for Mongolian Studies, University of Inner Mongolia (Huhhot, Inner Mongolia, PRC), Guest Researcher, April–May 2014
• Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing, PRC), Guest Researcher, January–February 2014

Recent Grants

• European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant, University of Heidelberg, Research Project “Entangled Parliamentarisms: Constitutional Practices in Russia, Ukraine, China, and Mongolia, 1905–2005,” project team member, 2018–present
• Endangered Archives Programme Pilot Project, Buryat State University, Documentation Project “Preservation of the disappearing book heritage of Siberian Buddhists (EAP813),” project team member, 2015, https://doi.org/10.15130/EAP813
• Buryat State University Innovative Project Grants, Buryat State University, “Automatic morphological analysis for Buryad,” principal investigator, 2013–2014
• Gerda Henkel Stiftung Grant, University of Bern, “Die Mongolen im “langen” 17. Jahrhundert: Politische und kulturelle Transformationsprozesse im Spiegel der Kanjur-Kolophone,” project team member, 2011–2013
• Federal Targeted Programme “Scientific and Scientific-Pedagogical Human Resources for Innovative Russia in 2009–2013” Project, Kalmyk State University, “Development of Kalmyk and Western Mongolia Oirad Vocabulary,” associate member, 2013

Selected Publications

Edited Books

• Badagarov, Jargal; Tumurdei, Gobol; Tsybenov Bazyr (eds.). Краткий дагурско-русский словарь (A Short Dagur-Russian Dictionary), Ulan-Ude, BNC SO RAN: 2014, 236 p.

Articles/Chapters

• Sablin, Ivan; Moniz Bandeira, Egas; Badagarov, Jargal; Dorn, Martin, and Sodnomova, Irina. Duma, yuan, and beyond: Conceptualizing parliaments and parliamentarism in and after the Russian and Qing Empires, in: Planting Parliaments in Eurasia, 1850–1950: Concepts, Practices, and Mythologies, ed. by Ivan Sablin and Egas Moniz Bandeira. London: Routledge, 2021, pp. 13–52.
• Sablin, Ivan; Badagarov, Jargal, and Sodnomova, Irina. Khural democracy: Imperial transformations and the making of the first Mongolian constitution, 1911–1924, in: Socialist and Post-Socialist Mongolia: Nation, Identity, and Culture, ed. by Simon Wickhamsmith and Phillip P. Marzluf. London: Routledge, 2021, pp. 14–42.
• Badagarov, Jargal. Witsen’s Kalmyk Glossary, in: The Fascination with Inner Eurasian Languages in the 17th century: The Amsterdam Mayor Nicolaas Witsen and his Collection of ‘Tartarian’ Glossaries and Scripts, Amsterdam: Pegasus, 2018, pp. 461-538.
• Badagarov, Jargal et al. Mongolian Material, in: The Fascination with Inner Eurasian Languages in the 17th century: The Amsterdam Mayor Nicolaas Witsen and his Collection of ‘Tartarian’ Glossaries and Scripts, Amsterdam: Pegasus, 2018, pp. 425-460.
• Badagarov, Jargal. O tipax slovesnogo udarenija v mongol'skix jazykax [Word-Stress Patterns in Mongolic Languages], Oriental Studies, no. 6, 2017, pp. 111-116. (In Russ.), online: https://doi.org/10.22162/2075-7794-2017-34-6-111-116
• Badagarov, Jargal. Pervyj oiratojazyčnyj pamjatnik na tibetskoj pis’mennosti [The First Oirad-Language Document Written in Tibetan Script], Oriental Studies, no.5, 2017, pp. 211-223. (In Russ.), online: https://doi.org/10.22162/2075-7794-2017-33-5-211-223
• Badagarov, Jargal. The Importance of Documentary Linguistics Workshops: A Personal Account, Asian and African Languages and Linguistics, No.11, 2017, pp. 57-69.
• Badagarov, Jargal. Izučenie jazyka mongol’skix pamjatnikov kvadratnogo pis’ma [The Study of Monuments of Mongolian ’Phags-pa], in: Khej Da Ši Ljue: Istočnik po Istorii Mongolov XIII veka [Heida Shilüe: a Source on the History of Mongols of the 13th Century], Moscow: Vostočnaja Literatura, 2016, pp. 176-186.
• Badagarov, Jargal. Romanization Proposal for Mongolian Galig (Ali-Kali), in: Northeast Asia. Towards a New Paradigm of Areal Studies, Tohoku: Tohoku University, 2015, p. 82.
• Badagarov, Jargal. Imja čislitel'noe v dagurskom i burjatskom jazykax [Numerals in Dagur and Buryad], Vestnik Burjatskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Vyp. 8. Vostokovedenie [Buryad State University Bulletin. Issue 8. Oriental Studies]. 2015, pp. 3–8.
• Badagarov, Jargal. Some aspects of language documentation in Circum-Baikal Asia:
possibilities of establishing a language archive?, in: Arctic Dialogue in the Global World: Proceedings of the Joint Science and Education Conference (June 16–17, 2015), Ulan-Ude: Buryat State University Publishing Department, 2015, pp. 300–301.
• Badagarov, Jargal. Fonetičeskie processy v sisteme glasnyx burjatskogo i dagurskogo jazykov [Phonetic processes in Buryad and Dagur Vocalism], Vestnik Burjatskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Vyp. 8. Vostokovedenie [Buryad State University Bulletin. Issue 8. Oriental Studies]. 2013, pp. 25–29.
• Badagarov, Jargal. Sostav padežnyx form dagurskogo i burjatskogo jazykov [The Composition of Case Forms in the Dagur and Buryad Languages], Vestnik Kalmyckogo instituta gumanitarnyx issledovanij RAN [Bulletin of the Kalmyk Institute for Humanities of the Russian Academy of Sciences], no 4, 2012, pp. 108–117.
• Badagarov, Jargal. Burjatojazyčnyj kibermir: problemy i perspektivy razvitija [Buryad Speaking Cyberworld: Challenges & Future Development Trends], in: Jazykovoe i kul'turnoe raznoobrazie v kiberprostranstve. Sbornik materialov Meždunarodnoj konferencii JUNESKO (Jakutsk, 2-4 ijulja 2008 g.) [Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in Cyberspace. Proceedings of the International UNESCO Conference (Yakutsk, July 2-4, 2008)], Moscow, 2010, pp. 273–279.
• Badagarov, Jargal. Vyraženie kategorii množestvennosti v burjatskom i dagurskom jazykax [The Manifestation of Plurality in Buryad and Dagur], Vestnik Burjatskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Vyp. 3. Philologija [Buryad State University Bulletin. Issue 3. Philology], Ulan-Ude, 2004, pp. 25–29.
• Badagarov, Jargal. Sistema častic v burjatskom i dagurskom jazykax [Particle System in Buryad and Dagur], in: Čingisxan i narody Central′noj Azii. Materialy konferencii 3-5 sentjabrja 2002. [Chingis khaan and peoples of the Inner Asia. Conference procedings. September 3-5, 2002], Ulan-Ude, 2003, pp. 467–472.
• Badagarov, Jargal. Grammatičeskie kategorii imen suščestvitel′nyx burjatskogo i dagurskogo jazykov [Nominal Categories in Buryad and Dagur], in: Mir Central′noj Azii. Materialy meždunarodnoj naučnoj konferencii. T.IV. Čast′ I. Jazyki. Fol′klor. Literatura [The World of the Inner Asia. Procedings of the International Scientific Conference. Vol. 4. Part 1. Languages. Folklore. Literature], Ulan-Ude, 2002, pp. 11–14.

Databases and Electronic Books/Software

• Badagarov, Jargal. Êlektronnaja baza dannyx arxivnyx dokumentov na mongol’skoj pis’mennosti iz fonda №425 “Atsagatskij datsan” [Electronic Database of Archival Documents in Mongolian Script from the fond No. 425 “Atsagad Datsan”]. Ulan-Ude: State Archive of Buryad Republic, 2017, online: http://gbu-garb.ru/assets/files/Ацагатский дацан. Эл. база данных.pdf
• Badagarov, Jargal. Êlektronnaja baza dannyx arxivnyx dokumentov na mongol’skoj pis’mennosti iz fonda №430 “Tugnu-Galtajskij datsan” [Electronic Database of Archival Documents in Mongolian Script from the fond No. 430 “Tugnu-Galtai Datsan”]. Ulan-Ude: State Archive of Buryad Republic, 2017, online: http://gbu-garb.ru/assets/files/Тугну-Галтайский дацан. Эл. база данных11.docx.pdf
• Badagarov, Jargal; Bukhogolova, Sayana. Êlektronnaja baza dannyx arxivnyx dokumentov na mongol’skoj pis’mennosti iz fonda №454 “Jangažinskij datsan” [Electronic Database of Archival Documents in Mongolian Script from the fond No. 454 “Yangaajin Datsan”]. Ulan-Ude: State Archive of Buryad Republic, 2017, online: http://gbu-garb.ru/assets/files/Янгажинский дацан. Эл. база данных.pdf
• Badagarov, Jargal. “Burjaadaar duugarajal 2.0” [Let’s speak Buryad 2.0] Buryad Video Course for TV and online broadcasting, developed in cooperation with the “Uulzar” studio, Ulan-Ude, Buryad Republic, RF, 2017–18, online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrSeJrfVzFM&list=PLpZP7SCYJEBQrhReGYJLYYRCEHuLfAcki
• Badagarov, Jargal. “Burjaadaar duugarajal” [Let’s speak Buryad] Buryad Video Course for TV and online broadcasting, developed in cooperation with “ATV” TV company, Ulan-Ude, Buryad Republic, RF, 2014, online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJFuIAKUawQ&list=PL1dKDjO0_hMQ9h1c4VexKyLdLK63EN3kc&index=21
• Badagarov, Jargal et al. “Êxê xêlên” burjaad xêlênêj saxim huraxa bêšêg” [“Mother Tongue” Electronic Textbook of Buryad] (including electronic dictionaries of Buryad), 2nd revised edition, Ulaan-Üde, 2012, Windows compatible program distributed on DVD.
• Badagarov, Jargal et al. “Burjaad xêlên” burjaad xêlênêj saxim huraxa bêšêg” [“Buryad Language” Electronic Textbook of Buryad] (including electronic dictionaries of Buryad), Ulaan-Üde, 2007, Windows compatible program distributed on CD.   

Selected Presentations

• Post-Imperial Debates in Russia and China and the Making of the Mongolian Constitution: 1905–1924, 50th Annual Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Convention, Boston, December 6–8, 2018, co-presenter: Ivan Sablin.
• The Birth of Journalism in Mongolic: “Life of the Eastern Frontier in Buryad-Mongol (1895–97), Conference “Asian Seminar II of the International Association for Mongolian Studies in 2018 “Mongols in the 20th century,” Showa Women’s University, Tokyo, November 3–4, 2018.
• Documentation of Endangered Mongolic Varieties: the case of Buryad Dialects, Conference “Computational Methods for Endangered Language Documentation and Description,” Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, February 1–2, 2018, invited speaker.
• Buriad xelnij tongoruu tol’: onol arga züjn asuudluud [A Reverse Dictionary of Buryad: Theoretical and Methodological Problems], Conference “Traditions and Innovation in Mongolian Lexicography,” Institute of Language and Literature, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, November 16–18, 2017.
• Mongolčuudyn mörgölčnij gazryn zurgijn tuxaj [On Old Mongolian Pilgrimage Maps]. Conference “Geographic maps of Mongolia and Mongolian Toponymy,” Institute of History and Archeology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, August 24–25, 2017.
• Documentation of Buryad Dialects and its Community Value, Conference “Documentary Linguistics: Asian Perspectives (DLAP-2),” University of Hong Kong, May 25–27, 2017.
• Language documentation and language technologies for Circumpolar region, Conference “UArctic Council Meeting, UArctic Congress,” St. Petersburg University, September 12–16, 2016.
• Mongol Studies in Buryat State University, Conference “State of the Art and Future of Research and Education in Mongol Studies,” Ulaanbaatar, August 19–21, 2016.
• K probleme soxranenija burjatskix pis’mennyx pamjatnikov v častnyx kollekcijax Burjatii [Problem of Preserving Buryad written documents in Buryatia’s private collections], Conference “Russia and the Mongolic World: Developing Relationships (Egunov Readings – VII),” Ulaan-Ude, Buryad Republic, RF, June 29–30, 2016.
• A Preliminary Report on Mongolian Inscriptions in Buryad-Mongolia, Conference “The First International Symposium on Ancient Scripts of Northern Nationalities,” Huhhot, Inner Mongolia, PRC, December 02–05, 2016.
• On some common linguistics features of Western Buryad Geser and Beijing Geser, Conference “The 8th International Conference on Geser/Gesar Studies,” Huhhot, Inner Mongolia, PRC, August 10–13, 2016.
• On some unfound Buryad-Mongolian newspapers, Conference “11th International Congress of Mongolists,” Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, August 15–18, 2016.
• On recently found manuscript map from Buryatia, Conference “Autumn session of Annual Congress of Japanese Mongolistics Society,” State Ethnographical Museum, Osaka, November 21, 2015.
• Mongolian inscription at Beshegtu, Conference “3rd International Scientific Seminar “Digitalization of Mongolian Script Monuments and International Cooperation,” Otani University, Kyoto, November 20, 2015.
• Mongol xêlnij davtax jos [Reduplication in Mongolian], Conference “The Second Forum “Actual problems of Mongolian philology and heritage” on the occasion of the 110th birthday of eminent scholar, academician Rinchen Byambyn,” Institute for Mongolian Studies, Mongolian National University, Ulaanbaatar, March 20–21, 2015.
• Some Aspects of Language Documentation in Circum-Baikal Asia: Possibilities of Establishing a Language Archive, Conference “Arctic Dialogue in the Global World”, Buryat State University, Ulan-Ude, June 16–17, 2015.
• Buryad-mongolian periodicals in the first half of 20th century, Conference “The International Scientific Symposium “Mongolian Periodicals in the first half of the 20th century,” Showa Women’s University, Tokyo, May 15, 2015.
• Nêr tom’joog nêgtgên bolovsruulax asuudald: mongol xêl ajalguutan nêgdêj chadax n’ uu [Unification of Terminology: Perspectives for Mongolic Speakers], Conference “Mongolian Terminology – 90: Theory, Methods, and Practice,” Institute for Language and Literature, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, October 13–14, 2014.
• Buryad dialects: what has been studied and what is yet to be studied, Conference “International Workshop “Linguistic Documentation and Description of the North,” Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, December 1–2, 2012.

Invited Talks and Lectures

• Public Lecture “Buryad Language and Culture,” Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, January 2016.
• Talk “Two future tenses in Buryad,” Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, December 17, 2015.
• Lecture for MA and PhD Students “Linguistic Peculiarities of Buryad compared to Modern Mongolian,” Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, November 7, 2015.
• Lecture for MA and PhD students “Standard Buryad and its dialects,” Institute of Mongolian Studies, University of Inner Mongolia, Huhhot, China, May 2014.
• Lecture for MA and PhD students “Use of Bibliographical Software,” Institute of Mongolian Studies, University of Inner Mongolia, Huhhot, China, May 2014.
• Lecture for MA and PhD students “Introduction to the study of Buryad dialects,” Inner Mongolia Normal University, Huhhot, China, May 2014.
• Talk “Buryad Dialects in the Russian Federation and the History of Their Study,” Mongolic Languages and Dialects Study Group, Academy of Social Sciences, Huhhot, China, May 2014.

Other Professional Activities

Community/Public Activities/Language Revival

• Executive editor, publishing project “Buryad-Mongol Nom” (Buryad-Mongol Book), 2010–present
• Teaching Written Mongolian as a heritage script for Buryad language revival activists, 2017–2018
• Teaching Buryad as free community classes for elders, 2008–2011
• Co-initiator and publisher of children’s books series “Magic Buryatia” (fairy tales), 2001–2004

Conference/Workshop/Seminar Organizer/Instructor

• Language Documentation Seminar, Institute of Language and Literature, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, September 18-22, 2017.
• Language Documentation Seminar, Institute of Kalmyk and Oriental Philology, Kalmyk State University, May 26-30, 2015.
• Workshop “Ulaan-Ude Language Technology Course (UULangTech2015),” Ulaan-Ude, Buryad Republic, RF, organized by Giellatekno, the Center for Saami language technology, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, and the Institute of Oriental Studies, Buryad State University, April 13–18, 2015.
• “Mongolian Calligraphy Exhibition and Masterclass,” Institute of Oriental Studies, Buryat State University, organized by Calligraphic Center “Bichig Soyol” (Mongolia), General Consulate of Mongolia in Ulaan-Ude, and Institute of Oriental Studies, Buryat State University, December 2014.
• Language Documentation Seminar, Institute of Oriental Studies, Buryat State University, organized by Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, and Institute of Oriental Studies, Buryat State University, November [2014].

Documentation/Expeditions

• Self-funded expedition to the Khori Buryad, Buryatia, August, 2017.
• Self-funded expedition to the Doodo-Ude Buryad, Irkutsk Region, RF, July, 2016.
• Joint Russia-Mongolia Linguistic and Ethnographic Expedition “Eastern Mongolia 2015,” Dariganga, Barga, and Buryad dialects, organized by the Institute of History and Archeology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, and Institute of Oriental Studies, Buryat State University, head of the Russian team, July 2015.
• Expedition to the Shargaljin Buryad, Transbaikalian Region, RF; funded by Buddhist Traditional Sangha of Russia, July 2014.
• Individually funded expedition to the Western Buryad, Obusa, Irkutsk Region, RF, July 2013.
• Individually funded expedition to the Tsitsikar Dagur, Meilisi County, Heilongjiang, PRC, July 2012.
• Expedition to the Khori Buryad, Buryatia; organized by Central University of Nationalities, Beijing, July 2011.
• Expedition to the Mongolian Buryad and Gobi Khalkha, Tuv and Dund Govi Provinces, Mongolia; organized by the Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist, and Tibetan Studies, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, July–August 2008.
• Expedition to the Mongolian Buryad, Khentei and Dornod Provinces, Mongolia; organized by National University of Mongolia and Buryat State University, July 2004.
• Expedition to the Butkha Dagur, Morindawa Banner, Inner Mongolia, PRC; organized by the Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist, and Tibetan Studies, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, July 2002.

Technology Development

• Buryad Morphological Analyzer based on xfst/hfst technology. Work in progress. 2011–present.
• Buryad Spell Checker based on Hunspell, working prototype, Minde, Portugal, August 11–15, 2014.
• Development of the Unified Latin Transcription and Keyboard Layout for Mongolian Script and Galig (Ali-Kali), 2011–2012.
• Development of the Unicode Based Encoding and Keyboard Layout Standard for Buryad, 2011.
• Development of the Cyrillic Mongolian Onebyte Encoding, 2000–2004.