The Chinggis Khan Foundation (CKF) is committed to promoting Mongol Studies in the U.S. and in Mongolia. To further this goal, CKF has sponsored:

A Translation Fund managed with the assistance of The Mongolia Society of Bloomington, Indiana (www.mongoliasociety.org) to create an on-going mechanism for the translation and publication of Mongolian-language books on a variety of subjects into English. To date 5 books on the important Mongol political leaders of the 20th Century have been translated and are in the process of publication.

Book drive for the Department of Cultural Anthropology of Mongolian National University in Ulaanbaatar. The aim is to create a first-class English-language library of significant anthropology, archaeology, sociology, and Mongolian Studies books for use by Mongolian students to expose them to the most significant scholarship of the last 80 years. This is a major project encouraging scholars to donate from their personal libraries and then to find funding to send these materials by freight back to Mongolia. Dr. L. Munkh-Erdene from the Mongolian National University is the Mongolian organizing partner. The first shipment consisted of more than 60 books, including a complete set of Encyclopedia Americana which was donated by Indiana University through the efforts of The Mongolia Society. The other books were from Dr. Campi’s private collection.

Conferences and colloquia on Mongolia in the United States and Mongolia. CKF in 2005 provided funding for a conference at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington in August to examine Mongolia and Globalization. In 2006 it is financially assisting the International Association for Mongol Studies (http://www.owc.org.mn/iams/) to translate into Mongol and publish several significant English-language academic books related to Mongolian Studies for release during Mongolia’s 800th anniversary, and will co-sponsor with the Antoon Mostaert Center (http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/verbiest/amc.htm) of Ulaanbaatar an August conference on the history of Christianity in Mongolia.