RESEARCH SEMINARS
MICHAELMAS TERM 2012
Tuesdays 4.30 pm to 6.00 pm
Seminar room, The Mond Building, Free School Lane
Tuesday 9 October
Melvyn Goldstein
Case Western Reserve University
Nomads, Pastures and the State:Change and Continuity among mobile pastoralists in Western Tibet, 1959-2012
Tuesday 23 October
Marina Romanova Saidukova
National University of Mongolia
Nation-building processes of the Buryats, Kalmyks and Tuvans of Russia:
between Ethnic Pride and Unshakeable Loyalty
Tuesday 6 November
Fiona McConnell
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
Constructing legitimacy, contesting futures:
the governance practices of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile
Tuesday 20 November
Bryan Maddox
University of East Anglia
Desert Deviants: Ethnography, Camels, Fast Food and
Item Response Theory in the Mongolian Gobi
Tuesday 4 December
Morten Pedersen & Mikkel Bunkenborg
University of Copenhagen
Intimate Distances: Towards a Comparative Ethnography of
Chinese Resource Investments in Mongolia
