Seminar Series 2004

On 18th May 2004 the unit was delighted to welcome Lubos Belka of Mazaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic and Daniel Berounsky of Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, to speak on The Tibeto-Mongolian Interface in Buddhist Historiography - reconstructing reality or forming history?

Tara Sinclair, Diki Drolkar, Daniel Berounsky, Lubos Belka & Hildegard Diemberger

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Cadres & Discourse in late Socialism: The USSR, Mongolia & China

16th–18th April 2004

An International Network 2004–6 organised by Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI), School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia, USA & the Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, funded by the British Academy and the Weatherhead East Asian Insitute.

This project brings together researchers working on nationality issues in contemporary China with anthropologists and others working on studies of the late socialist period in the USSR and other former socialist countries. In doing this, it seeks to privilege the insights of self-reflective anthropologists – those who apply anthropological methods of critical analysis to what are or were their own societies, notably inthe USSR, Mongolia & China.