Previous Seminars
The Mond Building Seminar Room, Free School Lane, Cambridge, CB2 3RF
4.30–6.00
2014–2015
MICHAELMAS TERM SEMINARS
Tuesday 14th October
Maria Lundberg and Yong Zhou
Norwegian Centre for Human Rights
Rights of Peoples and Minorities in Development in China
Tuesday 28 October
Jim Canary
University of Indiana
Exploring the Tibetan Book: Meeting the Makers
Tuesday 11 November
Viesturs Celmins
University of Cambridge
Allegiance and eligibility: The State and Islam in the Kul Shariff Mosque, Tatarstan
Tuesday 25 November
William Tuladhar-Douglas
University of Aberdeen
Theory, Anthropology, and Buddhist Books
LENT TERM SEMINARS
Tuesday 20 January
Hurelbaatar Ujeed
Inner Mongolia Normal University
Transforming and Traditionalising: Modernisation of the Old Barga People
Tuesday 3 February
Rebekah Plueckhahn
University College London
Performing Value, Forming Resources:
Morality, Musical Performance and Social Continuation in Mongolia
Tuesday 17 February
Françoise Robin
INALCO (National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations)
From Lyricism to Sarcasm: Settling Literary Accounts with Settlements in Tibet Today
Tuesday 3 March
Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik
University of Vienna
Central and Local Governments in the Border Regions of the PRC:
Public Health in Xinyuan Country of the Yili Autonomous Prefecture
EASTER TERM SEMINARS
Tuesday 28 April
Bumochir Dulam
National University of Mongolia
The Tragedy of ‘Environmental Pastoralism’ in Building Mongolian Identity
Tuesday 12 May
Lauren Bonilla
University College London
Extractive Atmospheres:
Mining, Territory, and the Politics of Dust in the Gobi Desert
Tuesday 26 May
Heidi Fjeld
University of Oslo
The Rise of the Polyandrous House:
Reform and Relatedness in a Central Tibetan Village
Tuesday 9 June
Olga Shaglanova
Ethnographic Museum of Transbaikal Peoples, Buryatia, Russia
Chinese Labour Migrants in Buryatia: Between Illegality and Legality