Previous Seminars
Michaelmas 2012
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 the 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 Mongola Gobi
Tuesday 4 December
Morten Pederson & Mikkell Bunkenborg
University of Copenhagen
Intimate Distances: Towards a Comparative Ethnography of Chinese Resource Investments in Mongolia
Lent 2013
Tuesday 22 January
Aude Michelet
London School of Economics PhD Candidate
Learning to be a person in Huld (southern Mongolia)
Tuesday 5 February
Professor Frank Pieke
University of Leiden
Immigration, diversity and cosmopolitanism in contemporary China
Tuesday 19 February
Tony Whitten
Flora and Fauna International
Novel approaches on biodiversity safeguards at the World’s largest copper mine – Oyu Tolgoi, Mongolia: How much to measure an ass:
Tuesday 5 March
Christopher Kaplonski & David Sneath
University of Cambridge
Easter 2013
Tuesday 23 April
Sayana Namsaraeva
MIASU
Fieldwork between Folders: fragments of the Russian ‘amateur’ colonial anthropology in the China-Russia border town archives
Tuesday 30 April
Bayarjargal Garamtseren
PhD candidate (Hebrew Studies), University of Cambridge
A History of Bible Translation in Mongolian
Tuesday 7 May
Maria Repnikova
University of Oxford
Political Boundaries: Watchdog Media and the State in China and Russia
Tuesday 21 May
Riamsara Kuyakonon Knapp
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
A Political Ecology of Mountain Closre in Eastern Bhutan
Tuesday 4 June
Dr. Wei-Fang Wang
Director of Tibetan Affairs Department
Mongola and Tibetan Affairs Commission
The Issues of Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission and the Organizational Reform in the future
EXTRA SEMINARS
25 June
Prof. Yang Honglin
Yunnan Nationalities University
The Imagination and Ontology of ‘Social Structure’: Perspectives from the Nuosu ‘Slave’ Villages of Southwest China
Wednesday 13 June
Naran Torgonshar
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
The change in nomadism and grassland degradation in eastern Inner Mongolia