Research Seminars 2012–3
Research Seminars are held in the Mond Building Seminar Room from 4.30–6.00
LENT TERM SEMINARS
The Mond Building Seminar Room, Free School Lane, Cambridge, CB2 3RF
4.30–6.00
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
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MICHAELMAS TERM 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 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