Previous Seminars
2013 – 2014
MICHAELMAS TERM SEMINARS
The Mond Building Seminar Room, Free School Lane, Cambridge, CB2 3RF
4.30–6.00
Tuesday 15 October
Hanna Havnevik
University of Oslo
New Buddhist temples and “self-made” ritual specialists in contemporary Ulaanbaatar
Tuesday 29 October
Sayana Namsaraeva
& Franck Billé
MIASU, University of Cambridge
Divided communities on the Russia-China border
**This seminar is being held as part of the Festival of Ideas and will be at the following location:
S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT
Tuesday 12 November
Richard Fraser
MIASU, University of Cambridge
Skill, Social Change and New Technologies in Northern Mongolia
Tuesday 26 November
Johan Elverskog
Southern Methodist University (visiting Käte-Hamburger Kolleg at Rühr University, Bochum)
What are the ‘Sources of Mongolian Tradition’?
LENT TERM SEMINARS
Tuesday 21 January
Astrid Hovden
University of Oslo
Five Hundred Years of Flood Management:
Environmental Adaption Strategies in a Community in the Nepal Himalayas
Tuesday 4 February
Adam Chau
University of Cambridge
Human Organs in Oil Tank Trucks: An Extractology
Tuesday 18 February
Richard Fraser
University of Cambridge
Skill, Social Change and New Technologies in Northern Mongolia
Tuesday 4 March
Urmila Nair
MIASU
Elision and Imagination: Shifting Monastic Subjectivities in Tibetan Exile
Tuesday 11 March
Christopher Atwood
Indiana University
Imperial Nomadism and Mobile Pastoralism: The State and Mobility in Medieval Inner Asia
EASTER TERM SEMINARS
Tuesday 29 April
Troy Sternberg
University of Oxford
Desert Boundaries: the Once and Future Gobi
Tuesday 13 May
Benedikte Møller Kristensen
University of Copenhagen
Lawless Lives in the Taiga of Black Powers: Shamanism, Law and Fear among the Duha Tuvinian Reindeer Nomads of Northern Mongolia
Tuesday 27 May
Uranchimeg Ujeed
University of Cambridge
Mix and Match: Integration of Religious Practices among Inner Mongols in Contemporary China
Tuesday 3 June
Agnieszka Helman-Wazny
University of Arizona
Text and texture: Buddhist Scriptures and Tibetan Papermaking Traditions in Light of New Discoveries