Speaker Series
Laura Goodman – Pediatric Surgical Need in Mongolia: Characterizing the Resources and Burden
Background: Childhood mortality has decreased significantly in Mongolia since 1990. Diseases that can be treated with surgery – injuries, congenital anomalies, some infections – are increasing in importance as result […]
Speaker Series – Johanni Curtet & Nomindari Shagdarsuren
Following the inscription of Mongolian Traditional Art of Khöömii on the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2010, ethnomusicologist Johanni Curtet and specialist of intangible cultural heritage […]
Jaime Bue – Mongolia’s International Investment Arbitration Experience and the case of Khan Resources
This presentation looks at Mongolia’s investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) experience with a focus on the case of Khan Resources v. Mongolia to try to answer the question: Can Dispute System Design (DSD) offer […]
Speaker Series: Dr. Reuven Amitai – More than First Meets the Eye: The Impact of the Mongols on the Arab Middle East
August 15th from 5:30 -7 pm Natsagdorj Library, American Corner presentation room Recent years have witnessed a number of important publications about the long-term implications of Mongol rule in the […]
Speaker Series – Paul Mills: Who Wins From Mining in Mongolia
He will be talking about who wins and who loses from mining in Mongolia. Clearly mining is a very important industry in Mongolia, but how much is it really contributing […]
Speaker Series – Pawel Szczap: Ulaanbaatar – the ugly duckling of Mongolian Studies
Location: American Corner Reading Room, Natsagdorj Library For many Mongolians and visitors alike today’s Ulaanbaatar remains somewhat of a stain on the otherwise appealing image Mongolia. Home to half of […]
Speaker Series-Kathleen Kuo: Mongolia’s Musical Memories and Moving Mementos: Audiovisual Archival Recordings as Cultural Heritage
While audiovisual archives in Mongolia are often frequented by scholars looking to supplement their research, there are no English language ethnographic publications on the relationships between these archives and discourses […]
Speaker Series – Sainbileg Byambadorj: Changkya Qutuγtu Rol-pa’i-rdo-rje: the Source of Lexical Sage and its influence to Mongolian scriptural translation
This year, 2017 marks the 300th birth anniversary of ChangkyaQutuγtu Rol-pa’i-rdo-rje (1717-1786). He will present in honoring his memory. Rolpai-dorje was an eminent scholar-monk who standardized Mongolian translation of Buddhist scriptures and […]
Speaker Series – One for Each Trouble: Establishing and Navigating Private Clinics in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
About the speaker: Mari Valdur Mari Valdur is a PhD student of social anthropology at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is based in Ulaanbaatar for her PhD fieldwork until […]
Speaker Series – Jessica Madison: Golden Mountain, Iron Heap: A Poetic Ethnography of Extraction in Eastern Mongolia
About the speaker: Jessica Madison-Pískatá Jessica Madison-Pískatá is a PhD student in cultural anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She also holds a MFA in poetry from the […]
Speaker Series – (Dis)integrations? Mega Projects and Narratives of State Legitimacy in the Gobi Desert
About the speaker: Ariell Ahearn is an ESRC postdoctoral fellow at the School for Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. She holds an MPA from Cornell University […]
Speaker Series – On Wooden Horses: Musical Interactions between Humans, Animals, and Others in Post-Socialist Mongolia.
About the speaker: Kip is a Ph.D student in cultural anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently based out of Ulaanbaatar, undertaking fieldwork for his dissertation until the […]