Speaker Series
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 […]
Speaker Series – Kenneth Linden
Ravenous Beasts, Pitiful Sinners, and Class Enemies: A History of the Wolf in Mongolia In this talk I will offer a preliminary examination of the history of the relationship between […]
Speaker Series – Petya Andreeva
Fantastic Beasts on the Eurasian Steppes: The Politics of Burial Regalia in Iron Age Funerary Art along the Mongolian steppes and further west In its simplest definition, the term “animal […]
Speaker Series – Daniel Miller
Where’s the beef ? Adapting Mongolian cattle raising practices to take advantage of growing markets for beef. Increasing opportunities for Mongolia to supply beef to markets in China, Russia and […]
Speaker Series – Anne-Sophie Pratte
Mapping the Land and Making Borders: A Study of Mongolian Cartography from the Late 18th to the Early 20th century From the late 18th to the early 20th century, nine […]