Speaker Series
Speaker Series – Kim Dupont-Madinier
Energy Efficient Gers for the Ger Districts Ulaanbaatar is the most polluted city in the world in the winter, where deadly air pollution has quickly become one of Mongolia’s biggest […]
Speaker Series – Jonathan Addleton
Mongolia and the United States: The First 150 Years There is no certainly as to when the first US citizen visited the territory that now constitutes Mongolia. However, travel passes […]
Speaker Series – Dr. Julia Clark
Looting and Climate Change Threats to Mongolian Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Both looting and shifting climate norms have a long history in Mongolia, as in many regions of the world. […]
Speaker Series – Sanchir Jargalsaikhan
Environmental Governance in Mongolia: Challenges and Prospects The biggest challenge Mongolia faces in the present is how to limit the negative consequences related to overexploitation of the environment and unsustainable […]
Sas Carey – Migration (documentary)
Genre: Documentary Duration: 80 min Director: Sas Carey Language: Mongolian (with English subtitle) Synopsis “Reindeer get restless and begin to move on to other pastures. When they start moving, we follow,” […]
Speaker Series – M. Saandar and J. K. Cluer
Rephotography of the Central Asiatic Expeditions, Mongolia – 1919-1925: Chasing Roy Chapman Andrews Across the Gobi and Imaging 100 Years of Change Like most good ideas in Mongolia, the concept of rephotographing […]
Speaker Series – Recovering Mongolia’s Frozen Past: Understanding Taiga and Alpine Prehistory through Ice Patch Archaeology
Synopsis Among Mongolia’s diverse landscapes and ecological zones, few have captured the imagination as much as the montane northern taiga – home to domestic reindeer herders, and haven for many […]
Speaker Series – The ‘festival of forty thousand horses’: number and value in the Mongolian countryside.
Synopsis Since the end of state socialism in Mongolia, animal ownership has shifted from being largely collective-based to being vested in private households. Much attention has been given to how […]
In Search of ‘Commoners’ in the Xiongnu Empire – Bryan K. Miller
Synopsis The Xiongnu regime mobilized a vast variety of herder households and mounted archers across Inner Asia. Yet much of the scholarly attention given to this first nomadic empire has […]
Herders, indicators and ratings predict rangeland conditions in three Mongolian ecological zones
Synopsis Given the growing research on traditional ecological knowledge and its use in resource management, there is a need to understand the relationship between indicators to assess resource condition used […]
Speaker Series – Thalea Stokes
The Hip-Hop Scene Among Mongols in Mongolia and China: Witnessing the Development of a New Tradition throughout the Mongolian Diaspora. Synopsys Mongolian hip hop culture is one that combines adventurous […]
Speaker Series – Black and Yellow Shamans in Mongolia in the 1990’s
Synopsys There is a long tradition in Hungarian academia of conducting field research among the Mongols, dating back to the 1870s. Since then, several students from a variety of research […]