Speaker Series
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 […]
Speaker Series – First Migration East to West: Conflict Between Two Major Cultures of the Mongolian Late Bronze Age
Synopsis Long-term archaeological studies have shown that there were two major populations with different cultural identities living in Mongolia and the surrounding regions during the Late Bronze Age. One was […]