Speaker Series
ACMS Speaker Series – Protecting Yourself from Ulaanbaatar’s Air Pollution
Synopsis Smart Air is a social enterprise providing education and cost-effective air purifiers to combat air pollution. They run workshops to raise awareness of air pollution. Join this workshop to […]
ACMS Speaker Series – Desiring the City: Cinema and Ideology in Socialist Mongolia
Synopsis In a letter to Lunacharsky dated February 1922, Lenin wrote: “You must always remember that of all of the arts the most important for us is cinema.” During the […]
Information Session: ACMS Mongolia Field School 2019
Presenter: Dr. Charles Krusekopf | ACMS founder, board member, and faculty lead for the school This information session is intended to share details and answer questions related to the ACMS […]
A. Enkh-Amgalan – Building Sustainable Livelihoods for Herders: Applying Integrated Approach and Pilot Testing Results
synopsis Livestock herding is major economic activity & social safety net for poor Mongolians accounting for 12% of GDP and 30% of employment. It is also the second largest contributor […]
Dr. Timothy May – Military Integration in Mongol Warfare: The development of Combined Arms Warfare in the Mongol Empire
Synopsis Armies of the Mongol Empire are typically imagined as vast armies of nomadic horse archers. While this is true and it always remained the core component of the Mongol […]
Björn Reichhardt – Down the Road: Contested Infrastructures of Development, Tourism and Pastoral Dairying
Synopsis In 2015, the construction of a paved road connecting Khatgal, a village located on the shores of Lake Khövsgöl in northern Mongolia, with Mörön and Ulaanbaatar led to a […]
Dr. Jennifer Lander- “The State has forgotten its reason for being”? A socio-legal analysis of extractive development and state transformation in Mongolia
Abstract: Since the post-socialist transition in the early 1990's, Mongolia’s mineral wealth has been consistently promoted as the key to the country’s economic development. Over the past twenty-five years, national […]
Dr. Cynthia M. Horne – Globalization and Women’s Empowerment in Mongolia
The globalization literature suggests that more globalization will catalyze a variety of national level economic, political and social changes in a country. Some of those changes could be positive for a […]
President Bush’s 2005 Visit: A Bilateral Relations Milestone | Brian L. Goldbeck
Abstract: The brief November 2005 visit by President George W. Bush was an important milestone in U.S.-Mongolia relations. While his visit was the fourth and final stop during that trip […]
Speaker Series: The Green-Eyed Lama | Oyungerel Ts and Jeff Falt
The Green-Eyed Lama (2008) is an award-winning, decade-long bestselling novel written by Oyungerel Ts and Jeff Falt. First published in Mongolian, the book chronicles the triumphant romance between Sendmaa, a […]
Salvaging Mongolia’s Stolen History: Looting, Conservation, and 800 Year Old Butter | Dr. Julia Clark
Abstract: During the 2019 summer field season, a team of international researchers led by archaeologists Dr. Julia Clark and Dr. J. Bayarsaikhan worked tirelessly in challenging conditions to salvage what […]
Rethinking of Mongolian History: Mongolian National Revolution of 1911 and The Last Emperor of Mongolia, VIII Bogdo Jebtsundamba Khutukhtu | Prof. Batsaikhan Ookhnoi
In his lecture, Professor Batsaikhan Ookhnoi reconsiders the role of the 8th Jebtsundamba – in rough terms, the Mongolian equivalent of Tibet’s Dalai Lama at the time – in engineering […]