Speaker Series
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 […]
Speaker Series – The Bound Steppe: Notes on Enslavement in Qing Mongolia
This presentation will briefly examine several archival examples of enslavement to illustrate several important topics and challenges in the history of slavery in Mongolia: the phenomenon of slavery skepticism in […]