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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]