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Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit

 

RESEARCH SEMINARS 2022/2023

EASTER TERM 2023

Tuesdays 4.30 pm to 6.00 pm

Seminars take place at the Mond seminar room, unless specified otherwise, and live streamed via zoom – please contact miasu-admin@socanth.cam.ac.uk should you wish to attend and for further information.

Tuesday 2 May

Ariell Ahearn (University of Oxford)

Rights to the ‘Commons’: Herders caught between privatisation and expropriation of public land in an extractivist state

 

Tuesday 16 May

Hildegard Diemberger (Pembroke College & MIASU Member, University of Cambridge)

The Unexpected in the ‘Land In-between’ (Limi, Western Nepal)

Anticipation and Contingency in a Changing Climate

 

Tuesday 30 May   

Inna Leykin (University of Israel, MIASU Visiting Scholar)

‘Caring like a state:’ the politics of Russia’s population problems

 

Tuesday 13 June

Nikolay Tsyrempilov (Nazarbayev University)

From Lamaism to Buddhism

The Rise of Modernity in the Mongolian Sangha of Russia, late 19th – early 20th c.

 

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LENT TERM 2023

Recordings will be available for all the Lent term seminars. Please contact miasu-admin@socanth.cam.ac.uk for the link

Tuesday 24 January

Joanna Dolińska, University of Warsaw

Can the Mongolian society return to the ‘pre-Covid normal’?  Changes in the Mongolian society in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic

 

Tuesday 7 February

Martin Saxer, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich

Places in Knots: Remoteness and Connectivity in the Himalayas and Beyond

 

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING SEMINAR HAS BEEN MOVED ONE DAY FORWARD TO:

Monday 20 February   

Charles Ramble, EPHE – PSL University, CRCAO, Paris

Deferring Environmental Responsibility? The Evolution of Tibetan Serpent-Spirits in a Buddhist Climate

 

Tuesday 7 March

Orhon Myadar, University of Arizona

Nomadic Imaginaries and Performative Realities

 

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MICHAELMAS TERM 2022

 

Tuesday 18 October

David Sneath, Director, MIASU, University of Cambridge

Special MIASU Research Seminar

 

Tuesday 25 October

Barbara Bodenhorn, Emeritus Fellow, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge

On knowledge, vectors of exclusion and climate change: a view from the Arctic
 

Tuesday 15 November

Said Reza Huseini, University of Cambridge

A Sixteenth Century Mongol Observation of Tibet: Mirza Haidar Dughlat and his Tarikh-i Rashidi

 

POSTPONED:

Tuesday 29 November

Charles Ramble

Deferring Environmental Responsibility? The Evolution of Tibetan Serpent-Spirits in a Buddhist Climate

 

 
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