Current Research Seminar Programme
RESEARCH SEMINARS 2025/2026
Tuesdays 4.30 pm to 6.00 pm
Seminars take place at the Mond seminar room, unless specified otherwise, and are live streamed via zoom – if you are on the mailing list, you will receive an invitation to attend the seminar with details to join via Zoom. Please note that there is no need to register for the seminars.
EASTER TERM 2026
Tuesday 5 May
Nik Matheou (University of Edinburgh)
Nomadic Aristocracy & the Political Economy of the Mongol World Empire
Tuesday 19 May
Munkh-Erdene Lhamsuren (National University of Mongolia & MIASU Visting Scholar)
Chinggisid Dynasty: Conceptualizations and Representations
Tuesday 2 June
Timothy Cooper (University of Cambridge)
Logistics in the Time of Slow Internet: Intermittent Connections in Gilgit-Baltistan
Tuesday 16 June
Chris Gosden (University of Oxford)
The Horsepower project: tracking links between Mongolia and China in the First Millennium BCE
LENT TERM 2026
Tuesday 27 January
Christian Luczanits (SOAS, London)
Tuesday 10th February
Ruiyi Zhu (University of Cambridge)
Translation as Slippage: Mediative Labour and Contested Hybridity at a Chinese Mine in Mongolia
N.B. The above seminar is in-person only
Tuesday 24th February
Gregory Delaplace
Weddings, funerals, and social critique in contemporary Northwestern Mongolia
Tuesday 10th March
Uradyn Bulag & Odbayar Ganbaatar (University of Cambridge & MIASU Visiting Scholar)
MICHAELMAS TERM 2025
Tuesday 14 October
Carole Pegg (MIASU), Professor Bötölt, Xiaoshi Wei and Horchin musician Jingang
Tuesday 28 October
Mark Turin (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
I Was Wrong: Anthropological Lessons in Spite of Ourselves
N.B. The above seminar is in-person only
Tuesday 11 November
Yushu Liang (Nanjing University & MIASU Visiting Scholar, University of Cambridge)
Tuesday 25 November
Jesko Schmoller (Humboldt University, Berlin)
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