RESEARCH SEMINARS 2024/2025
EASTER TERM 2025
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.
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Tuesday 13 May
Will Taylor, University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
Understanding animal domestication and early pastoral lifeways in the Mongolian Altai
Tuesday 27 May
Elizabeth Turk, University of Cambridge
Medical Imperialism in the Mongolian People’s Republic: towards an integration of post-colonial and post-socialist frames of analysis (in-person only)
Tuesday 3 June
Ilya Gruntov, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Rivers in Vernacular Religion and Folklore of the Khamnigans Living along the Onon River (Mongolia)
Tuesday 17 June
Otgon Borjigin, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou
Chinggis Khan’s Conquest of the Xi Xia Urban Centres in the Hexi Corridor
LENT TERM 2025
Tuesday 28 January
Hedwig Waters (Palacky ́University) & Thomas White (Kings College London)
Tuesday 11 February
Darig Thokmay (Visiting Scholar, MIASU, University of Cambridge)
Introduction of Research Materials About the Khoshut Mongols
Tuesday 25 February
Uranchimeg Ujeed (MIASU, University of Cambridge)
Cultural Heritage for Self-healing: Reshaping of Shamanic Practice in Inner Mongolia
Tuesday 11 March
Yulia Savostina (Institute for the Science of Religion, University of Bern)
Epics, Memory, and Resistance: Stories of Buddhist Protectors in Times of Uncertainty
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MICHAELMAS TERM 2024
Tuesday 15 October
Isabelle Charleux GSRL (CNRS-EPHE/PSL)
An Idealized Banner: Analyzing a Map of a Banner on the Sino-Mongol Border Dated 1907
Tuesday 29 October
Roman Osharov (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 12 November
Sayana Namsaraeva & Joseph Bristley (MIASU, University of Cambridge)
Tuesday 26 November
Saranzaya Manalsuren (London South Bank University)
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