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Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit

 

RESEARCH SEMINARS 2023/2024

LENT TERM 2024

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.

If you are not on the mailing list, please contact miasu-admin@socanth.cam.ac.uk to join and to receive information about the seminars.

Tuesday 23 January

Charlotte Ramble  (University of Cambridge)

Figures of their time: what ‘convict officers’ in a rural district prison can tell us about state-making in Nepal

 

Tuesday 27 February

Mark Aldenderfer (University of California Merced)

What exactly was ancient Zhangzhung in far western Tibet?

 

Tuesday 5 March

Kaori Horiuchi (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science & Visiting Scholar, MIASU, University of Cambridge)  

Moveable Boundary: Governing methods in Mongolian Nomadic Society during the Qing Period

 

Tuesday 12 March   

Eugene Simonov (University of New South Wales Canberra)

The fate of transboundary river ecosystems in times of conflict and cooperation

 

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MICHAELMAS TERM 2023

Tuesday 10 October

Morris Rossabi (Columbia University & Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge)

Post-Communist Transition in Mongolia

 

Tuesday 24 October

Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz (University of Bern)  

Essentializing the Other: The encounter of Tibetan Buddhists with böge and udaγan in 17th and 18th century Mongolia

Please note this talk is online only. Please email miasu-admin@socanth.cam.ac.uk for the zoom link

 

Tuesday 7 November

Angel Naydenov (MIASU, University of Cambridge)

Homo Rhythmicus: Searching for a Sense of Existence in Sichuan, China

 

Tuesday 28 November

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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