RESEARCH SEMINARS 2021/2022
EASTER TERM 2022
Tuesdays 4.30 pm to 6.00 pm
In-person seminars taking place at the Mond seminar room, unless specified otherwise (limited number of attendees) and live streamed via zoom – please contact miasu-admin@socanth.cam.ac.uk should you wish to attend and for further information.
Kristina Jonutyte, Vilnius University& Visiting Scholar, MIASU
“Payment But Not Quite”: Buddhist Giving and Sangha-Lay Relations in Urban Buryat Buddhism
A RECORDING IS AVAILABLE FOR THE ABOVE TALK. PLEASE CONTACT MIASU-ADMIN@SOCANTH.CAM.AC.UK FOR THE LINK
Caroline Humphrey, MIASU, University of Cambridge
Human Sacrifices in Mongolia and Their Rationales
Robert Barnett, University of London & King’s College, London
Contradictory resettlement along the Tibetan borders: Yimin shibian and its legacies
A RECORDING IS AVAILABLE FOR THE ABOVE TALK. PLEASE CONTACT MIASU-ADMIN@SOCANTH.CAM.AC.UK FOR THE LINK
Susanne Fehlings, Goethe University & Visiting Scholar, MIASU
Traders, Informal Trade and Markets between the Caucasus and China
LENT TERM 2022
Stephan Kloos, Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Re-appraising Mongolian Medicine: communism, continuity, and a bigger picture
A RECORDING IS AVAILABLE FOR THE ABOVE TALK. PLEASE CONTACT MIASU-ADMIN@SOCANTH.CAM.AC.UK FOR THE LINK
Tuesday 8 February N.B. THIS IS AN ONLINE TALK ON ZOOM - NO IN-PERSON SEMINAR THIS WEEK
Hedwig Waters, Leiden University
Tuesday 22 February POSTPONED
Caroline Humphrey, Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit, University of Cambridge
Human Sacrifices in Mongolia and Their Rationales
Agnieszka Joniak–Lüthi, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Fribourg
Maintaining Relations: Life with and without Roads in Northwest China
Tom White, Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit, University of Cambridge; University of Fribourg
MICHAELMAS TERM 2021
MIASU, University of Cambridge
Siberian Tea for Vladimir Putin and Moral Economies of the Russia-China Borderlands
Universities of California, Berkeley and Ca' Foscari, Venice. Visiting Researcher, MIASU
Memory and Subjectivity in Russia’s Islamic Pompeii
National Extinction, Planetary Survival: Mongolian Avant-Garde Poetry on a Dying Planet
Caught between Spectacles: Migration, Friendship and State Performances on the China-Russia Border
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