Past Events

Researching Monastery Collections in Mustang: Background, Procedures and Discoveries

Christian Luczanits (SOAS, London)

N.B. This seminar is in-person only

The Meaningful Boundary: Territory, People and Culture in a Himalayan Village

Theo Hughes-Morgan (MIASU, University of Cambridge)

N.B. This seminar is in-person only

Investigating a ‘Provincial Beijing’ at a Crossroads of the Silk Route. The Case of Bayanhot in Inner Mongolia

Ayur Zhanaev (University of Cambridge)

Drawing Closer: Paths of motion and places of passage of a transregional Sufi brotherhood

Jesko Schmoller (Humboldt University Berlin & MIASU Visiting Scholar, University of Cambridge)

N.B. This seminar is in-person only

Geographical characteristics and comparison of urban settlements during the Xiongnu and Mongol Empire

Urjinkhand Gansukh (MIASU Visiting Scholar, University of Cambridge)

N.B. This seminar is online-only, at 4pm GMT

Researching Historical Antecedents for Migration within the Context of Mongolia

Sondra Cuban, Western Washington University

Spatial Reconfiguration in the Process of Nomadic–Sedentary Transition: An Architectural Anthropology Study of Vernacular Dwellings in Alashan

N.B. This seminar is in-person only

Climate Change, Hard Borders and Cultural Discontent in these times of ultra regionalism - a Sikkim Story

Pema Wangchuk Dorjee

I Was Wrong: Anthropological Lessons in Spite of Ourselves

Mark Turin (The University of British Columbia, Canada)

N.B. This seminar is in-person only